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1. McDevitt, J. T.; Longmire, M.; Gollmar, R.; Jernigan, J. C.; Dalton, E. F.; McCarley, R.; Murray, R. W.; Little, W. A.; Yee, G. T.; Holcomb, M. J.; Hutchison, J. E.; Collman, J. P. “Electrochemistry at Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YBa2Cu3O7) Superconductor Electrodes at Temperatures Above Tc,” J. Electroanal. Chem. Interfacial Electrochem. 1988, 243, 465-474.

2. Daikh, B. E.; Hutchison, J. E.; Gray, N. E.; Smith, B. L.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Finke, R. G. “An Unprecedented and Reversible Cobalt-to Carbon Alkyl Bond Rearrangement in the Coenzyme B12 Model Complex C6H5CH2CoIII[C2(DO)(DOH)pn]I,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 7830-7832.

3. Collman, J. P.; Hutchison, J. E.; Wagenknecht, P. S.; Lewis, N. S.; Lopez, M. A.; Guilard, R. “Unprecedented, Bridged Dihydrogen Complex of a Cofacial Metallodiporphyrin and Its Relevance to the Bimolecular Reductive Elimination of Hydrogen,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 8206-8208.

4. Collman, J. P.; Hutchison, J. E.; Lopez, M. A.; Guilard, R.; Reed, R. A. “Toward a Dinitrogen Electroreduction Catalyst: Characterization of a Bis(ammine), a µ2-Hydrazine, a µ2-Diazene, and a Remarkably Stable µ2-Dinitrogen Complex of a Ruthenium Cofacial Diporphyrin,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 2794-2796.

5. Collman, J. P.; Wagenknecht, P. S.; Hutchison, J. E.; Lewis, N. S.; Lopez, M. A.; Guilard, R.; L'Her, M.; Bothner-By, A. A.; Mishra, P. K. “Dihydrogen Complexes of Metalloporphyrins: Characterization and Catalytic Hydrogen Oxidation Activity,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 5654-5664.

6. Collman, J. P.; Hutchison, J. E.; Ennis, M. S.; Lopez, M. A.; Guilard, R. “Reduced Nitrogen Hydride Complexes of a Cofacial Metallodiporphyrin and Their Oxidative Interconversion. An Analysis of Ammonia Oxidation and Prospects for a Dinitrogen Electroreduction Catalyst Based on Cofacial Metallodiporphyrins,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 8074-8080.

7. Collman, J. P.; Hutchison, J. E.; Lopez, M. A.; Guilard, R. “A Stable Dinitrogen Complex of a Ruthenium Cofacial Diporphyrin,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 8066-8073.

8. Guilard, R.; Lopez, M. A.; Tabard, A.; Richard, P.; Lecomte, C.; Brandes, S.; Hutchison, J. E.; Collman, J. P. “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Cobalt Aluminum Cofacial Porphyrins. First Crystal and Molecular Structure of a Heterobimetallic Biphenylene Pillared Cofacial Diporphyrin,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 9877-9890.

9. Collman, J. P.; Hutchison, J. E.; Lopez, M. A.; Tabard, A.; Guilard, R.; Seok, W. K.; Ibers, J. A.; L'Her, M. “Synthesis and Characterization of a Superoxo Complex of the Dicobalt Cofacial Diporphyrin, [(µ-O2)Co2(DPB)(1,5-diphenylimidazole)2][PF6], the Structure of the Parent Dicobalt Diporphyrin Co2(DPB), and a New Synthesis of the Free-Base Cofacial Diporphyrin H4(DPB),” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1992, 114, 9869-9877.

10. Vel·zquez, C. S.; Hutchison, J. E.; Murray, R. W. “Electrochemical Reactions and Charge Transport in Undiluted Room-Temperature Melts of Oligo(ethylene glycol)-Based Electron Carriers,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 7896-7897.

11. Hutchison, J. E.; Postlethwaite, T. A.; Murray, R. W. “Molecular Films of Thiol-Derivatized Tetraphenylporphyrins on Gold: Film Formation and Electrocatalytic Dioxygen Reduction,” Langmuir 1993, 9, 3277-3283.

12. Collman, J. P.; Wagenknecht, P. S.; Hutchison, J. E. “Molecular Catalysts for Multi-Electron Redox Reactions of Small Molecules: The Cofacial Metallodiporphyrin Approach,” Angew. Chem. 1994, 33, 1537-1554.

13. Chen, C.-h.; Hutchison, J. E.; Postlethwaite, T. A.; Richardson, J. N.; Murray, R. W. “Chemically Modified Electrodes by Nucleophilic Substitution of Chlorosilylated Platinum Oxide Surfaces,” Langmuir 1994, 10, 3332-3337.

