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VITA G. K. Surya Prakash (October 2018)

PERSONAL DATA

Born: October 7, 1953, Bangalore, India Citizenship: USA (Naturalized) Married: 1981, Rama Devi Children: Archana, daughter (b. 1985), Arjun, son (b. 1991). Address: Home: 3412 Casco Court, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745, U. S. A Office: Loker Research Institute, University of Southern , 837 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089- 1661, U.S.A. Telephone: (H) 626-333-734; (O) 213-740-5984; Fax: 213-740-6679 Email: [email protected] Web Address: http://chem.usc.edu/faculty/Prakash.html

EDUCATION

B. Sc (Honors) , Bangalore University, India, 1972 M.Sc., Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, 1974 Ph. D., Chemistry, University of Southern California (Under Nobel Laureate, Professor George A. Olah), 1978 (Ph.D. work was carried out at Case Western Reserve University, 1974-1977) Postdoctoral, 1978-1979, University of Southern California (Nobel Laureate, Professor George A. Olah)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE and POSITIONS

Chairman, Department of Chemsitry, University of Southern California, 2017-present. Director, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Sept. 2010- present. Scientific Director, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Feb. 2000- August 2010. George A. & Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry, University of Southern California, Jan. 1997 – present. Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Sept.1994 – present. Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Sept. 1990- Aug.1994, Tenured in 1993. Research Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Sept. 1984-Aug.1990. Research Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Sept. 1981 – Aug. 1984. Junior Fellow, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, March 1979- Aug.1981.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Organic, Physical-Organic, Materials, Hydrocarbon Chemistry and Energy Synthetic Organic and Fluoroorganic Chemistry: New reducing agents based on low valent transition metal halides; Synthetic transformations based on oxidizing agents such as higher valency tungsten and molybdenum halides, peroxide (and their equivalents), bromine and bromodimethylsulfonium bromide; New reactions using silicon reagents; Electrophilic and nucleophilic fluorination and fluoroalkylation methods; Selective functionalizations and Superacid induced catalysis and reactions; Multi-step synthesis of precursors; Photochemical synthesis; Sonochemistry; Nitration methods; Reactions and synthesis of energetic compounds and oxidizers; Electrochemical synthesis. Physical Organic Chemistry: Synthesis and characterization of novel electrophiles, i.e., classical and nonclassical , carbodications, halonium ions, oxonium ions, thioacylium ions, selenonium ions and nitrenium ions in low nucleophilicity highly superacidic systems using low temperature multi- nuclear NMR spectroscopy; Study of degenerate rearrangement of carbocations by dynamic NMR; Studies on superelectrophilic reactive intermediates; Application of ab initio and DFT theoretical methods; Chemical shift calculations; Structural characterization of ; Carborane structures. Natural Product Chemistry: Steroids and steroidal intermediates; Synthesis of natural product intermediates. Polymer and Organometallic Chemistry: Studies on polymerization of a-olefins to polyolefins and the Hall and Nash synthesis of aluminum sesquihalides by 13C and 27Al NMR spectroscopy; Development of new polymers with unusual monomers; Polyketene synthesis; New polymerization methods for nano-scale materials, Polymer electrolytes Hydrocarbon and Energy Related Chemistry: Elucidation of the mechanism of methanol oligocondensation mediated by acidic catalysts; Hydrocarbon isomerizations using superacids; Hydrocarbon functionalizations; Development of hydrocarbon and methanol based direct oxidation fuel cells; Fuel cell membranes and Battery materials; Energetic materials and fuels. Also working on many aspects of the “”. Conversion of dioxide to fuels and products: Carbon Neutral Energy Cycles.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Chemical Society Electrochemical Society Inc. American Association of Advancement of Science American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Honor Society European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities European Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences, India.

2 RECOGNITIONS AND HONORS

Research Excellence Award by the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1984. Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for Research and Scholarship, University of Southern California, 1986. JPL/TAP Group Achievement Award for Direct Oxidation Cells, November 1994. Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Resources and Environment (MITI), Japan, January 1996. First Holder of the George A. & Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry, 1997- present. Visiting Professor, University of Pierre et , Paris 6, France, April -May 1998. JPL/TAP Group Achievement Award for Low Crossover Membranes for Methanol Fuel Cells, December 1998. USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship, University of Southern California, 2000. Corresponding Member, European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, 2004. American Chemical Society National Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, 2004. Elected Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2004. NASA Space Act Board Award, New Fuels for Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells, 2004. Elected Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005. American Chemical Society George A. Olah National Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry. 2006. Annual George A. Olah Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2006. Tolman Award, Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society, 2006. Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2007. “Professor K. Venkataraman Lecturer”, 2008-2009, University Department of Chemical Technology, University of Mubai, India. CRSI Medal, Chemical Research Society of India, 2010. Bürgenstock Lecturer, 2010. Albert S. Raubenheimer Senior Faculty Award, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2011. Mellon Mentoring Award, University of Southern California, 2012. Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), 2012. Cited in Marquis Who's Who in America. Elected Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 2013. Inaugural Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, Israel (shared with late G. A. Olah), 2013. Elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS Fellow), 2014.

3 ASEI Scientist of the Year, Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, American Association of Engineers of Indian Origin, 2014. International Prize for Excellence in Fluorine Chemistry, 2015. 19th Charles Reed Endowed Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016. American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholar Award, 2018.

EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS

Guest Editor, Research on Chemical Intermediates, Issues 7, 8 and 9, 1996. Advisory Editor, International Journal of Porphyrins and Pthalocyanines (WILEY), 1997-2000. Member of the Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B, 1999 –2002. Member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, ACS, 2001-2003. Member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific Publishers, 2001- present. Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, Elsevier, 2004- present. Member of the Editorial Board, CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water, Wiley-VCH, 2006- current. Co-Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, in honor of Dennis P. Curran, Vol.129, Issue 10, October 2008. Member of the International Advisory Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2012-present. Advisory Editor, Journal of CO2 Utilization, Elsevier, 2013- present. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Postdoctoral Research, 2013- present. Guest Editor, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2014. Member of the Editorial Board, Catalysis Letters, Springer, 2017- Present. Member of the Editorial Board, Topics in Catalysis, Springer, 2017- present. Guest Editor, Topics in Catalysis, Volume 61, Issues 7 and 8, 2018.

SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

SYNCON organizer, University of Southern California, 1991 Co-Chair, 25th Silicon Symposium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1992. Organizer, Endowed George A. Olah Annual Lecture Series, University of Southern California, 1995- present. Organizer, Kibrough Symposia, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1992- present. Organizer, Endowed Annual Carl M. Franklin Memorial Lecture, University of Southern California, 2004- present. Organized Fullerene Extraction and Purification Symposium, 185th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, 1994. Organized Synthetic Methods Symposium, Division of Organic Chemistry, 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, 1999.

4 Organizer, Trifluoromethyl Transfer Agents Symposium, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26 - 30, 2000. Co-Chair, 16th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 2003. Elected Vice Chair, Programs, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2004-2006. Chair-Elect, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2006. International Advisory Board Member, Acid Base Congress 2,3,4 and 5. Chair, 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 2005. International Advisory Board Member, The First International IUPAC Conference on Green Sustainable Chemistry, IUPAC ICGC-1, Dresden, Germany, 2006. Chair, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2007. Past Chair, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2008.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

More than 785 publications, reviews and chapters, ~100 issued Patents. Life- long citations ~ 31,200. H-index: 84 (Google Scholar).

BOOKS

"Superacids" with G. A. Olah and J. Sommer, Wiley-Interscience, 1985; "Hypercarbon Chemistry" with G. A. Olah, L. D. Field, R. E. Williams and K. Wade, Wiley- Interscience, 1987: "Synthetic Fluorine Chemistry", with G.A. Olah and R.D. Chambers (Eds), Wiley-Interscience, 1992; "Stable Carbocation Chemistry", with P. v. R. Schleyer (Ed), Wiley-Interscience, 1997; " Onium Ions", with G. A.Olah, K. Laali and Qi Wang, Wiley-Interscience, 1998; “Across Conventional Lines, Selected Papers of George A. Olah (in 2 Volumes)”, with G. A. Olah (Ed), World Scientific Publishers, 2003; “Carbocation Chemistry”, with G. A. Olah (Ed.), Wiley Interscience, 2004; “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy”, with G. A. Olah and A. Goeppert, Wiley-VCH, 2006 (translated into Chinese, Hungarian, Swedish, Japanese and Russian); “Superacid Chemistry”, with G. A. Olah, J. Sommer and Á. Molnár, Wiley-Interscience, 2009; “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy”, with G. A. Olah and A. Goeppert, Soft Cover 2nd Updated and Enlarged Edition, Wiley-VCH, 2009; "Hypercarbon Chemistry" Revised 2nd Edition with G. A. Olah, K. Wade, Á. Molnár and R. E. Williams, John Wiley and Sons, 2011; “Across Conventional Lines: Selected Papers of George A Olah, Volume 3, The Sixth Decade and the Methanol Economy,” with G. A. Olah and T. Mathew (Eds), World Scientific Publishers, 2015; Organic Reactions, Nucleophilic Additions of Perfluoroalkyl Groups with P. Beier and M. Zibinsky, Volume 91, John Wiley and Sons, 2016; Hydrocarbon Chemistry, 3rd Edition in two Volumes with G. A. Olah and Á. Molnár, John Wiley and Sons, 2018; Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, 3rd updated Enlarged Edition with G. A. Olah and A. Goeppert, Wiley-VCH, 2018.

5 PRESENTATIONS

More than 400 Plenary, Keynote & Invited Lectures and Seminars world-wide. More than 330 presentations in regional, national and international meetings.

CONSULTING

Ciba-Geigy (94- 99), Hercules (95- 99), Cognis, Inc. (1995- 99) Monsanto (1996), General Electric (1996- 1997), Albemarle (1997), ATOFINA-ARKEMA (1998- present), Clariant (2000), Merck KgaA (1999- 02), Rohm & Haas (2002), Canon Inc. (2001- present), Avery Dennison (2002- present), Glaxo Smith Kline (2003- 2004), Schlumberger (2004), King Industries (2004-) and ETHOS Pharmaceuticals (2008-).

REFEREEING

Routinely referee papers submitted for many major chemistry journals. Perform Reviews. Referee proposals submitted to NSF, DOE, DOD, Petroleum Research Fund, Research Corporation and Foreign Funding Agencies.

INVITED, PLENARY and NAMED LECTURES (Since 1990)

1. Invited Speaker, "Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane: An Effective Trifluoromethide Equivalent," An International Symposium on Synthetic Fluorine Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, February 1990.

2. Invited Speaker, "Superacid Activation in Electrophilic Oxygenation and Sulfuration of ," A Mini Symposium on Recent Advances in Transformation and Related Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and the USSR Academy of Sciences, University of Southern California, April 1990.

3. Plenary Lecture, "Perfluoroalkyltrimethylsilanes," New Synthons for the Nucleophilic Perfluoroalkylation of Organic Compounds Symposium, Plenary lecture, XXIV Silicon Symposium, The University of Texas at El Paso, April 1991.

4. Invited Speaker, "New Carbocations and Onium Ions," A. Richard Kimbrough International Symposium on Carbocations, Carboxonium Ions and Onium Ions, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, January 1992.

5. Plenary Lecture and Discussion Leader at Fullerenes 93," Chemistry of Fullerenes", First International Fullerene Symposium, Santa Barbara, California, June 1993.

6 6. Invited Speaker, "Purification and Functionalization studies on Buckminsterfullerene," Fullerene Solution Reactivity and Functionalization Symposium, Organic Chemistry Division, 206th American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 1993.

7. Invited Speaker, "Novel Reactions Using Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMSCF3)," The 29th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society and Pacific Conference of the Southern California Section of the Applied Spectroscopy, Pasadena, California, October 1993.

8. Keynote Speaker, "Chemical Functionalization of Fullerene," The 3rd Tohwa University International Symposium on Synthetic and Mechanistic Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Fukuoka, Japan, December 6-9, 1993.

9. Invited Speaker, "Functionalizing Hydrocarbons with Fullerenes," Synthetic Hydrocarbon Chemistry Symposium, Loker Hydrocarbon Research institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, December 19-20, 1994.

10. Plenary Lecture, "Solid Superacids' Catalyzed Reactions and Related Chemistry," Creative Solutions for Protecting the Environment- ARCO Chemical Fall Symposium, Newtown Square, PA, November 9, 1995.

11. Invited Speaker, "New Cage Carbodications," Borane, Carborane, Carbocation Continuum Symposium, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, December 15- 16, 1995.

12. Plenary Speaker, "Studies on Potential Energetic Nitro Functional Groups and Compounds," Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, New Hampton, New Hampshire, June 16-20, 1996.

13. Keynote Speaker, "Novel Carbocation Structures Under Long Lived Stable Ion Conditions,” IAMS Seminar, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, November 22, 1996.

14. Invited Speaker, "Functionalization at the Nanoscale and Related Fullerene Chemistry," Nanochemistry Symposium, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, February 21 -22, 1997.

15. Invited Speaker, " Selective Nucleophilic Perfluoroalkylations Using Silicon Based Reagents," New Synthetic Methods Symposium, Paper No. 37, Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Irvine, CA, October 22, 1997.

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16. Invited Speaker, " Electron-Deficient Intermediates Involving Cubane Skeleton," Symposium on Carbon Cage Compounds: Synthesis, Functionalization, and Reactive Intermediates, Paper No. 1484, The Fifth Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 13, 1997.

17. Invited Speaker, " Some Intriguing Carbocations and Carbopolycations," Symposium on Moving Toward Second Century of Carbocation Chemistry, Paper No. 2540, The Fifth Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 15, 1997.

18. Invited Speaker, "New Perfluoroalkylation Reagents," New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

19. Invited Lecture, " New Perfluoroalkylation Reagents", The 2nd Fargo Conference on Main Group Chemistry, Fargo, North Dakota, June 4 - 6, 1998.

20. Plenary Lecture, "Investigations on Intriguing Long Lived Carbocations," V Brazilian NMR Conference, Campinas, Brazil, August 13- 14, 1998.

21. Invited Lecture, "Investigations on Intriguing Long Lived Carbodications," Symposium on Carbocations, 14th International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry and 4th Latin American Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, August 16 -21, 1998.

22. Invited Speaker, " Nucleophilic Perfluoroalkylation Reagents," Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry in Honor of G. Shrobiligen; ACS Award Symposium in Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 29, 216th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 26, 1998.

23. Universal Oil Products/Allied Signal Invitational Lecture," Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cell", October 8, 1998, Chicago, IL.

24. Invited Lecture, “Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation and Related Reactions,” The International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry ’99 Tokyo, Sponsored by the 155th Research Committee on Fluorine Chemistry, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Yokohama, Japan, May 9 –11, 1999.

25. Invited Lecture, “Nitration and New Energetic Materials”, Civilian Applications of Chemistry of Organic Nitrocompounds. A Russian-

8 American Symposium, Paper No. 28, Division of Organic Chemistry, 218th American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 22, 1999.

26. Plenary Lecture, “Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation and Related Reactions,” XXII National Congress of Spanish Pharmacological Society and XI National Congress of Spanish Therapeutic Society, September 14- 17, 1999. Valencia, Spain.

27. Invited Lecture, “New Trifluoromethylation Reactions Using Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane,” Presented at the Synthetic Methods Symposium, Division of Organic Chemistry, 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, October 7, 1999.

28. Invited Speaker, “Applications of sulfonic acid based solid acids,” International Symposium on Solid Acid Catalysis, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, January 6, 2000.

29. Invited Speaker, “New Trifluoromethylation Reactions Using Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane,” Trifluoromethyl Transfer Agents Symposium, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26 - 30, 2000.

30. Plenary Lecture, “Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells: Membranes and Fuels,” 2nd Annual Small Fuel Cells & Battery Technologies for Use in Portable Applications, The Knowledge Foundation, New Orleans, LA, April 26- 28, 2000.

31. Keynote Lecture, “Novel Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation Reactions,” 16th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, University of Durham, UK, July 16 – 21, 2000.

32. Invited Speaker, “Carbocations and Carbodications,” 100 Years of Carbocations, A Kimbrough Research Symposium, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, January 4 and 5, 2001.

33. Plenary Lecture, “Nucleophilc Trifluoromethylation Tamed,” Fifteenth Winter Fluorine Conference, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, January 14–19, 2001.

34. Invited Speaker, “Stereoselective Nucleophilic and Related Chemistry,” Fluorine Chemistry, IN5, Paper No. 0376, 84th CSC Conference and Exhibition, Montreal, Canada, May 27, 2001.

9 35. Invited Lecture, “Stereoselctive Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations,” ISIS 2001 Meeting, Kyoto, June 20, 2001.

36. Plenary Lecture, " Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells," Gordon Research Conference Physical Organic Chemistry, Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 1-6, 2001.

37. Invited Lecture, “Stereoselective Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations,” Symposium on Synthetic Methods, Paper No. 42, Western Regional Meeting, American Chemical Society, Santa Barbara, CA, October 29, 2001.

38. Plenary Lecture, “Novel Trifluoromethylations of Biological Relevance,” Fluorine Chemistry, From Mobile Phone to Prozac. Why? How?, 14th Symposium of Jaccues Cartier Centre, Lyon, France, December 4, 2001.

39. Invited Speaker, “Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells,” Trends in Hydrocarbon Chemistry for the New Century, 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 14-15, 2002.

40. Plenary Lecture, “New Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation Methodologies and Related Chemistry,” F & F International Special Seminar, May 21 and 22, 2002, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan.

41. Plenary Lecture, “Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells,” XLII Brazilian Chemical Congress, September 10, 2003, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

42. Invited Speaker, “Strong Acid Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Reactions,” 125 Years of Friedel-Crafts Chemistry, A Kimbrough Research Symposium, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 2003.

43. Invited lecture, “New nucleophilic trifluoromethylation methodologies based on phenyl trifluoromethyl sulfide, sulfoxide and sulfones,” Symposium on Fluorinated Synthons, Paper No. 15, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 226th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, NY, September 7, 2003.

44. Invited lecture, “A low crossover membrane for liquid feed direct oxidation methanol fuel cells,” a Symposium on Fluorine in Alternative Energy Sources, Paper No. 40, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 226th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, NY, September 9, 2003.

10 45. Special Symposium Key Note Lecture, ”Fuel Cell Technology: Energy Challenges for the 21st Century,”,Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, October 3, 2003.

46. ACS Award Lecture, “My Excursions in Fluorine Chemistry,” Presented at the Fluorine Division in a Symposium in honor of Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 17, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

47. Plenary Lecture, “Direct Methanol Fuel Cells,” 29th Korea Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Symposium, Kangnung National University, Kangnung, Korea, May 8, 2004.

48. Keynote Lecture, “A Low Crossover Membrane for Liquid Feed Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells,” The 4th Annual RSC Fluorine Subject Group Postgraduate Meeting, University of Durham, Durham, U. K, September 3, 2004.

49. Invited Lecture, “A Low Crossover Membrane for Liquid Feed Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells,” Challenges for the 21st Century, A Mini Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Professor George A. Olah’s in Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October 8, 2004.

50. Plenary Lecture, “New Synthetic Methods in Organofluorine Chemistry,” International Conference on Single Organic Electron Transfer Chemistry, ISOETC-2005, Osaka, Japan, March 19-22, 2005.

51. Keynote Lecture, “New Synthetic Methods in Organofluorine Chemistry,” 17th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Shanghai, China, July 24-29, 2005.

52. Plenary Lecture, “New Tri- and Difluoromethylations and Difluoromethylenations”, Presented at the “Current Frontiers in Fluoroorganic Chemistry Symposium,”,Paper No. 9, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 230th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington. D. C., August 28- September 1, 2005.

53. Plenary Lecture, “New Synthetic Methods in Organofluorine Chemistry”, International Symposium on Advances in Organic Chemistry,” School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottyam, Kerala, India, January 9 -12, 2006.

54. ACS Award Lecture, “Electrophilic Hydrocarbon Chemistry to Fuel Cells,” Presented at the Organic Division in the Symposium in honor of

11 Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, ACS George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry, Paper No.431, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 26-30, 2006.

55. Pederson Lecture, “New Synthetic Methods in Organofluorine Chemistry,” Experimental Station, Du Pont, Wilmington, Delaware, May 23, 2006.

56. Invited Lecture, “New Developments in Organofluorine Chemistry,” 18th International Symposium in Fluorine Chemistry, Bremen, Germany, July 30- August 4, 2006.

57. Invited Lecture, “Silicon Based Nucleophilic Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” A Symposium honoring William P. Weber on the occasion of his retirement. Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and the Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 29, 2006.

58. 2006 George A. Olah Lecturer, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, “Direct Methanol Fuel Cell and the Methanol Economy,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October 6, 2006.

59. Plenary Lecture, “Novel Studies in Organofluorine Chemistry,” 30th Fluorine Conference of Japan, Tottori, Japan, November 9-10, 2006.

60. Invited Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” A Symposium Honoring Professor Karl O. Christe on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, January, 12, 2007.

61. Plenary Lecture, “Recent Studies on Fluoroalkylations,” 18th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 14- 19, 2007.

62. 2006 Tolman Award Lecture, “Ubiquitous Fluorine and Its Multifaceted Role in Chemistry,” University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2007.

63. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Alternative Futures for the Automobile, Future Fuels and Energy Initiative Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, May 23- 24, 2007.

64. Plenary Lecture, “ New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Contemporary Problems of Organic Chemistry, Conference devoted to 100th Anniversary of Academician N. N. Vorozhtsov, Siberian Academy of Sciences,

12 Novosibirsk, Russia, June 5-9, 2007.

65. Invited Lecture, “Chemistry Towards the Methanol Economy,” Chemical Challenges for the 21st Century Symposium to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and 80th Birthday of Professor George A. Olah, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October 4 -5, 2007.

66. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” in "Raw Materials for the Future: From Black to Green Gold?,” a Symposium organized by the French Chemical Society, Lyon, France, December 5-7, 2007.

67. Invited Lecture, “The Methanol Economy,” in “Designing Climate Change Policy: Implementing California AB 32 a Symposium organized by the USC Energy Institute, University of Southern Califonia, Los Angeles, CA, May 21, 2008.

68. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” XLVIII Brazilian Chemical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 29- October 3, 2008.

69. Invited Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Annual Ishikawa- Kobayashi Fluorine Symposium, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, November 4, 2008.

70. Key Note Speaker, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Asian American Environmental Symposium, USC Campus, Los Angeles, CA, November 15, 2008.

71. Invited Lecture, “Sulfur Based Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Paper No. 99, 19th Winter Fluorine Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2009.

72. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,”,“Reusable Energy for Greener Tomorrow,” Annual Technology Conference, KOREAN-AMERICAN Scientists and Engineers Association, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, February 7, 2009.

73. “Professor K. Venkataraman Lecturer, 2008-2009”, Gave two lectures: “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy” and “Fluorine a Small Atom with a Big Ego: New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” University Department of Chemical Technology, Mubai, India, May 27, 2009.

74. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy” in Energy & Environment: Crisis, Opportunities and Challeges Symposium, City University of Hong Kong, November 5-6, 2009.

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75. Invited Lecturer, “My Excursions in Fluorine Chemistry,” International Conference on Current Trends in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India, December 18-19, 2010.

76. CRSI Medal Award Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” 12th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, February 5-7, 2010.

77. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Du Pont Central Research, Wilmington DE, March 17, 2010.

78. Bürgenstock Lecturer, “Fluorine, A Small Atom with a Big Ego, New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” 45th Bürgenstock Conference, Brunnen, Switzerland, May 2-7, 2010.

79. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy by Recycling of , ” in Molecular Frontiers Symposium 2010, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, June 3-4, 2010.

80. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” 25th ASEI Convention, Orange, CA, September 17-18, 2010.

81. Keynote Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy by Recycling of Carbon Dioxide,” The CO2 Challenge Forum, CPE Lyon, Lyon, France, September 27-28, 2010.

82. Keynote Lecture, “Synthesis and studies of deoxynucleotide and ribinucleotide analogs based on bis- (difluoromethylene)triphosphoric acid,” Presented at 20th Winter Fluorine Conference, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 9-14, 2011.

83. Invited Lecure, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Sceintific Research, Bangalore, India, February 17, 2011.

84. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Electrochemistry and Climate Change Conference, A3-151, Presented at the 219th ECS Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 4, 2011.

85. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Enegy (NICE), Beijing, China, May 23, 2011.

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86. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Defining the Future Conference, Süd-Chemie, Beijing, China, May 24, 2011.

87. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, May 26, 2011.

88. Invited Lecture, “Our Recent Efforts in Synthetic Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, May 27, 2011.

89. Invited Lecture, “New fluoromethylation methods,” Symposium in honor of Donald J. Burton, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 74, 242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, CO, August 28- September 1, 2011. 90. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Clean Tech India-USA Business Forum, Irvine, CA, October 27-28, 2011.

91. Invited Lecture, “The History of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California,” in A Southern California Perspective Symposium, WRM 3, 43rd Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, CA, November 10-12, 2011.

92. Invited Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” in Noninvasive Imaging of Drugs and Other Chemicals Symposium, WRM 124, 43rd Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, CA, November 10-12, 2011.

93. Plenary Lecture, “The Methanol Economy,” in Sustainable Methanol: An Alternative Green Fuel for the Future Workshop, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Potsdam, Germany, November 24-25, 2011.

94. Plenary Lecture, “Fluoroalkylation Methods,” First Indian International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, New Delhi, India, February 20-24, 2012.

95. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” National Science Day, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, February 28, 2012.

96. Alumni Association’s “Distinguished Professorship Lecture,” “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy”, New Frontiers of Nanotechnology: Changing the Future of Everything Symposium, William Patterson University, Patterson, NJ, March 15, 2012.

15 97. Invited Lecture, “Fluoromethylation methods,” Symposium in honor of David O’Hagan, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 21, 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25- 29, 2012. 98. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,”

Symposium on CO2 Capture, Sequestration, Conversion and Utilization Symposium, Division of Fuel Chemistry, Paper No. 475, 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.

99. Invited Panelist, “Renewable Methanol,” Methanol Policy Forum 2012, Washington D.C. March 27, 2012.

100. Invited Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, May 4, 2012.

101. Plenary Lecture, “Fluoroalkylations,” Valenicia Fluorine Days, Valencia, Spain, May 20-24, 2012.

102. Keynote Lecure, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” 16th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Washington, DC. June 18-20, 2012.

103. Keynote Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” Federation of Icelandic Industries, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 29, 2012.

104. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” The 10th Annual Methanol Forum, JJ & A Associates, Houston, TX, September 11- 13, 2012.

105. Invited Lecture, “Brief History of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California,” Current Chemical Challenges Symposium commemorating the 35th Anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angels, CA, and October 18-19, 2012.

106. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” The Future of Science in the 21st Century: Sustainability” Symposium, European Academy of Sciences, University of Liége, Liége, Belgium, October 25, 2012.

107. Plenary Lecture, “Taming of (CF3H): Direct nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of Si, B, S and C centers,” Paper No. 47, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete. Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

108. Invited Talk, “New fluoroalkylation methods,” ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry: Symposium in Honor of Iwao Ojima, Paper

16 No. 5, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

109. Plenary Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylations,” Tokyo Tech Fluorine Days, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, April 13-14, 2013.

110. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” TECHNION, Haifa, Israel, April 29, 2013.

111. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” First International Conference on Natural Gas Chemistry (ICNGC), Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30, 2013.

112. Invited Panelist, “Methanol Economy,” U.S. Energy Security Council Discussion and Report Launch marking the 40th Anniversary of the Arab Oil Embargo, National Press Club, Washington DC. October 14, 2013.

113. Invited Lecture, “Taming Fluoroform,” in “One Day of Chemistry … and More,” A Symposium honoring Gregorio Asensio’s 65th Birthday, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2013.

114. National Chemistry Day Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Cal State Domiguez Hills, CA, November 1, 2013.

115. Invited Panelist, “Metahnol Economy,” Bloomberg Fuel Choices Summit, Habima National Theatre, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 12 -13, 2013.

116. Plenary Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” in Methanol Challenges and Opportunities Symoposium, Hilton Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel, November 14, 2013.

117. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Weizeman Institute of Scence, Rhehovat, Israel, November 17, 2013.

118. Plenary Lecture, “Developments Towards the Methanol Economy,” In Sustainable Fuels from Renewable Energies Brainstorming Workshop, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, November 19-20, 2013.

119. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” 6th Science Conclave, Indian Institute of Information Technolgy, Allahabad, India, December 8-14, 2013.

120. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Central

17 College, Bangalore University, India, December 18, 2013.

121. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Bangalore Science Forum, National College, Bangalore, India, December 18, 2013.

122. Distinguished Speaker, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” 6th Annual Sate Level Conference of Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA), Christ University, Bangalore, India, December 20, 2013.

123. Distnguished Panelist, A Conversation with Energy Security Council, Methanol Policy Forum, Washington, DC, March 18, 2014.

124. Invited Speaker, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” PROMSUS- Marine Methanol Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 6-7, 2014.

125. Google-X Talk, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Mountain View, CA, June 6, 2014.

126. Invited Lecture, “Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” Fluorine: Academia Meets Industry, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, July 2 -4, 2014.

127. Invited Lecture, “Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation- A Mechanistic Enquiry,” Bordeaux Fluorine Days, Bordeax, France, July 6 -10, 2014.

128. Invited Speaker, “The Promise of Methanol,” A Symposium on Evolution of Maritime Fuels, Ship Speed and Operational Efficiency, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 2014.

129. Invited Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” Koch Industries, July 30, 2015, Wichita, Kansas.

130. Plenary Lecture, “Mechanistic Aspects of nucleophilic trifluoromethylation: long lived trifluoromarthanide anion,” PL-10, 2nd Indian International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (IISFC-2014), November 3-7, 2014, Hyderabad, India.

131. Plenary Lecture, “Mechanistic aspects of nucleophilic trifluoromethylation: Obesrvation of the longlived trifluoromethanide anion,” Paper No. 36, 22nd Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2015.

18 132. Plenary Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” First International Conference on Sustainable Fuels (ICSF) for IC Engines in Emerging Nations (ICSF 2015), February 2-3, 2015, New Delhi, India.

133. Invited Lecture, “Our recent studies in fluoroalkylation chemistry,” ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry Symposium in Honor of Veronique Gouverneur, Paper No. 8, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 249th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

134. Invited Lecture, “Our Excursions into Iodine Chemistry,” ACS Award for Creative Research and Applications in Iodine Chemistry in Honor of Karl O. Christe, Paper No. 22, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 249th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

135. Invited Lecture, “Fluorine a Small Atom with a Big Ego: From Materials to Medicine,” Fluorine as a Key Element, Graduate School Workshop, Humboldt University, May 28, 2015, Berlin, Germany.

136. Invited Lecture, “Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations and Related Reactions,” Fluorine as a Key Element, Graduate School Workshop, University of Berlin, May 29, 2015, Berlin, Germany.

137. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Energy and Fuels Storch Award in Fuel Science: Symposium in Honor of Ripudaman Malhotra, Paper No. 305, Division of Energy and Fuels, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 16-20, 2015.

138. Moissan Award Lecture, “Fluoroalkylation Reactions,” Moissan Prize Session, 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (21st ISFC & ISoFT 15), August 23-28, 2015, Como, Italy.

139. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Lyondell Chemical Company, September 10, 2015, Clearchannel, Houston, TX.

140. Plenary Lecture, “The Methanol Economy,” 2015 European Methanol Policy Forum, Brussels, Belgium, October 13 and 14, 2015.

141. Invited Lecture, “Studies on Fluoroalkylations,” Paper No, 310, PACIFICHEM 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2015.

142. Invited Lecture, “My Excursions into Fluorine Chemistry,” SOLVAY Chemicals, Lyon, France, February 16, 2016.

19 143. The Moissan Medal Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Moissan Foundation Award Ceremony, Paris, France, February 17, 2016.

144. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” NITech International Symposium on Frontier Materials, Nagoya, Japan, March 2, 2016.

145. Invited Lecture, “Difluoromethylation and Difluoromethylenation,” FLUO 11, ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry in honor of Steven H. Strauss, 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13, 2016.

146. Invited Lecture, “Our Recent Studies on Fluoroalkylations,” FACS XVI Meeting, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, June19- 23, 2016.

147. Plenary Lecture, “Recent Studies in the Area of Fluoroalkylations,” Bremen Fluorine Days, July 3-7, 2016, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.

148. Keynote Address 1, “The Methanol Economy,” India’s Leap into Methanol Economy, Opportunities and Options for Energy Security, Manekshaw Center, New Delhi, India, Organized by NITI Aayog, Government of India, September 6-7, 2016.

149. Keynote Address, International Lecture Series on Methanol Economy for India, Pune, India, Organized by NITI Aayog, Government of India, September 9, 2016.

150. Keynote Address, International Lecture Series on Methanol Economy for India, Bangalore, India, Organized by NITI Aayog, Government of India, September 10, 2016.

151. Keynote Lecture, “New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Nature Inspired Initiatives in Chemical Trends, Organic Synthesis 2016, CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Taranaka, Hyderabad, India, September 19-20, 2016.

152. 19th Charles Reed Endowed Lecture, “Silicon Based Fluorine Chemistry: New Fluoroalkylation Methods,” Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, November 1, 2016.

153. Distinguished Colloquium Sponsored by Booz, Allen and Hamilton, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, November 11, 2016.

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154. Distinguished Lecture, “Methanol Based Solution to the Carbon Conundrum of the 21st Century,” 9th Karnataka Science and Technology Academy (KSTA), Christ University, Bangalore India, December 20-21, 2016.

155. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, Karnataka, India. December 27, 2016.

156. Invited Lecture, “Fluorine: A Small Atom with a Big Ego,” National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, Karnataka, India. December 28, 2016.

157. Plenary Lecture, “Methanol EconomyR for India,” Indian Science Congress, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, Andra Pradesh, India, January 4, 2017.

158. Plenary Lecture, “Recent Studies in the area of fluoroalkylations and fluorinations,” 23rd Winter Fluorine Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 15-20, 2017.

159. Invited Lecture, “Studies on fluoroalkylations and fluorinations,” ACS Fluorine Award Symposium honoring Antonio Togni, Paper FLUO 1, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 253rd ACS National Meeting, April 2- 6, 2017, San Francisco, CA.

160. Plenary Lecture, “Towards a Sustainable Methanol EconomyR,” International Methanol Conference, Danish Technological Institute and Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 8 -10, 2017.

161. Keynote Lecture, “Towards sustainable fluoroalkylations,” GC&E 316, Presented in the 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Reston, VA. June 13-15, 2017.

162. Keynote Lecture, “Nucleophilic Fluoroalkylations,” International Symposium on “Dynamics and Intermediates of Molecular Transformations,” Ludgwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, August 2-4, 2017.

163. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Durham University, Durham, UK, September 3-8, 2017.

164. Keynote Presentation, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, “Wacker Chemical Company Executive Board, Chattanooga, TN, October 10, 2017.

21 165. Plenary Lecture, “A Physical Organic ’s Journey into Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” 12th National Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Wuhan Universiy, Wuhan, China, October 16-19, 2017.

166. Plenary Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” China MIIT Methanol and China International Commercial Vehicle & Component Exhibition- Conference, Shanghai, China, November 4, 2017.

167. Invited Lecture, “CO2 Capture and Recycling,” National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Suratkal, India, November 23, 2017.

168. Plenary Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” JNCASR- I2CAM School – 2017 on Clean and Renewable Energy Technologies via Chemical Route, Bangalore, India, November 28, 2017.

169. Invited Lecture, “Methanol Economy for India,” NITI Aayog, Government of India, New Delhi, India, November 30, 2017.

170. Invited Lecture, “Recent Studies on Direct Fluorinations and Fluoroalylations,” ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry: Symposium in honor of Erhard Kemnitz, Paper No. FLUO 10, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 255th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 18-22, 2018.

171. Plenary Lecture, “A Physical Organic Chemist’s Journey into Fluoroalkylation Chemistry,” Twentieth Annual Undergraduate Symposium, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, April 20, 2018.

172. Twentieth Annual Undergraduate Symposium and Spring Banquet Lecture, “Methanol Economy,” Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, April 21, 2018.

173. Invited Lecture, “Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy,” Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, May 17, 2018.

174. Invited Lecture, “Recent Studies on Fluoroalkylations and Fluorinations,” Aspects of Recent Developments in Fluorine Chemistry Symposium, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua Unversity, Shanghai, China, May 18-20, 2018.

175. Keynote Lecture, “Fluorinations and Fluoroalkylations,” Nanjing Fluorine Days, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, May 20-24, 2018.

