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James Franz

Catalysis Science
Laboratory Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
MSIN: K2-57
Richland, WA 99352

PNNL Publications

2009

  • Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, and M Rakowski DuBois. 2009. "Free Energy Landscapes for S-H Bonds in (Cp2Mo2S4)-Mo-star Complexes." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(14):5224-5232.  doi:10.1021/ja8093179
  • Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, M Rakowski DuBois, and B Twamley. 2009. "Determination of S-H Bond Strengths in Dimolybdenum Tetrasulfide Complexes." Organometallics 28(3):749-754. 
  • Mader EA, VW Manner, TF Markle, A Wu, JA Franz, and JM Mayer. 2009. "Trends in Ground-State Entropies for Transition Metal Based Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(12):4335-4345. 

2008

  • Appel AM, SJ Lee, JA Franz, DL DuBois, M Rakowski DuBois, JC Birnbaum, and B Twamley. 2008. "Formation and Reactivity of a Persistent Radical in a Dinuclear Molybdenum Complex." Journal of the American Chemical Society 130(28):8940-8951.  doi:10.1021/ja078115r

2007

  • Zhao H, JH Kwak, Y Wang, JA Franz, JM White, and JE Holladay. 2007. "Interactions between cellulose and N-Methylmorpholine-N-oxide." Carbohydrate Polymers 67(1):97-103.  doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2006.04.019

2006

  • DuBois DL, DM Blake, A Miedaner, CJ Curtis, MR DuBois, JA Franz, and JC Linehan. 2006. "Hydride Transfer from Rhodium Complexes to Triethylborane." Organometallics 25(18):4414-4419.  doi:10.1021/om060584z
  • Zhao H, JH Kwak, Y Wang, JA Franz, JM White, and JE Holladay. 2006. "Effects of crystallinity on dilute acid hydrolysis of cellulose by cellulose ball-milling study." Energy and Fuels (20):807-811. 

2005

  • Garrett BC, DA Dixon, DM Camaioni, DM Chipman, MA Johnson, CD Jonah, GA Kimmel, JH Miller, T Rescigno, PJ Rossky, SS Xantheas, SD Colson, AH Laufer, D Ray, PF Barbara, DM Bartels, KH Bowen, KH Becker, SE Bradforth, I Carmichael, JV Coe, LR Corrales, JP Cowin, M Dupuis, KB Eisenthal, JA Franz, MS Gutowski, KD Jordon, BD Kay, JA La Verne, SV Lymar, TE Madey, CW Mccurdy, D Meisel, S Mukamel, AR Nilsson, TM Orlando, NG Petrik, SM Pimblott, JR Rustad, GK Schenter, SJ Singer, A Tokmakoff, LS Wang, C Wittig, and TS Zwier. 2005. "Role of Water in Electron-Initiated Processes and Radical Chemistry: Issues and Scientific Advances." Chemical Reviews 105(1):355-389.  doi:10.1021/cr030453x

2004

  • Franz JA, DS Kolwaite, JC Linehan, and E Rosenberg. 2004. "Comparison of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Rates of Terminal and Bridging Hydrides in Triosmium Clusters: Absolute Abstraction Rate Constants for Benzyl Radical." Organometallics 23(3):441-445. 
  • Franz JA, JC Birnbaum, DS Kolwaite, JC Linehan, DM Camaioni, and M Dupuis. 2004. "Activation of the Sulfhydryl Group by Mo Centers: Kinetics of Reaction of Benzyl Radical with a Binuclear Mo(mu-SH)Mo Complex and with Arene and Alkane Thiols." Journal of the American Chemical Society 126(21):6680-6691. 
  • Franz JA, WJ Shaw, CN Lamb, T Autrey, DS Kolwaite, DM Camaioni, and MS Alnajjar. 2004. "Absolute Rate Constants for Reactions of Tributylstannyl Radicals with Bromoalkanes, Episulfides, and alpha-Halomethyl-Episulfides, -Cyclopropanes, and -Oxiranes: New Rate Expressions for Sulfur and Bromine Atom Abstraction." Journal of Organic Chemistry 69(4):1020-1027. 
  • Garrett BC, DA Dixon, DM Camaioni, DM Chipman, MA Johnson, CD Jonah, GA Kimmel, JH Miller, T Rescigno, PJ Rossky, SS Xantheas, SD Colson, AH Laufer, D Ray, PF Barbara, DM Bartels, KH Becker, KH Bowen, SE Bradforth, I Carmichael, JV Coe, L Corrales, JP Cowin, M Dupuis, KB Eisenthal, JA Franz, MS Gutowski, KD Jordan, BD Kay, JA LaVerne, SV Lymar, TE Madey, CW Mccurdy, D Meisel, S Mukamel, AR Nilsson, TM Orlando, NG Petrik, SM Pimblott, JR Rustad, GK Schenter, SJ Singer, A Tokmakoff, LS Wang, C Wittig, and TS Zwier. 2004. "The Role of Water on Electron-Initiated Processes and Radical Chemistry: Issues and Scientific Advances." Chemical Reviews 105:355-389. 
  • Shaw WJ, P Kandandarachchi, JA Franz, and T Autrey. 2004. "Spectroscopic Studies of Tributylstannyl Radical. Rates of Formation, Termination and Abstraction Determined by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy." Organometallics 23(9):2080-2086. 

