Publications and Presentations

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:: Book Chapters, Reviews and Other Publications

(1) P. A. Frey, J. P. Richard, H. T. Ho, R. S. Brody, R. D. Sammons and K.-F. R. Sheu, "Stereochemistry of Selected Phosphotransferases and Nucleotidyltransferases", Methods in Enzymology, 87, 213-235 (1982).

(2) J. P. Richard, "Isomerization Mechanisms Through Hydrogen and Carbon Transfer", in Enzyme Mechanisms, Royal Society of Chemistry: London, 1987, pp 298-316.

(3) J. P. Richard, "Simple Relationships Between Carbocation Lifetime and the Mechanism for Nucleophilic Substitution at Saturated Carbon", in Advances in Carbocation Chemistry, JAI Press: Greenwich, CT, 1989; Vol. 1, pp 121-169.

(4) J. P. Richard, "The Biochemistry of Enols", in The Chemistry of Enols; Z. Rappoport, Ed.; John Wiley and Sons: London, 1990, pp 651-689.

(5) J. P. Richard, "Mechanism for the Formation of Methylglyoxal from Triosephosphates", Biochemical Society Transactions, 21, 549-553 (1993).

(6) J. P. Richard, "How do Reaction Mechanisms Change? Relationships between Intermediate Lifetimes and the Mechanism for Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions", Frontiers of Research in Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Tokyo Kagaku Dojin, Tokyo, 13-23 (1995) [In Japanese].

(7) T. L. Amyes, J. P. Richard and V. Jagannadham, "Formation and Stability of Reactive Intermediates of Organic Reactions in Aqueous Solution", in Organic Reactivity: Physical and Biological Aspects; B. T. Golding, R. J. Griffin and H. Maskill, Eds.; The Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, 1995, pp 334-350.

(8) J. P. Richard, "A Consideration of the Barrier for Carbocation-Nucleophile Combination Reactions", Tetrahedron Report Number 365, Tetrahedron, 51, 1535-1573 (1995).

(9) J. P. Richard, J. Crugeiras and R. W. Nagorski, "Imperatives for Enzymatic Catalysis of Isomerization of Sugars and Sugar Phosphates", Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry, 11, 512-518 (1998) [Invited review commentary from lecture at Sixth European Symposium on Organic Reactivity].

(10) J. P. Richard, T. L. Amyes and K. B. Williams, "Intrinsic Barriers to the Formation and Reaction of Carbocations", Pure and Applied Chemistry, 70, 2007-2014 (1998).

(11) J. P. Richard, A. C. O'Donoghue and T. L. Amyes, "Triosephosphate Isomerase: New Tricks from an Old Dog" Biochemistry, 39, 1553 (2000).

(12) J. P. Richard, T. L. Amyes, S.-S. Lin, A. C. O'Donoghue, M. M. Toteva, Y. Tsuji and K. B. Williams "How Does Organic Structure Determine Organic Reactivity? Partitioning of Carbocations Between Addition of Nucleophiles and Deprotonation", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 35, 67-115 (2000).

(13) J. P. Richard and T. L. Amyes, "Proton Transfer at Carbon", Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 5, 626-633 (2001).

(14) J. P. Richard, T. L. Amyes and M. M. Toteva, "Formation and Stability of Carbocations and Carbanions in Water and Intrinsic Barriers to Their Reactions", Accounts of Chemical Research, 34, 981-988, (2001).

(15) J. P. Richard and T. T. Tidwell, "Editor's Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 36, VII-VIII (2001).

(16) J. P. Richard and T. T. Tidwell, "Editor's Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 37, VII-VIII (2002).

(17) J. P. Richard and S. Mobashery, "Mechanisms: Complex processes and their central chemical events" Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 7, 525-527 (2003).

(18) J. P. Richard, "Editor's Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 38, IX (2003).

(19) T. L. Amyes, M. M. Toteva and J. P. Richard, "Crossing the Borderline between SN1 and SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution at Aliphatic Carbon", in Contemporary Reactive Intermediates, R. A. Moss, M. S. Platz, and M. Jones, Jr. ed. John Wiley and Sons: New York, pp 41 - 68 (2004).

(19) J. P. Richard, "Editors Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 39, XI, (2004).

(20) J. P. Richard and R.S. Schowen, "Editorial: Biological Applications of Physical Organic Chemistry" Special Issue of Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry on Biological Applications of Physical Organic Chemistry, 459-460 (2004).

(21) J. P. Richard, "Editor's Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 39, VII-VIII (2004).

(22) J. P. Richard, T. L. Amyes, M. Toteva and Y. Tsuji, "Dynamics for the Reactions of Ion Pair Intermediates of Solvolysis", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 39, 1-26, (2004).

(23) J. P. Richard and T. L. Amyes, "On the Importance of Being Zwitterionic: Enzymatic Catalysis of Decarboxylation and Deprotonation of Cationic Carbon", Bioorganic Chemistry, 32, 354-366 (2004).

(24) J. P. Richard and Y. Tsuji, "Dynamics of Ion Pair Intermediates of Solvolysis in Water", Chemical Record, 5, 94-106 (2005).

(25) J. P. Richard and T. Amyes, "Proton transfer to and from carbon in model reactions", in Handbook of Hydrogen Transfer. Volume 2: Biological Aspects J. P. Klinman and R. S. Schowen, Eds, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, invited review, scheduled for publication in 2005.

(26) (19) J. P. Richard, "Editors Preface", Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry, 40 , XI - XIII, (2005).

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