176. Plenary Lacture, “Our Recent Efforts in Fluoroalkylations and Fluorinations,” 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry,

22 Moissan Prize Session, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, July 22- 27, 2018.

177. American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Late Career Award Lecture, “From Long Lived Carbocations to the Methanol Economy”, a Most Rewarding Journey,” ORGN 330, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

INVITED SEMINARS (Since 1990)

University of Southern California, 1990 University of Durham, 1990 ICI Materials Research Center, Wilton, U.K., 1990 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1990 Du Pont's Marshall Laboratory, Philadelphia, PA, 1990 Experimental Station, Du Pont, Wilmington, DE, 1990 Mobil Oil Company, Paulsboro facility, N.J, 1991 University of Pennsylvania, 1991 Dow Corning, Midland, Michigan, 1991 DARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 1992 Physics Department, California State University, Los Angeles, 1992 University of Southern California, 1992 University of California, Riverside, 1992 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1992 DARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 1993 California State University, Long Beach, 1993 Saga University, Saga, Japan, 1993 Osaka National Research Institute (MITI), Osaka, Japan, 1993 Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 1993 Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 1993 Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 1993 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1993 DARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 1994 Ciba-Geigy Corporation, Terry Town, New York, 1994 Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, 1994 DARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 1995 University of Southern California, 1995 University of Utah, 1995 Utah State University, 1995 Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington, Delaware, 1995 DEA 5660 Group 4 Exchange Meeting, SNPE Le Brouchet Research Center, France, 1995 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 1995 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1995 Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra, B. R. Hills, Karnataka, India, 1995

23 Janatha Education Trust Science Forum, Bangalore, India, 1995 Bangalore University, India, 1995 ARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, Arlington, VA, 1995 UScience Day Lecture for High School Students, University of Southern California, 1995 National Institute for Resources and Environment, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996 Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996 Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan, 1996 Sankyo Pharmaceutical Co., Tokyo, Japan, 1996 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Tokyo University, Japan, 1996 Institute for Material Chemistry, Kyushu University, Japan, 1996 ARPA Fuel Cell Symposium, University of Southern California, 1996 Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, 1996 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1996 AFOSR-MURI Review, University of Southern California, 1997 California State University, Long Beach, California, 1997 Caltech Energetic Materials Workshop, Pasadena, CA, 1997 University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1997 California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, 1997 DARPA Fuel Cell Review, International Fuel Cells, South Windsor, Connecticut, 1997 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 1997 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1997 Albemarle Corporation, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1997 University of Southern California, 1997 DARPA DMFC Program Review Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997 ONR Difluoramine Synthesis Workshop, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, 1997 University of Southern California, 1998 Southern California ACS, 1998 Nanoscale MURI Review, University of Southern California, 1998 Elf-Ato Chem, King of Prussia, PA, 1998 Association of Chemistry Teachers, Southern Section, Occidental College, CA, 1998 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Jussieu, Paris, France, 1998 French Chemical Society, Paris Section, La Sorbonne, France, 1998 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Jussieu, Paris, France, 1998 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Jussieu, Paris, France, 1998 University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France, 1998 Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, 1998 University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, 1998 Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Münichen, Germany, 1998 University of Louie Pasteur, Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, 1998 DARPA Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cell Program, Summer Review, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, 1998 PETROBRAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1998 Department of Materials Science, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 1998

24 China Lake Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, 1998 Southern California ACS Workshop for High School Students, Occidental College, 1998 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1998 Difluoramination Chemistry Meeting, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, 1998 University of Southern California, 1999 California State University, Los Angeles, 1999 F & F International Seminar, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan, 1999 Faculty of Engineering, Gunma University, Kiriyu City, Japan, 1999 Nippon Oil and Fat (NOF) Corporation, Taketoyo, Japan, 1999 Osaka National Research Institute, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan, 1999 Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1999 Institute for Material Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 1999 Mitsubishi Gas Company, Aromatics Plant, Mizushima, Japan, 1999 DARPA Review, Arlington, Virginia, 1999 University of California Irvine, 1999 DARPA Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cell Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, 1999 Allergan Inc., Irvine, CA, 1999 University of Southern California, 2000 Difluoramine Synthesis and Characterization Workshop, University of Southern California, 2000 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2000 Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 2001 ATOFINA, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 2001 Toray Industries, Inc. Shiga Plant, Otsu, Shiga, Japan, 2001 ATOFINA, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, 2001 Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, 2001 Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, 2001 Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 2001 Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, 2001 GE India Technology Center Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, 2001 Bangalore University, India, 2001 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2001 Karanataka Association for the Advancement of Science, Bangalore, India, 2001 Department of Applied Chemistry, Saga University, Saga, Japan, 2002 Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kita Kyushu, Japan, 2002 DOD-MURI Smart Skin Materials Kickoff Meeting, University of Washington, 2002 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series, University of Southern California, 2002 SYNCON 2002, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 2002 Asahi Glass Co. Yokohama, Japan, 2002

25 Rohm and Haas Co. Springhouse, PA, 2002 Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003 SYNCON 2003, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 2003 COMET 2003 program for College Bound High School Students, University of Southern California, 2003 GE India Technology Center Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, 2003 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2003 Bangalore Association for the Advancement of Science (BASE), Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, 2003 ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc., King of Prussia, PA, 2003 Edwards Air Force Base, CA, 2003 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2003 The Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2003 Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Suwon, Korea, 2003 Daejoo Electronic Materials Co. Ltd. Kyunggi-Do, Korea., 2003 Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 2004 Southern California Section of the ACS, Los Angeles, 2004 Schlumberger, Sugar Land, Texas, 2004 LG Chem. Research and Development Center, Daejon, Korea, 2004 COMET 2004, Vitterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2004 King Industries, Norwalk, CT, 2004 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2004 Department of Physics, University of Southern California, 2004 USCience Day, University of Southern California, 2004 Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Singapore, 2004 National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2004 Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Singapore, 2004 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 2005 Department of Materials Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 2005 Toyobo Research Center, Ohtsu, Japan, 2005 Department of Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2005 Department of Chemistry, , Lafayette, In, 2005 Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, CA, 2005 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 2005 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2005 COMET 2005, Vitterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2005 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005 University of Southern California, 125th Anniversary Celebrations, 2005 ARKEMA, King of Prussia, 2006 COMET 2006, Vitterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2006 Hughes Research Laboratory, 2006

26 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2006 AFOSR Biophysical Mechanisms Program Review, Arlington, VA. 2006 Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, 2006. Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2006 Vterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2006 Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, 2006 University of Valencia, Spain 2006 University of Valencia, Spain, 2006 CSIC, Sevilla, Spain, 2006 School of Pharmacy, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain, 2006. School of Pharmacy, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Eli Lilly, Madrid, Spain, 2006 Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 2006 Valencia Polytechnic, Valencia, Spain, 2006 Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2007 Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, 2007 Board of Trustees, University of Southern California, La Quinta, CA, 2007 Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 2007 Jubilant Biosys. Bangalore, India, 2007 Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing P. R. China, 2007 College of Chemistry, Peaking University, Beijing P. R. China, 2007 Shanghai Institue of Organic Chemistry, Shanghai, P. R. China, 2007 Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China, 2007 2007 AFOSR Biophysical Mechanisms Program Review, Arlington, VA, 2007 NCI Program Project Annual Review, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2007 Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, 2007 Vterbi School of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, 2007 Carbon Recycling International, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2007. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008 University of California, Los Angeles, SYNCON, 2008 Jubilant Organosys. Bangalore, India, 2008 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2008 Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008 SYNCON, Loker Institute, University of Southern California, 2009 Central College Alumni Association, Bangalore, India, 2009 Department of Chemistry, Christ University, Bangalore, India, 2009 Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, Holderness School Plymouth, New Hampshire, 2009 NCI Program Project Annual Review, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2009 Colorado School of Mines, 2009 DOE-NETL, Morgantown, WV, 2010 DCM-Sriram Group, Kota, Rajasthan, India, 2009 NMKRV College, Bangalore, India, 2010 Jain Engineeering College, Bangalore, India, 2010

27 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2010 NCI Program Project Annual Review, USC Campus, LA, CA, 2010 DOE-NETL, Morgantown, WVA, 2010 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry, UC Irvine, CA, 2011 NCI Program Project Annual Review, USC Campus, LA, CA, 2011 Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Mauna Loa, HI, 2012 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara, CA, 2012 Viterbi School of Engineering, Summer Workshop, University of Southern California, CA, 2012 University of Connecticut, Department of Chemsitry, CT, 2012 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, 2013 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry, UC Riverside, 2014 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, 2014 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry, University of San Diego, May 2015 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, 2015 University of Versailles, Versailles, France, February 2016 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, July 2016 SYNCON, Department of Chemistry and Biochemsitry, October 2016 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, June 2017 CiSoft Program, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, June 2018 STEM Students Lecture, USC, July 2018,

RESEARCH FUNDING (Since 1990)*

Carbocations as Bioalkylating Agents, Co-PI (PI, G. A. Olah), NIH (1988- 1993), $1,395,910.

Synthesis of New Energetic Materials, PI (with G. A. Olah), ONR (1989- 1992), $ 1, 375, 441.

Fundamental Studies on C-H Activation for Alkane Fuel Cell Applications, ONR (1989- 1992), $566, 072.

Novel Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Polymer Batteries, Air Force Phillips Laboratory (1992- 1993), $25,000.

Nitration and Energetic Nitrocompounds, ONR (1992- 1993), $124, 500.

Nitration and Energetic Nitrocompounds, ONR (1993- 1994), $154,354.

Nitration and Energetic Nitrocompounds, ONR (1994- 1997), $498,195.

Studies on Alkane Fuel Cells Using Superacids as Electrolytes, DARPA (1993- 1994) $233,549.

28 Development of Membranes/Electrolytes for Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cell, ARPA (1994 -1995), $25,000.

Adhesion and Injury to Endothelium in Sickle Cell Anemia, NIH (1994 -1995) Co-PI (PI: V. K. Kalra, USC School of Biochemistry), $116,235.

Development of Membranes/Fuels for Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells, DARPA (1994 -1996), $265,000.

Material Processing at the Nanometer Scale, Co-PI (Larry Dalton, PI), DOD-URI (1995- 2000), $80,000 per year.

Development of Membranes/Fuels for Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells, DARPA (1997- 2000), $450,000.

Nitration and Energetic Nitrocompounds, ONR (1997- 2002), $510,000.

Fuel Cell Mebranes, Elf Atochem (1997), $10, 000 (unrestricted gift).

Development of Advanced Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries with Improved Safety and Low Temperature Performance, NASA-JPL (1998-2000), $50,000.

Fluorine Chemistry, Merck KgaA, Germany 1999), $ 60,000 (unrestricted gift)

Fuel Cell Center, Stauffer Foundation (1999-2004) (Olah, PI, Prakash, Co-PI) $2,500,000 (unrestricted gift).

Difluoramination and Energetic Nitro-Difluoramino Compounds, ONR (2001- 2003) $100, 000.

Development of Advanced Polymer Electrolytes for Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries” NASA-JPL-SAFT Program (2001- 2004), $150,000.

Alkylation over Solid Catalysts, ATOFINA (2000- 2001) $ 70,000 (unrestricted gift).

Studies on Display Chemicals, Avery Dennison (2001), $25,000 (unrestricted gift).

Polymeric Smart Skin Materials"(Larry Dalton, PI at the University of Washington) DOD-URI (2001- 2004), $100,000 per year per investigator.

Studies on Display Chemicals, Canon Inc. (2002), $30,000 (unrestricted gift).

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Polymer Monomers, Avery Dennison (2002), $ 50,000 (unrestricted gift).

CO2 Reduction Chemistry, Stauffer Foundation (2003 -2007) (Olah, PI, Prakash, Co-PI) $2, 500,000 per year (unrestricted gift).

Studies on New Hydrocarbon Based Propellants, ERC Inc., (through Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Edwards AFB, CA) (2003- 2005), $ 180,000.

Research in Fluorine Chemistry, Kanto Denka Kogyo, Japan (2004- 2005), $ 29,000 (unrestricted gift).

“DNA Polymerase Fidelity Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment NIH-NCI (2004- 2008) (M. Goodman and A. Warshel, PI, Prakash, Co-PI), $70,000 per year (Direct Costs).

“Bioengineered Fuel Cells: Optimization via Genetic Approaches and Multi- Modeling” Air Force Office of Scientific Research, MURI (2006- 2007) (Ken Nealson, PI, G. K. S. Prakash (Co-PI ) with five other investigators) Investigator's share, ~$100,000

Rechargeable Lithium Ion Batteries, NASA (2004- 2008), $220,000.

Applications Arising from a Material Platform Based on Perfluorocarbon Polymer Systems (T. E. Hogen Esch-Co-PI), Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (2007- 2009), $1,000,000.

Reversing Global Warming: Chemical Recycling and Utilization of CO2, National Science Foundation (2008-2010), $54, 930.

Applications Arising from a Material Platform Based on Perfluorocarbon Polymer Systems (T. E. Hogen Esch-Co-PI), Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (2007- 2009), $1,000,000

Development of Electrolyte Solvent Materials for High Specific Energy and Wide Operating Temperature Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries, NASA-JPL (2007- 2011), $195,000.

Conversion of Natural Gas () and Carbon Dioxide to Methanol: The Methanol Economy (G. A. Olah, PI and G. K. S. Prakash Co-PI), Department of Energy (2008-2011), $1,913,000.

Reversing Global Warming: Chemical Recycling and Utilization of CO2, National Science Foundation (2008-2010), $54, 930.

30 The Methanol Economy Project (G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PIs), Department of Energy-NETL (2009-2013), $3,184,338 (with USC 20% cost share).

A Robust and Inexpensive Iron-Air Rechargeable Battery for Grid-Scale Energy Storage (S. R. Narayan (PI) and G. K. S. Prakash (Co-PI)) ARPA E-DOE (2010- 2013), $ 1,824, 153 (with USC 20% cost share with JPL involvement).

An Inexpensive and Eco-Friendly Iron-Chloride Redox Flow Battery (S. R. Naryanan, PI, G.K. S. Prakash, Co-I) General Technical Services, LLC (US Army) (2012-2013), $190,000.

Inexpensive Metal-Free Organic Redox Flow Battery for Grid- Scale Storage (PI, S. R. Narayanan and Co-PI, G. K. S. Prakash) ARPA-E, 2013-2015, $ 746, 862.

Development of Novel p-Dopants, Merck KGaA, (Prakash, PI), $250,000, 2015- 2016.

CURRENT GRANTS:

DNA Polymerase Fidelity Mechanisms: Theory and Experiment NIH-NCI (2008- 2013) (M. Goodman and A. Warshel, PI, Prakash, Co-PI), $70,000 per year (Direct Costs). 2013-2018.

Inexpensive Organic Flow Batteries (ARPA-E Plus-Up), (PI, S. R. Narayan and Co-PI, G. K. S. Prakash, 2015-2018), $ 1,800,000. Followup grant applied.

Master Research Agreement with STAQ Energy SOW, Development of Iron- Nickel Rechargeable Batteries, (Prakash PI, S. R. Narayan (Co-PI), $500,087, 11/18/2016- 11/17/2018, Will be continued at the same level of funding for next two years.

*In addition to the above the PI has contributed to many-funded instrumentation proposals of the Department of Chemistry at USC. Furthermore, the PI has raised Millions of dollars in gift funding within and outside the University

Ph. D DEGREES AWARDED (Since 1990 in the tenure-track position)

Name Year Present Position

Shobha Kantamneni 1993 Examiner, US Patents and Trademark Offfice, USA. Dushyanthi Hoole 1993 Academic Position, Sri Lanka

31 Andrei Yudin 1996 Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto Emily Tongco 1997 Patent Lawyer, GNF, La Jolla, CA. Anjana Mitra 1998 Professor, Lake Washington of Technology, Kirkland, WA

Marshall Smart 1998 Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Anthony Atti 2000 CEO, Phononic Devices, NC. Marica Greci 2000 Patent Lawyer, Avery Dennison, OH. Stefan Salzbrunn 2000 CEO, Interlake GmbH. Srikant Pathak 2001 Research Scientist, Avery Dennison, CA. Chulsung Bae 2001 Professor, RPI, Troy, NY Jinbo Hu 2002 Professor and Deputy Director, Shanghai Inst. of Organic Chemistry, China Mihirbaran Mandal 2002 Researcher, Merck Pharma, NJ. Ping Yan 2003 Research Scientist, Novozymes, Sacramento, CA. Ryan Desousa 2004 Senior Scientist, Alcon Laboratories, TX. Kimberly McGrath 2005 Funded Program Manager, Maxwell Technologies CA. Iris Cheung 2005 Consultant, New Jersey. Chiradeep Panja 2006 Research Scientist, Biocon, India. Ying Wang 2007 Research Scientist, Phenomenex, Inc. CA. Sujith Chacko 2008 Research Manager, BASF Habiba Vaghoo 2008 Associate Professor, Colorado College. Farzaneh Paknia 2008 Lecturer, West LA College Kiah Smith 2009 Scientist, 3M Company Federico Viva 2009 Scientist, Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina. Mikhail Zibinsky 2009 Medicinal Chemist, Flexus Biosciences Rehana Ismail 2009 Post-doc, UCLA. Tim Stewart 2009 X-Ray Researcher (student of late Prof. Bau). Bo Yang 2009 Post-Doc, USC. Kevin Glinton 2010 Medical Doctor (MD, Darthmouth) Clement Do 2010 Pharmacist Inessa Bychinskaya 2011 Lecturer, CalState, Los Angel

32 Federick Krause 2012 Member of the Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Fang Wang 2012 Staff Scientist, MIT Nan Shao 2013 Res. Chemist, Juhua Group Corporation Anton Shakhmin 2014 Post-Doc, PROMEGA, CA. Arjun Narayanan 2014 Consultant, Irvine, CA Hema Krishnan 2015 Postdoc, Harvard Medical School John-Paul Jones 2015 Member of the Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Zhe Zhang 2015 Postdoc, Cornell Medical School, NY Socrates Munoz 2015 CONACYT Post-Doc, USC Laxman Gurung 2015 Postdoc, Chemistry Department, USC Hang Zhang 2016 Scientist, AQMD, California State Xu Liu 2017 Safety Officer, USC Safety Office Jotheeswari Kothandaraman 2017 Research Associate, PNNL, DOE Laboratory, Richland, Washington Sankarganesh Krishnamoorthy 2017 Postdoc, CalTech, Pasadena, CA Marc Iuliucci 2017 Process Scientist, Noramco Inc. Athens, GA Dean Glass 2018 Postdoc, JPL, NASA

MS DEGREES AWARDED

Christopher Thiebes 1997 Scientist, Bayer, Germany Michael Bradley 1997 Scientist, Abbot Laboratories Suchitra Krishnaraj 1998 School Teacher, Orange County Stefan Salzbrunn 1998 CEO, Interlake GmbH Jonathan L. Chen 2008 Graduate Student, University of Rochester CURRENT Ph. D. STUDENTS Dean Glass (finishing thesis) Kavita Belligund (finishing thesis) Huong Dang (finishing thesis) Amanda Baxter (joint student with Profs. Haiges and Christe) Alexandra Aiola (5th year) Fang Fu (5th year) Archith Nirmalchandar (5th year) Sayan Kar (4th year) Vinayak Krishnamurty (3rd year) Sahar Roshandel (4th year) Vicente Galvan (3rd year) Colby Barett (2nd year) Raktim Sen (2nd year)

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Current and Past Post Docs, Senior Researchers and Visiting Scholars Current Status Roland Knieler 1992-1993 German Chemical Industry Qunjie Wang 1993- 1996 Agilent Technologies Dennis Deffieux 1994-1995 University of Bordeaux Shinji Masuda 1996-1997 Professor, Ashikaga Inst. of Tech. Virginie Pleynet 1996- 1997 Elf Atochem Mutsuo Tanaka 1998 Osaka National Research Inst. Urs Welz-Biermann 1999- 2000 Merck KgaA Jorge Royo Blasco 2000 Spanish Chemical Industry Hiroshi Suzuki 2000-2003 Kyushu University Anthony Atti 2000-2002 MHI Energy Partners Konstantin Koltunov 2001-2002 Novosibirsk Inst. Russia Piere M. Esteves 2001- 2002 Professor, Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Masashi Tashiro 2001- 2004 Emeritus Professor, Deceased Hideki Tashiro 2001-2004 Associate Professor, Hiroshima Jinbo Hu 2002-2005 Professor, Shanghai Inst. of Org. Chem. Nookala Munichandraiah 2003 Professor, Indian Inst. of Science Ila Hiriyakkanavar 2003 Professor, IIT, Kanpur, India Sebastian Cappelacci 2003 Diploma Student, Germany Alain Goepert 2002- present Ph. D, Univ. of Louie Pasteur Jacques Ferdinand Dias 2002-2003 Professor, Brazil Patrice Batamack 2003- present Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Roman Kultyshev 2003- 2006 Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan Akira Miyazawa, 2003- 2004 Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan Ryo Mogi 2004-2005 Kanto Denka Kogyo, Japan Gabriella Fogasu 2003- 2005 University of Lyon Pooja Bhalla 2004- 2005 Chemist, Chevron Corp. CA. Graham Sandford 2005 Professor, University of Durham, UK. Friedrich Muhlthau 2005 Technical University, Münich, Germany Akihisa Saitoh 1998- 2015 Sanyo Chemicals, Ph. D, Kyoto Univ. Stephane Walspurger 2006- 2007 National Energy Research Institute, The Netherlands. Tiejin Li 2004- 2007 Research Scientist, NexBio, Inc. San Diego, CA. Petr Bier 2005- 2006 Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Prague, Czchec Republic. Suresh Palale 2006- 2007 Senior Manager and Group Leader

34 Robert Bosch Res. Center, Singapore Quintera Juan Carlos Colmenares 2006- 2009 Scientist, Warsaw Technical University Chiradeep Panja 2006- 2008 Biocon, India Xiaoming Zhao 2007- 2008 Professor, Tongji University, China. Istavan Ledneczki 2007- 2008 Richter Gedeou Ltd. , Hungary Daniel Stadler 2007 Technical University, Münich, Germany Jaime Martínez Ferrer 2007 University of Valencia, Spain Matthew Moran 2008- 2009 Research Scientist, University of Toronto. Somesh K. Ganesh 2008- 2011 Senior Director, H2 Scan Inc., CA Parag Jog 2008- 2014 Senior Chemist, Piramal Healthcare, PA. Farzaneh Paknia 2008- 2013 Lecturer, West LA College. Fabrizio Pertusati 2008- 2010 Ph. D. Cardiff University, UK. Chuanfa Ni 2009- 2012 Associate Professor Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China. Milkosh Czaun 2009- 2017 JSPS Post Doctoral Fellow, Kumamoto Univ. Japan. Bo Yang 2009- present Post-doc at USC Imre Bucsi 2010-2011 Professor, Josef Atilla Univ. Hungary. Atilla Papp 2010- 2015 Scientist, Hungary Aditya Kulkarni 2011- 2013 Senior R&D Scientist, Brücker

Phillip C. Schmid 2011 Ludwig Maxmiilan University, Munich. Santos Fustero 2013 Professor, Univ. of Valencia, Spain. Fang Wang 2012- 2013 Post Doc at MIT. Vitoria Freitas 2013 University of Pampas, Brazil Dominik Nitsch 2013 Technical University of Munich. Anton Shakhmin 2014 Promega Imre Bucsi 2014-2015 Szeged University, Hungary Simon Daniel Schnell 2015 Ludwig-Maximillian University Pablo Barrio Fernandez 2015 University of Valencia, Spain Lidia Herrera 2015 University of Valencia, Spain Socrates Munoz 2015-present CONACYT Post-doc, USC Piyali Das 2016-2017 The Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India

35 Aisha Bismilla 2018 Durham University, UK Zsofi Blastik 2018 Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy Sciences, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Nazanin Entessari 2018-present Postdoc, USC

UNDERGRADUATE AND HIGH SCHOOL RESEARCHERS

Routinely work with undergraduate students registered for 490 research units. On the average, 1 to 2 students participate in such programs each semester. Furthermore, high school students are also welcomed in summer research programs (average 3 students, every summer). Some of the students in the recent past have received Intel and Siemens awards. Also work with REU students every year.

Summer 2007 Emily Rosen Intel Semifinalist Summer 2008 Tisa Elizabeth Thomas Siemens Regional Finalist Summer 2009 Tito Joe Thomas Siemens Regional Finalist and Intel Semifinalist Summer 2010 Nimisha Ganesh Siemens Semifinalist Summer 2011 Kavita George Siemens Semifinalist and 2012 Intel Semifinalist Summer 2014 Shreya Ramayya Siemens Semifinalist and 2015 Intel Semifinalist

Summer 2014 Niraj Ganesh Siemens Semifinalist and 2015

TEACHING

Regularly teach graduate and undergraduate classes. Have dsigned new syllabi for the Chem 423L, Chem 625 and Chem 527 classes. Teaching evaluations at both undergraduate and graduate levels are consistently high (4.0 to 5.0/5.0).

Undergraduate:

Chemistry 322a/325a Sophomore Organic Chemistry Chemistry 322b/325b Sophomore Organic Chemistry Chemistry 426 Advanced Organic Chemistry Chemistry 423L Advanced Laboratory Techniques in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Graduate:

36 Chemistry 625 Chemical Applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Chemistry 526 Mechanism and Theory of Organic Chemistry Chemistry 527 Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Ph. D COMMITTEES

On average, serve on ~ 30 Ph. D qualifying examination and dissertation committees every year within and outside the department. Also, routinely examine the Ph. D thesis from abroad.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES (Since 1990)

Dean’s Task Force, Chair selection for the Chemistry Department, 1991 USC Patent Committee, 1991 Member, Special Professorial Task Force, 1991-1992 Seminar Chair, Organic/Materials, Fall 1991-2007. TA Award Committee, 1992 Member, Department Merit Committee, 1992 Member of the Graduate Student Committee, 1992- 2005 Member, Graduate Student Advisement Committee, 2005 Dean’s Research Personnel Committee, 1994 Chair, Merit Committee, 1994 Member, Dean’s Consultative Committee, 1995 Member, Departmental Reorganization Committee, 1998 Chair of the Graduate Student Committee, 1995- 1999 Chair, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Organic, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 Chair, Graduate Student Advisory Committee 2006-2007 Member, Graduate Student Advisory Committee 2006-2009 Member, Chair Selection Committee, 2001 Member of the Convocation Committee, 2003- present Member of the Machine Shop Committee, 2002-2015 Member, Internal Review Committee, Self Study, School of Pharmacy, 2004 Member, University Committee on Promotions and Tenure, 2003- 2007 Member, Safety Committee, 2004- present. Co-Chair, Future Fuels and Energy Initiative, 2005.Member, University Research Committee. 2006- 2008. Member, Future Fuels and Energy Initiative Committee, 2006-present Member, Review Committee, Self Study, Mork School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 2007. Chair, Natural Sciences and Engineering Panel, University Committee on Promotions and Tenure, 2007- 2010. Member, Wrigley Institute Advisory Committee, 2008-2009. Member, Departmental Merit Committee, 2009-2011. Chair, Graduate Student Advisory Committee 2009-2010 Seminar Co-Chair, Organic/Materials Division, 2008-present

37 Dean’s Task Force, Chair Selection Committee for the Chemistry Department, 2013 Dornsife Senior Rauben Heimer Faculty Awards Committee Member, 2012- 2013. Member, University Committee for Academic Review, 2014- 2016. Co-Chair, Graduate and Postdoctoral Student Advisory Committee, 2010- 2017. Internal Member, Review Committee, Self Study, Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS

1. Heterocyclic Steroids, Part-5. Studies on the Total Synthesis of Racemic 3-Methoxy-7-oxaestra-l,3,5(10),8-tetraen-l7(e)-ol, S. R. Ramadas, A.P. Chaudhuri and G. K. S. Prakash, Steroids, 197 (1976).

2. Preparation of 4,4'-Homoadamantylidenehomoadamantane, A Highly Hindered Olefin, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, Synthesis, 318 (1976).

3. Carbon-13 and Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study of Protonated Pentacyclo[5.3.0.0.2,503,904,8]decan-6-one, a Model l,3- Bishomocubyl Cation. Attempted Preparation of the Parent and Alkyl(Aryl-) substituted Ions and Their opening to 3-substituted endo- Tricyclo[5.2.l.0.2,6]deca-4,8-dienyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, J. Org. Chem., 41, 2820 (1976).

4. Preparation of via Dehalogenation of vic-Dihaloalkanes, Coupling of Allyl and Benzyl Halides, Dehalogenative Coupling of Aryl- gem-Dihaloalkanes using TiCl3 or TiCl4/LiAlH4 Reagent, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 607 (1976).

5. The Unusual Favorskii-Nazarov Reaction of Dicyclopropyl Ketone, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA., 73, 2945 (1976).

6. Oxidative Cleavage of Hydrazones with Molybdenyl chloride (MoOCl3) or Molybdenum hexafluoride and Reductive Cleavage of Oximes with Molybdenyl chloride and Zinc, G.A. Olah, J. Welch, G. K. S. Prakash and T. L. Ho, Synthesis, 808 (1976).

7. Efficient Deoxygenation of Sulfoxides with Molybdenum (III) and Vanadium (II) Reagents, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T.L. Ho, Synthesis, 810 (1976).

8. Tetraneopentylethylene, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 42, 580 (1977).

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9. lH and 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study 6,6- Disubstituted Fulvenium Ions: G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, J. Org. Chem., 42, 661 (1977).

10. Comparison of Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Shifts and Relative Charge Delocalization in para-substituted Phenyl, Alkyl and Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, J. Org. Chem., 42, 2666 (1977).

11. The Onset of s-Delocalization in Substituted 2-Phenyl-2-norbornyl Cations as Studied by 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. The Application of the "Tool of Increasing Electron Demand" to the 2- Norbornyl System, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 5683 (1977).

12. General Ketone Synthesis by the Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Alkyl Silanes, G.A. Olah, T. L. Ho, G. K. S. Prakash and B. G. B. Gupta, Synthesis, 677 (1977).

13. 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Five and Six- CoordinatedCarbon in Nonclassical Organometallic Compounds. Dimeric Trialkyl, Tricyclopropyl, Triarylaluminums and some nido and closo Carboranes: G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Liang, G. B. Haigh and K. L. Henold, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 74, 5217 (1977).

14. AlCl3/Pd Catalyzed Reduction of Aryl substituted Alcohols and Olefins by Hydrogen Transfer from Cyclohexene, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 397 (1978).

15. Concerning the Structure and Modes of Degenerate Rearrangement of the Nonclassical l-Methylcyclobutyl and Related Carbocations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, D. J. Donovan and I. Yavari, J. Am. Chem.Soc. 100, 7085 (1978).

16. The a,l-Dimethylcyclopropylcarbinyl Cation, G. A. Olah, D. J. Donovan and G. K. S. Prakash, Letters, 4779 (1978).

17. Low-Temperature l3C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Investigation of C4H7+, Evidence for an Equilibrium involving the Nonclassical Bicyclobutonium Ion and Bisected Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cation, J. S. Staral, I. Yavari, J. D. Roberts, G. K. S. Prakash, D. J. Donovan and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 100, 8016 (1978).

18. Convenient Reductive Cleavage of Benzilic (Benzhydrilic) Ethers and

39 Ketals using AlCl3/Pd catalysed Hydrogen Transfer from Cyclohexene, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and S. C. Narang, Synthesis, 825 (1978).

19. Oxidative Cleavage of Ketoximes and Tosylhydrazones with Aqueous Bromine, G. A. Olah, Y. D. Vankar and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 113 (1979).

20. Superacids: G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Sommer, Science, 206, 13 (1979).

21. Study of Highly Strained Bicyclo[l.l.l]pentyl Cations under Stable Ion Conditions, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Liang, J. Am Chem. Soc., 101, 3932 (1979).

22. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of Potential Tris- and Bishomocyclopropeny1 Cations, G. A. OIah, G. K. S. Prakash, T. N. Rawdah, D. Whittaker and J. C. Rees, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 101, 3935 (1979).

23. Dethioacetalization with Bromodimethylsulfonium Bromide, G. A. Olah, Y. D. Vankar, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 720 (1979).

24. Cyclopropylhalonium Ions, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and M. R. Bruce, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 6463 (1979).

25. lH and l3C NMR Spectroscopic Study of 9-Fluorenyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Liang, P. W. Westerman, K. Kunde, J. Chandrasekhar and P. v. R. Schleyer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 4485 (1980).

26. Degenerate Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cation Rearrangements in 2- Bicyclo[n.l.0]alkyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. N. Rawdah, J. Org. Chem., 45, 965 (1980).

27. Rapidly Equilibrating Unsymmetrically Bridged l,3,5,7-Tetramethyl- and Rapidly Equilibrating Trivalent l,2,3,5,7-Pentamethyl-2-adamantyl Cations. Additivity of l3C NMR Chemical Shifts Relating Classical vs. Nonclassical Nature of Carbocations, P. v. R. Schleyer, D. Lenoir, P. Mison, G. Liang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 683 (1980).

28. On the Structure of Cyclopropylcarbinyl and Cyclobutyl Cations. The 2,8- Dimethyl-8,9-dehydro-2-adamantyl and 4-Phenyl-2,5-dehydro-4- protoadamantyl Cations, R. K. Murray, Jr., T. K. Ford, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 1865 (1980).

40 29. Reductive Cleavage of Oximes with Vanadium (II) Chloride, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 220 (1980).

30. 2,5-Diphenyl-2,5-norbornyl Dications, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. N. Rawdah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 6127 (1980).

31. Improved Transformation of Nitro into Carbonyl Compounds by Hydrogen Peroxide/ Potassium Carbonate, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi, Y. D. Vankar and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 662 (1980).

32. lH and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of Benzocyclobutenyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, A. L. Berrier and G. Liang, Nouv. J. Chim., 4, 691 (1980).

33. l3C NMR Spectroscopic Study of Protonated Thioketones in Superacidic Media. The Significance of Thiolcarbenium Ion Contributions: G. A. Olah, T. Nakajima and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 19, 811 (1980).

34. Thiobenzoyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Nakajima, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 19, 812 (1980).

35. Significant Mesomeric Nitrenium Ion Character of the Cyanodiphenylmethyl Cation. The First Long Lived Cyanocarbenium Ion, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and M. Arvanaghi, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 6640 (1980).

36. Vanadium Dichloride, submitted by M. Pomerantz, G. L. Combs, Jr., and N. L. Dassanayake; checked by G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Inorg. Synth., 185 (1980).

37. Facile Palladium Catalysed Reduction of Multiple Bonds with Magnesium Metal in Methyl Alcohol, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi and M. R. Bruce, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 20, 92 (1981).

38. l3C NMR Spectroscopic Study of the Application of the "Tool of Increasing Electron Demand" to the 7-Aryl-7-norbornenyl, 7-Aryl-7- norbornyl, 2-Aryl-2-bicyclo[2.l.l]hexyl, l-Aryl-l-cyclobutyl and 3-Aryl-3- nortricyclyl Cations, G. A. Olah, A. L. Berrier, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 1122 (l981).

39. Reductive Hydrolysis of 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazones Using Vanadium (II) Chloride, G. A. Olah, Ya-Li Chao, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 476 (1981).

40. 13C NMR Chemical Shift Correlations in Application of "Tool of

41 Increasing Electron Demand" to Stable Long-lived Carbocations: Comprehensive Evaluation, G. A. Olah, A. L. Berrier and G. K. S. Prakash, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 78, 1998 (1981).

41. The Spiro[2.5]oct-4-yl Cation, A Long lived Secondary Cyclohexyl Cation, G. A. Olah, A. P. Fung, T. N. Rawdah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 4646 (1981).

42. Suppression of Anchimerically Assisted Rearrangement Products in the Synthesis of a-Fluorocarboxylic Acids from a-Amino Acids. Use of 48:52 (w/w) /Pyridine, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and Ya-Li Chao, Helv. Chim. Acta, 64, 2528 (1981).

43. A l3C and 29Si NMR Spectroscopic Study of a- and b-Trimethylsilyl Substituted Carbocations, G. A. Olah, A. L. Berrier, L. D. Field and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 1349 (1982).

44. Two and Three-Fold Degenerate Rearrangements in Di and Tri- methylcyclopropylcarbinyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Nakajima, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 1031 (1982).

45. 17O NMR Spectroscopic Study of Oxonium and Carboxonium Ions, G. A. Olah, A. L. Berrier and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 2373 (1982).

46. Preparation and 13C and l5N NMR Spectroscopic Study of Cyanocarbenium Ions. Substituent Effects on the Extent of Mesomeric Nitrenium Ion Character in Cyanodiphenylmethyl Cations. The Search for Related a-cyanocarbenium Ions, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 1628 (1982).

47. Solvolytic and Stable Ion Studies of l,l'-Diadamantylmethyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Liang, P. v. R. Schleyer and D.W. Graham, J. Org. Chem., 47, 1040 (1982).

48. High Field lH and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of the 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi and F. A. L. Anet, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 7105 (1982).

49. Use of 2-Thienyl, 2-Furyl, 5-Ethyl-2-Furyl and Protonated 4-Acetylphenyl Substituents in Carbon-l3 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift Correlations, G. A. Olah, A. L. Berrier and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 47, 3903 (1982).

50. Comments on the Application of the Gassman-Fentiman Tool of Increasing Electron Demand to the Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic

42 Resonance Spectroscopic Study of Substituted 2-Aryl-2-Norbornyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, D. G. Farnum and T. P. Clausen, J. Org. Chem., 48, 2146 (1983).

51. The endo-3,10-Dimethyltricyclo[5.2.l.02'6]deca-4,8-dienyl-3,10-Dication, A Novel Bishomoaromatic/Allylic Dication and Its Rearrangement to the Symmetrical cis-anti-cis-3,10-Dimethyltricyclo[5.2.0.02,6]deca-4,8- dienyl-3,10-Dication, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 22, 712 (1983).

52. Preparation of a-Bromo/Chlorocarboxylic Acids from a-Amino Acids, G. A. Olah, J. Shih and G. K. S. Prakash, Helv. Chim. Acta, 66, 1028 (1983).

53. C-Scrambling in the tert-Butyl Cation, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Husain, Angew. Chem., 95, 51 (1983).

54. Stable Carbodications, G. K. S. Prakash, T. N. Rawdah, and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Engl. Ed., 22, 390 (1983).

55. Tin (IV) Chloride Catalyzed Preparation of Aroyl Cyanides from Aroyl Chlorides with Cyanotrimethylsilane, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 636 (1983).

56. Zinc Iodide Catalyzed Preparation of Aroyl Azide from Aroyl Chloride and Trimethylsilyl Azide, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer, M. Arvanaghi and G. A. O1ah, J. Org. Chem., 48, 3358 (1983).

57. Conclusion of the Classical-Nonclassical Ion Controversy Based on the Structural Study of the 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and M. Saunders, Acc. Chem. Res., 16, 440 (1983).

58. The Structure of the 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. A. Olah and G. K.S. Prakash, Preprints Div. of Petr. Chem.(ACS), 28(2), 1366 (1983).

59. The 2,3-Dimethyl-3-Fluoro-2-Butyl Cation Revisited: Exclusive Methyl Exchange Ruling Out Fluorine Shift through Bridged Fluoronium Ion, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, and V. V. Krishnamurthy, J. Org. Chem., 48, 5116 (1983).

60. Hypercarbon Compounds: The Neglected Side of Organic Chemistry, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Brit., 916 (1983).

61. a-Nitrodiarylmethyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi, V. V. Krishnamurthy and S. C. Narang, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 2378 (1984).

43 62. Preparation of Aldehydes and Ketones from N,N-Dimethylamides and Grinard Reagents: G.A. Olah, G.K.S. Prakash and M. Arvanaghi, Synthesis, 228 (1984).

63. Improved Preparation of a-Chloroketones from Enolsilyl Ethers with Sulfuryl Chloride Fluoride and Sulfuryl Chloride, G. A. Olah, L. Ohannesian, M. Arvanaghi and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 49, 2032 (1984).

64. Thiocarbonyl to Carbonyl Group Transformation with Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate, G. A. Olah, M. Arvanaghi, L. Ohannesian and G. K.S. Prakash, Synthesis, 785 (1984).

65. One Bond l3C-l3C NMR Coupling Constants in Substituted Benzoyl Cations, G. A. Olah, P. S. Iyer, G. K. S. Prakash, and V. V. Krishnamurthy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 7073 (1984).

66. One Bond 13C-13C NMR Coupling Constants in Substituted Acetophenones, Benzaldehyde and Their O-protonated Carboxonium Ions, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G.A. O1ah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 7068 (1984).

67. 17O NMR Spectroscopic Study of Substituted Benzoyl Cations, G. A. Olah, P. S. Iyer, G. K. S. Prakash, and V. V. Krishnamurthy, J. Org. Chem., 49, 4317 (1984).

68. anti-Tricyclo[5.l.0.03,5]oct-2,6-diyl Dications. Novel Bis(cyclopropylcarbinyl) Dications, G. K. S. Prakash, A. P. Fung, T. N. Rawdah and G.A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 2920 (1985).

69. Application of Gassman-Fentiman Tool of Increasing Electron Demand to the l3C NMR Spectroscopic Study of l-Aryl-3-methylbut-2-enyl(Allyl) and 2-Arylpent-3-yn-2-yl(propargylic) Cations, G. K. S. Prakash, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. A. Olah, and D. G.Farnum, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 3928 (1985).

70. Deuterium Isotope Effects on the 13C NMR Spectra of l-Methylcyclobutyl and Trishomocyclopropenyl Cations, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 6017 (1985).