14. Chen, C.-h.; Postlethwaite, T. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Samulski, E. T.; Murray, R. W. “Electrochemical Measurements of Anisotropic Diffusion in Thin Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Films Using Interdigitated Array Electrodes,” J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 8804-8811.

15. Postlethwaite, T. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Hathcock, K. W.; Murray, R. W. “Optical, Electrochemical, and Electrocatalytic Properties of Self-Assembled Thiol-Derivatized Porphyrins on Transparent Gold Films,” Langmuir 1995, 11, 4109-4116.

16. Terrill, R. H.; Postlethwaite, T. A.; Chen, C.-h.; Poon, C.-D.; Tarzis, A.; Chen, A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Clark, M. R.; Superfine, R.; Johnson, C. S.; Samulski, E. T.; DeSimone, J. M.; Murray, R. W. “Alkanethiol Stabilized Gold Colloids: Physical Characterization and Electron Transport Dynamics,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 12537-12548.

17. Postlethwaite, T.A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Murray, R. W.; Fosset, B.; Amatore, C. “Interdigitated Array Electrode as an Alternative to the Rotated Ring Disk Electrode for Determination of the Reaction Products of Dioxygen Reduction,” Anal. Chem. 1996, 68, 2951-2958.

18. Clegg, R. S.; Hutchison, J. E. “Hydrogen-Bonding, Self-Assembled Monolayers: Ordered Molecular Films for Study of Through-Peptide Electron Transfer,” Langmuir 1996, 12, 5239.

19. Rasmussen, S. C.; Pickens, J. C.; Hutchison, J. E. “A General Synthetic Route to 4-Substituted-2,2'-Bithiophenes,” J. Heterocyclic Chem. 1997, 34, 285-288.

20. Terrill, R. H.; Hutchison, J. E.; Murray, R. W. “Solid State Electron-Hopping Transport and Frozen Concentration Gradients in a Mixed Valent Viologen-Tetraethylene Oxide Copolymer,” J. Phys. Chem. B 1997, 101, 1535-1542.

21. Hutchison, J. E.; Postlethwaite, T. A.; Chen, C.-h.; Hathcock, K. W.; Ingram, R. S.; Ou, W.; Linton, R. W.; Murray, R. W.; Tyvoll, D. A.; Chng, L. L.; Collman, J. P. “Electrocatalytic Activity of an Immobilized Cofacial Diporphyrin Depends on the Electrode Material,” Langmuir 1997, 13, 2143-2148.

22. Clarke, L.; Wybourne, M. N.; Yan, M.; Cai, S. X.; Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J.; Keana, J. F. W. “Fabrication and Near-Room Temperature Transport of Patterned Gold Cluster Structures,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 1997, 15, 2925-2929.

23. Wybourne, M. N.; Clarke, L.; Yan, M.; Cai, S. X.; Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J. E.; Keana, J. F. W. “Coulomb-Blockade Dominated Transport in Patterned Gold-Cluster Structures,” Jap. J. Appl. Phys. 1997, 36, 7796-7800.

24. Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J. E. “Convenient Preparation of Stable, Narrow-Dispersity, Gold Nanocrystals by Ligand Exchange Reactions,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 12384-12385.

25. Clegg, R. S.; Reed, S. M.; Hutchison, J. E. “Self-Assembled Monolayers Stabilized by Three-Dimensional Networks of Hydrogen Bonds,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 2486-2487.

26. Rasmussen, S. C.; Pickens, J. C.; Hutchison, J. E. “Highly Conjugated, Water Soluble Polymers via the Direct Oxidative Polymerization of a Monosubstituted Bithiophene,” Macromolecules 1998, 31, 933-936.

27. Clarke, L.; Wybourne, M. N.; Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J. E.; Yan, M.; Cai, S. X.; Keana, J. F. W. “Room Temperature Coulomb-Blockade Dominated Transport in Gold-Nanocluster Structures,” Semicond. Sci. Technol. 1998, 13, A111-A114.

28. Straw, B. D.; Rasmussen, S. C.; Hutchison, J. E. “Synthesis Of Regioregular Poly(4-alkyl-2,2'-bithiophene)s: Potential Precursors to Organized Conjugated Polymer Solids,” Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 1998, 39, 87-88.

29. Rasmussen, S. C.; Pickens, J. C.; Hutchison, J. E. “A New General Approach to Tuning the Properties of Functionalized Polythiophenes: The Oxidative Polymerization of 4-Substituted-2,2'-Bithiophenes,” Chem. Mater. 1998, 10, 1990-1999.