2003

  • Tanner DD, P Kandanarachchi, NC Das, and JA Franz. 2003. "Absolute Rates of the Solution-Phase Addition of Atomic Hydrogen to a Vinyl Ether and a Vinyl Ester: Effect of Oxygen Substitution on Hydrogen Atom Reactivity with Olefins." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 107:3054-3063. 

2002

  • Alnajjar MS, XM Zhang, GJ Gleicher, SV Truksa, and JA Franz. 2002. "Equilibrium Acidities and Homolytic Bond Dissociation Energies of Acidic C H Bonds in Alpha- Arylacetophenones and Related Compounds." Journal of Organic Chemistry 67(25):9016-9022. 
  • Kandanarachchi PH, T Autrey, and JA Franz. 2002. "Model Compound Studies of the Beta-O-4 Linkage in Lignin: Absolute Rate Expressions for Beta-Scission of Phenoxyl Radical from 1-Phenyl-2-phenoxyethanol-1-yl Radical." Journal of Organic Chemistry 67(23):7937-7945. 

2001

  • Autrey T, DM Camaioni, PH Kandanarachchi, and JA Franz. 2001. "Comparison of Diffusion Coefficients of Aryl Carbonyls and Aryl Alcohols in Hydroxylic Solvents. Evidence that the Diffusion of Ketyl Radicals in Hydrogen-Bonding Solvents is Not Anomalous?" Journal of Physical Chemistry A 105(24):5948-5953. 
  • Zemanian TS, GE Fryxell, J Liu, SV Mattigod, JA Franz, and Z Nie. 2001. "Deposition of Self-Assembled Monolayers in Mesoporous Silica from Supercritical Fluids." Langmuir 17(26):8172-8177. 
  • Zemanian TS, GE Fryxell, J Liu, SV Mattigod, Y Shin, JA Franz, OA Ustyugov, and Z Nie. 2001. "Chemical Functionalization of Nanostructured Materials Using Supercritical Reaction Media." In IEEE-NANO 2001 : proceedings of the 2001 1st IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, October, 28-30, 2001, Maui, Hawaii / , pp. 288-292.  IEEE, New York, NY. 

2000

  • Feller DF, and JA Franz. 2000. "A Theoretical Determination of the Heats of Formation of Furan, Tetrahydrofuran, THF-2-yl and THF-3-yl." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 104(39):9017-9025. 
  • Franz JA, DM Camaioni, T Autrey, JC Linehan, and MS Alnajjar. 2000. "Measurement of Select Radical Processes in Hydrocarbon Pyrolysis." Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 54(1-2):37-64. 

1999

  • Autrey T, JC Linehan, LE Kaune, TR Powers, EF Mcmillan, CJ Stearns, and JA Franz. 1999. "FeS Assisted Scission of Strong Bonds in Phenoxydiphenylmethanes. Competition between Hydrogen Atom Transfer and Free Radical Rearrangement Pathways." Energy and Fuels 13(4):927-933. 
  • Franz JA, JC Linehan, JC Birnbaum, KL Hicks, and MS Alnajjar. 1999. "Absolute Rate Expressions for Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Molybdenum Hydrides by Carbon-Centered Radicals." Journal of the American Chemical Society 121:9824-9830. 

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