71. Observation of a Secondary 13C Equilibrium Isotope Effect in the Degenerate Rearrangements of 2,3-Dimethyl-2-Butyl Cation Using Natural Abundance l3C NMR Spectroscopy, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5015 (1985).

44 72. Preparation and l3C NMR Spectroscopic Study of 2,6-Disubstituted-2,6- Adamantyl Dications, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, V. V. Krishnamurthy, and M. Arvanaghi J. Org. Chem., 50, 3985 (1985).

73. Bridgehead Adamantyl, Diamantyl and Related Cations and Dications, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Shih, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. Liang, G. D. Mateescu, G. Sipos, V. Buss, T. Gund and P. v. R. Schleyer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 2764 (1985).

74. Methyl and Ethylvinylhalonium Ions, G. K. S. Prakash, M. R. Bruce and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 50, 2405 (1985).

75. Reinvestigation of the Bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-1,4-Diyl Dication, A. de Meijere, O. Schallner, P. Golitz, W. Weber, P. v. R. Schleyer, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. O1ah, J. Org. Chem. 50, 5255 (1985).

76. Superacid Catalyzed Alkylation of Adamantane with Olefins, G. A. Olah, O. Farooq, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash and K. Laali, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 107, 7541 (1985).

77. Intermediacy of the Parent Diazonium Ion (Protonated Dinitrogen, N2+H) 15 + - in the Diazotization of Ammonia and Its Derivatives with NO BF4 Giving 15N14N, G. A. Olah, R. Herges, J. D. Felberg and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5282 (1985).

78. Hypercarbon Molecules, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, 2YC Distillate, ACS Two Year College News Letter, 31(2), 6 (1985).

79. Lewis Acid Catalyzed Preparation of Bridge-head Adamantanoid Nitriles from Their Corresponding Halides and Trimethylsilyl Nitrile, G. A. Olah, O. Farooq and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1140 (1985).

80. Agreeing with Dewar on the 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, and M. Saunders, Acc. Chem. Res. 18, 292 (1985).

81. Catalyzed Transacylation of Arene by Acylpentamethylbenzene, T. Keumi, T. Morita, T. Shimada, M. Ideka, N. Teshima, H. Kitajima and G. K. S. Prakash, JCS Perkin Trans II, 847 (1986).

82. Protonated Dication, H4O2+. Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange of D2HO17+ in HF/SbF5 and Theoretical Calculations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Barzaghi, K. Lammertsma, P. v. R. Schleyer and J. A. Pople, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108, 1032 (1986).

45 83. Formaldehyde-O-methylide, [CH2=O+-C-H2]; The Parent Carbonyl Ylide, G.K.S. Prakash, R.W. Ellis, J.D. Felberg, and G. A. O1ah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108, 1341 (1986).

84. Study of 13C-13C NMR Coupling Constants as a Probe for Mesomeric Nitrenium and Allenyl Ion Character in a-Cyanodiarylmethyl and l, l- Diaryl-2-butynyl Cations, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108, 1575 (1986).

85. The Pagodane Dication, A Unique 2p-Aromatic Cyclobutanoid System, G. K. S. Prakash, V. V. Krishnamurthy, R. Herges, R. Bau, H. Yuan, G.A. Olah, W. -D. Fessner and H. Prinzbach, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 108, 836 (1986).

86. Remarks on The Mechanism of Ethylene Formation from Methyl Alcohol, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, R.W. Ellis and J.A. Olah, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm. 1, 9 (1986).

87. Preparation of Secondary and Tertiary Cyclic and Polycyclic Hydrocarbon Azides, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Stephenson, J. Shih and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 51, 3215 (1986).

88. Perfluororesinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalysis in Synthesis, G. A. Olah, P. S. Iyer and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 513 (1986).

89. Nafion-H Catalyzed Reductive Cleavage of Acetals and Ketals to Ethers with Triethylsilane, G. A. Olah, T. Yamato, P. S. Iyer, and G. K. S Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 51, 2826 (1986).

90. Fluorine Containing Reagents in Organic Syntheses, G. A. Olah, J. G. Shih, and G. K. S. Prakash, in Commemorative volume honoring Moissan on the centenial of discovery of fluorine, J. Fluo. Chem. 33, 377 (1986).

91. anti-Tricyclo[4.2.l.l2,5]deca-3,7--9,l0-diyl Dication: A Sandwiched Bishomoaromatic System, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Farnia, S. Keyaniyan, G. A. Olah, H. J. Kuhn, and K. Schaffner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 109, 911 (1987).

92. Unusual b-Fluorination of Secondary-Alkyl and Cycloalkyl Bromides in Their Reaction with NO2+BF4- in (HF)n-Pyridine Solution, T. Hashimoto, G. K. S. Prakash, J. G. Shih, and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 52, 931 (1987).

93. Nafion-H®Catalyzed Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation and Ritter Reaction, G. A. Olah, T. Yamoto, P. S. Iyer, N. J. Trivedi, B. P. Singh, and G. K. S.

46 Prakash, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 17, No. 1-2, 21 (1987).

94. 4-Spiro[2.n]alkyl Cations and Their Rearrangements, G. K. S. Prakash, A. P. Fung, G. A. Olah, and T.N. Rawdah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 84, 5092 (1987).

95. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of 2-Aryl-2-benzonorbornenyl Cations, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Ohannesian, M. Arvanaghi, and G.A. Olah, Gazzetta Chimica Italiana, 117, 213 (1987).

96. Nafion-H Catalyzed De-tert-Butylation of Aromatic Compounds, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer, M. Tashiro, and T. Yamato, J. Org. Chem. 52, 1881 (1987).

97. Triphenylsilyl Perchlorate Revisited by 29Si and 35Cl NMR Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography Showing Covalent Nature both in Solution and the Solid State. Difficulties in Observing the Long Lived Silyl Cations in the Condensed State, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Keyaniyan, R. Aniszfeld, G. A. Olah, R. C. Stevens, H.-K. Choi, and R. Bau, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 109, 5123 (1987).

98. General Ether Synthesis under Mild Acid-Free Conditions. Trimethylsilyl Iodide Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of Carbonyl Compounds with Trialkylsilanes to Symmetrical Ethers and Reductive Condensation with Alkoxysilanes to Unsymmetrical Ethers, M. B. Sassaman, K. D. Kotian, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 52, 4314 (1987).

99. The Low Pressure Fischer Polymerization of Ethylene with Al + AlCl3 + TiCl4 Revisited, G. A. Olah, M. Bruce, F. Clouet, S. M. F. Farnia, O. Farooq, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Welch, and J. L. Koenig, Macromolecules, 20, 2972 (1987).

100. The Tetrahydridosulfonium Dication, H4S2+. Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange of DH2S+ in FSO3D:SbF5 and D2HS+ in FSO3H:SbF5 and Theoretical Calculations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Marcelli, and K. Lammertsma, J. Phys. Chem. 92, 878 (1988)

101. The Polyborane-Carborane-carbocation Analogy Extended: New B-H-C Bridge Hydrogen Containing Cations, C-Me-C2BHT7+(cf. arachno-B3H8- ), C-C(-Me)2-CB+H4 (cf. nido-B2H6) and B-Me-C, C(-t-Bu)2C2B (cf. C3H3+) Confirming as Carboranes, R.E. Williams, G. K. S. Prakash, L. D. Field, and G. A. Olah, in the monograph "Advances in Boron and The Boranes honoring A. B. Burg", J. F. Liebman, A. Greenberg, and R. E. Williams, Editors, VCH Publishers: New York, N.Y., 1988, Ch. 9.

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102. Application of Gassman-Fentiman Tool of Increasing Electron Demand to Stable Carbocations Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, G. K. S. Prakash, and P. S. Iyer, Rev.Chem.Intermediates, 9, 65 (1988).

103. Superacid Catalyzed Electrophilic Formylation of Adamantane with Carbon Monoxide Competing with Koch-Haaf Carboxylation, O. Farooq, M. Marcelli, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 864 (1988).

104. Aluminum Dichloride and Dibromide. Preparation, Spectroscopic (Including Matrix Isolation) Study, Reactions and Role (Together with Alkyl (Aryl)aluminum Monohalides) in the Preparation of Organoaluminum Compounds, G. A. Olah, O. Farooq, S. M. F. Farnia, M. R. Bruce, F. L. Clouet, P. R. Morton, G. K. S. Prakash, R. C. Stevens, R. Bau, K. Lammertsma, S. Suzer, and L. Andrews, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 3231 (1988).

105. Chemical Properties of . The Dodecahedryl Cation and 1, 16-Dodecahedryl Dication. Regiselective Functionalization of the Sphere. G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Kobayashi and L. A. Paquette, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 1304 (1988).

106. Synthetic Methods and Reactions, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci (Chem. Sci.), 100, 143 (1988).

107. A One-Pot Preparation of a, b-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid Esters from Carbonyl Compounds, G. A. Olah, A. H. Wu, O. Farooq, and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 537 (1988).

108. Ionic Hydrogenation with Organosilanes under Acid Free Conditions. Synthesis of Ethers, Alkoxysilanes, Thioethers, and Cyclic Ethers via Organosilyl Iodide and Triflate Catalyzed Reactions of Carbonyl Compounds and Their Derivatives, M. B. Sassaman, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron, 3771 (1988).

109. One Bond 13C-19F Coupling Constant as A Criterion for Fluorine Back Donation to An Electron Deficient Carbocationic Center. Application of the Tool of Increasing Electron Demand to a-Fluorodiaryl Carbenium Ions, G. A. Olah, M. Stephenson, J. Shih, V. V. Krishnamurthy, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluo. Chem. 40, 319 (1988).

110. [1.1.1.1.]- and [2.2.2.2] Pagodane Dications: Frozen Two-Electron Woodward-Hoffmann Transition State Models, G. K. S. Prakash, V. V. Krishnamurthy, R. Herges, R. Bau, H. Yuan, G. A. O1ah, W-D. Fessner, and H. Prinzbach, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 110, 7764 (1988).

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111. Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange of in Superacid Solution through Diboranonium (B2H7+) and Diboranium (B2H5+) Ions, G. A. Olah, R. Aniszfeld, G. K. S. Prakash, R. E. Williams, K. Lammertsma, and O. F. Güner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 7885 (1988).

112. The Dodecahedryl Cation and l,16-Dodecahedryl Dication. 1H and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Studies and Theoretical Investigations, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, W-D. Fessner, T. Kobayashi, and L. A. Paquette, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 8599 (1988).

113. 2-seco[l.1.l.1]Pagodyl Cation. Strong Stabilization of a Trivalent Carbocation by C-C s-bond Hyperconjugation, G. K. S. Prakash, W- D. Fessner, G. A. Olah, G. Lutz, and H. Prinzbach, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 746 (1989).

114. Electrophilic Chemistry of , G. A. Olah, O. Farooq, and G. K.S. Prakash, A Chapter in a Monograph "Activation and Functionalization of Alkanes", C. L. Hill, Ed., Wiley Interscience, New York, 1989, Ch. 11.

115. Single Step Reductive Isomerization of Unsaturated Polycyclics to C4n+6H4n+12 Diamondoid Cage Hydrocarbons with Sodium Borohydride/Triflic Acid, G. A. Olah, A. Wu, O. Farooq, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 54, 1450 (1989).

116. Fluoride Induced Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds with Trifluoromethyltri-methylsilane (TMS-CF3). A Trifluoromethide Equivalent, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Krishnamurti, and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 393 (1989).

117. Methylated Biphenylene Dianions: NMR Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigation, J. W. Bausch, P. S. Gregory, G. A. O1ah, G. K. S. Prakash, P. v. R. Schleyer, and G. Segal, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 3633 (1989).

118. Trihalomethyl Cations, G. A. Olah, L. Heiliger, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 111, 8020 (1989).

119. Observation of AlC13 Catalyzed Trialkylsilylation of and withChlorotrialkylsilanes in the Presence of Hünig-bases, G. A. Olah, T. Bach and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 54, 3770 (1989).

120. Solid Superacidic Nafion-H® (A Polymeric Perfluororesinsulfonic Acid Catalyzed Reactions), G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Hokkaido International Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis Proceedings, Kodansha Press, Japan, 1989, p. 59.

49 121. Electrophilic Oxygenation of Adamantane and Diamantane with Bis- (trimethylsilyl)-peroxide/Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. A. Olah, T. D. Ernst, C. B. Rao and G. K. S. Prakash, New J. Chem., 13, 791 (1989).

122. Protonated(Proto-solvated) Onium Ions (Onium Dications), G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, and K. Lammertsma, Research on Chemical Intermediates, 141 (1989).

123. 7-Bromoniabicyclo[2.2.l]heptane, a Stable l,4-Bridged Bicyclic Bromonium Ion, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld, T. Hashimoto, J. W. Bausch and G. A. O1ah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 8276 (1989).

124. Friedel Crafts Dehydrohalogenative Polymerization of Acetyl and Enolizable Substituted Acetyl Halides to Polyketenes (Poly(oxyacetylenes)), G. A. O1ah, E. Zadok, R. Edler, D. Adamson, W. Kasha and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 111, 9123 (1989).

125. Improved Direct Preparation of O-Trimethylsilyl Hemithioacetals from Thiols and Carbonyl Compounds, M.B. Sassaman, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synthesis, 104 (1990).

126. Olefins from Crowded Carbonyl Compounds with tert-Butyllithium (tert- Butyl magnesium chloride)/Thionyl Chloride. Study of Carbocationic Reaction Intermediates and Rearrangement-Cleavage under Stable Ion Conditions Using 13C NMR Spectroscopy, G. A. Olah, A. Wu, O. Farooq and G. K.S. Prakash, J. Org.Chem., 55, 1792 (1990).

127. Regiospecific and Chemoselective Ring Opening of Epoxides with Trimethylsilyl Cyanide-Potassium Cyanide/18-Crown-6 Complex, M. B. Sassaman, G. K.S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 55, 2016 (1990).

128. Solvolysis of 2-Trifluoromethyl-2-adamantyl Tosylate. Unexpectedly High Reactivity in Carbocation Formation, A-D. Allen, R. Krishnamurti, G. K. S. Prakash, and T. T. Tidwell, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 1291 (1990).

129. Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid Catalyzed Electrophilic Sulfuration of Alkanes () with Elemental Sulfur to Dialkyl(cycloalkyl) Sulfides, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem.Soc., 112, 3697 (1990).

130. 13C and 19F NMR Spectroscopic Study of Substituent Effects in a,a-Difluoroaryl-carbenium Ions, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Heiliger, and G. A. O1ah, J. Fluo. Chem., 49, 33 (1990).

131. Preparation of l,3-Functionalized Adamantanes by the Lewis Acid

50 Catalyzed Electrophilic Cyclization of 7-Methylenebicyclo[3.3.l]nonan-3- one in the Presence of p- and n-Nucleophiles, G. A. Olah, R. Krishnamurti and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 646 {1990).

132. The Covalent Nature of Trimethylsilyl Perchlorate and Observation of Polarized Fluorotrimethylsilane- Antimony Pentafluoride Complexes Based on 29Si NMR Studies. Difficulties in Observing Persistent Trialkylsilicenium Ions, G. A. Olah, L. Heiliger, X.-Y. Li, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 5991 (1990).

133. Ionic Fluorination of Trialkyl(aryl)silanes by Nitrosonium or Nitronium Tetrafluoroborate, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li, and G. A. Olah, New J. Chem., 14, 791 (1990).

134. The Tris(l-Adamantyl)methyl Cation: A Most Highly Crowded Persistent Carbocation, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, and R. Krishnamurti, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 6422 (1990).

135. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of g-Substituted Tris(ethynyl)methyl Cations, G. A. Olah, R. Krishnamurti, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 55, 6061 (1990).

136. Highly Regioselective Nitration of and Its Derivatives to Dinitroprehnitene with Excess Nitronium Tetrafluoroborate, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li, and G. A. Olah, Helv. Chim. Acta, 73, 1167 (1990).

137. Azidobromination of Alkenes with Azidotrimethylsilane/N- Bromosuccinimide, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li, and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 487 (1990).

138. 15N NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Nitrous and Nitric Acid Equilibria in Solutions of Varying Acidities, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Heiliger, and G. A. Olah, Inorg. Chem., 29, 4965 (1990).

139. Convenient Transformation of Carbonyl Compounds via Their Hydrazones into gem-Difluoro Compounds with N- Bromosuccinimide/Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride or Poly-4- vinylpyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, G. K. S. Prakash, V. P. Reddy, X-Y. Li, and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 594 (1990).

140. Copper (II) Chloride Catalyzed Carboxydediazoniation of Arenediazonium Tetrafluoroborates with Carbon Monoxide in Aqueous Dioxane Solution to Arene Carboxylic Acids, G. A. Olah, A-H. Wu, A. Bagno, and G. K.S. Prakash, Synlett, 596 (1990).

51 141. Nafion-H Catalyzed Condensation of Acetophenone Derivatives. A Preparative Route of l,3,5-Triarylbenzenes, T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett., 6, 341 (1990).

142. Nafion-H Catalyzed tert-Butylation of Aromatic Compounds with 2,6- Di(tert-butyl)-p-cresol, T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, A. Miyazawa, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett., 6, 345 (1990).

143. Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange of Si-H(D) Bond in Trialkylsilanes with HI(DI)-AI3 Involving Pentacoordinate Siliconium Ions, G.A. Olah, L. Heiliger, R. Aniszfeld, and G. K. S. Prakash, New J. Chem., 14, 877 (1990).

144. Peterson (Silyl-Wittig) Methylenation of Carbonyl Compounds Using Nafion-H® Catalyzed Hydroxytrimethylsilane Elimination of b- Hydroxysilanes, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy, and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 29 (1991).

145. "Superacids", G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 1991 Year Book, Academic Press: New York.

146. Preparation of Trifluoromethyl and Other Perfluoroalkyl Compounds with Perfluoro-alkyltrimethylsilanes, R. Krishnamurti, D. R. Bellew and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 56, 984 (1991).

147. Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Benzylation of Benzene and Substituted , T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 56, 2089 (1991).

148. Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalyzed Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts Acylation, T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 56, 3955 (1991).

149. Oxyfunctionalization of Hydrocarbons. 15. Electrophilic Hydroxylation of Aromatics with Sodium Perborate/Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. K. S. Prakash, N. Krass, Q. Wang and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 39 (1991).

150. Efficient and Mild Nitrosolysis of Methyl Aryl and Methyl tert- Alkyl(Polycycloalkyl) Ketones to Their Corresponding Carboxylic Acids with Sodium Nitrite/Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, G. A. Olah, M. T. Ramos, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 41 (1991).

151. "Iodotrimethylsilanes", G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Krishnamurti, A chapter in Advances in Silicon Chemistry, Larson, G. L. (Ed.), Vol. 1,

52 pp 1-64, Jai Press Inc.: Greenwich, CT., 1991.

152. Halocarbonyl Cations, G. K. S. Prakash, J. W. Bausch and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 3203 (1991).

13 153. Diamagnetic Polyanions of the C60 and C70 Fullerenes: Preparation, C and 7Li NMR Spectroscopic Observation, and Alkylation with Methyl Iodide to Polymethylated Fullerenes, J. W. Bausch, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, D. S. Tse, D. C. Lorents, Y. K. Bar and R. Malhotra, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 3205 (1991).

154. Nafion-H, A Solid Perfluoroalkaneresinsulfonic Acid Catalyzed Conversion of Acetals to Thioacetals, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Ramaiah and R. Krishnamurti, Catal. Lett., 9, 59, (1991).

155. Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalyzed Ring Closure Reaction of 2,2'-Dihydroxydiphenyls. A Preparative Route of Dibenzofurans, T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 56, 3192 (1991).

156. Friedel-Crafts Trialkyl(Triphenyl) Silylation of Ferrocene, G. A. Olah, T. Bach and G. K. S. Prakash, New J. Chem. 15, 571 (1991).

157. Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalyzed Ring Closure Reaction of 2,2'-Diaminodiphenyls. A Preparative Route to Carbazoles, T. Yamato, C. Hideshima, K. Suehiro, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 56, 6248 (1991).

158. Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Ketones to Esters with Sodium Percarbonate/Trifluoroacetic Acid, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, N. J. Trivedi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 739 (1991).

159. Synthesis and X-ray Crystal Structure of C2B4-" Apart"- Carborane Dianion 2,4-Bis(trimethylsilyl)-2,4-dicarba-nido-hexaborate (2- ): A New Synthon in Organometallics, N. S. Hosmane, L. Jia, H. Zhang, J. W. Bausch, G. K. S. Prakash, R. E. Williams and T. P. Onak, Inorg. Chem., 30, 3793 (1991).

160. Direct Trifluoromethylation of a-Keto Esters to b,b,b-Trifluorolactic Acid Derivatives Using Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane, P. Ramaiah and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 643 (1991).

161. Oxyfunctionalization of Hydrocarbons. 16. Electrophilic Hydroxylation and Oxygenation of Hydrocarbons with Sodium Percarbonate/Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, N. Krass, G. K. S. Prakash, Revue Roumaine de Chimie, 36, 567 (1991).

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162. Friedel-Crafts Alkylations, G. A. Olah, R. Krishnamurti and G. K. S. Prakash in Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, Pattenden, G. (Ed.), Vol. 3, part 1, Pergamon Press: London, U.K.1991, Section 1.8.

163. Perfluorinated Resinsulfonic Acid (Nafion-H) Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Cyclobenzylation of Benzene with Bis(hydroxymethyl)diphenylalkanes, T. Yamato, N. Sakaue, C. Hideshima, T. Furusawa, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Chem. Res(M)., 2414 (1991).

164. Chlorination and Bromination of Fullerenes. Nucleophilic Methoxylation of Polychlorofullerenes and Their Aluminum Trichloride Catalyzed Friedel- Crafts Reaction with Aromatics to Polyarylfullerenes, G. A. Olah, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld, N. J. Trivedi, D. K. Sensharma, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 9385 (1991).

165. Polyarenefullerenes, C60(H-Ar)n Obtained by Acid Catalyzed Fullerenation of Aromatics, G. A. Olah, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld, N. J. Trivedi, D. K. Sensharma, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 9387 (1991).

166. "Electrophilic Reaction on Alkanes", G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, A chapter on Alkanes volumes, S. Patai and Z. Rappoport (Eds.), Wiley Interscience: New York, N.Y. 1992, Ch.13.

167. Amination of Tertiary Amines and Azaarenes: A One Step Preparation of Hydrazinium Nitrates and Their Conversion to Amine-Nitroimides, G. A. Olah, M. B. Sassaman, M. Zuanic, C. B. Rao, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Gilardi, J. F. Anderson and C. George, J. Org. Chem., 57, 1585 (1992).

168. Long Lived Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cations, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Rev., 92, 69 (1992).

169. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Tertiary 3-Spirocyclopropyl-2- Norbornyl Cations and Their Rearrangements, G. A. Olah, R. P. Reddy, G. Rasul, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem.,57, 114 (1992).

170. 1-Ferrocenyl-1-cyclopropyl Cation: The First Long Lived Cyclopropyl Cation, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Buchholz, V. P. Reddy, A. de Meijere, and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 1097 (1992).

171. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of (1-Trimethylsilylvinyl)-2-Adamantyl Cation, The first b-Silyl Substituted Carbocation: G.K.S. Prakash, V.P. Reddy, G. Rasul, J. Casanova, and G.A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 3076 (1992).

54 172 Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate, A Highly Efficient Catalyst for Thioacetalization, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Catal. Lett., 13, 55 (1992).

173 Convenient Oxidation of Oximes to Nitro Compounds with Sodium Perborate in Glacial Acetic Acid, G. A. Olah, P. Ramaiah, C. S. Lee and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett. 337 (1992).

174. A Convenient Preparation of Sulfuryl Chloride Fluoride, V. P. Reddy, D. R. Bellew and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluo. Chem., 56, 195 (1992).

175. Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate Catalyzed One Flask Preparation of Sulfides from Carbonyl Compounds with Thiols and Triethylsilane, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, N. Trivedi and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 465 (1992).

176. Nucleophilic Perfluoroalkylation of Organic Compounds Using Perfluoroalkyl-trialkylsilanes, G. K. S. Prakash, a Chapter in "Synthetic Fluorine Chemistry", G. A. Olah, R. D. Chambers and G. K. S. Prakash (Eds.), Wiley Interscience, New York,1992, Ch10.

177. Ab Initio/IGLO Study of Strained Bicyclic Olefins: G. K.S. Prakash, G. Rasul, V. P. Reddy and J. Casanova, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,114, 6484 (1992).

2+ 178. Protonitronium Dication (NO2H ), G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, R. Aniszfeld and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 5608 (1992).

179. An Ab Initio/IGLO/NMR Study of the nido-Carborane C2B6H10, J. W. Bausch, G. K. S. Prakash, R. E. Williams, M. Buhl and P. v. R. Schleyer, Inorg. Chem., 31, 3060 (1992).

180. Trimethylsilyl Iodide catalysed Reductive Coupling of Aldehydes with Tertiary Alokoxytrimethylsilanes to Crowded Unsymmetrical Ethers, N. Hartz, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synlett., 569 (1992).

181. Ionic Hydrogenation with Triethylsilane/Trifluoroacetic Acid/Ammonium Fluoride or Triethylsilane/ Pyridinium Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride), G. A. Olah, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 647 (1992).

182. An Ab Initio/IGLO/NMR study of closo-C2B6H8, closo-CB7H81-, closo- B8H82- and C3B5H7, J. W. Bausch, G. K. S. Prakash and R. E. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 31, 3763 (1992).

183. Continued Search for Elusive Persistent Trivalent Organosilyl Cations. The Claimed Trimethylsilyl Cation Revisited. Attempted Preparation of Cyclic and Bridged Organosilicenium Ions, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, L. Heiliger, J. W. Bausch and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 7737

55 (1992).

184. Evidence for the Intermediacy of the Pentaphenylethyl and Heptaphenylpropyl Cations in the Reaction of Triphenylmethyl Cation with Diphenyldiazomethane or Diphenylketene, G. A. Olah, M. Alemayehu, A. Wu, O. Farooq and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 8042 (1992).

185. Aromatic Nitration with Nitric Acid-Trifluoromethanesulfonc Anhydride: G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1087 (1992).

186. Preparation of 1,3-Dithiolan-2-ylium Tetrafluoroborate and Its Reactions with Enol Trimethylsilyl Ethers, V. P. Reddy, D. R. Bellew, and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1209 (1992).

187. NMR/IGLO/AB Initio Study of the 1,3-Dithiolanium Cation, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, Croatica Chemica Acta, 65, 721 (1992).

188. Chemical Reactivity and Functionalization of C60 and C70 Fullerenes, G. A. Olah, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld and G. K. S. Prakash, Carbon, 30, 1203 (1992).

189. Preparation and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of the 2- (Adamantylidenemethyl))-2-adamantyl and 2-Adamantlylidene-1,1- dicyclopropylethyl Cations, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy, J. Casanova and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 57, 6431 (1992).

190. Convenient Preparation of Alkyl Nitrates Free of Nitrites with Potassium Nitrate and Boron Trifluoride Hydrate, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 207 (1993).

191. Polynitronorbornanes, Bicyclooctanes and Cyclohexanes, G. A. Olah, P. Ramaiah, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Gilardi, J. Org. Chem., 58, 763 (1993).

192. Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate.Catalyzed One-Flask 2,2,2-Trifluoro-1- (ethylthio)ethylation of Aromatics with Trifluoroacetaldehyde Hydrate and Ethanethiol, G. A. Olah. Q. Wang, X-Y. Li and G. K. S Prakash, Synlett, 32 (1993).

193. The Mechanism of Reaction of Methylene with Benzene: Study of Kinetic Hydrogen Isotope Effects and Theoretical Calculations, N. Hartz, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 901 (1993).

194. trans-Cyclopropane-1,2-bis(dicyclopropylmethylium)Dication, a Unique Cyclopropyl stabili-zed Carbodication, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy, G. Lee, J.

56 Casanova and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 58, 1639 (1993).

195. Carbonic Acid and its Mono- and Diprotonation: NMR, Ab Initio and IGLO Investigation, G. Rasul, V. P. Reddy, L. Z. Zdunek, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 2236 (1993).

196. Improved Preparation, Chemical Reactivity, and Functionalization of C60 and C70 Fullerenes, a Chapter in "Buckminsterfullrenes", Prakash, G. K. S., Bucsi, I., Aniszfeld, R., Olah, G. A. Billups, W. E. and Ciufolini, M. A. (Eds.), VCH, N.Y. 1993, Ch 12, P301.

197. Anionic Polymerizations of Trimethylvinylsilane and Phenyldimethylvinylsilane Towards the Synthesis of Well Defined Polyfluorodimethylvinylsilane and Polyvinyl alcohol, Y. Gan, W. P. Weber, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and T. E. Hogen-Esch, Polymer Preprints., 34(1), 548 (1993).

198. Iodination of Deactivated Aromatics with N-Iodosuccinimide in Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid (NIS-CF3SO3H) via in Situ Generated Superelectrophilic Iodine (I) Trifluoromethanesulfonate, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, G. Sandford, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 58, 3194 (1993).

199. Efficient and Mild Oxidation of Ketoximes to Their Parent Ketones with Dimethyldioxirane, G. A. Olah, Q. Liao, C. Lee and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 427 (1993).

200. Proto-tert-Butyl Dication ((H3C)2C+CH4+): Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Theoretical Study. The Role of Protosolvation on Alkyl Cation Reactivity in Superacidic Solution, G. A. Olah, N. Hartz, G. Rasul, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 6985 (1993).

201. Poly-4-Vinylpyridinium Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride). A Solid Hydrogen Fluoride Equivalent Reagent, G. A. Olah, X-Y. Li, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 693 (1993).

202. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of p-Substituent Effects in Highly Crowded 1,1'-Diadmantylbenzyl Cations, G. A. Olah, M. D. Heagy and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 58, 4851 (1993).

203. Role of Carbocations in Strong Acid Catalyzed Reactions, G. K. S. Prakash, Petroleum Chemistry Preprints (Advances In FCC), 38, 569 (1993).

204. Simplified Preparation of a,a-Difluorodiphenylmethanes from Benzophenone-1,3-dithiolanes with Sulfuryl Chloride and Pyridinium

57 Polyhydrogen Fluoride, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Hoole, V. P. Reddy, and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 691 (1993).

205. 13C NMR and Ab Initio/IGLO Study of Protonated Oxocarbons: Poly-O- prtonated Sqaric, Croconic, and Rhodizonic Acids and their Aromatic Nature; Preparation and Study of Tetrahydroxy and Diaminodihydroxyethene Dications, G. A. Olah, J. Bausch. G. Rasul, H. George and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 8060 (1993).

206. Studies in Carbotrications: Preparation and Carbon-13 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study of Trihydrotetracyclo[3.3.1.02,8.04,6]nonan- 3,7,9-tryl Trication: A triprotonated Trihydrotetracyclo[3.3.1.02,8.04,6]nonan-3,7,9-trione and Attempted Preparation of Related Trications, S. M. F. Farnia, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Sci. I. R. Iran., 4, 268 (1993).

207. Superelectrophilic Tscherniac Amidomethylation of Aromatics with N- Hydroxymethylpthalimide in Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, G. Sandford, A. Oxyzoglou, and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1077 (1993).

208. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Aromatics with 1-Chloronorbornane, 3- Halonoradamantane and Fluorocubane via Their Reactive sp3 Hybridized Bridge-head Cations, G. A. Olah, C.S. Lee, G. K. S. Prakash, R. M. Moriarty and M. S. C. Rao, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 10728 (1993).

209. Triflic Acid Catalyzed Phenylamination of Aromatics with Phenyl Azide, G. A. Olah, P. Ramaiah, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 58, 6900 (1993).

210. 2-Methylbicyclo[3.2.2]non-3-en-2-yl Cation Involving Rearrangement of 3-Spirocyclopropylbicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-yl Cation, V. P. Reddy, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 58, 7622 (1993).

211. Remarkably Simple One Step Preparation of Hexakis(trimethylsilyl)-3,3'- Bicyclopropenyl, stable Valence Isomer of Hexakis(trimethylsilyl)benzene, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Quaiser, H. A. Buchholz, J. Casanova and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 113 (1994).

212. Advances in Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells, S. Surumpudi, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. Frank and G. Halpert, A. La Conti, J. Kosek, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Power. Sources, 47, 377 (1994).

213. Protio-2-propyl Dication (C3H82+): Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange and Theoretical Study. Differentiation of Reactive Gitonic (Proximal) from

58 Stable Distonic (Distant) Dications and the Protolytic Solvation of Carbocations, G. A. Olah, N. Hartz, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and K. Lammertsma, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 3187 (1994).

214. Claimed Triethylsilicenium Cation with Distant Solvent (Toluene) Coordination is de facto the Carbocationic Triethylsilyltoluenium Ion (Wheland Intermediate), a Silylated Cyclohexadienyl Cation, a Technical Comment, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, X-Y. Li, H. Buchholz, G. Sandford and G. K. S. Prakash, Science, 263, 983 (1994).

215. Structures and Energies of Mono-, Di, and Triprotonated Urea: NMR/ab initio/IGLO Study, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 59, 2552 (1994).

216. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Aromatics with exo-2-Chloro and 7- Chloronorbornanes, G. A. Olah, C. S. Lee and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 59, 2590 (1994).

217. Friedel-Crafts Reactions, Olah, G. A., Reddy, V. P., Prakash, G. K. S., A Chapter in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, N.Y. Vol. 11, 1042-1081 (1994).

218. AlCl3 Catalyzed Nitration of Aromatics with Sodium Nitrate/ Chlorotrimethylsilane, G. A. Olah, P. Ramaiah, G. Sandford, A. Orlinkov and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 468 (1994).

219. Electrophilic Fluorination of Methane with "F+" Equivalent N2F+ and NF4+ Salts, G. A. Olah, N. Hartz, G. Rasul, Q. Wang, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Casanova and K. O. Christe, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 5671 (1994).

220. Role of Carbocations in Strong Acid Catalyzed Reactions, G. K. S. Prakash, in Fluid Catalytic Cracking III, Materials and Process, Series 571, American Chemical Society, Washington D.C, 1994, Chapter 1, p1.

221. Novel Preparation of gem-Difluorides from Ketoximes with Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate and Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, C. York, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 425 (1994).

222. Convenient Separation of High Purity C60 from Crude Fullerene Extract via Selective Complexation with AlCl3 in Carbon Disulfide, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld, T. Shamma, and G. A. Olah, in Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Related Materials, K. M. Kadish and R. S. Ruoff, Eds, The Electrochemical Society Inc., 1994, Section III, Extraction and Purification.

59 223. Symposium on Extraction/Purification of Fullerenes, An Overview, G. K. S. Prakash, in Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes and Related Materials, K. M. Kadish and R. S. Ruoff, Eds, The Electrochemical Society Inc., 1994, Section III, Extraction and Purification.

224 Convenient Separation of High Purity C60 from Crude Fullerene Extract via Selective Complexation with AlCl3 in CS2, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld, T. Shamma, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 91, 9019 (1994).

225. Gitonic Protodiazonium and Bisdiazonium Dications and Their Potential Role in Superacid Chemistry, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 8985 (1994).

226 Direct Fluorination of Diarylacetylenes to Diaryltetrafluoroethanes with Convenient F2 Equivalent Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate - Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, C. York, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 59, 6493 (1994).

227. Selective Electrochemical Trimethylsilylation of Tetrachlorocyclopropene to 1-(Trimethylsilyl)trichlorocyclopropene, a New Cyclopropene Building Block, G. K. S. Prakash, H. A. Buchholz, D. Deffieux and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 819 (1994).

228. Electrochemical Synthesis of Hexakis(trimethylsilyl)-3,3'- bicyclopropenyl, G. K. S. Prakash, H. A. Buchholz, D. Deffieux, and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 59, 7532 (1994).

229. Convenient and Safe Electrochemical Synthesis of (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Deffieux, A. K. Yudin, and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 1057 (1994).

230. Stable Electroinactive Wetting Agent for Fuel Cells: Perfluoro- octanesulfonic acid can be used with gas diffusion electrodes, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, S. Surumpudi and G. Halpert, NASA Tech. Briefs, December 1994, NPO-19227.

231. 1-Trifluromethyl-1-cyclohexanol: P. Ramaiah, R. Krishnamurti, and G. K. S. Prakash, Org. Syn., 72, 232 (1995).

232. Protonation of Benzocyclobutene with Superacid: Cram's Phenonium Ion (Spiro[5.2]octa-5,7-diene-4-yl Cation) Revisited, G. A. Olah, N. J Head, G Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 875 (1995).

233. Electrophilic Substitution of Methane Revisited, G. A. Olah, N. Hartz, G.

60 Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 1336 (1995).

234. N-Carboethoxypiperidine, A Convenient Preparation of Symmetrical Ketones from Organolithiums, G. K. S. Prakash, C. York, Q. Liao, K. Kotian and G. A. Olah, Heterocycles, 40, 79 (1995).

235. George A. Olah, A Superchemist Who Bestowed Long Life to Fleeting Carbocationic Intermediates in Superacids, G. K. S. Prakash, Current Science, 68, 14 (1995).

236. Facile AlCl3 Catalyzed Preparation of O-Aryl Esters from Allyl Silanes and Aryl Chloroformates, G. A. Olah, D. S. VanVliet, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 159 (1995).

237. Hidrocarbonos, superácidos y la búsqueda de carbocationes de larga vida, H. E. Buchholz and G. K. S. Prakash, Avance y Perspective, 14, 165 (1995).

238. Cyclic electron delocalization in hydrocarbon cages (pagodanes, isopagodanes, (bisseco-/seco-)-(dodecahedradienes), H. Prinzbach, G. Gescheidt, H-D. Martin, R. Herges, J. Heinze, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Pure & Appl. Chem., 67, 673 (1995).

239. Ester Cleavage in Superacidic Media Involving Diprotonated gitonic Carboxonium Dications, G. A. Olah, N. Hartz, G. Rasul, A. Burrichter and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 6421 (1995).

240. Lithium Superacid Salts for Secondary Lithium Batteries, G. Nagasubramanian, D. H. Shen, S. Surumpudi, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Electrochim. Acta, 40, 13/14, 2277 (1995).

241. Ab Initio/ IGLO 29Si NMR Studies of Trisubstituted Silicenium and Silylated Arenium Ions. Comparison with Experimental Data of Claimed Ions, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, H. Buchholz, X-Y. Li and G. K. S. Prakash, Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 132, 569 (1995) .

242. Trisilyloxonium Ions: Preparation, NMR Spectroscopy, Ab Initio/IGLO Studies and Thier Role in Cationic Polymerization, G. A. Olah, X-Y. Li, Q. Wang, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 8962 (1995).

243. Bromoacetylium Hexafluoroantimonate, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 699.

61 244. Uranium (VI) Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 8, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 5471.

245. Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 6, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 3768.

246. Methyltrichlorosilane, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 3614.

247. Nitronium Tetrafluoroborate, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 5, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 3747.

248. Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (CH3)3SiCF3, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 7, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 5165.

249. Chloroacetyl Chloride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 1067.

250. Methyl Fluoride/Antimony (V) Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 5, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P3501.

251. t-Butyl Chloride/Aluminum Chloride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 854.

252. Formyl Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 2596.

253. Chloroacetyl Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 2, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 1071.

254. Methyl(methylene)oxonium Hexafluoroantimonate, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 5, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New

62 York, 1995, P 3542.

255. 1-Bromomethoxy-4-chlorobutane, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 745.

256. Flurosufuric Acid, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 2567.

257. Flurosufuric Acid-Antimony Pentafluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 2569.

258. Hydrogen Fluoride-Antimony (V) Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 2715.

259. Antimony (V) Fluoride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 209.

260. Antimony (V) Chloride, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 206.

261. Nitrosylsulfuric Acid, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, X-y. Li, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, L. Paquette, Editor, Vol. 6, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., New York, 1995, P 3771.

262. Superacid-Based Lithium Salts for Polymer Electrolytes: Solid Polymer- electrolyte/lithium batteries enhanced, G. Nagasubramanian, G. K. S. Prakash, D. H. Shen, S. Surumpudi and G. A. Olah, NASA Tech. Briefs, April 1995, NPO-19286.

263. Mimicry with Gold, G. K. S. Prakash, Nature, 377, 481 (1995).

264. Preparation and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of Disubstituted Adamantane 1,3-dimethyldiyl Dications, M. D. Heagy, Q. Wang, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 60, 7351 (1995).

265. 1H and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Long Lived ortho- and meta-Substituted Di(1-adamantyl)benzyl Cations: Highly Deshielded Crowded Benzylic Cationic Centers, M. D. Heagy, G. A. Olah, G. K. S.

63 Prakash and J. S. Lomas, J. Org. Chem., 60, 7355 (1995).

266 Nitration of Strongly Deactivated Aromatics with Superacidic Mixed Nitric-Triflatoboric Acid (HNO3/2CF3SO3H-(B(O3SCF3)3, G. A. Olah, A. Orlinkov, A. B. Oxyzoglou, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 60, 7348 (1995).

267. The Hexaphenyltrimethylenemethane Dication and Related Carbocations, G. A. Olah, N. J. Head and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 11205 (1995).

268. Superacid Catalyzed Condensation of Benzaldehyde with Benzene. Study of Protonated Benzaldehyde and the Role of Superelectrophilic Activation, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, C. York and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 11211 (1995).

269. 1,3,5,7-Adamantane-tetrakis(a,a-diphenylmethyl)tetrayl Tetracation: A Stable Tetra-hedrally Arrayed Tetracarbocation, N. J. Head, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Bashir-Hashemi and G. A. Olah, J. Am .Chem. Soc. 117, 12005 (1995).

270. Cubyl Onium Ions: Cubylcarboxonium, Cubylacylium and Dimethyl Cubyl-1,4-dihalonium Ions, N. J. Head, G. Rasul, A. Mitra, A. Bashir- Hashemi, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 12107 (1995).

271. Long Lived Cyclopropylcarbinyl Cations, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, The Chemistry of the Cyclopropyl Group, Vol 2, Z. Rappoport (Editor), Wiley Interscience: New York, N.Y., Ch. 14, p 813- 859 (1995).

272. Trimethoxymethane: A Fuel for Direct-Oxidation Fuel Cells: Trimethoxymethane can be oxidized to CO2 and H2O at high rates, without poisoning electrodes, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos and S. Surumpudi, NASA Tech. Briefs, October 1995, NPO-19228.

273. Trioxane: A Fuel for Direct-Oxidation Fuel Cells: Trioxane can be used as a substitute for formaldehyde, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos and S. Surumpudi, NASA Tech. Briefs, October 1995, NPO-19230.

274. Dimethoxymethane: A Fuel for Direct-Oxidation Fuel Cells: Fuel can be electro-oxidized at sustained high rates without poisoning electrodes, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos and G. Halpert, NASA Tech. Briefs, October 1995, NPO-19229.

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275. Trisilyloxonium Ions: First Direct Observation by NMR Spectroscopy and Their Role in Cationc Polymerization of Siloxanes, G. A. Olah, X-y. Li, Q. Wang, G. Sandford and G. K. S. Prakash, Polym. Prepr.(Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.), 36, 229 (1995).

276. Desulfurative Fluorination Using Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate and Pyridinium Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride), C. York, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron, 52, 9 (1996).

277. Trihalomethyl Cations and Their Superelectrophilc Activation, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, A. Yudin, A. Burrichter, G. K. S. Prakash A. L. Chistyakov, I. V. Stankevich, I. S. Akhrem, N. P. Gambaryan and M. E. Vol'pin, J. Am. Chem. Soc.118, 1446 (1996).

278. Facile Preparation of (Trifluoromethyl)tributyltin and Trantrifluoromethylation of Disilyl Sulfides to the Corresponding Trifluoromethylsilanes, G. K. S. Prakash, A. K. Yudin, D. Deffieux and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 151 (1996).

279. Ab initio/IGLO Study of Sandwiched Bishomoaromatic anti- Tricyclo[4.2.1.12,5]-deca-9,10-diyl Dication and the Trishomoaromatic Trishomocyclopropenium ion, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, A. K. Yudin and G. A. Olah, Gazz. Chim. Ital., 126, 1 (1996).

280. Silylcarboxonium and Onium Ion Intermediates of the Cationic Ring- opening Polymerization of Lactones and Tetrahydrofuran Initiated by Electrophilic Trimethylsilyating Agents, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, Macromolecules, 29, 1857 (1996).

281. Preparation, NMR and Ab Initio/ IGLO Study of Trifluoromethyl Substituted Carbo-xonium Ions, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, A. K. Yudin and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 61, 1934 (1996).

282. Preparation, NMR Spectroscopic and Ab Initio/DFT/GIAO-MP2 Studies of Halomethyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, L. Heiliger and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 3580 (1996).

283. Role of Protosolvation in Nitrations with Superacidic Systems: The Protonitronium Dication (NO2H2+) Identified, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, A. Burrichter and G. A. Olah, Nitration, Recent Laboratory and Industrial Developments, ACS Symposium Series 623, American Chemical Society, 1996, Ch. 2, p10-18.

284. Two Types of New Polymeric Silver (I) Complexes from 1,4-Thioxane and Silver Triflate, H. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash, J. F. S. Vaughn, R. Bau

65 and G. K. S. Prakash, Inorg. Chem., 35, 4076 (1996).

285. 2-Triaxanemethyl Cation and 2,10-para-[32.56]Octahedranedimethyl Dication, G. A. Olah, H. A. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, J. J. Sosnowski, R. K. Murray Jr., M. A. Kusnetsov, S. Liang and A. de Meijere, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 35, 1499 (1996).

286. Preparation, 13C NMR and IGLO/DFT Studies of Trifluoromethyl Substituted Allyl Cations, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Kantamneni, V. P. Reddy and G. Rasul, Res. Chem. Intermed., 22, 717 (1996).

287. Acidity Dependence of the Trifluoromethanesulfonic acid Catalyzed Isobutane- Alkylation Modified with Trifluoroacetic Acid or Water, G. A. Olah, P. Batamack, D. Deffieux, B. Török, Q. Wang, Árpad Molnár and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Appl. Catalysis, 146, 107 (1996).

288. Density Functional Theory (DFT)/IGLO 29Si NMR Study of Trialkylsilylated Arenium, Bromonium, Oxonium and Nitrilium Ions, Comparison with Experimental Data and the Question of Persistent Trialkylsilicenium Ions in Solution, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Organomet. Chem., 521, 271 (1996).

289. Effect of Acid/Hydrocarbon Ratio, Temperature and Contact Time on the Isobutane-Isobutylene Alkylation with Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, B. Török and M. Török, Catalysis Letters, 40, 137 (1996).

290. Cationic Ring-opening Polymerization of Cyclosiloxanes Initiated by Electron-deficient Organosilicon Reagents, Q. Wang, H. Zhang, G. K. S. Prakash, T. E. Hogen-Esch and G. A. Olah, Macromolecules, 29, 6691 (1996).

291. 13C NMR Spectrosocpic and Density Functional Theory (DFT), Ab Initio IGLO theoretical Study of Protonated Cycloalkylcarboxylic Acids (Carboxonium Ions) and Their Acyl Cations (Oxocarbenium Ions), G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, G. Liang and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem., 100, 15805 (1996).

292. Synthesis of Narrow Molecular Weight Distribution Polytrimethylvinylsilane and Polyphenyldimethylvinylsilane, Conversion of Polyphenyldimethylvinylsilane into Polyfluorodimethylvinylsilane, Y. Gan, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, W. P. Weber and T. E. Hogen-Esch, Macromolecules, 29, 8285 (1996).

293. Protioacyl Dications: Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange, Rearrangements, and Theoretical Studies, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, G. K. S.

66 Prakash, M. Hachoumy and J. Sommer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 10423 (1996).

294. Ab Initio/ IGLO/ GIAO-MP2 Studies of Fluorocarbocations. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Cleavage Reaction of CF3COOH in Superacids, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, A. Burrichter, K. Laali and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 61, 9253 (1996).

295. Solid Acid (Superacid) Catalyzed Regioselective Adamantylation of Substituted Benzenes, G. A. Olah, B. Török, T. Shamma, M. Török and G. K. S. Prakash, Catalysis Letters, 42, 5 (1996).

296. Synthesis of Silicon Containing Hyperbranched Polymer by Ruthenium Catalyzed Step-Growth Polymerization, Q. Wang, E. Tongco, H. Guo, G. K. S. Prakash, W.P. Weber and G. A. Olah, Polym. Prepr.(Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) 37, 329 (1996).

297. New Carbocations and Dications, G. K. S. Prakash in "Stable Carbocation Chemistry", G. K. S. Prakash and P. v. R. Schleyer, Eds, Wiley Interscience , New York, Ch. 4, pp 137-163, (1997).

298. Preparation of and Fluoroalkylation with (Chlorodifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane, Difluorobis(trimethylsilyl)methane, and Tetrafluoro-1,2- bis(trimethylsilyl)ethane, A. K. Yudin, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Deffieux, M. Bradley, R. Bau and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 1572 (1997).

299. Preparation and Characterization of trans-1,4-Diazido-1,4- dinitrocyclohexane and exo-2,5-Diazido-endo-2,5-dinitronorbornane: Stable Geminal Azido-Nitro Compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, J. J. Struckhoff Jr., K. Weber, A. Schreiber, R. Bau, and G. A. Olah., J. Org. Chem., 62, 1872 (1997).

300. Friedel-Crafts Reactions of Buckminsterfullerene, G. A. Olah, I. Bucsi, D. S. Haa, R. Aniszfeld, C. S. Lee and G. K. S. Prakash, Fullerene Science and Technolgy, 5, 389 (1997).

301. 2,6-Dimethylmesityldiyl Dication, A Unique Dienyl- Allyl Dication and Its Comparison with Bisallylic Benzene Dication, G. A. Olah, T. Shamma, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 3407 (1997).

302. Catching an Elusive Cation, G. K. S. Prakash, Science, 276, 756 (1997).

303. Mono-, Di-, and Triprotonated Thiourea: Preparation, NMR, Raman and DFT/IGLO/GIAO-MP2 Study, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, K. O.

67 Christe and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4345 (1997).

304. Perfluoroalkylations with Organosilicon Reagents, G. K. S. Prakash and A. K. Yudin, Chem. Rev., 97, 757 (1997).

178. One-pot Preparation of Aroylsilanes by Reductive Silylation of Methyl Benzoates, G. K. S. Prakash, E. C. Tongco and Q. Wang, Synthetic Communications, 27, 2117 (1997).

2+ 306. The Protiotetramethylammonium Dication (CH3)3NCH4 : Hydrogen/Deuterium The Protiotetramethylammonium Dication 2+ (CH3)3NCH4 : Hydrogen/ Deuterium Exchange and Calculational 2+ Studies. Search for the Parent Protioammonium Dication NH5 , G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4594 (1997).

307. Facile Preparation of Fluorine-containing Alkenes, Amides and Alcohols via the Electrophilic Fluorination of Alkenyl Boronic Acids and Trifluoroborates, N. Petasis, A. K. Yudin, I. A. Zavialov, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 606 (1997).

3+ 308. Triprotonated hydrogen sulfide: pentacoordinate sulfonium trication SH5 3+ and the search for its parent pentacoordinate oxonium trication OH5 , G. A. Olah, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash Chem.Eur.J. 3, 1039 (1997).

309. Dehydration of Alcohols to Ethers over Nafion-H, A Solid Perfluoroalkanesulfonic Acid Resin Catalyst, G. A. Olah, T. Shamma and G. K. S. Prakash, Catalysis Letters, 46, 1(1997).

310. 17O and 13C NMR/ab initio/IGLO/GIAO-MP2 Study of Oxonium and Carboxonium Ions (Dications) and Comparison with Experimental Data, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, R. Ghann, K. O. Christe and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 8035 (1997).

311. Preparation, NMR, and Ab Initio/ IGLO/GIAO-MP2 Study of the Elusive Protonated FluoroformicAcid and Fluorocarbonyl Cation, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, T. Mathew, Y. D. Vankar, G. Rasul, and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 36, 1875 (1997).

312. Preparation of Condensed Aromatics by Superacidic Dehydrative Cyclization, D. A. Klumpp, D. N. Baek, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 62, 6666 (1997).

313. Novel High Energy Density Material, Synthesis and Characterization of Triazidocarbenium Dintramide, -Perchlorate, and Tetrafluoroborate, M. A.

68 Petrie, J. Sheehy, J. Boatz, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and K. O. Christe, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 119, 8802 (1997).

314. Comparison of Structures and Energies of CH52+ and CH4+ and their Possible Role in Methane Activation., G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 11159 (1997).

315. Trimethylperoxonium Ion, CH3OO(CH3)2+, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, A. Burrichter, M. Halchoumy, G. K. S. Prakash, R. I. Wagner and K. O. Christe, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 9572 (1997).

316. One Flask Preparation of Trifluoromethylated Amides from Ketones and Trifluoro-methyltrimethylsilane via the Ritter Reaction with Nitriles, E. Tongco, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 1193 (1997).

317. Electrophilic Nitration of Alkanes with Nitronium Hexafluorophosphate, G. A. Olah, P. Ramaiah and G. K. S. Prakash, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 11783 (1997).

318. Friedel-Crafts Reactions By Heteropoly Acids. Regioselective Adamantyl Substitution of Aromatic Compounds, T. Beregszászi, Béla Török, Árpad Molnár, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, Catalysis Letters, 48, 83 (1997).

319. Unexpected Reaction of Benzoates with Chlorovinylsilanes in the Presence of Magnesium: A Facile Synthesis of (3-oxo-3- phenyl)propylvinyl silanes and Further Transformations, E. C. Tongco, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 1081 (1997).

320. Direct Electro-oxidation of Dimethoxymethane, Trimethoxymethane and Trioxane and their Application in Fuel Cells, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, S. Surumpudi, H. Frank, G. Halpert, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Smart, R. Knieler, G. A. Olah, J. Kosek and C. Cropley, J. Electro. Chem., 144, 4195 (1997).

321. Preparation 13C NMR/DFT/IGLO Study of Benzylic Mono- and Dications and Attempted Preparation of a Trication, G. A. Olah, T. Shamma, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 12923 (1997).

322. 1H, 13C, 15N NMR and Theoretical Study of Mono-, Di-, Tri- and Tetraprotonated Guanidine, G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, M. Hacoumy and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 12929 (1997).

323. XH52+ Dications and XH63+ Trications (X= N, P, and As), G. Rasul , G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 12984 (1997).

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324. Superacids, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, J. J. Lagowski, Ed., Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1997.

325. Preparation, 29Si and 13C NMR and DFT/IGLO Studies of Silylcarboxonium Ions, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Organomet. Chem., 550, 119 (1998).

326. Extension of Borane-Carbocation Continuum to Cage Systems, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, A. K. Yudin and R. E. Williams in " The Borane, Carborane, Carbocation Continuum", J. Casanova (Ed.), John Wiley and Sons, New York, Ch. 6, 147-167, 1998.

327. Protonation and Ring Closure of Stereoisomeric a-Substituted Cinnamic Acids in Superacidic Media Studied by 13C NMR Spectroscopy and Computations, I. Pálinko, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, B. Törok, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. II, 379 (1998).

328. NO2Cl.3MXn Systems: Superelectrophilic Aprotic Nitrating Agents for Deactivated Aromatics, G. A. Olah, A. Orlinkov, P. Ramaiah, A. B. Oxyzoglou, G. K. S. Prakash, Russian Chemical Bulletin., 47, 924 (1998).

329. Mild Preparation of Haloarenes by Ipso-Substitution of Arylboronic Acids with N-Halosuccinimides, C. Thiebes, G. K. S. Prakash, N. Petasis and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 141 (1998).

330. Direct Preparation of Trifluoromethyl Ketones from Carboxylic Esters: Trifluoromethylation with Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane, J. Wiedemann, T. Heiner, G. Mloston, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 37, 820 (1998).

331. Structures of XH32+ (X= C, Si and Ge) and Isoelectronic XH3+ (X = B, Al and Ga), G. Rasul, G. K. S. Praksh and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Str.(Theochem), 455, 101 (1998).

332. Ab Initio/IGLO/GIAO-MP2 Study of Hypercoordinate Square Pyramidal Carbocations, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A., 102, 2579 (1998).

333. XH42+Dications and Search for XH43+ Trications (X= N, P and As), G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A., 102, 8457 (1998).

334. Attempted hydrogen-deuterium exchange of the protiotrimethyloxonium

70 dication (CH3)3OH2+, study of methylating ability of (CH3)3O+ in superacids and theoretical investigations, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, A. Burrichter and G. K. S. Prakash, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95, 4099 (1998).

335. Preparation of 3,3-Diaryloxindoles by Superacid Induced Condensation of Isatins and Aromatics with a Combinatorial Approach, D. A. Klumpp, K. Y. Yeung, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 63, 4481 (1998).

336. Calculated 11B-13C NMR chemical shift relationship in hypercordinate methonium and boronium ions, G. Rausl, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 95, 7257 (1998).

337. Superacid Activated Condensation of Parabanic Acid and Derivatives with Aromatics. A New Synthesis of Phenytoin and 5,5-Diarylhydantoins, D. A. Klumpp, K. Y. Yeung, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 918 (1998).

338. Surface characterization of variously treated Nafion-H supported on silica and Nafion-H silica nanocomposite catalysts by infrared microscopy, I. Pálinko, B. Török, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Applied Catalysis A: General., 174, 147 (1998).

339. 1H, 13C, 15N NMR and Theoretical Study of Protonated Carbamic Acids and Their Analogs, G. A. Olah, T. Heiner, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 63, 7993 (1998).

340. Tris(1-naphthyl)- and Tris(2-naphthyl)methyl Cations: Highly Crowded Triarylmethyl Cations, G. A. Olah., Q. Liao, J. Casanova, R. Bau, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin. Trans. II, 2239, (1998).

341. Investigations on Intriguing Long Lived Carbodications, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Pure and Applied Chem. (IUPAC), 70, 2001 (1998).

342. The Search for the Persistent Cyclobutylmethyl Cations in Superacidic Media and the Observation of Cyclobutyldicyclopropylmethyl Cation, G. K. S. Prakash, V. P. Reddy, G. Rasul, J. Casanova and G. A. Olah, J. Am.Chem. Soc., 120, 13362 (1998).

343. Pulsed Field Gradient NMR Investigation of Molecular mobility of Trimethoxymethanes in Nafion Membranes, Y. Wu, T. A. Zawodzinski, M. Smart, S. G. Greenbaum, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Mater.Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 496, 223 (1998).

71 344. Study of Hydrogen Donation Ability of Residue Hydrocracking System Catalyzed by Oil-soluble and Water-soluble Catalysts, Z-X. Wang, H-Y. Zhang, A-J. Guo, G-H. Que, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Prepr. Symp. –Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Fuel. Chem. 43, 530 (1998).

345. HPLC Separation of Hydrogenated Derivatives of Buckminsterfullerene, I. Bucsi, P. Szabó R. Aniszfeld, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chromatographia., 48, 59 (1998).

346. Methanesulfonylation of Deactivated Aromatics with Superelectrophilic CH3SO2F-3SbF5 and (CH3SO2)2O-2CF3SO3H/B(O3SCF3)3 Systems, G.A. Olah, A. Orlinkov, A. B. Oxyzoglou and G. K. S. Prakash, Zh. Org. Khimi., 34, 1644 (1998).

347. Study of Cationic Polymerization Initiated by Supersilylation, Q. Wang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Recent Research Developments in Polymer Science, Vol.2, Part II, 2, 555-567 (1998).

348. Onium Ions of Cubane, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, N. J. Head, A. Mitra and G. A. Olah, in Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Cage Compounds and Their Building Blocks: Synthesis, Mechanism and Theory, K. Laali (Ed.), Supplement 1, Jai Press Inc. Greenwich, Connecticut, pp 109-121, 1999.

349. Long Lived [1.1.1.1] and [2.2.1.1] ”Isopagodane” Dications, Novel 4C/2e s-Bishomoaromatic Dications, G. K.S.Prakash, K. Weber, G. A. Olah, H. Prinzbach, M. Wollenweber, M. Etzkorn, T. Voss and R. Herges, Chem. Commun., 1029 (1999).

TM 350. Electrophilic Fluorination of Aromatics with Selectfluor - Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, T. Shamma, H. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Isr. J. Chem., 39, 207 (1999).

351. Nafion-H Catalyzed Isomerization of Glycidic to a-Hydroxy-b,g- unsaturated Esters: Application in the Synthesis of a Trifluoromethylated Vinylic Epoxide, M. Hachoumy, T. Mathew, E. Tongco, Y. D. Vankar, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 363 (1999).

13 352. Direct One Step Preparation and C NMR Spectroscopic Characterization of Ferrocenyl Carbocations Derived from Ferrocene and Carbonyl Compounds in Trifluoroacetic Acid Medium, G. K. S. Prakash, H. A. Buchholz, J. F. S. Vaughan, Qi Wang and G. A. Olah, J. Brazilian Chem. Soc. 10, 313 (1999).

353. Acid Catalyzed Isobutane-Isobutylene Alkylation in Liquid Carbon Dioxide Solution, G. A. Olah, E. Marinez, B. Török, and G. K. S. Prakash, Catalysis Letters, 61, 105 (1999).

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354. Structure and Energies of CH2X+ (X= NH2, PH2, OH, SH, F and Cl) Cations and Their Isomeric CH2XH2+ and CH3X2+ Dications, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Str.(Theochem), 466, 245 (1999).

355. Protonated Borane-Lewis Base Complexes BH4X+ (X= NH3, PH3, H2O, H2S and CO), G. Rasul, G.K.S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Inorg. Chem . 38, 44 (1999).

356. Dehydration-rehydration characteristics of Nafion-H supported on silica and Nafion-H silica nanocomposite catalysts studied by Infrared spectroscopy, I. Palinko, B. Törok, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Struct. 483, 29, Special.Issue. (1999).

357. Upgrading of Alberta's Heavy Oils by Superacid Catalyzed Hydrocracking, O. P. Strasz, W. Mojelsky, J.D. Payzant, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Energy and Fuels, 13, 558 (1999).

358. Preparation 1H and 13C NMR Ab Initio/IGLO Study of Monoprotonated Deltic Acid and Theoretical Investigation of Di-, Tri and Tetra-O- protonated Deltic Acids, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah, R.Liu and T. T. Tidwell, Can. J. Chem., 77, 525 (1999).

359. 2-Deoxy-2-[F-18}fluoro-1,3,5-tri-O-benzoyl-alpha-D-arabinofuranose: A versatile intermediate for synthesses of F-18 arabinonucleosides. M. M. Allaudin, P. S. Conti, T. Mathew, H. Abrahamanian, J. D. Fissekis, G. K. S. Prakash and K. A. Watanabe, J. Nucl. Med., 40(5), 1368, Suppl. S (1999).

360. Nafion-H Catalysed Isomerization of Epoxides to Aldehydes and Ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, S. Krishnaraj, E. R. Marinez and G. A.Olah, Applied Catalysis A, General, 181, 283 (1999).

361. Helomethonium Dication, CH4He2+, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Mol. Str.(Theochem), 489, 209 (1999).

362. Hypercarbon Chemistry, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, McGraw Hill Year Book of Science and Technology 2000, 206 (1999).

363. Helionitronium Trication (NO2He3+) and Helionitrosonium Trication (NOHe3+), G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96, 3494 (1999).

73 364. PSSA/PVDF Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for CH3OH Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, Q. J. Wang and S. Narayanan, NASA Tech Briefs, 23, 54 (1999).

365. Friedel Crafts Reactions, G. A.Olah, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Kirk Othmer Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Fourth Edition, Wiley, New York, 1999.

366. Clarification of the Nature of the “First Chiral and Highly Lewis Acidic Silyl Cationic Catalyst”. Concerning the Question of Siliconium vs Silyl Cations, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 9615 (1999).

367. Existence of the Halocarbonyl and Trifluromethyl Cations in the Condensed Phase, K. O. Christe, B. Hoge, J. A. Boatz, G.K.S.Prakash and G. A. Olah, Inorg. Chem., 38, 3132 (1999).

368. Colloidal Metal Deposition onto Functionalized Microspheres, A. Dokoutchaev, J. T. James, S. C. Koene, S. Pathak, M. E. Thompson and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Mat. 11, 2389 (1999).

369. The Acid Catalyzed Condensations of Ninhydrin with Aromatic Compounds. Preparation of 2,2-Diaryl–1,3-Indanediones and 3- (Diarylmethylene)isobenzo-furanones, D. A. Klump, S. Fredrick, S. Lau, K. K Jin, R. Bau, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 64, 5152 (1999).

370. Electrochemical preparation of tris(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)cyclopropene and its hydride abstraction to tris(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)cyclopropenium tetrafluoroborate, H. A. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Deffieux and G.A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., 96, 10003 (1999).

2+ 371. Theoretical Study of SiH2n (n= 1 –3) Dications, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Inorg. Chem., 38, 4132 (1999).

372. Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid Catalyzed Preparation of Diaryl Sulfoxides from Arenes and Thionyl Chloride, G. A. Olah, E. R. Marinez, G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 1397 (1999).

373. Nafion-H Catalysed Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts Acylations: Formation of Cyclic Ketones and Related Heterocycles, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, M. Farnia and G. K. S. Prakash, Synlett, 1067 (1999).

+ 374. Complexes of CO2, COS and CS2 with Super Lewis Acid BH4 Contrasted with Extremely Weak Complexations with BH3: Theoretical Calculations and Experimental Relevance, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A.Olah, J.

74 Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 7401 (1999).

375. Mutagenicity Studies of Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Using Ames Tester Strain TA 102, D. M. Williams, C. P. Spears, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, T. Shamma, T. Moin, L. Y.Kim and C. K. Hill, Mutation Res., 446, 15 (1999).

376. Search for Long Lived 1,3-Carbodications, and Preparation of the Persistent 1,1,3,3-Tetracyclopropyl-1, 3-propanediyl Dication, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy, G. Rasul, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 9994 (1999).

377. B-H Bond Protonation in Mono- and Diprotonated Borane Complexes H3BX (X= N2H4, NH2OH, and H2O2) Involving Hypercoordinate Boron, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Inorg. Chem., 38, 5876 (1999).

378. Preparation of 3-trifluoromethyl-2-cycloalkenones by the oxidative rearrangement of trifluoromethylated tertiary allylic alcohols with pyridinium chlorochromate, G. K. S. Prakash, E. C. Tongco, T. Mathew, Y. D. Vankar, G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem., 101(2), 199 (2000).

+ 379. An Initio Study of XH2 (X= B, Al and Ga) Isomers, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys.Chem. A., 104, 2284 (2000).

380. Relative Abilities of Fluorine and Chlorine to Stabilize Carbenium Ions. - Crystal Structures of Two Fluoro-Substituted Carbocations and of As2F11 . K. O. Christe, X. Zhang, R. Bau, J. Hegge, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and J. A. Sheehy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 481 (2000).

+ + 381. Structures of XH4 and XH6 (X=B, Al, and Ga) Cations, S. Salzbrunn, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Mod., 6, 213 (2000).

382. Synthesis of Imidazole Derivatives using 2-Unsubstituted Imidazole-3- oxides, G. Mloston, M. Celeda, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and H. Heimgatner, Helv. Chim. Acta., 83, 728 (2000).

383. Triphenyltrimethyltrimethylsilane/Teramethylammonium Fluoride as a Metal-Free Anionic Polymerization System, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, G. A. Olah, W. N. Warner and T. E. Hogen-Esch, Polym. Prepr.(Am. Chem. Soc., Div. Polym. Chem.) 41, 204 (2000).

2+ 384. Diprotonated Hydrogen Halides (H3X ) and Gitonic Methyl- and 2+ 2+ Dimethylhalonium Dications (CH3XH2 and (CH3)2XH : Theoretical and Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Studies, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul, M. Hachoumy, A. Burrichter and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am.Chem. Soc., 122, 2737 (2000).

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385. Superacid Catalyzed Selective Formylation-Rearrangement of Isoalkanes with Carbon Monoxide to Branched Ketones, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew and E. R. Marinez, Angew.Chem. Int. Ed. 39, 2547 (2000).

386. Synthesis and Applications of Palladium Coated Polyvinylpyridine Nanospheres, S. Pathak, M. Greci, R. C. Kwong, K. Mercado, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. E. Thompson, Chem. Mat., 12, 1985 (2000).

387. Stereospecific Fluorination of 1,3,5-Tri-O-Benzoyl-a-D- Ribofuranose-2- Sulfonate Esters: Preparation of a Versatile Intermediate for Synthesis of 2´-(F-18)-Fluoro-Arabino-nucleosides. M. M. Alauddin, P. S. Conti, T. Mathew, J. D. Fissekis, G. K. S. Prakash and K. A. Watanabe, J. Fluo. Chem., 106, 87 (2000).

388. A Facile Stereocontrolled Synthesis of anti-a-(Trifluoromethyl)-b-Amino Alcohols, G.K.S. Prakash, M. Mandal, S. Schweizer, N. A. Petasis and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett., 2, 3173 (2000).

389. Regioselective Nitration of Arylboronic Acids, S. Salzbrunn, J. Simon, G. K. S. Prakash, N. A. Petasis and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 1485 (2000).

390. Protonated and Methylated Dimethyl Sulfoxide Cations and Dications. DFT/GIAO-MP2 NMR Studies and Comparison with Experimental Data, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org.Chem., 65, 8766 (2000).

391. Structures of Carborane Cations Derived from the Reaction of 2-Propyl Cation with Diborane: DFT/IGLO/GIAO-MP2/NMR Invstigations of Alkylbrane and Alkylcarborane Patterns, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash, L. D. Field, G. A. Olah and R. E. Williams, J. Organomet. Chem., 614, 195 (2000).

392. Homoconjugation in the Adamantane Cage; DFT/IGLO Studies of the 1,3- Dehydro-5-Adamantyl Cation, its Isoelectronic Boron Analog 1,3- Dehydro-5-Boradamantane and Related Systems, G. A. Olah, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 65, 5956 (2000).

393. Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid Catalyzed Novel Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Aromatics with Methyl Benzoate, J. P. Hwang, G. K. S.Prakash and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron, 56, 7199 (2000).

394. Tris(trimethylsilyl)sulfonium and Methylbis(trimethylsilyl)sulfonium Ions: Preparation, NMR Spectroscopy, and Theoretical Studies, G.K.S. Prakash, C. Bae, Qi-Wang, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 65, 7646 (2000).

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395. Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of N-Tosyl Aldimines, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 77 (2001).

2+ 2+ 396. N6 and N4 Dications and Their N12 and N10 Azido Derivatives: DFT/GIAO-MP2 Theoretical Studies, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 3308 (2001).

397. Stereoselective Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of N-(tert- Butylsufinyl)imines by Using Trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)silane, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 589 (2001).

398. Regioselctive Conversion of Arylboronic Acids to Phenols and Subsequent Coupling to Symmetrical Diaryl Ethers. J. Simon, S. Salzbrunn, G. K. S. Prakash, N. A. Petasis and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 66, 633 (2001).

399. s-Bishomoconjugation (s-Bishomoaromaticity) in 4C/3(2)e Cations- “Scope and Limitations”, H. Prinzbach, J. Reinbold, M. Bertau, T. Voss, H-D. Martin, B. Mayer, J. Heinze, D. Neschchadin, G. Gescheidt, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40, 911 (2001).

400. Gitonic and Distonic Alkanonium Dications (protonated Alkane Dications

2+ CnH2n+4 , n= 1 – 4), G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Org. Chem. 66, 2907 (2001).

401. Poly p-Hydroxystyrene Grafted Polystrene Nanospheres: Excellent hosts for Silver and Ruthenium Nanoparticles, M. Greci, S. Pathak, K. Mercado, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. E. Thompson, J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 1, 3 (2001).

402. Preparation of Symmetric Bis-sulfides via Reductive Thiolation of Dicarbonyl with Thiols or Carbonyl Compounds with Dithiols in the Presence of Triethylsilane and Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate, Qi Wang, X-Y. Li, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, ARKIVOC, 2, Part VIII, 116 (2001).

403. Nafion-H Catalyzed Sulfonylation of Aromatics with Aryl (Alkyl) sulfonic Acids for Preparation of Sulfones, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Comm., 1696 (2001).

404. Asymmetric Synthesis of Trifluromethylated Allylic Amines Using a,b- Unsaturated N-tert-Butanesulfinimines, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett., 3, 2847 (2001).

77 405. Secododecahedradienes- Syntheses, Reactivity, in-Plane Homoconjugated 3C/2e Cations, 4C/3e Radical Cations, and s-Bishomoaromatic 4C/2e Dications, J. Reinbold, M. Bertau, T. Voss, D. Hunkler, L. Knothe, H. Prinzbach, D. Neschchadin, G. Gescheidt, B. Mayer, H-D. Martin, J. Heinze, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Helv. Chim. Acta. 84, 1518 (2001).

406. Acid Catalyzed Isomerization of Pivalaldehyde to Methyl Isopropyl Ketone via a Reactive Protosolvated Carboxonium Ion Intermediate, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, E. R. Marinez, P. M. Esteves, M. Etzkorn, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 11556 (2001).

407. Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation Tamed, G. K. S. Prakash and M. Mandal, J. Fluo. Chem. 112, 123 (2001).

408. Facile Preparation of Di- and Monofluoromethyl Ketones from Trifluromethyl Ketones via Fluorinated Enol Silyl Ethers, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem., 112, 357 (2001).

409. Ab Initio Study of the Structures and Stabilities of the Dimer of Ethyl

+ 2+ Cation, (C2H5 )2 and Related C4H10 Isomers, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Org. Chem. 66, 9011 (2001).

410. 1,2-Addition of TMS-CF3 and TMS-CN to Sterically Crowded 2,2,4,4- Tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanedione and Related Studies, J- S. Bruck, A. Koch, G. Mloston, S. Lehnhoff, P. Margaretha, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, R. Bau and G. A. Olah, J. Ind. Inst. Sci., 81(3), 227 (2001).

411. Superacids, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd Edition), R. A. Meyers (ed), Academic Press, San Diego, CA, volume 16, pp175- 188 (2002).

+ + 412. Reactions of Superelectrophilic BH2 and BCl2 with Carbonyl Compounds and Alkenes, G. A. Olah, G. K.S. Prakash and G. Rasul, ARKIVOC, issue II, 7 (2002).

413. Preparation and NMR Study of Silylated Carboxonium Ions, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Bae, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 67, 1297 (2002).

414. DFT Study of Substituted and Benzannelated Aryl Cations; Substituent Dependency of Singlet/Triplet Ratio, K. K. Laali, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 67, 2913 (2002).

415. Stereoselective Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Vicinal

Ethylenediamines with a-Amino N-tert-Butanesulfinimines and TMSCF3, G. K. S. Prakash and M. Mandal, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 6538 (2002).

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416. Research Reporting, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chem. Eng. News, 80 (21), 8 (2002).

417. Stable Dialkyl Ether–Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride) Complexes. Dimethyl Ether- Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride), A New, Convenient and Effective Fluorinating Agent, I. Bucsi, B. Törok, A. I. Marco, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 7728 (2002).

418. Stereoselective Synthesis of anti-a-(Difluoromethyl)-b-Amino Alcohols by Boronic Acid Based Three Component Condensation - Enantioselective Preparation of (2S, 3R) Difluorothreonine, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal. S. Schweizer, N. A. Petasis and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 67, 3718 (2002).

419. Reactions of 5-, 6-, 7- and 8-Hydroxyquinolines and 5- Hydroxyisoquinoline with Benzene and Cyclohexane in Superacids, K. Yu. Koltunov, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 67, 4330 (2002).

420. Studies on Reactions of Thioketones with Trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)silane Catalyzed by Fluoride Ion, G. Mlotson, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and H. Heimgartner, Helv. Chim. Acta. 85, 1644 (2002).

421. Superacid Catalyzed Reactions of 5-Amino-1-naphthol with Benzene and Cyclohexane, K. Yu. Koltunov, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron, 58, 5423 (2002).

422. Improved Performance and Safety of Lithium Ion Batteries with the Use of Fluorinated Carbonates as Electrolytes and Co-, M. C. Smart, B. V. Ratnakumar, S. Surampudi, G. K. S.Prakash and J. Hu, NASA Tech. Briefs, May 2002, NPO-21076.

423. Ab Initio/GIAO-MP2-calculted structures and 11B-13C NMR chemical shift relationship in hypercoordinate onium-carbonium dications and isoelectronic onium-boronium cations, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. USA. 99, 9635 (2002).

424. Triphenylmethyldifluoramine: A Stable Reagent for the Synthesis of gem- Bis(difluoramines), G. K. S. Prakash, M. Etzkorn, G. A. Olah, K. O. Christe, S. Schneider and A. Vij, Chem. Comm., 1712 (2002).

425. Synthesis of 1,3-Bis (N,N-difluramino)adamantane: Addition of Difluoramino Radicals to 1,3-Dehydroadamantane, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Bae, M. Kroll and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 117, 103 (2002).

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426. Fabricating Better PSSA-PVDF-Based MEAs for Fuel Cells, S. Narayanan, M. Smart, A. Atti, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, NASA Tech. Briefs, NPO20644, September 2002.

427. Efficient Chemoselective Carboxylation of Aromatics to Arylcarboxylic

Acids with Superelectrophilically Activated Carbon Dioxide—Al2Cl6/Al System, G. A. Olah, B. Török, J. P. Joschek, I. Bucsi, P. M. Esteves, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 11379 (2002).

2+ 428. DFT Investigation of Tri(amino)amine, N(NH2)3 and Tri(azido)amine

2+ N(N3)3 Dications and Related Mixed Amino(azido)ammonium Ions,

+ (N3)XN(NH2)4-X (X= 0-4), G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, , Inorg. Chem. 41, 5589 (2002).