30. Rasmussen, S. C.; Straw, B. D.; Hutchison, J. E. “Tuning the Extent of Conjugation through Side Chain Placement in Substituted Polythiophenes,“ in Semiconducting Polymers: Applications, Synthesis and Properties, Hsieh, B. Ed.; ACS Symposium Series, no. 735; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, August 1999; 347-366.

31. Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J. E. “Controlled Growth of Gold Nanoparticles During Ligand Exchange,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 882-883.

32. Lumetta, G. J.; McNamara, B. K.; Rapko, B. M.; Hutchison, J. E. “Complexation of Uranyl Ion by Tetrahexylmalonamides: An Equilibrium Modeling and Infrared Spectroscopic Study,” Inorg. Chim. Acta. 1999, 293, 195.

33. Clegg, R. S.; Hutchison, J. E. “Control of Monolayer Assembly Structure by Hydrogen Bonding Rather Than by Adsorbate-Substrate Templating,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1999, 121, 5319-5327.

34. Clegg, R. S.; Reed, S. M.; Smith, R. K.; Barron, B. L.; Rear, J. A.; Hutchison, J. E. “The Interplay of Lateral and Tiered Interactions in Stratified Self-Organized Molecular Assemblies,” Langmuir 1999, 15, 8876-83.

35. Reed, S. M.; Hutchison, J. E. “Green Chemistry in the Organic Teaching Laboratory: An Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Adipic Acid,” J. Chem. Educ. 1999, 77, 1627-1629.

36. Wybourne, M. N.; Hutchison, J. E.; Clarke, L.; Brown, L. O.; Mooster, J. L “Fabrication and Electrical Transport Characteristics of Low-Dimensional Nanoparticle Arrays Organized by Biomolecular Scaffolds,” Microelectron Eng. 1999, 47, 55-57.

37. Reed, S. M.; Weakley, T. J. R.; Hutchison, J. E. “Polymorphism in a Conformationally Flexible Substituted Anthraquinone; A Crystallographic, Thermodynamic, and Molecular Modeling Study,” Cryst. Eng. 2000, 3, 85-89.

38. Clegg, R. S.; Hutchison, J. E. “Fundamental Aspects of Electron Transfer in Substrate Supported Organized Molecular Assemblies,” Electron Transfer in Chemistry 2001, Wiley-VCH (Weinheim) Balzani, V. Ed. Volume 4, 541-577.

39. Lumetta, G. J.; McNamara, B. K.; Rapko, B. M.; Sell, R. L.; Rogers, R. D.; Broker, G.; Hutchison, J. E. “Synthesis and Characterization of Mono- and Bis-(Tetraalkylmalonamide)Uranium(VI) Complexes,” Inorg. Chim. Acta. 2000, 309, 103-108.

40. Wybourne, M. N.; Clarke, L.; Berven, C. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Brown L. O.; Mooster J. L., “Room Temperature Single Electron Charging in Gold Nanoparticle Networks Formed on Biopolymer Templates,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2001, 582, H13.4.

41. Hutchison, J. E.; Brown, L. O.; Mooster, J. L; Reed, S. M.; Schmidt, M. E.; Clarke, L. I.; Wybourne, M. N. “Nanoscale Patterns of Metal Nanoparticles Chemically-Assembled On Biomolecular Scaffolds: Assembly, Stability and Electron Transport Properties,” Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2001, 582, H11.1.

42. Warner, M. G.; Reed, S. M.; Hutchison, J. E. “Small, Water-soluble, Ligand-stabilized Gold Nanoparticles Synthesized by Interfacial Ligand Exchange Reactions,” Chem. Mater. 2000, 12, 3316-3320.

43. Berven, C. A.; Clarke, L.; Mooster, J. L., Wybourne, M. N.; Hutchison, J. E. “Defect-Tolerant Single-Electron Charging at Room Temperature in Metal Nanoparticle Decorated Biopolymers” Adv. Mater. 2001, 13, 109-113.

44. Berven, C. A.; Wybourne, M. N.; Clarke, L.; Hutchison, J. E; Brown, L. O.; Mooster, J. L; Schmidt, M. E.; “The Use of Biopolymer Templates to Fabricate Low-Dimensional Gold Particle Structures” Superlattices and Microstructures, 2000, 27, 489-493.

45. Weare, W. W.; Reed, S. M.; Warner, M. G.; Hutchison, J. E. “Improved Synthesis of Small (dCORE =1.5 nm) Phosphine-stabilized Nanoparticles” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2000, 122, 12890-12891.