429. Deprotection and Cleavage of Peptides Bound to Merrifield Resin by Stable Dimethyl Ether-Poly(Hydrogen Fluoride) (DMEPHF) Complex. A New and Convenient Reagent for Peptide Chemistry, B. Torok, I. Bucsi, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chem. Comm. 2882 (2002).

430. Structures and Stabilities of Higher Coordinate Onium-Boronium

+ + + + Dications (X BH3 and X BH5 ; X= NH3, PH3, H2O and H2S), G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99, 13387 (2002).

431. Superelectrophilic Protio Methyl and Protio Dimethyleneiminium Dications, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Org. Chem. 67, 8547 (2002).

432. Convenient preparation aryl methyl and aryl phenyl sulfides from arenediazonium tetrafluoroborates and trimethyl(methylthio)-and trimethyl(phenylthio)silanes by G. K. S. Prakash, D. Hoole, D. S. Ha, J. Wilkinson and G. A. Olah, ARKIVOC. Vol. 2002, Part (xiii), 50-54 (2002).

433. Superacidic Activation of 1- and 3-Isoquinolinols and their Electrophilic Reactions, K. K. Koltunov, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 67, 8943 (2002).

434. Gallium (III) Trifluoromethanesulfonate: A Water Tolerant, Resusable Lewis Acid Catalyst for Friedel-Crafts Reactions, by G. K. S. Prakash, P. Yan, B. Torok, I. Bucsi, M. Tanaka and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 85, 1 (2003).

435. Synthesis of Chiral Trifluoromethylated Amines by Palladium Catalyzed Diastereoselective Hydrogenation- Hydrogenolysis Approach, B. Torok and G. K. S. Prakash, Adv. Synth. Catal. 345, 165 (2003).

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436. Reduction of Carbonyl Groups to the Corresponding Methylenes with Ni- Alloy in Water, K. Ishimoto, Y. Mitoma, S. Nagashima, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Chem. Comm. 514 (2003).

437. Alkylation of in situ generated fluorinated alkoxides: novel synthesis of partially fluorinated ethers, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, ARKIVOC. Vol. 2003, Part(iii), 104 (2003).

438. Improved Performance of Lithium Ion Cells with the Use of Fluorinated Carbonate-Based Electrolytes, M. C. Smart, B. V. Ratnakumar, V. S. Ryan-Mowrey, S. Surampudi, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and I. Cheung, J. Power. Sources, 119-121, 359-367 (2003).

439. Superacid Catalyzed Hydroxyalkylation of aromatics with Ethyl Trifluopyruvate: A New Synthetic route to Mosher’s Acid Analogs by G. K. S. Prakash, P. Yan, B. Torok and G. A. Olah, Synlett. 527 (2003).

440. Superacidic Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid Induced Cycli-Acyalkylation of Aromatics, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Yan, B. Torok and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 87, 109-112 (2003).

441. A General Method of Halogenation for Synthesis of a-Halodifluoromethyl Ketones and [18F]-Labeled Trifluoromethyl Ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, M. M. Alauddin, J. Hu, P. S. Conti and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 121, 239- 243 (2003).

442. Unified Mechanistic Concept of Electrophilic Aromatic Nitration: Convergence of Computational and Experimental Results, P. M. Esteves, J. E. de M. Carneiro, S. P. Cardoso, A. G. H. Barbosa, K. K. Laali, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 4836- 4849 (2003).

443. A Potentiometric Method of Monitoring Methanol Crossover through Polymer Electrolyte Membranes of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, N. Munichandraiah, K. McGrath, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld and G. A. Olah, J. Power. Sources, 117 (1-2), 98-101 (2003).

444. 13C NMR/DFT/GIAO Studies of Phenylene bis(1,3-Dioxolanium) Dications and 2,4,6-Triphenylene tris(1,3-Dioxolanium) Trication, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 68, 3507-3510 (2003).

445. Preparation of Trifluoromethyl- and Difluoromethylsilanes via an Unusual Magnesium Metal Mediated Reductive Tri- and Difluoromethylation of Chlorosilanes Using Tri- and Difluoromethyl Sulfides, Sulfoxides, and

81 Sulfones, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 68, 4457- 4463 (2003).

446. Electrochemical and solid state NMR characterization of composite PEO- based polymer electrolytes, I. W. Cheung, K. B. Chin, E. R. Green, M. C. Smart, S. Abbrent, S. G. Greenbaum, G. K. S. Prakash and S. Surampudi, Electrochimica Acta, 48, 2149-2156 (2003).

447. Structure, Nature of Bonding and Charge Distribution in Hydrido-borane 2+ Dications BHn (n=1 –8), G. Rasul, J. F. Dias, P. R. Seidl, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A. 107, 4731-4734 (2003).

448. Expedient synthesis of [F-18]-labeled alpha-trifluoromethyl ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, M. M. Alauddin, J. Hu, P. S. Conti and G. A. Olah, J. Label. Compd. Radiopharm, 46, 1087-1092 (2003).

449. Photonic crystals for energy transfer experiments, M. D. Julian, R. Desousa, G. K. S. Prakash and A. W. Harper, Proceedings of SPIE- The International Society of Optical Engineering, 5224 (Nanomaterials and Their Applications), 121-129 (2003).

450. Electrophilic Reactions of Phenols, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, in “The Chemistry of Phenols”, Z. Rappoport, Ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, Ch. 9 (2003).

451. Fluorotris(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)methane: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity, P. Kirsch, M. Bremer, A. Hahn, U. Welz-Biermann, H. A. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Lork, D. V. Sevenard, G-V. Röschenthaler, J. Fluo. Chem. 122, 233-236, (2003).

452. Preparation of TMS Protected Trifluoromethyl Alcohols Using Trimethylamine-N-Oxide and Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMSCF3), G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 123, 61-63 (2003).

453. Alkoxide and Hydroxide Induced Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation using Trifluoromethyl Sulfone or Sulfoxide, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 5, 3253-3256 (2003).

2+ 454. Structure, Stabilities of BnH2n Dications (n= 1 –4), J. F. Dias, G. Rasul, P. R. Seidl, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A. 107, 7981-7984 (2003).

+ + 455. Complexes of Guanidinium Ion (NH2)3C with Super Lewis Acids XH4

(X= B and Al); Comparison with Complexes of XH3 and Protonated and Methylated Guanidinium Dications, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A.

82 Olah, Inorg. Chem. 42, 8059-8064 (2003).

456. Difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone as a selective difluoromethylene dianion equivalent: One pot synthesis of anti-2, 2-difluoropropan-1, 3-diols, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42, 5216- 5219 (2003).

457. Reactions of 2-, 3- and 4-Isoqunolinols with Cyclohexane and Benzene with Superacids, K. Y. Koltunov, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah Heterocycles, 62, 757-772 (2004).

458. First direct oxidation of azides to nitro compounds (“Highlight”), G. K. S. Prakash and M. Etzkorn, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 43, 26-28 (2004).

459. Mechanism of Anionic Polymerization of Methylmethacrylate Initiated by Tetramethylammonium Triphenylmethide in THF, W. N. Warner, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and T. E. Hogen-Esch, J. Polym. Sci. Part A, 42, 237-244 (2004).

460. Preparation of a,a-Difluoroalkanesulfonic Acids, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, J. Simon, D. R. Bellew and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 125, 595-601 (2004).

461. Nitrosonium Tetrafluoroborate, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons, Release 6, 2004.

462. High Efficiency Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Based on Poly(styrenesulfonic) Acid (PSSA)- Poly (vinylidenefluoride) (PVDF) Composite Membranes, G. K. S. Prakash, M. C. Smart, Q-J. Wang, A. Atti, V. Pleynet, B. Yang, K. McGrath, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, W. Chun, T. Valdez and S. Surampudi, J. Fluo. Chem. 125, 1217-1230 (2004).

463. O-acylation mechanism of p-substituted phenols with various alkanoyl chlorides under phase transfer catalysis conditions, I. Hashimoto, T. Kawaji, Y. Mitoma, A. M. Simion, C. Simion, K. Ishimoto, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Revue Roumaine de Chimie. 49, 149-155 (2004).

464. Theoretical Investigation of Superelectrophilic Fluorooxonium Dications

2+ 2+ 2+ FOH3 and F2OH2 ; Comparison with Parent H4O Dication, V. P. Reddy, E. Sinn, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Phys. Chem. A. 108, 4036-4039 (2004).

465. Carbocationic Rearrangement of Pivaloyl Cation and Protonated Pivalaldehyde in Superacid Medium: A Novel Solution Equivalent of the

83 McLafferty Rearrangement, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, A. Goepert, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and P. M. Esteves, J. Am. Soc. Mass. Spec. 15, 959-965 (2004).

466. Convenient Synthesis of Aryl and Perfluoroaryl Trichlorogermanes and Germatranes via an Organotin Route, R. G. Kultyshev, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, J. W. Faller and J. Parr, Organometallics, 23, 3184-3188 (2004).

467. Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons, Release 6, 2004.

468. Trifluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons, Release 6, 2004.

2+ 469. DFT Study of Adamantanediyl Dications C10H14 and Protio-Adamantyl

2 Dications C10H16 , G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 101, 10868-10871 (2004).

470. Ipso-Nitration of Aryl Boronic Acids with Chlorotrimethylsilane-Nitrate Salts, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, T. Mathew, V. Surampudi, N. A. Petasis and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 6, 2205-2207 (2004).

471. Recent Studies of Carbocations and Carbodications, G. K. S. Prakash, and V. P. Reddy, in Carbocation Chemistry, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash (Eds.), John Wiley and Sons, New York, Ch. 4, 73-101 (2004).

472. Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Primary Alkyl Halides Using Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone as a Difluoromethyl Anion Equivalent, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 6, 4315-4317 (2004).

473. GIAO-MP2/SCF/DFT Calculated NMR Chemical Shift Relationships in Isostructural Onium Dications Containing Hypercoordinate Boron, Carbon, Aluminum and Silicon Atoms, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. 108, 8456-8459 (2004).

474. Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, a Difluoromethylidene Equivalent: Use in the Synthesis of 1,1-Difluoro-1-Alkenes from Primary Alkyl Halides, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 43, 5315-5318 (2004).

475. N-Halosuccinimide/BF3-H2O, Efiicient Electrophilic Halogenating Systems for Aromatics, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, D. Hoole, P. M.

84 Esteves, Q. Wang, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 15770-15776 (2004).

476. Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, K. McGrath, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Ind. & Eng. Chem. 10, 1063- 1080 (2004).

477. Aroylation of aromatics with aryl carboxylic acids over Nafion-H (a polymeric perfluoroalkanesulfonic acid) an environmentally friendly solid acid catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, M. Mandal, M. Farnia and G. A. Olah, ARKIVOC (viii), 103- 110 (2004).

478. Experience with 12/15-lipoxygenase inhibitors in diabetic nephropathy in the rat, J. Ma, R. Natarajan, J. LaPage, L. Lanting, N. Kim, D. Becerra, B. Clemmons, C. C. Nast, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal and S. G. Adler, Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 72(1), 13-20 (2005).

479. Friedel-Crafts reactions, G. A. Olah, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (5th Edition), 12. 159-199 (2005).

480. Comparitive Ab Initio Study of the Structures and Stabilities of Ethane

2+ 2+ 2 Dication, C6H6 , and its Silicon Analogs, Si6H6 , and CSiH6 , G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. 109, 798-801 (2005).

481. New Nucleophilc Fluoroalkylation Chemistry, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, in “Fluorine-Containing Synthons, ACS Symposium Series #911, Soloshonok, V. A. Ed., Oxford University Press/American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 2005; Chapter 2, pp 16-56.

482. Fluoride-Induced Nucleophilic (Phenylthio)difluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds with [Difluoro(phenylthio)methyl]trimethylsilane

(TMS-CF2SPh), G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 126, 529-534 (2005)

483. gem-Difluorination of Diarylthiolanes by SelectfluorR and Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, V. P. Reddy, R. Alleti, M. Perambuduru, U. Welz-Biermann, H. Buchholz and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Comm. 654- 656 (2005).

484. Product Subclass 1: RCXYZ (XYZ = halogen), 2 Halogen, 1 Halogen, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, A Chapter in Science of Synthesis, Vol. 22. 7.1, Georg Thieme Verlag KG, Stuttgart, Germany, 2005.

485. Iodotrimethylsilane, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons,

85 October 15, 2005.

486. Perfluoralkanesulfonic acids and perfluoroalkanesulfonimides as electrode additives to DMFCs, S. Narayanan, M. Smart, S. Surampudi, G. K. S. Prakash, Q-J. Wang, G. A. Olah, NASA Tech Reports, NTR no 40503, September 2005.

487. 13C NMR Spectroscopic, Cyclic Voltammetric, and Conductivity Studies of Propylene Carbonate-based Electrolytes Containing Various Lithium Salts, V. P. Reddy, M. C. Smart, K. B. Chin, B. V. Ratnakumar, S. Surampudib, J. Hu, P. Yan, and G. K. S. Prakash, Electrochemical Solid State Lett. 8(6), A294-A298 (2005).

488. Electrophilic Triethylsilylation of Diphenylketene: The Question of C- vs O-Silylation, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Bae, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 102, 6251-6254 (2005).

489. Highly Enantioselective Organocatalytic Hydroxyalkylation of Indoles with Ethyl Trifluoropyruvate (Hot Paper), B. Török, M. Abid, G. London, J. Esquibel, M. Török, S. C. Mhadgut, P. Yan and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 2-4 (2005).

490. Gallium (III) Triflate Catalyzed Dehydration of Aldoximes” by P. Yan, P. Batamack, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 101, 141- 143 (2005).

491. Electrophilic modification of polystyrene nanospheres, R. Desousa, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5, 397- 403, (2005).

492. Convenient Synthesis of Difluoromethyl Alcohols from Both Enolizable and Non-Enolizable Carbonyl Compounds with Difluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2218-2223 (2005).

493. Ionic Liquid and Solid HF Equivalent Amine-Poly (Hydrogen Fluoride) Complexes Effecting Environmentally Friendly Isobutane-Isobutylene Alkylation, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, A. Goeppert, B. Török, I. Bucsi, X-Y. Li, Q. Wang, E. R. Marinez, P. Batamack, R. Aniszfeld and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 5964- 5969 (2005).

494. Microwave Assisted Direct Transformation of Amines to Ketones using Water as an Oxygen Source, A. Miyazawa, K. Tanaka, T.Sakakura M. Tashiro, H. Tashirob G. K. S. Prakash and G.. A. Olah, Chem. Commun. 2104- 2106 (2005).

86 495. Modern Fluoroorganic Chemistry by Peer Kirsch, A Book Review, G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 1439 (2005). 496. Fluorine in Organic Chemistry by Richard D. Chembers, Blackwell Publishing, A Book Review, G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 2321- 2322 (2005). 497. Trfluoromethanesulfonic Acid Catalyzed Alkylation of Arenes with Methyl (2R)-Glycidate, P. J. Linares-Palomino, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Helv. Chim. Acta. 88, 1221-1225 (2005). 498. Gallium(III) Trifalte Catalyzed Beckmann Rearrangement, P. Yan, P. Batamack, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 103 (3-4), 165-168 (2005). 499. Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, September 15, 2006. 500. Oxygenation of Alkane C-H Bonds with Methyl(trifluoromethyl)dioxirane: Effectof the Substituents and the Solvent on the Reaction Rate, M. E. González-Núnez, J. Royo, R. Mello, M. Báguena, J. M. Ferrer, C. R. de Arrelano, G. Asensio and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem., 70, 7919-7924 (2005). 501. Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation and Difluoromethylenation Uisng Bromdifluoromethyl Phenyl Sulfone, G. K. S. Prakash, Y. Wang, J. Hu, G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem., 126 (9-10), 1361-1367 (2005). 502. Onium-Poly Hydrogen Fluorides as Acid Catalysts, Ionic Liquids and Fluorinating Agents in Organic Reactions, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, in Advances in Organic Synthesis (A-U-Rahaman, Ed., K. Laali, Ex. Guest Ed.), Bentham Science Publishers, Hilversum, The Netherlands, Ch.6, pages 183-211 (2006).

+ 503. Theoretical Study of AlHn (n = 1 - 7) Dications, G. Rasul, G. K. S.Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Model. 12 (5), 559-562 (2006).

+ 504. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of Propenoyl (H2C=CH-CO ) and

+ Isopentenoyl ((CH3)2C=CH-CO ) Cations and their Superelectrophilic Protonated Dications, G. Rasul, G. K. S.Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A 110, 1041-1045 (2006). 505. Approaches towards the construction of asymmetric fluorinated carbon centers (Highlight), G. K. S. Prakash and P. Beir, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 2172-2174 (2006).

506. Overviews of Recent Research on Energetic Materials, Advanced Series in

87 Physical Chemistry, Volume 16, edited by Robert W. Shaw, Thomas B. Brill, and Donald L. Thompson, Book Review, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 4494-4495 (2006).

507. BF3.2CF3CH2OH (BF3.2TFE), an Efficient Superacidic Catalyst for Some Organic Transformations, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, E. R. Marinez, P. M. Esteves, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 71, 3952-3958 (2006).

508. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of Bicyclic and Related Strained Olefins. Structures and 13C NMR Chemical Shifts, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Phys. Chem A. 110, 7197-7201 (2006).

509. Reaction of primary amines with Pt/C catalyst in water under microwave irradiation: a convenient synthesis of secondary amines from primary amines,A. Miyazawa, K. Saitou, K. Tanaka, T. M. Gadda, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 47(9), 1437-1439 (2006).

510. Electrophilc Intermediates and Their Reactions in Superacids (A Perspective), G. K. S. Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 71, 3661-3676 (2006).

511. Chiral a-Branched Benzylic Carbocations: Diastereoselective Intermolecular Reactions with Arene Nucleophiles and NMR Spectroscopic Studies, F. Mühlthau, D. Stadler, A. Goeppert, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Bach, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 9668-9675 (2006).

512. Microwave Assisted Reduction of Acetophenones Using Ni-Al Alloy in Water, A. Miyazawa, M. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn. 79, 791- 792 (2006).

513. Preparation of Tri- and Difuoromethylated Amines from Aldimines Using (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Mogi and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 8, 3589-3592 (2006).

- 514. Preparation, Characterization, and Crystal Structures of the SO3NHF and - SO3NF2 Anions, K. Christe, R. Haiges, R. Wagner, J. A. Boatz, M. Yousufuddin, M. Etzkorn, G. K. S. Prakash, R. D. Chapman, M. F. Welker, C. B. Kreutzberger, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45, 5179- 5184 (2006).

515. Pentafluorobenzoic Acid, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, April 15, 2006.

516. Organic Reactions in Water: Part 7, Reduction of Anilines with Noble Metal Catalysts in the Presence of Al Powder in Water, H. Suzuki, K.

88 Ishimoto, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 7-18 (2006).

517. Organic Reactions in Water: Part 8, Reduction of Alkylbenzenes with Noble Metal Catalysts and Al Metal Powder in Water, H. Suzuki, H. Tashiro, K. Ishimoto, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 19-24 (2006).

518. Organic Reactions in Water: Part 9, Reduction of Polyarenes in Water with Noble Metal Catalysts and Al Powder, H. Suzuki, H. Tashiro, K. Ishimoto, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 25-31 (2006).

519. Organic Reactions in Water: Part 10, Reduction of Biphenyl, and Acenaphtene with Noble Rh/C, Ru/C, Pd/C, Pt/C Catalysts and Catalysts and Al Powder in Deuterium Oxide, H. Suzuki, H. Tashiro, K. Ishimoto, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 33-37 (2006).

520. Organic Reactions in Water: Part 11, Reduction of Acetophenone, Benzophenone and Realted Compounds with Rh/C, Ru/Al2O3, Ru/C, Pd/C or Pt/C Catalysts added Al Powder in the Sealed Tube, I. Hashimoto, H. Suzuki, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 39-44 (2006).

521. Reduction of Quinoline with Raney Nickel Alloy in Acetic Acid Aqueous Solution, H. Suzuki, K. Ishimoto, H. Tashiro, M. Tashiro, J. Udagawa, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Jpn. J. Deuterium Sci. 12, 45-47 (2006).

522. Low operational temperature Li-CFx batteries using cathodes containing sub-fluorinated graphitic materials, J. Whitacre, R. Yazami, A. Hamwi, M. C. Smart, W. Bennett, G. K. Surya Prakash, T. Miller and R. Bugga, J. Power Sources 160, 577-584 (2006).

523. Fluorinated Superacidic Systems, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Goeppert, Actualite Chimique, 301-302, 68-72 (2006).

524. Facile Synthesis of TMS-Protected Trifluoromethylated Alcohols Using Trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMSCF3) and Various Nucleophilic Catalysts in DMF, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, H. Vagoo, V. Surampudi, R. Kultyshev, M. Mandal, G. Rasul, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 71, 6806-6813 (2006).

+ + 525. Comparitive Study of the Hypercoordinate ions C7H9 and C8H9 by the ab initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Method, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem A. 110, 11320-11323 (2006).

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526. Hexafluoropentanedioyl Chloride, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, September 15, 2006.

527. 2,2’,4,4’,6,6’-Hexafluorobiphenyl, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, September 15, 2006.

528. Electrolytes for Low Temperature Operation of Li-CFx Cells, M. Smart, J. Whitacre, R. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Bhalla, K. Smith, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-43587 (2006).

529. Superacidic Activation of Maleimide and Phthalimide and Their Reactions with Cyclohexane and Arenes, K. Yu. Koltinov, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 4861-4866 (2006).

530. Pyridinium Poly(hydrogen fluoride), G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley and Sons, March 15, 2007.

531. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of the Effects of Protonation on Borane- Ammonia (H3BNH3) and Related Complexes, G. Rasul , G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, THEOCHEM, 818 (1-3), 65-70 (2007).

532. Onium-Poly(Hydrogen Fluorides): Convenient Ionic Liquids for Fluorination and Acid Catalysis" by G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and V. P. Reddy in “Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis”, S. Malhotra (Ed.), ACS Symposium series (Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis), 950, 36-57 (2007).

533. Efficient One Pot Synthesis of Fluorinated Benzimidazolines, Benzothiozolines, Benzoxazolines, and Dihydrobenzoxazinones Using Gallium (III) Triflate as a Catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, H. Vaghoo and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 9, 179-182 (2007).

534. PVP-SO2 complex as a solid mild acid catalyst for efficient one pot, three- component, Strecker synthsis of a-aminonitriles, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, C. Panja, K. Smith and G. K. S. Prakash Catalysis Letters, 114, 1-7 (2007).

535. BF3-H2O catalyzed Fries rearrangement of phenolic esters, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 114, 24- 29 (2007).

90 536. Effect of carbonates/phosphates as nucleophilic catalysts in DMF for efficient cyanosilylation of aldehydes and ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, V. Surampudi, R. Kultyshev, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. 104, 3026-3030 (2007).

537. Synthesis of Trifluoromethylimines by Solid Acid/Superacid Catalyzed Microwave Assisted Approach, M. Abid, M. Savolainen, S. Landge, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and B. Török, J. Fluo. Chem. 128, 587- 594 (2007).

538. Conformationsl Studies of Cyclobutylmethyl Carbocations, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, ACS Symposium Series (K. Laali, Ed.), 965 (Recent Developments in Carbocation and Onium Ion Chemistry), 106-117 (2007).

539. Gallium (III) triflate catalyzed efficient Stercker reaction of Ketones and fluorinated ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, S. Alconcel, H. Vaghoo, C. Do and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA. 104, 3703- 3706 (2007).

540. Friedel-Crafts Alkylations of Arenes with Mono and Bis(trifluoro- methyl)-oxiranes in Superacid Medium: Facile Synthesis of α- (rifluoromethyl) and α,α Bis- (rifluoromethyl)-β-Arylethanols, G. K. S. Prakash, P. J. Linares-Palomino, K. Glinton, S. Chacko, G. Rasul, T . Mathew and G.A. Olah, Synlett, 158-162 (2007).

541. Structural Studies of Nonclassical Cyclobutylmethyl Cations by the ab initio Method, V. P. Reddy, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 72, 3076-3080 (2007).

542. Enhanced Low-Temperature Performance of Li-CFx Batteries, J. F. Whitacre, W. C. West, M. C. Smart, R.Yazami, G.K. S. Prakash, A. Hamwi, R.V. Bugga, Electrochemical Solid State Lett. 10, A166-A170 (2007).

543. Chelation of Vanadium (V) by Difluoromethylene Bisphophonate, a Structural Analog of Pyrophosphate, D. C. Crans, A. A. Holder, T. K. Saha, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Yousufuddin, R. Kultyshev, R. Isamail, M. F. Goodman, J. Borden and J. Florian, Inorg. Chem. 46, 6723-6732 (2007).

544. New Electrophilic Difluoromethylating Agent, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Weber, S. Chacko and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 9, 1863-1866 (2007).

545. Stereoselective monofluoromethylation of primary and secondary alcohols using a fluorocarbon nucleophile in Mitsunobu reaction, G. K. S. Prakash,

91 S. Chacko, S. Alconcel, T. Stewart, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 4933-4936 (2007).

546. Chlorotrimethylsilane-Nitrate Salts as Oxidants: Direct Oxidative Conversion of Thiols and Disulfides to Sulfonyl Chlorides, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 72, 5847- 5850 (2007).

547. Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate as a Metal-free, Homogeneous and Strong Lewis Acid Catalysts for Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of a- Aminonitriles and their Fluorinated Analogues, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, C. Do, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Synlett, 2395-2399 (2007).

548. Superacidic Activation of Quinoline and Isoquinoline with Their Reactions with Cyclohexane and Benzene, K. Yu. Koltinov, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 72, 7394-7397 (2007).

549. Synthesis of 1,1-difluoroethylsilanes and their application in the introduction of the 1,1-difluoroethyl group, R. Mogi, K. Morisaki, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 128, 1098-1103 (2007)

551. Performance of Dimethoxymethane and Trimethoxymethane in Liquid Feed Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, M. C. Smart, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, W. Chun, S. Surampudi and G. Halpert, J. Power. Sources 173, 102-109 (2007).

552. Norbornene-Based Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Cells, I. Cheung, M. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Miyazawa and J. Hu, NASA Tech Briefs, 31, 32 (NPO-41134) (2007).

553. High-Energy-Density Low Temperature Li/CFX Primary Cells, J. Whitcre, R. Bugga, M. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Yazami, NASA Tech Briefs, 31, 43 (NPO-43219) (2007).

554. Selective Fluoroalkylations with Fluorinated Sulfones, Sulfoxides and Sulfides, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Hu, Acc. Chem. Res. 40, 921-930 (2007).

555. New Solid Phase Bound Electrophilic Difluoromethylating Reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Weber, S. Chacko and G. A. Olah, J. Comb. Chem. 9 (6), 920-923 (2007).

556. Zinc Catalyzed Conversion of Methanol-Methyl Iodide to Hydrocarbons with Increased Formation of Triptane, S. Walspurger, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Applied Catalysis A: General 336, 48-53 (2008).

92 2+ 557. Protonated tert-Pentyl Dication (C5H12 , Isopentane Dication), G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, Dalton Trans. (4), 521-526 (2008).

558. Nafion-H Catalyzed Synthesis of Fluorinated Benzimidazolines, Benzothiazolines, Benzoxazolines and Dihydrobenzoxazinones, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, A. Molnár, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Synthesis, 897-902 (2008).

559. Direct Electrophilic Monofluoromethylation, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Lednecki, S. Chacko and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 10, 557-560 (2008).

- 2- 560. Diethyl Difluoromethylphosphonate: A Source of [CF2H] and [CF2] Moieties, M. Zibinsky, P. Beier and G. K. S. Prakash, Chemistry for Sustainable Development (Russia) 16, 71-75 (2008).

561. Li Ga(OTf)4 as an Electrolyte Salt for Li-Ion Cells, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, P. Yan, M. Smart, R. Bugga, K. Chin, S, Surampudi, NASA Tech Briefs, 32, 64-65 (NPO-41516) (2008).

562. Comparative Study of Protonated Propionaldehyde, Isobutyraldehyde and Pivalaldehyde Cations and their Superelectrophilic Diprotonated Dications by ab initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) method, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Mol. Structure (THEOCHEM). 890, 9-17 (2008).

563. 13C and 15N NMR and ab initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of the Structure of Mono-, Di- and Triprotonated Guanidine, Urea and Thiourea, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Phys. Chem (C). 112, 7895-7899 (2008).

564. Efficient 1, 4-addition of a-substituted fluoro-(phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives to a, b -unsaturated compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, X. Zhao, S. Chacko, F. Wang, H. Vaghoo and G. A. Olah, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 4, 17/1-17/16 (2008).

565. Novel single step electrochemical route for g-MnO2 nanoparticle coated Polyaniline nanofibers: Thermal stability and formic acid oxidation on the resulting nanocomposite, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Suresh, F. Viva and G. A. Olah, J. Power Sources 181, 79-84 (2008).

566. Stereoselective synthesis of fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methyl substituted alkenes using free radical fluoroalkylation, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Ledneczki, S. Chacko, S. Ravi, and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 129, 1036-1040 (2008).

567. Editorial, “2008 ACS Award Issue” For Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry”, Dennis P. Curran”, W. R. Dolbier and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluo. Chem. 129, 896-897 (2008)

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568. Facile Synthesis of Diraylmethylpyridines/Diarylmethylquinolines through Superelectrophilic Activation of Pyridinecarboxaldehydes with Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, S. Chacko, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Heterocycles 76, 783-799 (2008).

569. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of Structures, Energies and 13C NMR + + Chemical Shifts of C4H7 and C5H9 Ions. Relative Stability and Dynamic Aspects of the Cyclopropylcarbinyl vs. Bicyclobutonium Ions. G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 9168-9172 (2008).

570. 1-Oxonia-adamantane, M. Etzkorn, R. Aniszfeld, T. Li, H. Buchholz, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 4555-4558 (2008).

571. Efficient Green Synthesis of α-Aminonitriles, Precursors of α-Amino Acids, G. K. S. Prakash, T. E. Thomas, I. Bychinskaya, A. G. Prakash, C. Panja, H. Vaghoo and G. A. Olah, Green Chem. 10, 1105-1110 (2008).

572. Novel Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Fluoroalkylation Methods, G. K. S. Prakash and S. Chacko, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development, 11(6), 793-802 (2008).

573. Electrolytes containing fluorinated ester co-solvents for low-temperature Li-ion cells, K. A. Smith, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and B. V. Ratnakumar, ECS Transactions, 11(29, Rechargeable Lithium and Lithium Ion Batteries), 91-98 (2008).

574. Nucleophilic difluromethylation and difluoromethylenation of aldehydes and ketones using diethyl difluoromethylphosphonate, P. Beier, A. V. Alexandrova, M. Zibinsky and G. K. S. Prakash, Tetrahedron, 64, 10977- 10985 (2008).

576. Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of Novel Fluorinated Heterocycles Using Trimethylsilyltrifluoromethanesulfonate as a Metal-Free Homogeneous Lewis Acid Catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, C. Do, I. Bychinskaya, H. Vaghoo, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, ACS Symposium Series (A. Gakh and K. Kirk, eds.), 1003 (Fluorinated Heterocycles), 59-83 (2009).

577. Chiral Benzylic Carbocations: Low Temperature NMR-Studies and Theoretical Calculations, D. Stadler. A. Goeppert, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, and T. Bach, J. Org. Chem., 74, 312-318 (2009).

578. Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol and Dimethyl Ether: From to Renewable, Environmentally Carbon Neutral Fuels and Synthetic Hydrocarbons G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert and G. K. S.

94 Prakash, J. Org. Chem. 74, 487-498 (2009).

579. Efficient Nucleophilic Fluoromethylation and Subsequent Transformation of Alkyl and Benzyl Halides Using Fluoro-bis(phenylsulfonyl)methane, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Chacko, H. Vaghoo, N. Shao, L. Gurung, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 11, 1127-1130 (2009).

580. a-Fluoro- a-nitro(phenylsulfonyl)methane as a fluoromethyl pronucleophile: Efficient stereoselective Michael addition to chalcones, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, T. Stewart, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 106, 4090-4094 (2009).

581. An Air/Water-Stable Tridentate N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Palladium (II) Complex: Catalytic C-H Activation of Hydrocarbons vis Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Process in Deuterium Oxide, J. H. Lee, K. S. Yoo, C. P. Park, J. M. Olsen, S. Sakaguchi, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew and K. W. Jung, Adv. Synth. Catal. 351, 563-568 (2009).

582. a,b-Difluoromethylene deoxynucleoside 5’-triphosphates: a convenient synthesis of useful probes for DNA Polmerase b structure and function, T. Upton, B. A. Kashemirov, C. E. McKenna, M. F. Goodman, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Kultyshev, V. Batra, D. D. Shock, L. C. Pederson, W. A. Beard and S. H. Wilson, Org. Lett. 1883-1886 (2009).

583. N-Amino-exo-3,6-epoxy-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropthalimide as an Active Aminoaziridinating Agent, M. Zibinsky, T. Stewart, G. K. S. Prakash and M. A. Kuznetsov, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 3635-3642 (2009).

584. Recent Studies of Persistent Carbodications, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Adv. Phys. Org. Chem. 43, 219-260 (2009).

585. A Persistent alpha-Fluorocarbanion and Its Analogues: Preparation, Characterization, and Computational Study, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, N. Shao, T. Mathew, G. Rasul, R. Haiges, T. Stewart and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 5358-5362 (2009).

586. Poly(4-vinylpyridine) catalyzed hydrolysis of methyl bromide to methanol and Dimethyl ether, G. K. S. Prakash, J. C. Colmenares, P. T. Batamack, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Mol. Catalysis A: Chemical 310, 180-183 (2009).

587. Ab Initio/DFT/GIAO-CCSD(T) Calculational Study of the tert-Butyl Cation. Comparison of Experimental data with Structures, Energetics, IR Vibrational Frequencies and 13C NMR Chemical Shifts Indicating Preferred CS Conformation, G. Rasul, J.Chen, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. (A) 113, 6795-6799 (2009).

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588. Formation of secondary or tertiary aliphatic amines in aqueous media, C. Simion, A. Simion, T. Arimura, A. Miyazawa, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Synth. Commun. 39, 2859-2865 (2009).

589. Lithium-Ion Electrolytes Containing Flame-Retardant Additives for Increased Safety Characteristics, K. A. Smith, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash, and B. V. Ratnakumar, ECS Transactions, 16 (35), 33-41 (2009).

590. Regioselective Synthesis of Phenols and Halophenols from Arylboronic

Acids Using Solid Poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone)/H2O2 and poly(4-

vinylpyridine)/H2O2 Complexe, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Chacko, C. Panja, T. E. Thomas, L. Gurung, G. Rasul, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Adv. Synth. Catal. 351, 1567-1574 (2009).

591. Calculational Study of Fluoroammonium and Related Cations and Dications, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, Chem. Eur. J. 15, 8443-8448 (2009).

592. Gallium (III) triflate catalyzed synthesis of heterocycles: Quinoxalines, 1, 5-benzodiazepines and their fluorinated derivatives, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, A. Venkat, C. Panja, S. Chacko, T. Mathew, and G. A. Olah, Future Medicinal Chemistry, 1 (5), 909-920 (2009).

593. Electrolytes for Low-Temperature Operation of Li-CFx Cells, M. C. Smart, J. F. Whitacre, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Bhalla and K. Smith, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-43587 (2009).

594. Ipso-Amidation of Arylboronic Acids: Xenon Difluoride-Nitriles as Efficient Reagent Systems, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Moran, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 130, 806-809 (2009).

595. Fluoroester Co-Solvents for Low-Temperature Li+ Cells, M. C. Smart, R. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Smith and P. Bhalla, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-444626 (2009).

596. Poly(4-vinylpyridine) catalyzed selective methanolysis of methyl and methylene bromides, G. K. S. Prakash, J. C. Colmaenares, P. T. Batamack, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 6016-6018 (2009).

597. BF3-H2O Catalyzed Hydroxyalkylation of Aromatics with Aromatic Aldehydes and Dicarboxaldehydes: Efficient Synthesis of Triarylmethanes, Diarylmethylbenzaldehydes and Derivatives, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, A. Shakmin, E. Shah, T. Mathew and G A. Olah, J. Org. Chem., 74, 8659-8668 (2009).

96 598. Inoculation Procedures and Characterization of Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Microbial Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, F. A. Viva, O. Bretschger, B. Yang, A. Naggar and K. Nealson, J. Power Sources, 195, 111-117 (2010). 599. Aromatic ipso-Nitration (Highlight), G. K. S. Prakash and T. Mathew, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 1726-1728 (2010). 600. Optimized Li-Ion Electrolytes Containing Fluorinated Ester Solvents, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Smart, K. Smith and R. Bugga, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-45824 (2010). 601. Preparation of Trifluoromethylated Dihydrocoumarins, Indanones and Arylpropanoic Acids by Tandem Superacidic Activation of 2- (Trifluoromethyl)acrylic Acid with Arenes, G. K. S Prakash, F. Paknia, H. Vaghoo, G. Rasul, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 75, 2219- 226 (2010).

602. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Study of the Trimethyl- and Dimethylsilicenium Ions. Structures, 29Si, 13C and 1H NMR Chemical Shifts and IR Spectra, G. Rasul, G. A.Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Chen, J. Phys. Chem. A. 114, 4394-4399 (2010).

603. Sulfuryl and Thionyl Halide- Based Ultralow Temperature Primary Batteries, W. C. West, A. Shevade, J. Soler, J. Kulleck, M. C. Smart, B. V. Ratnakumar, M. Moran, R. Haiges, K. O. Christe and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Electrochem. Soc. 157, A571-A577 (2010).

604. Cyclodehydration of Fluorinated Diols Using the Mitsunobu Reaction: Highly Efficient Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Cyclic Ethers, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Do, F. Wang, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Synthesis, 1891- 1898 (2010).

605. Vicinal Dihalonium Ions: Diprotonated and Dimethylated Chlorine (H2Cl22+, (CH3)2Cl22+) and Bromine (H2Br22+, (CH3)2Br22+) Dications, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107, 6716-6720 (2010).

606. Gallium(III) triflate catalyzed direct reductive amination of aldehydes, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Do, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett. 137, 11-117 (2010).

607. Nucleophilic Perfluoroalkylation of Imines and Carbonyls: Perfluoroalkyl Sulfones as Efficient Perfluoroalkyl Transfer Motifs, G. K. S. Prakash, Y. Wang, R. Mogi, J. Hu, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 2932-2935 (2010).

97 608. Electrocatalysis o f Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Edited by Hansan Liu and Jiujun Zhang, Wiley-VCH, 2009, A Book Review, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 2 (2010). 609. Synthesis of monofluoroalkenes via Julia-Kocienski reaction, G.K. S. Prakash, A. Shakhmin, M. Zibinsky, I. Ledneczki, S. Chacko, and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 131, 1192- 1197 (2010).

610. Microwave assisted Nafion-H catalyzed Friedel-Crafts type reaction of aromatic aldehydes with arenes: synthesis of triarylmethanes, G. Fogassy, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett. 138, 155-159 (2010).

611. Nano Structured Silica as a support for regenerable high capacity organo- amine based CO2 sorbents, A. Goeppert, S. Meth, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah Energy & Environmental Science, 3 (12), 1949-1960 (2010).

612. Gallium Triflate, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Mathew, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, 2010.

613. Sodium Trifluoroacetate, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Mathew, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, in press.

614. Sodium 1,1,1-Trifluoromethanesulfonate, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Mathew, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, in press.

615. Trfluoromethyltriethylsilane, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Wang, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, 2010.

616. Efficient Synthesis of α-(Fluoro/chloro/methoxy)disulfonylmethane Derivatives as Tunable Substituted Methyl Synthons via a New C-S Bond Forming Strategy, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Ni, T. J. Thomas and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 131, 1007-1012 (2010).

617. Synthesis and biological evaluation of fluorinated deoxynucleotide analogs based on bis(difluoromethylene)triphosphoric acid, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Zibinsky, T. G. Upton, B. A. Kashemirov, C. E. McKenna, K. Oertell, M. F. Goodman, V. K. Batra, L. C. Pedersen, W. A. Beard, D.. D. Shock, S. H. Wilson and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107, 15693-15698 (2010).

3+ 4+ 618. Tri- and Tetraprotonated Ethane (C2H9 and C2H10 ) Containing Five and Six Coordinate Carbons, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem., 114, 12124-12127 (2010).

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619. HF Free, Direct Synthesis of Tetrabutylammonium Trifluoroborates, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Perusati and G. A. Olah, Synthesis, 292-302 (2011).

620. Ring Cleavage Reaction of Styrene Oxide in Pure Water, T. Hatta, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Jpn J. Deterium Sci. 13 (1), 3-14 (2011).

621. Study of Structures, Energetics, IR Spectra and 13C and 1H NMR Chemical Shifts of the Conformations of Isopropyl Cation by ab initio Calculations, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and J. Chen, Comp. Theo. Chem., 964, 193-198 (2011).

622. Reduction of carbonyl to methylene: Me2SiHCl-Ga(OTf)3 as an efficient reductant system, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Do, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Catalysis Letters, 141, 507-511 (2011). 623. From Difluoromethyl 2-Pyridyl Sulfone to Difluorinated Sulfonates: A Unique Protocol for Nucleophilic Difluoro(sulfonato)methylation, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Ni, F. Wang, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 2559-2563 (2011).

624. A Novel Domino Approach (Hydrolysis/ Dehydrohalogenation/ Heck Coupling) for the Synthesis of Styrene Sulfonate Salts, G. K. S. Prakash, P. V. Jog, H. S. Krishnan and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 2140- 2143 (2011).

625. α-Halogenation of carbonyl compounds: Halotrimethylsilane-nitrate salt couple as an efficient halogenating reagent system, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Ismail, J. Garcia, C. Panja, G. Rasul, T. Mathew, and G A. Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 52, 1217-1221 (2011).

626. Conformational Study of 9-Dehydro-9-Trifluoromethyl Cinchona Alkaloids via 19F NMR Spectroscopy: Emergence of Trifluoromethyl Moiety as a Conformational Stabilizer and a Probe, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Ni, J. Shen, R. Haiges, A.K. Yudin, T. Mathew, and G. A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 9992-9995 (2011).

627. 13C Solid State NMR Study of SEI Formation on Lithium Ion Battery Carbon Anodes Cycled in Isotopically Enriched Electrolytes Suggest Unusual Breakdown Products, N. Leifer, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gonzalez, L. Sanchez, C. P. Grey, and P. Bhalla, S. G. Greenbaum, J. Electrochem. Soc. 158, A471- A478 (2011). 628. Optimized Li-Ion Electrolytes Containing Triphenyl Phosphate as a Flame-Retardant Additive, M.C. Smart and R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash and F. C. Krause NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-47645 (2011).

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629. Synthesis of gem-Difluorinated Cyclopropanes and Cyclopropenes Using TMS-CF3 as a Source, F. Wang, T. Luo, J. Hu, Y. Wang, H. S. Krishnan, P. V. Jog, S. K. Ganesh, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 7153-7157 (2011).

630. Study of operating conditions and cell design on the performance of alkaline exchange membrane based direct methanol fuel cells, G. K. S. Prakash, F. C. Krause, F. A. Viva, S. R. Narayanan, and G. A. Olah, J. Power Sources, 196, 7967-7972 (2011).

631. A new route to α-alkyl-α-fluoromethylenebisphosphonates, P. Beier, S. Opekar, M. Zibinsky, I. Bychinskaya and G. K. S. Prakash, Org. Biomol. Chem. 9, 4035-4038 (2011).

632. “Recharging” Group Electronegativities: A Simple Computational Method for Experimental and Chemical Educators, M. D. Moran, J-P Jones A. A. Wilson, S. Houle, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and N. Vasdev, Chemical Educator, 16, 164-167 (2011).

633. Fluoroanalogs of DDT: Superacidic BF3-H2O Catlyzed Facile Synthesis of Trifluoro-2,2-dirylethanes and 1,2-Difluoro-2,2-diarylethanes, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, T. Mathew, G. Mloston, J. Joscheck and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 13, 4128-4131 (2011).

634. Tetrabutylammonium Bifluoride, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Pertusati, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, 2011.

635. 1,1,1-Trfluoroacetone, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Wang, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, 2011.

636. N,N-Dimethyl-S-difluoromethyl-S-phenylsulfoximinium Tetrafluoroborate: A Versatile Electrophilic Difluoromethylating Reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, C. Ni, and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 132, 792-798 (2011).

637. Anthropogenic chemical carbon cycle for a sustainable future, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Goeppert, J. Am. Chem. Soc (A Perspective Article), 133, 12881-12898 (2011).

638. Hydrogen Generation from Formic Acid Decomposition by Ruthenium Carbonyl Complexes. Dodecacarbonyl-Ruthenium- Tetrahydride as an Active Intermediate,

100 M. Czaun, A.Goeppert, R. May, R. Haiges, G. K. S. Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Chem. Sus. Chem. 4, 1241-1248 (2011).

639. Synthesis and Application of Platinum Nanoparticles-Coated Polystyrene Nanosphere Catalysts in Enantioselective Hydrogenation, B. Török, A. Kulkarni, R. De Sousa, K. Satuluri, M. Török and G. K. S. Prakash, Catalysis Letters, 141, 1435-1441 (2011).

640. Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and A. Goeppert, ECS Transactions, 35 (11), 31-40 (2011).

641. The Evaluation of Triphenyl Phosphate as a Flame Retardant Additive to Improve the Safety of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, C. Hwang, W. C. West, J. Soler, G. K. S. Prakash, and B. V. Ratnakumar, ECS Transactions, 35(13), 1-11 (2011).

3 642. On the Nature of C-H…F-C Interactions in Hindered CF3-C(sp ) Bond Rotations, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, M. Rahm, J. Shen, C. Ni, R. Haiges and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50, 11761-11764 (2011).

643. Comparative Study of the Hypercoordinate Carbonium Ions and their Boron Analogs; A Challenge for Spectroscopists, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chem. Phys. Lett. 517, 1-8 (2011).

644. Carbon Dioxide Capture from the Air Using a Polyamine Based Regenerable Solid Adsorbent, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, R. May, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and S. R. Narayanan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 20164- 20167 (2011).

645. Anhydrous Proton-Conducting Membrane Based on Poly-2- Vinylpyridinium Dihydrogen Phosphate for Electrochemical Applications, B. Yang, A. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R Naryanan and W. Chen, J. Phys. Chem. 115, 14462- 14468 (2011).

646. Gallium(III) Triflate: An Efficient Lewis Acid Catalyst for Organic Synthetic Transformations, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Acc. Chem. Res. 45, 565-577 (2012).

647. Facile Synthesis of α-Monofluoromethyl Alcohols: Nucleophilic Monofluoromethylation of Aldehydes Using TMSCF(SO2Ph)2, G. K. S. Prakash, N. Shao, Z. Zhang†, C. Ni, F. Wang, R. Haiges and G. A. Olah. J. Fluo. Chem. 133, 27-32 (2012).

2+ 648. C7H12 : A Prototype Hexacoordinate Carbonium Ion, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Phys. Chem. 116, 756-760 (2012).

101 649. Thermocontrolled Benzylimine-Benzaldimine Rearrangement over Nafion-H Catalysts for Efficient Entry into a- Trifluoromethylbenzylamines, G. K. S. Prakash, K. E. Glinton, C. Panja, L. Gurung, P. T. Batamack, B. Török, T. Mathew, and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 53, 607-611 (2012).

650. A Domino Approach of Heck Coupling for the Synthesis of b- Trifluoromethyl-styrenes, G. K. S. Prakash, H. S. Krishnan, P. V. Jog, A. P. Iyer and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 1146-1149 (2012).

651. Materials Challenges for Realizing Inexpensive and Robust Iron-Air Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage, S. R. Narayanan, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Manohar, B. Yang, S. Malkhandi and A. Kindler, Solid State Ionics, 216, 105-109 (2012).

652. Electrocatalytic Properties of Nano-crystalline Calcium-Doped Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide for Bi-functional Oxygen Electrodes, S. Malkhand, B. Yang, A. Manohar, A. Manivannan, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Naryanan, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3(8), 967-972 (2012).

653. Fluorishing Frontiers in Organofluorine Chemistry, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Wang, in Organic Chemistry- Breakthroughs and Perspectives, First Edition, K. Ding and L-X. Dai, EDs. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KgaA, 2012, Ch. 12, 413-476.

654. Octahydriodo Diborane (B2H8) and its Protonated Cations Containing Five, Six and Seven Coordinate Boron Atoms, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Rasul, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 109, 6825-6828 (2012).

655. Condensation of 2-Naphthol and Naphthalenediols with o- Dichlorobenzene in the presence of Aluminum Halides, K. Kotunov, A. N. Chernov, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chem. & Pharm. Bull. 60, 722-727 (2012).

656. Tetraflic Acid (1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethanesulfonic Acid, HC2F4SO3H) and Gallium Tetraflate as Effective Catalysts in Organic Synthesis, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, A. Kulkarni, G. A. Olah and M. Harmer, Adv. Synth. Catal. 354 (11-12), 2163-2171 (2012).

657. Air as the renewable carbon source of the future: An overview of CO2 capture from the atmosphere, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Energy and Environmental Sciences, 5, 7833-7853 (2012).

102 658. Silica Nanoparticles as Support for Regenerable CO2 Sorbents, S. Meth, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Energy & Fuels, 26(5), 3082-3090 (2012).

659. A High-Performance Rechargeable Iron Electrode For for Large-Scale Battery-Based Energy Storage, A. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, C. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Naryanan, J. Electrochem. Soc. 159, A1209- A1214 (2012).

660. Enantioselective Synthesis of a-Stereogenic g-Keto Esters via Formal Umpolung” “G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, Z. Zhang, C. Ni and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 14, 3260-3263 (2012).

661. Efficient Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Dihydrochalcones, Aryl Vinyl Ketones and Indanones by Superelectrophilic Activation of 4,4,4- Trifluro/3-(Trifluoromethyl)Crotonic Acids, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, A. Narayanan, G. Rasul, T. Mathew, and G. A. Olah, J. Fluo. Chem. 143, 292-302 (2012).

662. Preparation of Silicon- and Sulfur-Based Fluorinated Methane Derivatives as Versatile Fluoromethylation Reagents, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Wang, in Efficient Preparation of , First Edition, H. W. Roesky, Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hobeken, 2012, NJ, Ch. 27.

663. Nitriles to Amides: Nafion-Ru, a Novel Sustainable Catalyst for Selective Hydration, G. K. S. Prakash, S. B. Munoz, A. Papp, K. Masood, I. Bychinskaya, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Asian. J. Org. Chem. 1, 146-149 (2012).

664. Fluorine: a driving force-the new kingpin of drug discovery, G. K. S. Prakash and F. Wang, Chimica OGGI. 30(5), 30-36 (2012).

665. Difluoromethylation of Aryl (Heteroaryl) Iodides and b-Styrenyl Halides using Copper Mediated Tributyl(difluoromethyl)stannane, G. K. S. Prakash, S. K. Ganesh, J-P. Jones, A. Kulkarni, K. Masood, J. K. Swabeck and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, 12090-12094 (2012).

666. Understanding the factors affecting formation of Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Batteries, A. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, C. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, J. Electrochem. Soc. 159 (12), A2148- A2155 (2012).

667. Taming of Fluoroform: Direct Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of Si, B, S and C Centers, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Jog, P. Batamack and G. A. Olah, Science, 338, 1324-1327 (2012).

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668. Preparation of α-Fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane (FBSM), G. K. S. Prakash, N. Shao, F. Wang and C. Ni, Org. Syn. 90, 130-144 (2013).

® 669. Electrochemical reduction of CO2 over Sn-Nafion coated electrode for a fuel-cell-like device, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Viva and G. A. Olah, J. Power Sources, 223(1), 68-73 (2013).

670. Comparative Study of Alkane Dications (Protonated Alkyl Cations, 2+ CnH2n+2 ) and their Boron Cation Analogs, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 78, 1747-1752 (2013).

671. Understanding the “Formation” Process of Carbonyl Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Rechargeable Batteries, A. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 347- 353 (2013).

672. Friedel-Crafts Reactions, V. P. Reddy and G. K. S. Prakash, Kirk Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, 49 pages (2013).

673. Bi-reforming of methane from any source with steam and carbon dioxide exclusively to metgas (CO-2H2) for methanol and hydrocarbon synthesis, G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 648- 650 (2013).

674. Nafion-Fe: A New Efficient “Green” Lewis Acid Catalyst for the Ketonic Strecker Reaction, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Bychinskaya, E. R. Marinez, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett. 143, 303-312 (2013).

675. Direct Synthesis of Diverse β-Fluoroethylamines by a New Multicomponent Protocol, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, P. V. Jog, S. Tanaka, T. E. Thomas, N. Ganesh, R.Haiges, T. Mathew, and G. A. Olah, Chem. Eur. J. 19, 3579-3583 (2013).

676. Two Stage Synthesis of 3-(Perfluoroalkyl)-substituted Vinyldiazocarbonyl Compounds and Their Non-fluorinated Counterparts. A Comparitive Study, M. B. Supurgibekov, G. K. S. Prakash and V. A. Nikolaev, Synthesis, 1215-1226 (2013).

677. Carbon dioxide recycling to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products for a sustainable future, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Actualite Chimique, 371-372, 78-83 (2013).

678. Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of Carbonyl Compounds: Trifluoro- acetaldehyde Hydrate as a Trifluoromethyl Source, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, S. Munoz and G. A. Olah, J. Org. Chem. 78, 3300-3305

104 (2013). 679. Li-Ion Electrolytes with Improved Safety and Tolerence to High Voltage Systems, M. C. Smart, R. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash and F. C. Krause, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-47980 (2013). 680. Organoamines-Grafted on Nano-Sized Silica for Carbon Dioxide Capture, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. B. May, D. Petier, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A.

Olah, J. CO2 Utilization, 1, 1-7 (2013).

681. Computational study of the fluoro- and chlorodimethylbutyl cations, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 110, 8427-8430 (2013).

682. Electrocatalytic Activity of Transition metal Oxide-Carbon Composites for Oxygen Reduction in Alkaline Batteries and Fuel Cells, S. Malkahandi, P. Trinh, A. K. Manohar, K. C. Jayachandrababu, A. Kindler, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, J. Electrochem. Soc. 160, F943-F952 (2013).

683. Ab Initio/GIAO–CCSD(T) Calculated 13C-11B NMR Chemical Shift Relationships in Isoelectronic Hypercoordinate Carbonium and Boronium as well as Carbenium and Borenium Ions, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A., 117, 4664-4668 (2013).

684. Self-Sufficient and Exclusive Oxygenation of Methane and Its Source Materials with Oxygen to Methanol via Metgas Using Oxidative Bi- reforming, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, A.Goeppert, M. Czaun and T. Mathew, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 10030-10031 (2013).

685. 2,2,2-Trifluoro-1-methoxyethanol, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang and F. Wang, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, 2013.

686. Synthesis of Perimidine and 1,5-Benzodiazepine Derivatives Using Tamed Acid, BF3-H2O, G. K. S Prakash, F. Paknia, A. Narayan, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Fluorine Chem. 152, 99-105 (2013).

687. Difluoro(sulfinato)methylation of N-Sulfinyl Imines Facilitated by 2- Pyridyl Sulfone: Stereoselective Synthesis of Difluorinated β-Amino Sulfonic Acids and Peptidosulfonamides, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Ni, F. Wang, Z. Zhang, R. Haiges, G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 10835-10839 (2013).

688. Enhancing the Performance of the Rechargeable Iron Electrode in Alkaline Batteries with Bismuth Oxide and Iron Sulfide Additives, S. Narayan, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Electrochem. Soc. 160, A2078-A2084 (2013).

105

689. Fluoroform (CF3H): An Industrial Waste or a Useful Raw Material? P. Jog and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Postdoctoral. Res. 1(9), 1-13 (2013).

690. Electrolytes with improved safety developed for high specific energy Li- ion cells with Si-based anodes, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, C. Hwabg, J. Soler, W. C. West, R. Bugga and G. K. S. Prakash, ECS Transactions, 50 (26), 365-374 (2013).

691. CO2 capture and recycling to fuels and materials: towards a sustainable future, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, in An Introduction to Green Chemistry Methods, R. Luque and J. C. Colmenares (Eds.), E-Book, Future Science, London, Ch 9, pp 133-147, 2013.

692. Thermolysis of trifluoromethyl-containing vinyldiazocarbonyl compounds and X-ray crystal structure analysis of unexpected reaction products, V. A. Nikolaev, M. B. Supurgibekov, R. Haiges, A. Linden and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluorine Chem. 156, 322-326 (2013).

693. Preparation of Tetrabutylammonium (4-fluorophenyl)trifluoroborate, F. Pertusati, P. V. Jog and G. K. S. Prakash, Org. Syn. 90, 261-270 (2013).

694. Stereoselective Synthesis of Fluoroalkenoates and Fluorinated Isoxazolidinones: N-Substituents Governing the Dual Reactivity of Nitrones, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, M. Rahm, C. Ni, M. Iuliucci, R. Haiges, G. A. Olah, Chem. Eur. J. 20, 831-838 (2014).

695. N-Difluoromethylation of Imidazoles and Benzimidazoles Using the Ruppert-Prakash Reagent under Neutral Conditions, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Krishnamoorthy, S. K. Ganesh, A. Kulkarni and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 16, 54-57 (2014).

696. Effect of Configuration of 2-Vinyldiazocarbonyl Compounds on Their Reactivity: Experimental and Computational Study, Murat B. Supurgibekov, D. Cantillo, C. O. Kappe, G. K. S. Prakash and V. A. Nikolaev, Org. Biomol Chem. 12, 682-689 (2014).

697. Li-Ion Electrolytes Containing Flame-Retardent Additives, M. C. Smart, K. A. Smith, R. V. Bugga and G. K. S. Prakash, NASA Tech Briefs, 38, 44 (NPO-46262) (2014).

698. Easily Regenerable Solid Adsorbents Based on Polyamines for CO2 Capture from the Air, A. Goeppert, Z. Zhang, M. Czaun, R. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Chem. Sus. Chem, 7, 1386-1397 (2014).

106 699. Formic acid as a hydrogen storage medium: Ruthenium-catalyzed generation of hydrogen from formic acid in emulsions, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, J. Kothandaraman, R. May, R. Haiges, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, ACS. Catal. 4, 311-320 (2014).

700. Chiral Propargylic Cations as Intermediates in SN1-type Reactions: Substitution Pattern, NMR Studies and Origin of the Diastereoselectivity, D. Nitsch, S. Huber, A. Pöthig, A. Narayanan, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and T. Bach, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 2851-2857 (2014).

701. Ipso-Nitrosation of Arylboronic Acids with Chlorotrimethylsilane and Sodium Nitrite, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, P. C Schmid, F. Wang, T. E Thomas, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G.A Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 55, 1975- 1978 (2014).

702. CO2 capture on easily regenerable hybrid adsorbents based on polyamines and mesocellular silica foam. Effect of pore volume of the support and polyamine molecular weight, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, RSC Advances, 4(37), 19403-19417 (2014).

703. Adsorption of Organo-Sulfur Molecules Enable Iron-Based Battery Electrodes to Meet the Challenges of Large-Scale Electrical Energy Storage, B. Yang, S. Malkhandi, A. Manohar, Aswin, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Energy and Environmental Sci. 7, 2753-2763 (2014).

704. Recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol and derived products – Closing the loop, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, J-P. Jones, G. K. S. Prakash, and G.A. Olah, Chem. Soc. Rev. 43 (23), 7995 – 8048 (2014).

705. Green Oxidants: PVP-H2O2 and PVD-H2O2 as Solid H2O2 Equivalents for Selective Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides and Ketones to gem- Dihydroperoxides, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Shakhmin, K. E. Glinton, S. Rao, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Green Chem. 16, 3616-3622 (2014).

706. Efficient synthesis of fluorescent-PET probes based on [18F]bodipy dye, S. Li, .Dan Li, Z. Zhang, G. K S. Prakash, P. S. Conti, and Z. Li, Chem. Commun. 50, 7371-7373 (2014). 707. Trifluoroacetaldehyde Hydrate, G. K. S. Prakash and Z. Zhang, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, October 20, 2014.

708. An Inexpensive Aqueous Flow Battery for Large-Scale Electrical Energy Storage Based on Water-Soluble Organic Redox Couples, L. Hoober, B. Yang, F. Wang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Naryanan, J. Electrochem. Soc. 161(9), A1371-A1380 (2014).

107 709. Guest Editorial, Special Issue: Natural Gas and Related C1 Chemistry, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Isr. J. Chem. 54, 1412 (2014).

710. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction, Recent Advances and Current Trends, J- P. Jones, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Isr. J. Chem. 54, 1451-1466 (2014).

711. The Trifluoromethyl Group as a Conformational Stabilizer and Probe: Conformational Analysis of Cinchona Alkaloid Scaffolds, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, M. Rahm, Z. Zhang, C. Ni, J. Shen, G A. Olah, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 10418-10431 (2014).

712. The Long-Lived Trifluoromethanide Anion: A Key Intermediate in Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations (VIP article), G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, Z. Zhang, R. Haiges, M. Rahm, K. O. Christe, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 11575- 11578 (2014).

713. Preparation of fluorinated RNA nucleotide analogs potentially stable to enzymatic hydrolysis in RNA and DNA polymerase assays, A. Shakhmin, J-P. Jones, I. Bychinskaya, M. Zibinsky, K. Oertell, M. F. Goodman, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluorine Chem. 167, 226-230 (2014).

714. Synthesis of Dihydropyrimidinones/thiopyrimidinones: Nafion-Ga, an Efficient “Green” Lewis Acid Catalyst for the Biginelli Reaction, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Lau, C. Panja, I. Bychinskaya, S. K. Ganesh, B. Zaro, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Catal. Lett. 144 (12), 2012-2020 (2014).

715. Taming of Superacids: PVP-Triflic Acid as an Effective Solid Triflic Acid Equivalent for Friedel-Crafts Hydroxyalkylation and Acylation, by G. K. Prakash, F. Paknia, A. Kulkarni, A. Narayanan, F. Wang, G. Rasul, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, J. Fluorine Chem. 171, 102- 112 (2015).

716. Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorodintramine, FN(NO2)2, K. O. Christe, W. W. Wilson, G. Bélanger-Chabot, R. Haiges, J. A. Boatz, M. Raham, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Saal, and M. Hopfinger, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 1316-1320 (2015).

717. Paul von Ragué Schleyer (1930-2014), Obituary, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 2322-2323 (2015).

718. Ruthenium Pincer Complex-Catalyzed “Amine-free without pH or Solvent Change” Reversible Hydrogen Storage in Formate Salts, J. Kothandaraman, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. Haiges, J-P. Jones, R. B. May, G. K. S, Prakash, and G. A. Olah, Chem. Sus. Chem. 8, 1442-1451 (2015).

108 719. Lewis Acid Catalyzed Condensation-Cyclization Cascade: Direct Synthesis of Di/trifluoromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinazolines, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Papp, S. B. Munoz, N. May, J-P Jones, R. Haiges, P. M. Esteves, and T. Mathew, Chem. Eur. J. 21(28), 10170-10178 (2015).

720. Single Step Bi-reforming and Oxidative Bi-reforming of Methane (Natural Gas) with Steam and Carbon Dioxide to Metgas (CO-2H2) for Methanol Synthesis. Self-Sufficient Exclusive Oxygenation of Methane to Methanol with Oxygen, G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, T. Matthew, R. B. May and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 8720-8729 (2015).

721. Poly(4-vinylpyridine)-Nitrating Mixture Complex (PVP-NM): Solid Nitrating Mixture Equivalent for Safe and Efficient Aromatic Nitration, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, K. E. Glinton, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Green Chem. 17, 34446-3451 (2015). 722. MP2, CCSD(T) and DFT Study of the 2-Butyl Cation: New Insight into the Methyl- and Hydrogen-Bridged Structures, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, J. Phys. Chem. A. 199, 5762-5769 (2015).

723. Design Insights for Tuning the Electrocatalytic Activity of Perovskite Oxides For the Oxygen Evolution Reaction, S. Malkhandi, P. Trinh, A. Manohar, A. Manivannan, M. Balasubramanian, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayan, J. Phys. Chem. C. 119, 8004-8013 (2015).

724. Applicability of linear polyethylenimine supported on nano-silica for the adsorption of CO2 from various sources including the air, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, RSC Advances, 5, 52550-52562 (2015).

725. Tributyl(difluoromethyl)stannane, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Krishnamoorthy and S. K. Ganesh, Electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eEROS), John Wiley and Sons, September 20, 2015.

726. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) Investigation of 11B - 13C NMR Chemical Shift Relationships in Trifluoro- and Trihydridoborate Anions and their Isoelectronic Neutral Alkane Derivatives, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and G. Rasul, J. Organomet. Chem. 798, 229-233 (2015).

727. Direct S-Difluoromethylation of Thiols Using the Ruppert-Prakash Reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Krishnamoorthy, S. Kar and G. A. Olah, J. Fluorine Chem. 180, 186-191 (2015).

728. Development of -Containing Pyrazolopyrimidines to Overcome Drug Resistance of Bcr-Abl Kinase, X. Liu, A. Kung, B. Malinoski, G. K. S. Prakash and C. Zhang, J. Med. Chem. 58(23), 9228-9237 (2015).

109 729. Superelectrophilic Activation of Crotonic/Methacrylic Acids: Direct Access to Thiochroman-4-ones from Benzenethiols by Microwave- assisted One-pot Alkylation-cycli-acylation, H. Vaghoo, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Narayanan, R. Choudhary, F. Paknia, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Org. Lett. 17, 6170-6173 (2015).

730. Ab Initio/GIAO-CCSD(T) 13C NMR Study of the Rearrangement and

+ Dynamic Aspects of Rapidly Equilibrating Tertiary Carbocations, C6H13

+ and C7H15 by G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Comp. Chem. 37, 70-77 (2016).

731. Diazo-strategy for the synthesis of pyridazines: pivotal impact of diazoprecursor configuration on the process, V. A. Nikolaev, D. Cantillo, C. O. Kappe, J. J. Medvedev, G. K. S. Prakash and M. A. Supurgibekov, Chem. Eur. J. 22, 174-184 (2016).

732. Electrophilic Amination of Aromatics with Sodium Azide in BF3-H2O, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, E. R. Marinez, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Tetrahedron Lett. 57, 288-191 (2016).

733. Synthesis of 3-substituted isoindolin-1-ones via a tandem desilylation, cross-coupling, hydroamidation sequence under aqueous phase-transfer conditions, S. B. Munoz, A. N. Aloia, A. K. Moore, A. Papp, T. Mathew, S. Fustero, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Org. Biomol. Chem. 14, 85- 92 (2016).

734. Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst, J. Kothandaraman, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 778-781 (2016).

735. Chemical aspects of astrophysically observed extraterrestrial methanol, hydrocarbon derivatives and ions, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 1717-1722 (2016).

736. Synthesis of Chiral Trifluoromethyl Benzylamines by Heterogeneous Catalytic Reductive Amination. S. Dasgupta, E. Morzhina, C. Schäfer, S. C. Mhadgut, G. K. S. Prakash, B. Török, Topics in Catalysis, 59, 1207- 1213 (2016).

737. New Nucleophilic Fluoroalkylations in “Modern Synthesis Processes and Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds: Progress in Fluorine Science (H. Groult, F. Leroux, and A. Tressaud, Editors)”, G. K. S. Prakash and Z. Zhang, Elsevier, in 2016.

110 738. Relevance and significance of extraterrestrial abiological hydrocarbon chemistry, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 6905-6911 (2016).

739. High-Performance Aqueous Organic Flow Battery with Quinone-Based Redox Couples at Both Electrodes, L. Hoober, S. Krishnamoorthy, A. Murali, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayan, J. Electrochemical Soc. 163(7), A1442-A1449 (2016).

740. CO2 Capture by Amines in Aqueous Media and its Subsequent Conversion to Formate with Reusable Ruthenium and Iron Catalysts, J. Kothandaraman, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Green Chem., 18, 5831-5838 (2016).

741. On the Nucleophilicity of Persistent α-Monofluoromethide Anions, Z. Zhang, Á. Puente, F. Wang, M. Rahm, Y Mei, H. Mayr and G. K. S.Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55, 12845-12849 (2016).

742. Direct Difluoromethylenation of Carbonyl Compounds Using TMSCF3: The Right Conditions, S. Krishnamoorthy, J. Kothandaraman, J. Saldana and G. K. S. Prakash, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 4965-4969 (2016).

743. Iridium-Catalyzed Continuous Hydrogen Generation from Formic Acid and its Subsequent Utilization in a Fuel Cell: Towards a Carbon Neutral Chemical Energy Storage, M. Czaun, J. Kothandaraman, A. Goeppert, Bo Yang, S. Greenberg, R. B. May, G. A. Olah, and G. K. S. Prakash, ACS Catal. 6, 7475-7484 (2016).

744. Cyclopentyl, Cyclohexyl and Cycloheptyl Cations: Computational Studies of the Structures, Stability, 13C NMR Chemical Shifts and Possible Rearrangement Pathways, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, Structural Chemistry, 28, 317-326 (2017).

745. Direct Synthesis of 2-/3-(Trifluoromethyl)thiochroman-4-ones: Superacid- Induced Tandem Alkylation-Cyclic Acylation of Benzenethiols Using 2-/3- (Trifluoromethyl)acrylic acid, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Narayanan,. A. Nirmalchandar. H. Vaghoo, F. Paknia, T. Mathew, and G A. Olah, J. Fluorine Chem. 196, 63-66 (2017).

746. Chemical Formation of Methanol and Hydrocarbon (“Organic’) Derivatives from CO2 and H2- Carbon Sources for Subsequent Biological Cell Evolution and Life’s Origin, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 566-570 (2017).

747. A New Michael-Reaction-Resistant Benzoquinone for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery, S. Narayan, L. Hoober-Burkhardt, S.

111 Krishnamoorthy, B. Yang, A. Murali, A. Nirmalchandar, and G.K. S. Prakash, J. Electrochemical Soc. 164(4), A600- A607 (2017).

748. Efficient Reversible Hydrogen Carrier System Based on Amine Reforming of Methanol, K. Kothandaraman, S. Kar, R. Sen, A. Goeppert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 2549-2552 (2017).

749. Benzodiazines: Recent Synthetic Advances, T. Mathew, A. Papp, F. Paknia, S. Fustero and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Soc. Rev. 46, 3006-3059 (2017).

750. Remarkable effect of moisture on the CO2 adsorption of nano-silica supported linear and branched polyethylenimine, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. CO2 Utilization, 19, 91-99 (2017).

751. Selective Late-Stage Hydrodefluorination of Trifluoromethylarenes: A Facile Access to Difluoromethylarenes, S. B. Munoz, C. Ni, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, N. Shao, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2322-2326 (2017).

752. Effect of the Thickness of the Anode Electrode Catalyst Layers in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, D. E. Glass, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Power Sources, 352, 165-173 (2017).

753. George A. Olah (1927-2017), Obtituary, G. K. S. Prakash, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 5660-5661 (2017).

754. Personal News, George Andrew Olah (1927-2017), Current Science, 112, 2144-2145 (2017).

755. Towards a Sustainable Carbon Cycle: The Methanol Economy, A. Goeppert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, in Green Chemistry, B. Torok and T. Dransfield (Eds.), Elsevier Inc., Ch. 3.26, pages 919-962 (2018).

756. Characterization of Pt supported on commercial fluorinated carbon as cathode catalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell, F. Viva, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 42, 15054-15063 (2017).

757. Silicon Based Reagents for Difluoromethylation and Difluoromethylenation Reactions, S. Krishnamoorthy and G. K. S. Prakash, Synthesis, 49, 3357-3365 (2017).

758. Chloro/Bromotrimethylsilane-Nitrate Salt: Safe and Efficient Reagent System for the Decarboxylative ipso-Nitration and Dibromination of

112 Cinnamic Acids, S. Roshandel, G. Laxman, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Tetrahedron Lett. 58, 2842-2845 (2017).

759. Manganese-Catalyzed Sequential Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol via Formamide, S. Kar, A. Goeppert, J. Kothandaraman and G. K. S. Prakash, ACS Catalysis, 7, 6347-6351 (2017).

760. Fluorodecarboxylation: Synthesis of Aryl trifluoromethyl ethers (ArOCF3) and thioethers (ArSCF3), S. Krishnamoorthy, S. D. Schnell, H. Dang, F. Fu and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluorine Chem. 203, 130-135 (2017).

761. Crystal Chemistry and Redox Properties of Iron Muscovite Clay, S. Zhou, E. Howard, J. Liu, K. Nolan, S. Krishnamoorthy, G. Rangel, M-T. Sougrati, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Page, B. Melot, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9, 34024-34032 (2017).

762. The Effect of Annealing Temperature on Nickel on Reduced Graphene Oxide Catalysts on Urea Electrooxidation, D. Glass, V. Galvan and G. K. S. Prakash, Electrochimica Acta, 253, 489-497 (2017).

763. One Pot Conversion of Methane to Light Olefins or Higher Olefins through H-SAPO-34-Catalyzed in situ Halogenation, P. T. D. Batamack, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 18078-18083 (2017).

764. George Andrew Olah, Across Conventional Lines, R. Malhotra, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Resonance, 22, 1111-1153 (2017).

765. Computational Study of Hydrido Boronium Dications and Comparison with the Isoelectronic Carbon Analogs, G. Rasul, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, A, ARKIVOC, Part ii, 9-13 (2018).

2+ 3+ 766. Octa- and Nonahydrido Siliconium Di- and Trication (SiH8 and SiH9 ) Containing Eight and Nine Coordinate Silicon Atoms, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, ARKIVOC, Part ii, 90-96 (2018).

767. Advances in catalytic homogeneous hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol, S. Kar, J. Kothandaraman, A. Goeppert and G. K. S. Prakash, J. CO2 Utilization, 23, 212-218 (2018).

768. Ab initio structural studies of cyclobutylmethyl cations: effect of fluoroalkyl groups on the relative stability of the carbocations, V. P. Reddy, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, ARKIVOC, Part ii, 233-240 (2018).

113 769. Effects of Rigidity on the selectivity of protein kinase inhibitors, A. Assadieskandar, C. Yu, P. Maisonnevue, X. Liu, Y-C. Chen, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Kurinov, F. Sicheri and C. Zhang, Eur. J. Med. Chem. 146, 519-528, (2018).

770. Integrative CO2 Capture and Hydrogenation to Methanol with Reusable Catalyst and Amine: Toward a Carbon Neutral Methanol Economy, S. Kar, R. Sen, A. Goeppert and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 1580-1583 (2018).

771. Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Aromatic Aldehydes Using Trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)silane (TMSCF3), S. Krishnamoorthy, S. Kar, J. Kothandaraman and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Fluorine Chem. 208, 10-14 (2018).

772. Direct Difluorination-Hydroxylation, Trifluorination and C(sp2)–H Fluorination of Enamides, S. B. Munoz, V. Krishnamurti, P. Barrio, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Org. Lett. 20, 1042-1045 (2018).

773. Molecular Structure and Crystal Packing of Monofluoromethoxyarenes, P. Hebeisen, U. Weiss, A. Alker, B. Kuhn, K. Müller, F. Wang, G. K. S. Prakash, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 27-28, 3724-3734 (2018)

774. Potassium tert-Butoxide–Benzophenone (First Update), T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Encyclopedia of Organic Synthesis, Wiley, in press.

775. Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis for Low Temperature Methanol Reforming in the Context of the Methanol Economy, J. Kothandaraman, S. Kar, A. Goeppert, R. Sen and G. K. S. Prakash, Top. Cat. 61(7-8), 542- 559 (2018).

776. Superelectrophilic Activation of Phenylglyoxamides: Efficient Synthesis of Triarylacetamides and Fluorenecarboxamides by Superacid Catalysis, A. Narayanan, A. Nirmalchandar, F. Paknia, G. Rasul, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Top. Cat. 61(7-8), 652-663 (2018).

777. Effect of pH on the Reduction of Graphene Oxide on its Structure and Oxygen Reduction Capabilities in the Alkaline Media, D. E. Glass and G. K. S. Prakash, Electroanalysis, 9, 1938-1945 (2018).

778. Ab Initio/GIAO-MP2 13C NMR and Structural Studies of the Trifluoromethylcyclopentyl Carbocations, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash and G. Rasul, J. Fluorine. Chem., 210, 83-87 (2018).

779. Understanding and Mitigating Capacity Fade in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries, A Murali, A. Nirmalchandar, S. Krishnamoorthy, L.

114 Hoober- Burkhardt, B. Yang, G. Soloveichik, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan. J. Electrochemical. Soc. 165(7), A1193-A1203 (2018).

780. Difference and Significance of Regenerative vs Renewable Carbon Fuels and Products, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, A. Goeppert and G. K. S. Prakash, Top. Cat. 61(7-8), 522-529 (2018).

781. Base-metal-catalyzed regioselective deuteration of alcohols with D2O, S. Kar, A. Goeppert, R. Sen, J. Kothandaraman, and G. K. S. Prakash, Green Chem. 20, 2706- 2710 (2018).

782. Structural parameters to consider in selecting silica supports for polyethylenimine based CO2 solid adsorbents. Importance of pore size, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, S. Kar, G. K. S. Prakash, J. CO2 Utilization, 26, 246-253 (2018).

783. Editorial Preface, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Aniszfeld, Top. Cat. 61(7-8), 519-521 (2018).

784. Catalyst and Solvent Free Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles, S. Roshandel, S. C. Suri, J. Marcischak, G. Rasul and G. K. S. Prakash, Green Chem. 20, 3700-3704 (2018).