46. Smith, R. K.; Reed, S. M.; Lewis, P. A.; Monnell, J. D.; Clegg, R. S.; Kelly, K. F.; Bumm, L. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; and Weiss, P. S. “Phase Separation within a Binary Self-Assembled Monolayer on Au{111} Driven by an Amide-Containing Alkanethiol,” J. Phys. Chem. B., 2001, 105, 1119-1122. Cover.

47. Hutchison, J. E. “Nanoscience Turns Green,” Chem. Eng. News 2001,79(13), 200. (Invited)

48. Lewis, P. A.; Smith, R. K.; Kelly, K. F.; Bumm, L. A.; Reed, S. M.; Clegg, R. S.; Gunderson, J.; Hutchison, J. E.; Weiss, P. S. “The Role of Buried Hydrogen Bonds in Self-assembled Mixed Composition Thiols on Au{111},” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2001, 105, 10630-10636.

49. Brown, L. O.; Hutchison, J. E. “Formation and Electron Diffraction Studies of Ordered 2-D and 3-D Superlattices of Amine-stabilized Gold Nanoparticles,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 8911-8916.

50. Warner, M.G.; Succaw, G.L.; Hutchison, J.E. “Solventless Syntheses of Meso-tetraphenylporphyrin: New Experiments for a Greener Organic Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum,” Green Chemistry 2001, 3, 267-270.

51. Warner, M.G.; Hutchison, J.E. “Synthesis and assembly of functionalization gold nanoparticles.” In Functionalization and Surface Treatment of Nanoparticles; Baraton, M.-I. Ed.: American Scientific Publishers: San Francisco, 2003, pp. 67-89. Work highlighted on book cover.

52. Woehrle, G. H.; Warner, M.G.; Hutchison, J.E.Ligand Exchange Reactions Yield Subnanometer, Thiol-stabilized Gold Particles with Defined Optical Transitions,” J. Phys. Chem. B 2002, 106, 9979-9981.

53. Lumetta, G.J.; Rapko, B.M.; Garza, P.A.; Hay, B.P.; Gilbertson, R.D.; Hutchison, J.E. “Deliberate Design of Ligand Architecture Yields Dramatic Enhancement of Metal Ion Affinity,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 5644-5645. Highlighted in Science Magazine as an Editors' Choice article "Designer Bindings" (2002, 296, 985) and in Chemical and Engineering News as a Science Concentrate "Designed Ligands Boost Metal Binding" (2002, 80(20), 37). Also highlighted on the Department of Energy Office of Science homepage.

54. Lumetta, G. J.; Rapko, B. M.; Hay, B. P.; Garza, P. A.; Hutchison, J. E.; Gilbertson, R. D. "A Novel Bicyclic Diamide With High Binding Affinity For Trivalent F-Block Elements," Solv. Extr. Ion Exch. 2003, 21, 29-39.

55. Reed, S. M.; Clegg, R. S.; Hutchison, J. E. "Tuning the Electrical Properties of Monolayers by Using Internal Peptide Bonds," in Molecules as Components of Electronic Devices, Lieberman, M. Ed.; ACS Symposium Series, no. 844; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2003; 36-50.

56. Hutchison, J. E.; Foster, E. W.; Warner, M. G.; Reed, S. M.; Weare, W. W.; Buhro, W.; Yu, H. "Triphenylphosphine-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles," Inorg. Synth., 2004, 34, 228-232.

57. Berven, C. A.; Wybourne, M. N.; Clarke, L.; Longstreth, L.; Hutchison, J. E.; Mooster, J. L. "Background Charge Fluctuations and the Transport Properties of Biopolymer-Gold Nanoparticle complexes," J. Appl. Phys. 2002, 92, 4513-4517.

58. McKenzie, L. C.; Huffman, L. M.; Parent, K. E.; Thompson, J.; Hutchison, J. E. "Patterning Self-assembled Monolayers on Gold: Green Materials Chemistry in the Teaching Laboratory," J. Chem. Ed. 2004, 81, 545-548.

59. Warner, M. G.; Hutchison, J. E. "Formation of linear and branched nanoassemblies of gold nanoparticles by electrostatic assembly in solution on DNA scaffolds," Nat. Mater. 2003, 2, 272-276. Highlighted in News and Views in Nature Materials 2003, 2, 214-215.

60. Berven, C.A.; Wybourne, M.N.; Longstreth, L.; Hutchison, J.E. "Nanoparticle Based Boolean Logic," Phys. E 2003, 19, 246-250.