785. Synthetic Advances in Nucleophilic and Related Tri- and Difluoromethylation Protocols, S. Munoz, S. Krishnamoorthy, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, A chapter in, Frontiers of Organofluorine Chemistry, I. Ojima, Editor, World Scientic, Singapore, in press.

2 786. C(sp )-H trifluoromethylation of enamides using TMSCF3: access to trifluoromethylated isoindolinones, isoquinolinones, 2-pyridinones and other heterocycles, V. Krishnamurti, S. Munoz, X. Ispizua-Rodriguez, J. Vickerman and G. K. S. Prakash, Chem. Commun. 54, 10574-10577 (2018).

787. Effect of the Thickness of the Cathode Electrode Catalyst Layers on the Performance in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, D. E. Glass and G. K. S. Prakash, Electroanalysis, submitted.

788. A Carbon neutral CO2 capture, conversion, and utilization cycle with low temperature regeneration of sodium hydroxide S. Kar, A. Goeppert, V. Galvan, R. Chowdhury, J. Olah, and G. K. S. Prakash, J. Am. Chem. Soc. submitted.

PATENTS (US and International)

1. Superacid Catalyzed Hydrocracking of Heavy Oils and Bitumens, O. P. Strausz, T. W. Mojelsky, J. D. Payzant, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash,

115 U.S. Patent, US 5,290,428, March 1, 1994.

2. Aqueous Liquid Feed Organic Fuel Cells Using Solid Polymer Electrolyte Membrane, S. Surumpudi, S. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 5,599,638, February 4, 1997.

3. Recycling of Carbon Dioxide into Methyl Alcohol and Related Oxygenates or Hydrocarbons, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 5,928,806, July 27, 1999.

4. Nanoscale Solid Superacid Catalysts with Pendant Fluoroalkylsulfonic Acid or Fluoroalkylsulfonic Acid Groups, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 5, 922,635, July 13, 1999.

5. Organic Fuel Cell Methods and Apparatus, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 6,248,460, June 19, 2001.

6. Organic Fuel Cell, and Methods of Operation Thereof and Manufacture of Electrode Therefor, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frak, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 716164, February 17, 2000.

7. Novel Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, S. R. Narayanan, Q. Wang, S. Surumpudi and G. Halpert, Australian Patent, AU 729900, February 15, 2001.

8. Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, S. R. Narayanan, Q. S. Wang, S. Surumpudi and G. Halpert, U. S. Patent, AU 6,444,343, September 3, 2002.

9. Organic Amines as Additives in Electrochemical Cells, M. Jungnitz, M. Schmidt, A. Kuhner, H. Buchholz and S. Prakash, Taiwan Patent, TW 523959, March 11, 2003.

10. Improved Membrane Electrode Assembly for a Fuel Cell, S. R. Naryanan, T. Atti, S. Prakash, G. Olah and M. Smart, Australian Patent, AU 759819, May 1, 2003.

11. Method for Making Electrode for Fuel Cell, and Electrode Obtained Thereby, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, H. A. Frank, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Vamos, G. Halper and G. A. Olah, Koran Patent, KR 100382801, May 9, 2003.

116 12. Liquid Fuel Supply Type Fuel Cell Using Improved Fuel, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, H. A. Frank, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Vamos, G. Halper and G. A. Olah, Korean Patent, KR 100382802, May 9, 2003.

13. Method for Treating Carbon Electrode Structure and Carbon Electrode Structure Treated Thereby, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, H. A. Frank, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Vamos, G. Halper and G. A. Olah, Korean Patent, KR 100382800, May 9, 2003.

14. Liquid Fuel Supply Type Fuel Cell Using Fuel to which Perfluorooctane Sulfonate is Added, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, H. A. Frank, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Vamos, G. Halper and G. A. Olah, Korean Patent, KR 100420375, February 16, 2004.

15. Organic Fuel Cells Methods and Apparatus, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 6,740, 434, May 25, 2004.

16. Organic Fuel Cell Methods and Apparatus, S. Surampudi, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 6, 821,659, November 23, 2004.

17. Magnesium Mediated Preparation of Fluorinated Alkylsilanes, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, US 6,803,477, October 12, 2004.

18. Organic Electroluminiescent Device Based on Pyerene Derivatives, X. C. Li, Y. Okamura, K. Ueno, M. Tashiro, H. Tashiro and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 6, 852,429, February 8, 2005.

19. Method for Expedient Synthesis of [18F]-Labeled a-Trifluoromethyl Ketones, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Alauddin, J. Hu, P. S. Conti and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, US 6,872,855, March 29, 2005.

20. Methods for Nucleophilic Fluoromethylation, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, U.S. 7,087,789, August 8, 2006.

21. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone with alkyl halides leading to the facile synthesis of terminal 1,1-difluoro-1- alkenes and difluoromethylalkanes, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, US 7,119,232, October 10, 2006.

22. Membrane Electrode Assembly for a Fuel Cell, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, U.S. Patent, US 7,147,958, December 12, 2006.

117 23. Membrane Electrode Assembly for a Fuel Cell, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, Canadian Patent, CA 2359869, October 3, 2007.

24. Membrane Electrode Assembly for a Fuel Cell, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, European Patent, EP 1171924, October 3, 2007.

25. Verbesserter Membranelektrodenaufbau Für Brennstoffzelle, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, M. C. Smart, European Patent, EP 60036610, November 15, 2007.

26. Novel Polymer Electrolte Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah, M. C. Samrt, S. R. Narayanan, S. Surampudi, G. K. S. Prakash and Q. S. Wang, Canadian Patent, CA 2272866, January 15, 2008.

27. Organische Brennstoffzelle, Verfahren Zum Betrieb Der Zelle Und Herstellung Einer Elektrode Dafür, S. R. Naryanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, German Patent, DE 69435082, April 17, 2008.

28. Organic Fuel Cell, and Methods of Operation Threof and Manufacture therefore, S. Surampudi, S. R. Naryanan, E. Vamos, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent EP 0755 576 B1, March 5, 2008.

29. Organic Fuel Cell Methods and Apparatus, E. Vamos, S. Surampudi, S. R. Naryanan, H. A. Frank, G. Halpert, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,445,859, November 4, 2008.

30. Plasma Driven, N-Type semiconductor, thermoelectric power superoxide generator with critical bias conditions. D. Burke and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,365,956, April 29, 2008.

31. Novel Polymer Electrolyte Mebranes for Use in Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olh, M. C. Smart, S. R. Narayanan, Q. S. Wang, S. Suarampudi and G. Halpert, European Patent, EP 0948827, March 25, 2009.

32. Efficient and Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,605, 293, October, 20, 2009.

33. Efficient and Selective Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,608, 743, October, 27, 2009.

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35. Selective Oxidative Conversion of Methane to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,705,059, April 27, 2010.

36. Electrolysis of carbon dioxide in aqueous media to carbon monoxide and hydrogen for production of methanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,704,369, April 27, 2010.

37. Novel Polymer Electrolyte Mebranes for Use in Fuel Cells, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olh, M. C. Smart, S. R. Narayanan, Q. S. Wang, S. Suarampudi and G. Halpert, European Patent, EP 0948827, May 12, 2010.

38. Neuartige Polymer-elektrolyt-membranen Zur Verwendung In Direkt- methanol-brennstoffzellen, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olh, M. C. Smart, S. R. Narayanan, Q. S. Wang, S. Suarampudi and G. Halpert, German Patent, DE 69739877, June 24, 2010.

39. Nano-structure Supported Solid Regenerative Polyamine and Polyamine Polyol Absorbents for The Separation of Carbon Dioxide from Gas Mixtures Including the Air, G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert, S. Meth and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,795,175, September 14, 2010.

40. Efficient and Selective Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2006/236801, November 11, 2010.

41. Selective oxidative conversion of methane to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,846,978, December 10, 2010.

42. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol and/or dimethyl ether using bi- reforming of methane or natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 7,906,559, March 11, 2011.

43. Nano-structure Supported Solid Regenerative Polyamine and Polyamine Polyol Absorbents for the Separation of Carbon Dioxide from Gas Mixtures Including the Air, S. Meth, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Australian Patent, AU 2007/ 284228, March 24, 2011.

44. Selective oxidative conversion of methane to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2006/236802, September 1, 2011.

45. Conversion of carbon dioxide to dimethyl ether using bi-reforming of methane or natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US

119 8,133,926, March 13, 2012.

46. Electrolysis of carbon dioxide in aqueous media to carbon monoxide and hydrogen for production of methanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,138,380, March 20, 2012.

47. Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,212,088, July 3, 2012.

48. Selective oxidative conversion of methane to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent EP 1871732 B1, July 18, 2012.

49. Environmentally Friendly Ternary Transportation Flex-fuel of Gasoline, Methanol and Bioethanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2008/347306, August 30, 2012.

50. Efficient and selective chemical recycling of carbon dioxide to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 1871731 B1, December 26, 2012.

51. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Dimethyl Ether using Bireforming of Natural Gas or Methane, Australian Patent, AU 2008/265677, February 21, 2013.

52. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,440,729, May 14, 2013.

53. Rendering Natural Gas as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,461, 217, June 11, 2013.

54. Rendering Coal as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,461, 215, June 11, 2013.

55. Rendering Petroleum Oil as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Source Material for Fuels, Derived Products and as a Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 8,461, 218, June 11, 2013.

56. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2008/265668, July 4, 2013.

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57. Nano-structure Supported Solid Regenerative Polyamine and Polyamine Polyol Absorbents for the Separation of Carbon Dioxide from Gas Mixtures Including the Air, S. Meth, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Canadian Patent, CA 2659490, October 22, 2013.

58. Selective oxidative conversion of methane to methanol, dimethyl ether and derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2604574, November 19, 2013.

59. Efficient, self sufficient production of methanol from a methane source via oxidative bi-reforming, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 8,697, 759, April 15, 2014.

60. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2690840, June 3, 2014.

61. Iron-Air Rechargeable Battery, S. R. Narayan, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Kindler, U. S. Patent, US 8, 758, 948, June 24, 2014.

62. Lithium-ion electrolytes with fluoroester co-solvents, M. C. Smart, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Smith, P. Bhalla, U. S. Patent, US 8,748, 046, June 10, 2014.

63. Producing methanol and its products exclusively from geothermal sources and their energy, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 8,791,166, July 29, 2014.

64. Lithium-ion electrolytes containing flame retardant additives for increased safety characteristics, M. C. Smart, K. A. Smith, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash and F. C. Krause, U. S. Patent, US 8,795, 903, August 5, 2014.

65. Efficient and Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethyl Ether and Derived Products, Canadian Patent, CA 2604569, August 26, 2014.

66. Efficient and environmentally friendly processing of heavy oils to methanol and derived products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 8,816,137, August 26, 2014.

67. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using bireforming of methane or natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Chinese Patent CN 101679168, September 10, 2014.

68. Rendering Natural Gas as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral

121 Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian. Patent, AU 2010/234506, February 19, 2015.

69. Rendering Coal as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2010/234500, February 19, 2015.

70. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using bireforming of methane or natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U. S. Patent, US 8,980,961, March 17, 2015.

71. Electrolysis of carbon dioxide in aqueous media to carbon monoxide and hydrogen for production of methanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CN 2690980, June 16, 2015.

72. Recycling of Carbon Dioxide via Capture and Temporaray Stoarge to Produce Renewable Fuels and Derived Products, Australian Patent, AU 2011/312682, September 17, 2015.

73. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural Gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 2167420 B1, October 21, 2015.

74. Lithium-ion electrolytes with improved safety tolerance to high voltage systems, M. C. Smart, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, F. C. Krause, U.S. Patent, US 9,190,698, November 17, 2015.

75. Recycling of Carbon Dioxide via Capture and Temporaray Stoarge to Produce Renewable Fuels and Derived Products, European Patent, EP 2624949, December 9, 2015.

76. Nano-Structure Supported Solid Regenerative Polyamine and Polyamine Polyol Absorbents for the Separation of Carbon Dioxide from Gas Mixtures including Air, S. Meth, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Indian Patent, IN 271053, January 29, 2016.

77. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural Gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2690836, February 9, 2016.

78. Direct Trifluoromethylations using Trifluoromethane, G. K. S. Prakash, P. V. Jog, P. T. D. Batamack and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, US 9, 334, 253, May 10, 2016.

79. Producing Methanol and Its Products Exclusively from Geothermal

122 Sources and Their Energy, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2729309, June 21, 2016.

80. Rendering Natural Gas as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2756416, June 21, 2016.

81. Efficient, self sufficient production of methanol from a methane source via oxidative bi-reforming, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Australian Patent, AU 2013/330420, October 27, 2016.

82. Efficient, self sufficient production of methanol from a methane source via oxidative bi-reforming, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 2906523, November 16, 2016.

83. Rendering Coal as an Environmentally Carbon Dioxide Neutral Fuel and Regenerative Carbon Source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2756753, November 29, 2016.

84. Recycling carbon dioxide via capture and temporary storage to produce renewable fuels and derived products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Patent, US 9, 504, 952, November 29, 2016.

85. High efficiency iron electrode and additives for use in rechargeable iorn- based batteries, S. R. Narayan, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi and B. Yang, U.S. Patent, US 9, 577, 298, February 21, 2017.

86. Regenerative Adsorbents of Modified Amines on Nanostructured Supports, A. Goeppert, H. Zhang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Australian Patent, AU 2014/357599, March 2, 2017.

87. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Using Bi-reforming of Methane or Natural Gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 2167451, April 4, 2017.

88. Inexpensive metal-free organic redox flow battery (ORBAT) for grid-scale storage, S. Narayan, G. K. S. Prakash, B. Yang, L. Hoober-Burkhardt and S. Krishnamoorthy, U. S. Patent, US 9,614,245, April 4, 2017.

89. Producción Eficaz Y Autosuficiente De Metanol A Partir De Una Fuente De Metano A Través De Bi-reformado Oxidativo, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Spanish Patent, ES 2615892, June 8, 2017.

90. Conversión De Dióxido De Carbono En Dimetil-éter Usando El Bi-

123 reformado De Metano O Gas Natural, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Spanish Patent, ES2625933, July 21, 2017.

91. Efficient and Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol, Dimethy Ether and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Icelandic Patent, IS 2970, May 15, 2017.

92. Electrolysis of Carbon Dioxide in Aqueous Media to Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen for Production of Methanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 2167706, November 15, 2017.

93. Recycling of Carbon Dioxide via Capture and Temporaray Storage to Produce Renewable Fuels and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Canadian Patent, CA 2813368, November 21, 2017.

94. High Efficiency Iron Electrode and Additives for Use in Rechargeable Iron-based Batteries, S. R. Nararyan, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld, A. Manohar, S. Malkhandi and B. Yang, European Patent, EP 2721688, February 28, 2018.

95. Electrólisis De Dióxido De Carbono En Medios Acuosos Para Dar Monóxido De Carbono E Hidrógeno Para La Producción De Metanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Spanish Patent, ES2659978, March 20, 2018.

96. Regenerative Absorbents of Modified Amines on Nano-structured Supports, A. Goeppert, Z. Zhang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, U.S. Patent, US 9968880, May 15, 2018.

97. Iron-air Reachrgeable Batteries, S. R. Narayan, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Kindler, European Patent, EP 2596545, June 13, 2018.

98. Efficient, Self Sufficient Production of Methanol from a Methane source via Oxidative Bi-reforming, Canadian Patent, CA 2886004, July 3, 2018.

99. Nano-Structure Supported Solid Regenerative Polyamine Polyol Absorbents for the Separation of Carbon Dioxide from Gas Mixtures including Air, G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert, S. Meth and G. K. S. Prakash, European Patent, EP 2054151, August 22, 2018.

100. Organic Amines as Additives for Electrolytes of Electrochemical Devices, M. Jungnitz, M. Schmidt, A. Kuehner, H. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash, Eur. Pat. Appl. (2002), CODEN EPXXDW EP 1187244 A2 20020313.

101. Perfluoroalkanesulfonic acids and perfluoroalkanesulfonimides as electrode additives for fuel cells, S. R. Narayanan, M. C. Smart, S.

124 Surampudi, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang, G. A. Olah, U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. (2005), 17 pp. CODEN: USXXCO US 20050214629.

102. Low Temperature Electrochemical Cell, J. F. Whitacre, R. Yazmi, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, M. C. Smart, W.C. West and A. Hanwi, U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. 48 pp. US 20070218364 (2007).

103. Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol and/or dimethyl ether using bi- reforming of methane or natural gas, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. 29pp. CODEN: PIXXD2 WO 2008157673 A1 20081224 CAN 150:58293 AN 2008:1536368 (2008).

104. Nanostructured solid regenerable absorbents for reversible absorption of carbon dioxide from gases, including air, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. 24pp. CODEN: PIXXD2 WO 2008021700 A1 20080221 CAN 148:288145 AN 2008:220763 (2008).

105. Environmentally friendly ternary transportation flex-fuel of gasoline, methanol and bioethanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. 4pp. CODEN: USXXCO US 2009172997 A1 20090709 CAN 151:127954 AN 2009:829197 (2009).

106. Stockpiling methanol and/or dimethyl ether for fuel and energy reserves, G. A. Oah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2009), WO 2009158085 A2 20091230

107. Mitigating or eliminating the carbon footprint of human activities, G. A. Oah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2009), WO 2009140478 A2 20091119.

108. Producing methanol and its products exclusively from geothermal sources and energy, G. A. Oah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2010), WO 2010011504 A2 20100128.

109. Rendering coal as an environmentally carbon dioxide neutral fuel and a regenerative carbon source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2010), WO 2010118127 A1 20101014.

110. Rendering natural gas as an environmentally carbon dioxide neutral fuel and a regenerative carbon source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2010), WO 2010118133 A1 20101014

111. Rendering petroleum oil as an environmentally carbon dioxide neutral source material for fuels, derived products and as a regenerative carbon source, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2010), WO 2010118137 A1 20101014.

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112. Recycling Carbon Dioxide via Capture and Temporary Storage to Produce Renewable Fuels and Derived Products, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int. Appl. (2012), WO 2012047443 A2 20120412.

113. Manufacturing of High Efficiency Iron Electrode Additives for Rechargaeble Iron-Based Batteries, S. R. Narayan, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld, A. Manohar, S. Malkhandi and B. Yang, PCT Int.Appl. (2012), WO 2012174433 A2 2012 1220.

114. Taming of Fluoroform: Direct Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of Si, B, S and C Centers, G. K. S. Prakash, P. V. Jog, P. T. D. Batamack and G. A. Olah, PCT Int. Appl. (2013), WO 2012148772 A1 20121101.

115. Efficient, self-sufficiuent production of methanol from a methane source via oxidative bi-reforming, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int.Appl. (2014), WO 2014058549, A120140417.

116. High efficiency nickel-iron battery, S. R. Narayan, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Aniszfeld, U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. US 20150086884 (2014).

117. Well fracturing with CO2 for shale gas reforming to methanol, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, PCT Int.Appl. (2015), 2015077153, A1 20150528.

118. Regenerative adsorbents modified amines on nano-structured supports, A. Goeppert, H. Zhang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, PCT Int.Appl. (2015), 2015084521, A1 20150611.

Presentations at the Regional, National and International Meetings

*1. Recent Advances in the Study of Stable Carbocations, G. A. Olah, D. J. Donovan, R. Malhotra, J. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Salem and M. Watkins, Paper No. 170, Presented at ACS Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Anaheim, California, October, 1977.

*2. Synthetic Utility of Hydrogen Fluoride-Pyridine Reagents, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at ACS Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Anaheim, California, October, 1981.

*3. Effect of Substituents on the Extent of Mesomeric Nitrenium Ion Character of Cyanodiphenylmethyl Cation. A 13C and 15N NMR Spectroscopic Study, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi and G. A. Olah, Presented at the International Symposium on Chemistry of Carbocations, Bangor, North Wales, England, September, 1981.

126 *4. High Field 1H and 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of the 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Arvanaghi, F. A. L. Anet and G.A. Olah, Paper No. 63, Presented at the Organic Division, 183rd ACS National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 1982.

*5. The Structure of 2-Norbornyl Cation, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 35, Presented at the Petroleum Chemistry Division, 185th ACS National Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March, 1983.

6. The endo-3,10-Dimethyltricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-4,8-dienyl-3,10-dication. A novel bishomoaromatic/allylic dication and its stereospecific rearrangement to the symmetrical cis-anti-cis-3,10- dimethyltricyclo[5.3.0.02,6]deca-4,8-dienyl-3,10-dication, M. Arvanaghi, G. K. S.Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 138, Presented at the Organic Division, 185th ACS National Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March, 1983.

7. One Bond 13C-13C NMR Coupling Constants in Substituted Acetophenones, Benzaldehydes and their O-Protonated Carboxonium Ions, V.V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 198, Presented at the Organic Division, 185th ACS National Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March, 1983.

*8. The Use of 4-Trifluoromethylphenyl and 3,5-Bistrifluoromethylphenyl Substituents in the Application of Gassman-Fentiman Tool of increasing Electron Demand to long lived Carbocations, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 17, Presented at the Fluorine Chemistry Division, 186th ACS National Meeting, Washington, D.C., Aug-Sept, 1983.

9. a-Nitrodiphenylmethyl Cations: The First long lived a-Nitro substituted Carbocations, M. Arvanaghi, G. K. S. Prakash, V. V. Krishnamurthy, S. C. Narang and G. A. Olah, Presented at the Organic Division, 186th ACS National Meeting, Washington, D.C., Aug-Sept, 1983.

10. Mesomeric Nitrenium Ion Character of a-Cyanodiarylmethyl Cations Based on the study of 13C-13C Coupling Constants, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G.A.Olah, Presented at the Organic Division, 186th ACS National Meeting, Washington, D.C., Aug-Sept, 1983.

11. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of the Application of the "Tool of Increasing Electron Demand" to the 2-Aryl-2-Benzonorbornenyl Cations, M. Arvanaghi. G. K. S. Prakash, L. Ohanessian and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 195, Presented at the Organic Division, 187th ACS National Meeeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 1984.

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*12. One Bond 13C-13C NMR Coupling Constants in Substituted Benzoyl Cations, G. A. Olah, P. S. Iyer, G. K. S. Prakash and V. V. Krishnamurthy, Paper No. 10020, Presented at the Organic Division, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December, 1984.

13. Observation of a a-13C Equilibrium Isotope Effect in the Degenerate Rearrangement of 2,3-Dimethyl-2-butyl Cation. V. V. Krishnamurthy, G. K. S. Prakash, P. S. Iyer and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 202, Presented at the Organic Division, 189th ACS National Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida, April-May, 1985.

*14. Superacid Catalyzed Alkylkation of Adamantane, G.A. Olah, O. Farooq, V. V. Krishnamurthy, G.K.S.Prakash and K.Laali, Paper No. 1, Presented at the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 191st ACS National Meeting, New York, April, 1986.

15. The Pagodane Dication, A Unique 2p-Aromatic Cyclobutanoid Dication, G. K. S. Prakash, V.V. Krishnamurthy, R. Herges, G.A. Olah, W.D. Fessner and H. Prinzbach, Paper No. 287, Presented at the Organic Division, 191st ACS National Meeting, New York, April, 1986.

16. Formaldehyde-O-Methylide [CH2=O+CH2-]: The Parent Carbonyl Ylide, G.K.S. Prakash, R.E. Ellis, J. Felberg and G.A. Olah, Paper No. 288, Presented at the Organic Division, 191st ACS National Meeting, New York, April 1986.

17. b-Fluorination of Secondary Alkyl Bromides using NO2+BF4- in (HF)n: Pyridine Solution. Preparative and Mechanistic Aspects, T. Hashimoto, G. K. S. Prakash, J. G. Shih and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 238, Presented at the Organic Division, 192nd ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA. September1986.

18. Superacid Catalyzed Formylation of Adamantane, O. Farooq, M. Marcelli, G.K.S. Prakash and G.A. Olah, Paper No. 99, Presented at the Organic Division, 193rd ACS National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April, 1987.

19. Biphenylene Dianion: A New 14 Electron Huckeloid Aromatic System, G.A. Olah, J. Bausch and G.K.S.Prakash, Presented at the ACS Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Irvine, California, October, 1987.

20. The Dodecahedryl Cation and 1,16-Dodecahedryl Dication, G.K.S. Prakash, G.A. Olah, T.Kobayashi and L.Paquette, Paper No. 427,

128 Presented at the Organic Division, Third Chemical Congress of North America, Toronto, Canada, June 1988.

20. Protonated Diboranes - A Theoretical Study, O.F. Guner, K.Lammertsma, G.A.Olah, G.K.S.Prakash and R.Aniszfeld, Paper No.292, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September, 1988.

22. Evidence for the First Direct Friedel-Crafts type Trialkylsilylation of Benzene and Toluene, G.A. Olah, T. Bach and G.K.S. Prakash, Paper No. 328, Presented at the Organic Division, 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September, 1988.

23. 2-seco[1.1.1.1]Pagodyl Cation. A Classical Trivalent Cation Stabilized by a Strong C-C s-Bond Hyperconjugation, G.K.S. Prakash, W-D.Fessner, G.A.Olah, G.Lutz and H.Prinzbach, Paper No. 329, Presented at the Organic Division, 196th ACS National Meeting, Los Angeles, California, September, 1988.

*24. Trifluromethyltrimethylsilane (TMS-CF3): An Effective Trifluoromethide Equivalent, G.K.S. Prakash, R. Krishnamurti and G.A. Olah, Paper No. 20, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 199th ACS National Meeting, Boston. MA. April 1990.

25. Geometrical Systematics of Nido-6-Vertex Carboranes and Selected Heteroatom Analogs, R. E. Williams, J.W. Bausch and G.K.S. Prakash, Presented at Boron U.S.A.II Workshop (BUSAII), Research Triangle Park, N.C. ,June, 1990.

26. Structural Preferences of Closo- and Nido-8-Vertex Carboranes: A Combined NMR/ab initio/IGLO Investigation, J.W. Bausch, G.K.S. Prakash and R.E. Williams, Presented at Boron U.S.A. II Workshop (BUSA II), Research Triangle Park, NC, June, 1990.

*27. Trifluromethyltrimethylsilane (TMS-CF3): An Effective Trifluromethide Equivalent, G.K.S. Prakash, R. Krishnamurti and G.A. Olah, Paper No.C2 Presented at the IX International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., July 1990.

28. Selective Oxidations of Benzylic Hydrocarbons by Ozone, N. Trivedi, G.K.S. Prakash and G.A. Olah, Paper No. 263, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 200th ACS National Meeting, Washington. D.C., August 1990.

29. The Use of Polymer Supported SO2 and SO3 Reagents in Organic Synthesis, G.A. Olah, G.K.S. Prakash, M. Alemayehu and X-Y Li, Paper

129 No.20, Presented at the Organic Division, 201st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1991.

30. Friedel-Crafts Type Dehydrogenative Polymerization of Enolizable Acetyl Halides to Poly(ketenes), G.A. Olah, D.H. Adamson, E. Zadok, R. Edler and G.K.S. Prakash, Paper No.299, Presented at the Organic Division, 201st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1991.

31. Isomeric Bridge Head Triamantyl Cations, M. Stephenson, G.K.S. Prakash and G.A. Olah, Paper No.351, Presented at the Organic Division, 201st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1991.

32. Evidence for the Intermediacy of Pentaphenylethyl Cation in the Reaction of Perdeuterated Triphenylmethyl cation with Diphenyldiazomethane or Diphenylketene, G.A. Olah, M. Alemayehu, A-H, Wu, O. Farooq, G.K.S. Prakash, Paper No.145, Presented at the Organic Division, Fourth Chemical Congress of North America, New York City, August 1991.

33. Electrophilic Monochlorination of Methane over Zeolites, I. Bucsi, G.K.S. Prakash, Q. Wang and G.A. Olah, Presented at the The California Catalysis Society Fall meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 1991.

34. Boron Trifluoride Monohydrate, Nonoxidative and Inexpensive Acid Catalyzed Organic Reactions, Q. Wang, N. Trivedi, D. Hoole, M. Alemayehu, X-y. Li, I. Bucsi, G.K.S. Prakash and G.A. Olah, Presented at the The California Catalysis Society Fall meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 1991.

35. Fluoride Induced Nucleophilic Trifluromethylations using Trifluromethyl- trimethylsilane [F3C-Si(CH3)3], P. Ramaiah, S. Kantamneni and G. K. S Prakash, Paper No. 102p, Presented at the XXV Silicon Symposium, Los Angeles, California, April 1992.

36. Trimethyl Iodide Catalyzed Reductive Etherification of Aldehydes with Tertiary Alkoxytrimethylsilanes, N. Hartz, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 103P, Presented at the XXV Silicon Symposium, Los Angeles, California, April 1992.

37. Boron Trifluride Monohydrate Catalyzed Reductive Thiolation of Carbonyl Compounds with Thiols and Triethylsilane, Q. Wang, X. Y. Li, N. Trivedi, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 104p, Presented at the XXV Silicon Symposium, Los Angeles, California, April 1992.

38. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Studies on Cyclopropyl Stabilized 1,3- and 1,4- Carbodications, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No.

130 229, Presented at the Organic Division, 204th American Chemical Society Meeting, Wahington D.C, August 1992.

39. Studies on the Electro-oxidation of Methanol and Formaldehyde at carbon supported Platinum Alloy Electrodes, S. R. Narayanan, S. Surumpudi, H. Frank, G. Halpert, R. Knieler, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No.53, Presented at the 182nd Electrochemical Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 1992.

40. Nucleophilic Trifluromethylation of a,b-Unsaturated Enones and Eynones with Trifluromethyltrimethylsilane, G. K. S. Prakash and S. Kantamneni, Paper No.55, Presented at the 26th Silicon Symposium, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 1993.

41. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation of Aromatics with 1-Chloronorbornane, 3- Halonor-adamantane and Fluorocubane via Their Respective sp3 Hybridized Bridge-Head Carbocations, G. A. Olah, C. S. Lee, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 35, Presented at the Organic Division, 205th American Chemical Society Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March-April 1993.

42. Advances in Direct Oxidation Methanol Fuel Cells, S. Surumpudi, S. R. Narayanan, H. Frank, E. Vamos, G. Halpert, T. La Conti, J. Kosek, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at the SERT conference, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, April 1993.

43. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of p-Substituent Effects in Highly Crowded 1,1'-Diadamantylbenzyl Cations, G. A. Olah, M. Heagy and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 42, Presented at the Organic Division, 206th American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 1993.

44. Facile Electrophilic Carboxylation of Allylsilanes using Phenylchloroformate/AlCl3, G. A. Olah, D. Van Vliet, Q. Wang and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 53, Presented at the 29th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society and Pacific Conference of the Southern California Section of the Applied Spectroscopy, Pasadena, California, October 1993.

45. A Novel One Step Preparation of of Ferrocenylmethyl Cations by the Reaction of Carbonyl Compounds with Ferrocene in Trifluoroacetic Acid, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Buchholz, Q. Wang and G. A. Olah, Paper No.40, Presented at the 29th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society and Pacific Conference of the Southern California Section of the Applied Spectroscopy, Pasadena, California, October 1993.

131 46. 13C NMR Spectroscopic Study of Cyclobutylcarbinyl Cations, V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Casanova and G. A. Olah, Paper No.208, Presented at the 29th Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society and Pacific Conference of the Southern California Section of the Applied Spectroscopy, Pasadena, California, October 1993.

47. One Step Preparation of Hexakis(Trimethylsilyl)-3,3'-Bicyclopropenyl, A Stable Valence Isomer of Hexakis(trimethylsilyl)benzene, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Buchholz, S. Quaiser, J. Casanova and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 471, Presented at the Organic Division, 207th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 1994.

48. Superelectrophilic Tscherniac Amidomethylation of Aromatics with N- Hydroxymethylpthalimide in Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, G. Sandford, A. B. Oxyzoglou, and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 379, Presented at the Organic Division, 207th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 1994.

49. Convenient Separation of High Purity C60 from Crude Fullerene Extract via Selective Complexation with Lewis Acids, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Bucsi, R. Aniszfeld, T. Shamma, and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1210, Presented at Fullerene Extraction/Purification Symposium, 185th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, -27, 1994.

50. Lithium Superacid Salts for Li Battery Applications, G. Nagasubramanian, D. H. Shen, S. Surumpudi, G. Halpert, G. K. S. Prakash, Q. Wang and N. Hartz, 4th International Meeting on Polymer Elctrolytes, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 19-24, 1994.

51. Direct Fluorination of Arylacetylenes with F2 Equivalent, Nitrosonium and Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride to the CorrespondingAryltetrafluoroethanes, G. A. Olah, C. York and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No.61, Presented at the Organic Division, 208th American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington DC, August 21-25, 1994.

52. Methanesulfonylation of Deactivated Aromatics with Superelectrophilic CH3SO2F /3SbF5 and (CH3SO2)2O/CF3SO3H-B(O3SCF3)3 Systems, G. A. Olah, A. Orlinkov, A. B. Oxyzoglou and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No.340, Presented at the Organic Division, 208th American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington DC, August 21-25, 1994.

53. The Effect of Acidity on Isobutane-Isobutylene Alkylation, G. A. Olah, P. Batamack, Dennis Deffieux, A. Molnar, Q. Wang, X-Y. Li and G. K. S. Paraksh, California Catalysis Society Fall Meeting, San Diego, November 1994.

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54. The role of Protosolvation in Nitrations with Superacidic Systems. The Protonitronium Dication (NO2H+) Identified, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No.001, Presented at the Nitration Symposium organized by the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division, 209th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 2-6, 1995.

55. Trisilyloxonium Ions: First Direct observation by NMR Spectroscopy and their Role in Cationic Polymerization of Siloxanes, G. A. Olah, X-Y. Li, Q. Wang, G. Sandford and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No.363, Presented at the Polymer Chemistry Division, 209th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 2-6, 1995.

56. Facile Electrochemical Synthesis and New Applications of (Trifluoromethyl)- trimethylsilane, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Deffieux, A. Yudin and G. A. Olah, Paper No.506, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 209th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, California, April 2-6, 1995.

57. Direct Electro-oxidation of Dimethoxymethane, Trimethoxymethane and Trioxane and Their Applications in Fuel Cells, S. R. Narayanan, E. Vamos, S. Surumpudi, H. Frank, G. Halpert, R. Knieler, M. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at the Symposium on Direct Electrochemical Oxidation of Methanol and Small Organic Molecules, Paper No. 470, 187th Electrochemical Society Meeting, May 22 -26, Reno, Nevada,

*58. Selective fluorinations using in situ generated in pyridinium polyhydrogen fluoride medium, G. K. S. Prakash, C. York and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 349, Presented at The Inorganic Division 1995 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 17-22, 1995.

59. Novel Cationic Ring Opening Polymerization of Cyclosiloxanes Initiated by Supersilylating Agents, Q. Wang, H. Zhang, G. K. S. Prakash, T. E. Hogen-Esch and G. A. Olah, Poster No. P-27, 29th Organosilicon Symposium, March 22-23, 1996. Evanston, Illinois.

60. Studies of Silyl-carboxonium and Onium Ions: Their Role in Organic Reactions and Ring Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Monomers., Q. Wang, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presentation No. A- 18, 29 th Organosilicon Symposium, March 22-23, 1996. Evanston, Illinois.

133 61. Silicon Based Difluoromethylating Reagents: Preparation and Applications. G. K. S. Prakash, A. K. Yudin, D. Deffieux and G. A. Olah, Paper No.295, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 211th American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 24-28, 1996.

62. Preparation, NMR and Ab Initio/IGLO Study of Trifluoromethyl Substituted Carboxonium Ions. G. A. Olah, A. Burrichter, G. Rasul, A. K. Yudin and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No.354, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 211th American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Lousiana, March 24-28, 1996.

63. Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization Initiated by Well Defined Trimethylsilylcarboxonium and Onium Ions, G. A. Olah, Q. Wang, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Zhang and T. E. Hogen-Esch Paper No.305, Presented at the Polymer Chemistry Division, 211th American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 24-28, 1996.

64. Electrophilic Fluorination of Aromatic Compounds with F-TEDA-BF4 (Selectfluor Reagent) in the presence of Trifluoromethanesulfonic Acid, T. Shamma, H. Buchholz, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 357, Presented at the Organic Division, 212th American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 25 -29, 1996.

65. Synthesis of a Silicon Containing Hyper-Branched Polymer by Ruthenium Catalyzed Step-Growth Polymerization, Q. Wang, E. Tongco, H. Guo, G. K. S. Prakash, W. P. Weber and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 121, Presented at the Polymer Chemistry Division, 212th American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Florida, August 25 -29, 1996.

66. Evaluation of Trimethoxymethane in Liquid Feed Direct Oxidation Fuel Cells, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, H. Hrank, S. Surumpudi, J. Kosek, and C. Cropley, presented at the PEM and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells II Symposium, 190th Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 6-11, 1996, San Antonio, Texas, Paper No. 789.

67. ARPA Direct Oxidation Fuel Cell Program, USC Activities, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, ARPA Fuel Cell Review, Arlington Virginia, November 14 -15, 1996.

68. Recent Advances in High-Performance Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, S. Narayanan, W. Chun, B-Jeffries-Nakamura, H. Frank, T. Valdez, S. Surumpudi, G. Halpert, M. Smart, Q. -J. Wang, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, J. Kosek, C. Cropley, A. La Conti, presented at the Fuel Cell Seminar, November 17 -20, 1996, Orlando, Florida.

134 69. Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds in Superacids, D. A. Klumpp, D. N. Beak, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 497, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 213th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17, 1997.

70. Preparation and Characterization of trans-1,4-Diazido-1,4- Dinitrocyclohexane and exo-2,5-Diazido-endo-2,5-Dinitronorbornane: Stable Geminal Azido-Nitro Compounds, J. J. Struckhoff Jr., G. K. S. Prakash, K. Weber, A. Schreiber, R. Bau and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 533, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 213th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13-17, 1997.

71. Selective Ionic Fluorination, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. PL-2, 15th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 2-7, 1997.

72. Synthetic Methodologies for New Trifluoromethylated Compounds, E. C. Tongco, T. Mathew, Y. D. Vankar, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No244, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 214th American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7-11, 1997.

73. Adamantane Based Polyanions; Synthesis and Applications, A. Mitra, G. K. S. Prakash, D. Dimov, G. A. Olah and T. E. Hogen-Esch, Paper No. 012, Presented at the Organic Chemistry Division, 214th American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7-11, 1997.

74. Synthesis of F-18-Labeled 5-Fluoro-2'-deoxy-2'-fluorouridine ([18F]-FFU) for PET Imaging Studies, M. M. Alauddin, J. D. Fissekis, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and P. S. Conti, Paper No. 012, Presented at the Nuclear Chemistry Division, 214th American Chemical Society Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 7-11, 1997.