61. Woehrle, G. H.; Özkar, S.; Hutchison, J. E.; Finke, R. G. "Computer-Based Analysis of Nanoparticle Transmission-Electron Microscopy Data Using a Public Domain Image-Processing Program, Image." Submitted to Materials Characterization on 8/04.

62. Hay, B. P.; Firman, T. K.; Lumetta, G. J.; Rapko, B. M.; Garza, P. A.; Sinkov, S. I.; Hutchison, J. E.; Parks, B. W.; Gilbertson, R. D.; Weakley, T. J. R. " Toward the computer-aided design of metal ion sequestering agents," Journal of Alloys and Comounds, 2004, 374, 416-419.

63. Lewis, P. A.; Inman, C. E.; Yao, Y.; Tour, J. M.; Hutchison, J. E.; Weiss, P. S. " Mediating Stochastic Switching of Single Molecules Using Chemical Functionality." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 12214 –12215.

64. Woehrle, G. H.; Warner, M. G.; Hutchison, J. E. “Molecular-Level Control of Feature Separation in One-Dimensional Nanostructure Assemblies Formed by Biomolecular Nanolithography,” Langmuir 2004, 20, 5982-5988.

65. Inman, C.E.; Reed, S.M.; Hutchison, J. E. “In Situ Deprotection and Assembly of S-Trityl Alkanethiols on Gold Yields Monolayers Comparable to Those Prepared Directly from Alkanethiols,” Langmuir 2004, 20, 9144-9150.

66. McKenzie, L. C.; Huffman, L. M.; Hutchison, J. E. "The Evolution of a Green Chemistry Laboratory Experiment: Greener Brominations of Stilbene," J. Chem. Educ. 2005, 82 306-.

67. McKenzie, L. C.; Thompson, J. E.; Sullivan, R.; Hutchison, J. E. "Green chemical processing in the teaching laboratory: A convenient liquid CO2 extraction of natural products," Green Chem. 2004, 6, 355-358.

68. McKenzie, L. C.; Hutchison, J. E. "Green nanoscience: An integrated approach to greener products, processes, and applications," Chemistry Today 2004, 30-33. September 2004 issue.

69. Sinkov, S.I.; Ranko, B.M.; Lumetta, G.J.; Hay B.P.; Hutchison, J.E.; Parks, B.W. "Bicyclic and Acyclic Diamides: Comparison of Their Aqueous Phase Binding Constants with Nd(III), Am(III), Pu(IV), Np(V), Pu(VI), and U(VI)," Inorg. Chem. 2004, 43, 8404-8413.

70. Woehrle, G.H.; Brown, L.O.; Hutchison, J.E. “Thiol-Functionalized, 1.5-nm Gold Nanoparticles through Ligand Exchange Reactions: Scope and Mechanism of Ligand Exchange,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 2172 - 2183.

71. Foster, E.W.; Kearns, G.J.; Goto, S.; Hutchison, J.E. “Patterned Gold-Nanoparticle Monolayers Assembled on the Oxide of Silicon,” Adv. Mater. 2005, 17, 1542-1545.

72. Chambers, R.C.; Inman, C.E.; Hutchison, J.E. “Electrochemical detection of nanoscale phase separation in binary self-assembled monolayers,” Langmuir 2005, 4615-4621.

73. Haack, J.A.; Hutchison, J.E.; Kirchhoff, M.M.; Levy, I. J. “Going Green: Lecture Assignments and Lab Experiences for the College Curriculum,” J. Chem. Ed. 2005, 82, 974-976.

74. Woehrle, G.H.; Hutchison, J.E. “Thiol-functionalized Undecagold Clusters by Ligand Exchange: Synthesis, Mechanism and Properties,” Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 6149-6158.

75. Kearns, G.J. Foster, E.W.; Hutchison, J.E. “Substrates for direct imaging of chemically functionalized SiO2 surfaces by TEM,” Anal. Chem. 2005, In press.

76. Parks, B.W.; Gilbertson, R.D. Hutchison, J.E.; Rather, E.; Weakley, T.J.R.; Rapko, B.M.; Hay, B.P.; Sinkov, S.I. “Ligand Preorganization in Trivalent Lanthanide Binding by Bicyclic Malonamides Probed by Single-Phase Binding Affinity Measurements and X-Ray Crystallography,” Inorg. Chem. In press.

77. Lewis, P.A.; Inman, C.E.; Maya, F.; Tour, J.M.; Hutchison, J.E.; Weiss, P.S. “Molecular Engineering of the Polarity and Interactions of Molecular Electronic Switches,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. In press