75. Functionalization of Polystyrene Nanospheres, M. T. Greci, E. Tongco, R. Amey, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P35, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

76. Selective Functionalization of Epoxides to Aldehydes, S. Krishnaraj, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P41, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

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77. Nitrosyl Hydride as a Reactive Dienophile, E. Marinez, S. Masuda, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P42, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

78. Charged Intermediates of Adamantane; Syntheses and Applications, A. Mitra, D. Dimov, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P43, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

79. Direct Methanol Liquid Feed Fuel Cells, A. Atti, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Smart and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P44, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

80. Direct Preparation of Trifluoromethyl Ketones from Carboxylic Esters: Trifluoromethylation with (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane, T. Heiner, J. Wiedemeann, G. Mloston, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P37, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

81. Synthetic Methodologies for New Trifluoromethylated Compounds, E. C. Tongco, T. Mathew, M. Halchoumy, Y. D. Vankar, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. P31, presented at the New Horizons in Chemistry Symposium Commemorating 20th anniversary of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and George A. Olah's 70th Birthday, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November 20, 1997.

82. Upgrading of Alberta's heavy oils by superacid- catalyzed hydrocracking, O. P. Strausz, T. W. Mojeisky, J. D. Payzant, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 150, Presented at the Division of Fuel Chemistry, 216th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 23-27, 1998.

83. Triflic acid-catalyzed synthesis of diaryl sulfoxides from arenes and thionyl chloride, G. A. Olah, E. Marinez and G. K. S. Prakash and G. A.

136 Olah, Paper No. 412, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 216th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 23-27, 1998.

84. Reductive arylation of gloxylic acid and related compounds using triflic acid, J. P. Hwang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 595, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 216th American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 23-27, 1998.

85. On the Existence of the Halocarbonyl Cations, B. Hoge, J. A. Sheehy, G. K.S. Prakash, G.A.Olah and K. O. Christe, Paper No.B39, 12th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Berlin, Germany, August 29- September 2, 1998.

86. Multilayer Growth on metal immobilized on polystyrene microspheres and their application as catalysts for hydrogen peroxide formation, S. Pathak, A. G. Dokoutchaev, V. V. Krishnan, F.B. Abdelrazzaq, G.K.S. Prakash and M. E. Thompson, Paper No. 94, Presented at the Division of Colloid Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

87. Nafion-H catalyzed Intramolecular Friedel Crafts acylation, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, M. Farnia and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 44, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

88. Isolation of new products from the reaction of phenyl carbazide and semicarbazide with glyoxal, M. Farnia, A. Kakanejadiafard, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 348, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

89. Acid catalyzed condensation of ninhydrin with aromatic compounds, D. A. Klump, S. Fredrick, S. Lau, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 429, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

90. Nitration of Phenylboronic acids with ammonium nitrate and trifluoroacetic anhydride, S. Salzbrunn, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, C. Thiebes and N. Petasis, Paper No. 433, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

91. Novel Friedel Crafts acylation of methyl benzoates with aromatic compounds using triflic acid, J. P. Hwang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 434, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry,

137 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

92. Synthesis and functionalization of polystyrene microspheres, M. T. Greci, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, S. Pathak and M. E. Thompson, Paper No. 467, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 217th American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 21-25, 1999.

93. The Isolation of New Nitrogen Rich Heterocycles from the Reaction of Phenylcarbazide with Glyoxal, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Farnia, A. Kakanejadifarad and G. A. Olah, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, Energetic Materials II Symposium, 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, October 7, 1999.

94. Development of Low Cost, Low Crossover Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, G. K.S. Prakash, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, M. C. Smart, T. Valdez, S. Surampudi and V. Pleynet, Presented at the Division of Physical Chemistry, Batteries/Fuel Cells Symposium, 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, October 7, 1999.

95. Nafion-H, A Perfluororesinsulfonic Acid, Catalyzed Reactions, T. Mathew, M. Farnia, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at the California Catalysis Society Fall Meeting, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 14, 1999.

96. Trifluormethanesulfonic Acid Catalyzed Acylation Reactions, J. P. Hwang, G.K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at the California Catalysis Society Fall Meeting, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 14, 1999.

97. Low Crossover Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, G. K.S. Prakash, M. Smart, A. Atti, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, T. Valdez and S. Surampudi, Paper No. 406, Presented at the Battery/Energy Technology, Joint General Session, B4, 196th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Oahu, Hawaii, October 17 –22, 1999.

+ + + 98. Structures and Energetics of XH2 , XH4 , and XH6 (X= B, Al, and Ga) Cations, S. Salzbrunn, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 305, Presented at the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

99. Syntheses of (iso)pagodanes and Oxidation to Nonclassical Valence- Isomeric 4C/3e and s-Bishomoaromatic 4C/2e ions, M. Etzkorn, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and H. Prinzbach, Paper No. 274, Presented at the

138 Division of Organic Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

100. Acid-catalyzed Condensations of Quinones with Arenes, D. A. Klump, K. Kantadjieff, G. K.S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 321, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

101. Electrophilic Substitution of Arylboronic Acids, J. Simon, S. Salzbrunn, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 487, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

102. Synthetic TransformationsCatalyzed by Boron Trifluoride- Trifluoroethanol Complex, G. K. S. Prakash, E. R. Marinez, T. Mathew and G.A.Olah, Paper No. 489, Presented at the Division of Organic Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

104. Triphenylmethyltrimethylsilane/Tetramethylammonium Fluoride as a Metal-Free Anionic Polymerization Initiating System, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, G. A. Olah, W. N. Warner and T. E. Hogen-Esch, Paper No. 134, Presented at the Division of Polymer Chemistry, 219th American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000.

105. Silylsulfonium Ions: Preparation, NMR Spectroscopy, and Density Functional Theory (DFT)/IGLO Studies, C. Bae, Q. Wang, G. Rasul, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, paper No. 378, Presented at the Organic Division, 220th American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington, DC, August 20 - 24, 2000.

106. Homoconjugation with the adamantane cage, G. Olah, G. Rasul and G. Prakash, Paper No. 35, Presented at the Physical Chemistry Division, Computational Quantum Chemistry: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives, 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14- 19, 2000.

107. Electrophilic chemistry of croconic acid and squaric acid, S. J. De Leon, D. A. Klumpp, M. E. Garza, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 781, Presented at the Organic Division, 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14- 19, 2000.

108. Stereoselective synthesis of functionalized cis-hydrindanes from 2- carbomethoxytricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-3,8-diene-5-ones. S. S. Suri, S. Rodgers and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1149, Presented at the Organic

139 Division, 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14- 19, 2000.

109. Diastereoselective addition of organometallics to (R)-2-(2-methyl-3- phenyl-2-azabutyl)benzaldehyde, S. Masuda, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1425, Presented at the Organic Division, 2000 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14- 19, 2000.

110. Nafion-H catalyzed sulfonation of aromatics with sulfonic acids: Synthesis of symmetric and unsymmetric sulfones, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 645, Presented at the Organic Division, 221st American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, April 1-5, 2001.

111. Stereoselective Preparation of trifluoromethylated amines, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Mandal and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 309, Presented at the Organic Division, 222nd American Chemical Society Meeting, Chicago, Il, August 26-30, 2001.

112. Direct Benzoylation with Benzoic Acids Using Nafion-H, A Solid Perfluoroalkanesulfonic Acid as an Efficient Catalyst, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, paper No. 419, Presented at the Organic Division, 223rd American Chemical Society Meeting, Orlando, Fl, April 7-11, 2002.

113. Electrochemical Characterization of Composite PEO Based Polymer Electrolytes, I. W. Cheung, K. B. Chin, M. C. Smart, E. R. Greene, S. G. Greenbaum, G. K. S. Prakash and S. Surampudi, 8th International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 19-24, 2002.

114. Improved Performance and Safety of Lithium Ion Cells with the Use of Fluorinated Carbonate-Based Electrolytes, M. C. Smart, B. V. Ratnakumar, S. Surampudi, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and I. W. Cheung, 11th International Meeting on Lithium Ion Batteries (ILMB11), Monterey, California, June 27, 2002.

115. gem-Difluoromethylation of Diarylthiolanes by SelectfluorR and Pyridinium Polyhydrogen Fluoride, R. Alleti, R. V. P. Reddy, G. K. S. Prakash and M. K. Perambuduru, Paper No. 231, 37th Midwest Regional American Chemical Society Meeting, October 23 –25, 2002, Lawrence, Kansas.

116. Diastereoselective addition of trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane to (R)-2-(2- Methyl-3-phenyl-2-azabutyl)benzaldehyde catalyzed by TBAF in various solvents, S. Masuda, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 3,

140 Presented at the 16th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 12-17, 2003.

117. Triphenylmethyldifluoramine: A stable reagent for the synthesis of gem- bis(difluoramines), M. Etzkorn, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Christe, A. Vij and S. Schneider, Paper No. 22, Presented at the 16th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 12-17, 2003.

118. Preparation of trifluoromethyl- and difluoromethylsilanes via an unusual magnesium metal mediated reductive tri- and difluoromethylation of chlorosilanes using tri- and difluoromethyl sulfides, sulfoxides and sulfones, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 95, Presented at the 16th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 12-17, 2003.

119. Reduction of Polyarenes in Water, H. Tashiro, K. Ishimoto, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Presented at the 83rd Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) National Meeting, March 18 –21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.

120. Selective Reduction of Functionalized Aromatic Compounds in Water, K. Ishimoto, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Presented at the 83rd Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) National Meeting, March 18 –21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.

121. Reduction of Alkylbenzenes in Water, M. Tashiro, K. Ishimoto, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Presented at the 83rd Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) National Meeting, March 18 –21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan.

122. Ring Reduction of Anisoles in Water, T. Kakinami, K. Y. Mitoma, H. Tashiro, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and M. Tashiro, Presented at the 83rd Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) National Meeting, March 18 –21, 2003, Tokyo, Japan. *123. Investigations of energetic molecules and functional groups, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 452, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 225th National American Chemical Society Meeting, March 23- 27, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

124. 1-Oxonia-trimethyladamantane, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, M. Etzkhorn, H. A. Buchholz, R. Anisfeld, and T. Shamma, Paper No. 500, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 225th National American Chemical Society Meeting, March 23- 27, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

125. Synthesis of [18F]-labeled a-trifluoro-methyl ketones for PET imaging, M. M. Alauddin., J. Hu J, G. K. S. Prakash., P. S. Conti and G. A. Olah, P168, Presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine 50th Annual Meeting,

141 June 21-25, New Orleans,Lousiana. (abstract: J. Nucl. Med. 44, 52P, 2003).

126. Novel Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Imines Catalyzed by Solid Acids, .M. A. Savolainen, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, B. Török: Paper No. C81, Presented at the 38th National Organic Symposium, June 8-12, 2003, Bloomington, IN.

127. Electrochemical characterization of star shaped and linear PEO-based composite polymer electrolytes, I. W. Cheung, J. Hu, K. B. Chin, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and S. Surampudi, Paper No. IX O TH 05, Presented at the14th International Conference on Solid State Ionics, June 22- 27, 2003, Monterey, CA.

128. Halogenation of deactivated aromatics: N-halosuccinimide-BF3-H2O as an efficient electrophilic halogenating agent, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, D. Hoole, P. M. Esteves, Q. Wang, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 490, Division of Organic Chemistry, 226th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New York, NY, September 7, 2003.

129. Convenient Synthesis of aryl and perfluoroaryl germanium trichlorides and germatranes via an organotin route, R. G. Kultyshev, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, J. W. Faller and J. Parr, Paper No. 127, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

130. Stereoselective Preparation of of b-hydroxy- b -trifluoromethyl ketones and a,b-dihydroxy- b -trifluoromethyl ketones, using chiral (L) proline as a catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, M. Mandal, H. Ila and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 49, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

131. Ipso-Nitration of arylboronic acids: chlorotrimethylsilane-nitrate salt as an efficient reagent system, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, V. Surampudi, N. A. Petasis, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 50, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

132. Functionalization of crosslinked polystyrene nanospheres, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Desousa and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 65, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

133. Synthesis of sulfones from sulfides/sulfoxides and sulfonyl chlorides from disulfides, using chlorotrimethylsilane-nitrate salt as an oxidizing reagent system, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah,

142 Paper No. 165, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

134. Poly(ethyleneimine)/HF as a convenient fluorinating agent and an efficient catalyst for ionic hydrogenation, G. A. Olah, A. Goeppert, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 199, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

135. Synthesis of the parent 1-oxoniaadamantane, M. Etzkhorn, G. A. Olah, G. K. S. Praksash, G. Rasul and R. Aniszfeld, Paper No. 268, Presented at the Organic Division, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

136. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone with alkyl halides leading to the facile syntheis of 1,1-difluoro-1-alkenes and difluoromethyl alkanes, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 65, Presented at the Fluorine Division in a Symposium in honor of Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 8, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

137. (Trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane: A new source of singlet difluorocarbene for the preparation of gem-difluorocyclopropanes, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu, Y. Wang and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 65, Presented at the Fluorine Division in a Symposium in honor of Professor G. K. Surya Prakash, ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, Paper No. 16, 227th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Anaheim, CA., March 28- April 1, 2004.

138.* Onium Polyhydrogen fluorides: Convenient ionic liquids for acid catalysis and fluorinations, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 319, presented at the Organic Division, 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 22-26, 2004.

139. “Synthesis of fluorinated benzaldimines from benzylamines using Nafion- H, a solid perfluorinated resinsulfonic acid, as catalyst”, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, B. Torok, P. Batamack, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 006, presented at the Fluorine Division, 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 22-26, 2004.

140. “Enantioselective organocatalytic hydroxyalkylation of heteroaromatics: Synthesis of chiral alpha-aryl-alpha-hydroxy-alpha-trifluoromethyl- acetic acids”, G. London, J. Esquibel, M. Torok, S. Mhadgut, P. Yang, G. K. S.

143 Prakash and B. Torok, Paper No. 003, presented at the Fluorine Division, 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 22-26, 2004.

141. “The synthesis of m,p-cyclophanes containing F atom and their dynamic NMR”, S. Masuda and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 10, Presented at the 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Fl., January 9-14, 2005.

142. “1-Oxoniaadamantane- A novel cage oxonium ion”, M. Etzkhorn, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Aniszfeld, G. Rasul, H. A. Buchholz and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 17, Presented at the 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Fl., January 9-14, 2005.

143. High efficiency direct methanol fuel cell based on poly(styrenesulfonic) acid (PSSA)-pol(vinylidine fluoride) (PVDF) composite membranes, G. K. S. Prakash, M. C. Smart, Q. Wang, A. Atti, V. Pleynet, B. Yang, K. McGrath, G. A. Olah, S. R. Narayanan, W. Chun, T. Valdez and S. Surampudi, Paper No. 87, Presented at the 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Fl., January 9-14, 2005.

144. Synthesis of gem-Difluorinated Alcohols vis Bromodifluoromethyl mPhenyl Sulfone and Aldehydes in the presence of Tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene (TDAE), G. K. S. Prakash, Y. Wang, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 67, Presented at the 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Fl., January 9-14, 2005.

145. Novel fluoroalkylation chemistry with difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone, G. K. S. Prakash, J. Hu and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 29, Presented at the 17th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, Fl., January 9-14, 2005.

146. Low cost proton exchange membrane (PEM) with IPN structure for portable DMFC applications, A. Saitoh, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper no. 38 (poster), Presented at the Advances in Materials for Prton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Systems 2005, Pacific Grove, CA., February 20-23, 2005.

147. “Ipso-Nitrosation of arylboronic acids: Chlorotrimethylsilane and silver nitrite as an efficient reagent system”, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, B. Torok, P. Batamack, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 887, presented at the Organic Division, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13- 17, 2005.

148. “Ipso-Hydroxylation of aryl boronic acids to phenols using solid H2O2 complexes”, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Chacko, C. Panja, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 493, Presented at the Organic Division, 230th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington. D. C., August 28- September 1, 2005.

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149. “Facile synthesis of arylmethane derivatives from aromatic aldehydes

through superelectrophilic activation using BF3-H2O as a catalyst”, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 541, Presented at the Organic Division, 230th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington. D. C., August 28- September 1, 2005.

150. “An efficient addition of trimethylsilyl cyanide to aldehydes and ketones using nucleophilic catalysts in N,N-”, H. Vaghoo, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, V. Surampudi, R. G. Kultyshev, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 542, Presented at the Organic Division, 230th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington. D. C., August 28- September 1, 2005.

151. 1-Oxoniadamantane, a novel cage oxonium ion, G. K. S. Prakash, M. Etzkorn, R. Aniszfeld, G. Rasul, H. Buchholz, T. Li and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1537, Presented at the Organic Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

152. Synthesis and characterization of the difluorosulfamate anion: A safe

storable replacement for the generation of HNF2 and the replacement of the

carbonyl group by two NF2 groups, K. O. Christe, R. I. Wagner, R. Haiges, C. J. B. Jones, T. Schröeder, M. Yousufuddin, M. Etzkorn and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1113, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

153. Synthesis of metaparacyclophanes and cagephanes bridged by silicon atoms and their dynamic NMR, S. Masuda and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1715, Presented at the Organic Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

154. Metal catalyzed reduction of aromatic compounds in D2O, M. Tashiro, A. Miyazawa, K. Tanaka, G. A. Olah and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1743, Presented at the Organic Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

155. Reduction of polychlorobenzenes and related compounds with Pd/C catalyst and Al powder in water, H. Tashiro, Y. Mitoma, N. Egashira, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, A. Miyazawa and M. Tashiro, Paper No. 1755, Presented at the Organic Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

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156. Low cost PEM with IPN structure for light duty fuel cell applications, A. Saitoh, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 758, Presented at the Macromolecular Chemistry Division, 2005 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (PACIFICHEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15 – 20, 2005.

157. A facile synthesis of 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,2-diarylethanes from arenes and

fluoral hemiacetal using BF3-H2O, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 125, Presented at the General Organic Session, The 40th Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 22 – 25, 2006.

158. From proximate to new materials, M. Etskhorn… Paper No. 659, Presented at the Organic Division, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA., March 26-30, 2006.

159. BF3-H2O catalyzed hydroxyalkylation of aromatics with aromatic dicarboxaldehydes towards the synthesis of anthracene derivatives G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, A. Shahmin, Eric Shah, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 363, Presented at the Organic Division, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA., March 26-30, 2006.

160. Efficient one-pot synthesis of a-aminonitriles using PVP-SO2 as a catalyst, G. A. Olah, K. Smith, T. Mathew and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 262, Presented at the Organic Division, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA., March 26-30, 2006.

161. Flame synthesized, narrowly distributed TiO2 nanoparticles: Synthesis method, characterization and applications, B. Zhou, K. Uchikawa, A. Shibata, E. Tolmachoff, S. Ekweghariri, F. Viva, G. K. S. Prakash and H. Wang, Paper No. 42, Presented at the Fuel Division, 231st National American Chemical Society Meeting, Atlanta, GA., March 26-30, 2006.

162. Efficient Strecker reactions of ketones and fluorinated ketones towards the synthesis of a-aminonitriles and their fluorinated analogs using gallium(III) triflate as a catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, S. Alconcel, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 639, Presented at the Organic Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

163. Use of gallium(III) triflate as an efficient Lewis acid catalyst for multicomponent and cyclization reactions, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 539, Presented at the Organic Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

146 164. Synthesis of fluorinated non-hydrolysable nucleotide analogs and related chemistry, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Beier, R. Kultyshev, M. Zibinsky, R. Ismail, Paper No. 12 Presented at the Fluorine Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

165. Facile synthesis of TMS-protected trifluoromethylated alcohols using

trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMSCF3) and various nucleophilic catalysts in DMF, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, H. Vaghoo, V. Surampudi, R. G. Kultyshev, M. Mandal, R. Golam, G. A. Olah, T. Mathew, Paper No. 4, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

166. Efficient synthesis of fluorinated benzimidazolines, benzothiazolines, benzoxazolines and dihydrobenzoxazinones using gallium (III) triflate as a catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, H. Vaghoo, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 312, Presented at the Chemical Education Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

167. One-pot synthesis of anthracene and triarylmethane derivatives catalyzed

by BF3:H2O, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Shah, C. Panja, T. Mathew, A. Shakhmin, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 2, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 232nd National American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 10-14, 2006.

168. The use of nanocomposite CFx cathode materials in Li-CFx batteries for low temperature application, J. F. Whitacre, M. C. Smart, W.C. West, R. Bugga, R. Yazami, Rachid, A. Hamwi, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 26, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

169. The development of improved lithium-ion battery electrolytes containing fluorinated cosolvents, M. C. Smart, K. Smith, P. Bhalla, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash, J. F. Whitacre, R. Bugga, Paper No. 25, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

170. Low crossover membranes for direct oxidation methanol fuel cells. G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 24, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

171*. New fluoroalkylation chemistry, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 07, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

172. Stereoselective fluoromethylation of alcohols, G. K. S. Prakash, S.

147 Chacko, S. Alconcel, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 523, Presented at the Organic Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25- 29, 2007.

173. Efficient one-pot synthesis of novel fluorinated heterocycles using trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate as a metal-free, homogeneous, strong Lewis acid catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Panja, C. Do, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 321, Presented at the Organic Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

174. Gallium triflate catalyzed direct reductive amination of aldehydes, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Do, C. Panja, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 320, Presented at the Organic Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007.

175. Nafion-H catalyzed synthesis of fluorinated benzoimidazoles, benzothiazolines, benzoxazolines and dihydrobenzoxazinones, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 320, Presented at the Organic Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, boston, MA, August 19-13, 2007.

176. Gallium triflate catalyzed synthesis of quinoxalines, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, A. Venkat, S. Chacko, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 319, Presented at the Organic Division, 233rd ACS National Meeting, boston, MA, August 19-13, 2007.

177. BF3-H2O catalyzed Fries rearrangement of phenolic esters, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 830, Presented at the Organic Division, 234th National American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007.

178. Gallium triflate catalyzed ionic hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Do, C. Panja and G. A. Olah. Paper No. 61, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

179. Efficient 1, 4 addition of 1-fluoro-bis(phenylsulfonyl)methane to alpha, beta unsaturated compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Chacko, H. Vaghoo and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 146, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6- 10, 2008.

180. Efficient green synthesis of a -aminonitriles, precursors of a -amino acids, G. K. S. Prakash, E. Tissa, I. Bychinskaya, A. Prakash, C. Panja and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 148, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

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181. Gallium triflate, a versatile green catalyst for various organic synthetic transformations, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Do, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 149, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

182. Synthesis of modified nucleotides for structural activity and fidelity studies of DNA polymerases, I. Rehana and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 686, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

183*. Novel nucleophilic and electrophilic fluoroalkylation methods, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 4, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

184. (Aminomethyl)polystyrene-HF complexes: Application as efficient acid catalysts and fluorinating agents, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Glinton, T. Mathew, C. Panja, V. P. Reddy, P. M. Esteves, G. A. Olah, Paper No. 147, Presented at the Organic Division, 235th National American Chemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008.

185. Lithium-Ion Electrolytes Containing Flame-Retardant Additives for Increased Safety Characteristics, K. A. Smith, M. C. Smart, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Bugga, Presented at the 214th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, HI, October 12-17, 2009.

186. Xenon Difluoride Mediated Ipso-Amidation of Aryl Bornic Acids Using Nitriles, M. D. Moran, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 10, 19th Winter Fluorine Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2009.

187. Synthesis of bis(difluoromethylene)triphosphonic acid and non- hydrolyzable nucleotide analogs, M. Zibinsky, R. Ismail, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Upton, B. Kashemirov and C. E. McKenna, Paper No. 304, Presented at the Medicinal Chemistry Division, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

188. Chloro/bromotrimethylsilane-potassium nitrate: New reagent system for a -halogenation of acetophenones, G. K. S. Prakash, R. Ismail, C. Panja, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 194, Presented at the Organic Division, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

189. Stereoselective one-pot synthesis of vinyl fluorides using a -substituted fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)methane derivatives, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Chacko, H. Vaghoo, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 543, Presented at the

149 Organic Division, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

190. Synthesis of vinylfluorides via Julia-Kocienski reaction, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Shakhmin, M. Zibinsky, S. Chacko, I. Ledneczki and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 549, Presented at the Organic Division, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

191. New method for synthesis of fluorinated a -aminophosphonates with gallium triflate as catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Rehana, M. Zibinsky and T. Mathew, Paper No. 581, Presented at the Organic Division, 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009.

192. Organocatalyst-mediated stereoselective monofluoromethylation of a ,b - unsaturated compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 336, Presented at the Organic Division 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, August 16-20, 2009.

193. Superacid catalyzed synthesis of 3-methylthiochromanone and 3- (phenylthio)-2-(trifluoromethyl)propanoic acid derivatives, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Vaghoo, R. Chaudhary, F. Paknia, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 356, Presented at the Organic Division 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, August 16-20, 2009.

194. An efficient and convenient method for the synthesis of dialkoxyalkanes using polyvinyl pyridine as catalyst, P. T. Batamack, G. Somesh, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 545, Presented at the Organic Division 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, August 16- 20, 2009.

195. Fluorine effects in a -fluorocarbanions? Investigation of persistent a - fluorocarbanion, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, N. Shao, T. Mathew, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 565, Presented at the Organic Division 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United States, August 16- 20, 2009.

196. The Use of Fluorinated Compounds in Li-ion Battery Electrolytes, M. C. Smart, K. A. Smith, F. C. Krause, P. Bhalla, J. Hu, G. K. S. Prakash and R. Bugga, Paper No. 47, Presented at the 19th International Fluorine Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY, August 23-28, 2009.

197. Preparation, NMR and X-Ray Structural Characterization and Computational Study of a Persistent a-Fluorocarbanion (FCA) and Its Analogues, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, N. Shao, T. Mathew, G. Rasul, R. Haiges and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 132, Presented at the 19th International Fluorine Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY, August 23-28, 2009.

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198. Poly(4-vinylpyridine)-acid complexes: Reagent and catalyst reservoirs, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, K. Glinton, F. Paknia and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 77, Presented at the Organic Division 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, March 21-25, 2010.

199. Stereoselective conjugate addition and construction of fluorinated chiral carbon centers: Application of α-nitro(phenylsulfonyl)methane as a pronucleophile, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Do, T. Thomas, G. A. Olah and T. Mathew, Paper No. 179, Presented at the Organic Division 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, March 21-25, 2010.

200. Highly efficient synthesis of α-fluoro, chloro and methoxysulfonylmethane derivatives by novel C-S bond forming strategy, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Ni, T. Thomas, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 512, Presented at the Organic Division 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, March 21-25, 2010.

201. PVP-H2O2 and PVD-H2O2 as solid H2O2 equivalents: Selective oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Glinton, S. Rao, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 950, Presented at the Organic Division 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, March 21-25, 2010.

202. Biginelli reaction of aldehydes with fluorinated ketoesters/diketones and urea derivatives: Facile dehydration of the reaction intermediates, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Bychinskaya, G. A. Olah and T. Mathew, Paper No. 1095, Presented at the Organic Division 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, March 21-25, 2010.

203. Direct, HF free, synthesis of tetrabutylammonium organotrifluoroborates, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Pertusati and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1021, Presented at the Organic Division 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, United States, August 22-26, 2010.

204. Fluoro(phenylsulfonyl)methanes as efficient fluoromethyl-transfer motifs for the synthesis of diverse N-(fluoroethyl)amines, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Laxman, P. Jog, S. Tanaka, N. Ganesh, T. E. Thomas, M. Thomas and G. A. Olah, Fluo-76, presented at 20th Winter Fluorine Conference, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 9-14, 2011.

205. Synthesis of lightly fluorinated sulfonates from a difluoromethyl sulfone via unique nucleophilic difluoro(sulfonato)methylation reactions, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Ni, F. Wang, J. Hu and G. A. Olah, Flu -92, presented at 20th

151 Winter Fluorine Conference, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 9-14, 2011.

206. Conformational study via 19F NMR spectroscopy: Emergence of trifluoromethyl label as a conformational stabilizer and a probe, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Ni, J. Shen, R. Haiges, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Fluo-89, presented at 20th Winter Fluorine Conference, Division of Fluorine Chemistry, American Chemical Society, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 9-14, 2011.

207. Utilization of formal umpolung strategy in asymmetric organocatalysis: (Phenylsulfonyl)nitromethane as versatile C1 synthons, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, C. Ni and G. A. Olah, ORGN. 737, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

208. Stereoselective organocatalytic conjugate addition with α-fluoro-α- nitro(phenylsulfonyl)methane: Mechanistic studies and synthetic applications, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, N. Shao, C. Do, C. Ni and G. A. Olah, ORGN-738, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

209. Superelectrophilic activation of trifluoromethyl crotonic acids: Efficient synthesis of trifluoromethylated dihydrochalcones, aryl vinyl ketones, and indanones, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, A. Narayan, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, ORGN-238, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

210. Superelectrophilic activation of phenylglyoxamides: Efficient synthesis of triarylacetamides and fluorenecarboxamides, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Narayan, F. Paknia, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, ORGN-230, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

211. Preparation and synthetic utility of N,N-dimethyl-S-difluoromethyl-S- phenylsulfoximinium salt as a viable electrophilic difluoromethylating reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, C. Ni and G. A. Olah, ORGN-197, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

212. Synthesis of α,α-difluoro-β-amino sulfonic acids with difluoromethyl sulfone as a masked nucleophilic difluoro(sulfonato)methylation reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, C. Ni, F. Wang, Z. Zhang and G. A. Olah, ORGN-112, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

152 213. Fluorinated electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries for improved safety in manned-flight and terrestrial applications, F. C. Krause, M. C. Smart, R. V. Bugga and G. K. S. Prakash, FUEL-177, Presented at the Fuel Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

214. Novel domino approach of Heck coupling for the synthesis of styrene sulfonate salts, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Jog, H. Krishnan and G. A. Olah, ORGN-136, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

215. Novel chiral amino phosphonic acid protocol, B. Reinus, S. Meth, G. A. Olah, G. S. Prakash, ORGN-227, Presented at the Organic Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

216. Decompostion of formic acid to H2 and CO2 in the presence of 1,3-bis(2’- pyridylimino)-isoindoline iridium complex, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. May, S. G. Prakash and G. A. Olah, FUEL-178, Presented at the Fuel Division, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

217. Regenerable high capacity organo-amine based CO2 sorbents using nano- structured silica as a support, A. Goeppert, S. Meth, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, FUEL-207, Presented at the Division of Fuel Chemistry, 241st ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, March 27-31, 2011.

218. Selective bromination of methane over solid acid catalysts and poly (4- vinyl pyridine) catalyzed hydrolysis and methanolysis of methyl bromide, G. K. S. Prakash, P. Batamack, J. C. Colmenares, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, AIChE Spring Meeting & 7th Global Congress on Process Safety, Conference Proceedings, Chicago, IL, United States, Mar. 13-17, 2011.

219. Palladium-Gold electrocatalysts for efficient formic acid oxidation, G. K. S. Prakash, F. C. Krause and G. A. Olah, A1-55, Presented at the 219th ECS Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 1-6, 2011.

220. Electrochemical hydrogen pumping using a water-free proton-conducting polymer electrolyte membrane, B. Yang, A. K. Manohar, G. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan and W. Chen, B1-337, Presented at the 219th ECS Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 1-6, 2011.

221. The evaluation of triphenyl phosphate as a flame retardent additive to improve the safety of lithium ion battery electrolytes, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, C. Hwang, W. West, J. Soler, G. Prakash and R. Bugga, B3-386, Presented at the 219th ECS Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 1-6, 2011.

153 222. Ketonic Strecker reaction: Nafion-Fe, an efficient Lewis acid catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, I. Bhychinskaya, E. Marinez, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 308, Presented at the Organic Division, 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, United States, August 28-September 1, 2011.

223. Perfluoroalkaneresinsulfonates: New generation of green Lewis acid catalysts, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew, C. Panja, I. Bchynskaya, S. K. Ganesh and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 258, Presented at the Organic Division 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, United States, August 28- September 1, 2011.

224. Ruthenium carbonyls as active catalysts for the decomposition of formic

acid to H2 and CO2, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. May, J. J. Zhang, M. Sax, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah, and R. Haiges, Paper No. 51, Presented at the Division of Fuel Chemistry, 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, United States, August 28-September 1, 2011.

225. Domino approach of Heck coupling for the synthesis of β-trifluoromethyl styrenes, G. K. S. Prakash, H. Krishnan, P. Jog and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 144, Presented at the Organic Division 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, United States, August 28-September 1, 2011.

226. Methanol and acetals synthesis through a two-step bromination of methane and hydrolysis/alcoholysis of methyl and methylene bromides, G. K. S. Prakash, P. T. Batamack, J. C. Colmenares, R. Jog, S. K. Ganesh, T. Mathew, I. Bucsi and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 163, Presented at the Division of Fuel Chemistry, 242nd ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, United States, August 28-September 1, 2011.

227. Effect of Chain Length of Linear Alkanethiols on the Inhibition of Electrode Processes on Iron in Alkaline Medium, B. Yang, S. Malkhandi, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Catalysis and Electrodes II, Abstract 2443, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

228. Properties of Calcium-Doped Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide Perovskite Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution in Alkaline Medium, S. Malkhandi, A. K. Manohar, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan Aqueous Batteries and Solar Cells, Abstract 292, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

229. Electrochemical Properties of Carbonyl Iron Electrodes for Iron-Air Batteries, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Modeling, Redox Flow and other Batteries, Abstract 303, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

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230. Organo-Sulfur Additives for Suppressing Hydrogen Evolution in Iron-Air Battery, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, A. Manohar, G. K. Surya Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Flow Batteries- Diagnostic Techniques, Abstract 688, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

231. Electrolytes with Improved Safety Developed for High Specific Energy Li-Ion Cells with Si-Based Anodes, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, R. V. Bugga and G. K. S. Prakash, Liquid Electrolytes, Organic 4, Abstract 1246, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

232. The Use of Triphenyl Phosphate as a Flame Retardant Additive in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes Designed for High Voltage Systems, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, C. Hwang, W. C. West, J. Soler and G. K. S. Prakash and R. V. Bugga, Electrolytes 4, Abstract 1264, 220th ECS Meeting and Electrochemical Energy Summit, Boston, MA, October 9-14, 2011.

233. Friedel-Crafts alkylation of arenes with vinyl amides and enamides: Direct synthesis of arylamides, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Paknia, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 636, Presented at the Organic Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

234. Selective hydrolysis of nitriles to amides: Nafion-ruthenium, an efficient catalyst, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Munoz, A. Papp, K. Masood, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 632, Presented at the Organic Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

235. Selective preparationof difluoromethyl aromatics via Mg(0)-mediated C-F activation of aromatic trifluoromethyl compounds, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Munoz, N. Shao, C. Ni, D. R. Bellew, F. Wang and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 595, Presented at the Organic Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

236. Facile synthesis of a-monofluoromethyl alcohols: Nucleophilic

monofluoro-methylation of aldehydes using TMSCF(SO2Ph)2, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, N. Shao, C. Ni, F. Wang, R. Haiges and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 594, Presented at the Organic Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

237. Practical and scalable synthesis of a-fluorobis(phenylsulfonyl)methane as a versatile nucleophilic monofluoromethylating reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, N. Shao, F. Wang and C. Ni, Paper No. 593, Presented at the Organic

155 Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

238. Efforts towards cinchona alkaloid conformations and their catalytic functions in asymmetric synthesis: Exploitation of trifluoromethyl moiety as a conformational stabilizer and a probe, G. K. S. Prakash, F. Wang, J. Shen, M. Rahm, C. Ni, R. Haiges, G. Rasul and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 524, Presented at the Organic Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

239. Direct synthesis of terahydroquinazolines, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Papp, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 184, Presented at the Medicinal Chemistry Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

240. Polyamine based regenerable solid adsorbents for the capture of CO2 from the air, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, R. B. May, G. K. S. Prakash, G. A. Olah and S. R. Narayanan, Paper No. 482, Presented at the Fuel Division, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

241. More Durable Electrocatalysts for Efficient Formic Acid Oxidation, F. C. Krause, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Fuel Cell Catalysts, Abstract 224, 221st ECS Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 6-10, 2012.

242. Effect of Various Additives on the Efficiency and Rate Capability of Carbonyl Iron Electrodes for Iron - Air Batteries, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, C. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Novel Concepts, Abstract 366, 221st ECS Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 6-10, 2012.

243. Metal-Air Rechargeable Batteries - Challenges and Recent Developments, S. R. Naryanan, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and A. Kindler, Metal-Air Batteries, Abstract 477, 221st ECS Meeting, Seattle, WA, May 6-10, 2012.

244. Direct practical method for the synthesis of b-fluorinated amino esters, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 857, Presented at the Organic Division, 244th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 19-23, 2012.

245. Domino approach of Heck coupling for the synthesis of fluorinated and nonfluorinated styrenes, G. K. S. Prakash, P. V. Jog, H. Krishnan and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 730, Presented at the Organic Division, 244th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 19-23, 2012.

156 246. Selective decomposition of formic acid to hydrogen and carbon dioxide in the presence of ruthenium hydrido carbonyl complexes, J. Kothandaraman, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 533, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 244th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, August 19-23, 2012.

247. Effect of Substitution of Cobalt by Manganese on the Properties of Calcium-Doped Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Medium, P. Trinh, S. Malkhandi, N. Moreno, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan and A. Manivannan, Aqueous Battery, Abstract 370, Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7-12, 2012.

248. Effect of Substitution of Cobalt by Manganese on the Properties of Calcium-Doped Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Medium, S. Malkhandi, P. Trinh, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash, S. R. Narayanan and A. Manivannan, Fundamental Investigation, Abstract 1162, Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7-12, 2012.

249. Effect of Bismuth Additives on the Performance of Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Batteries, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Other Media Systems, Abstract 1187, Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7-12, 2012.

250. Mechanism of Formation of Carbonyl Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Batteries, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Aqueous Battery, Abstract 371, Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7-12, 2012.

251. Electrolytes with Improved Safety Developed for High Specific Energy Li-Ion Cells with Si-Based Anodes, M. C. Smart, F. C. Krause, C. Hwang, J. Soler, R. V. Bugga and G. K. S. Prakash, Liquid Electrolytes, Abstract 1246, Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid State Science PRiME 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 7-12, 2012.

252. Studies on –SF5 containing carbocations and the use of 4-phenyl-SF5 as a novel electron-withdrawing probe in the Gassman-Fentiman tool of increasing electron demand, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Narayanan, K. Khono and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 2, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

253. N-Substituent-induced stereoselective synthesis of fluoroalkenoates, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, M. Luliucci, F. Wang, C. Ni and G. A. Olah, Paper

157 No. 6, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13- 18, 2013.

254. Facile preparation of difluoromethylarenes: a C-F activation protocol, G. K. S. Prakash, S. B. Munoz, Z. Zhang, C. Ni, N. Shao, F. Wang, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 7, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

255. Synthesis and applications of gem-difluorinated cyclopropylboronate

esters using the Ruppert-Prakash reagent (TMS-CF3) as the difluoromethylene source, H. S. Krishnan, P. V. Jog, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 11, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

255. Direct nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of silicon, boron, sulfur and carbon electrophiles using fluoroform, P. V. Jog, P. T. Batamack, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 12, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

257. Fluoroalkylation in MCRs: Recent developments, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 42, 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petete Beach, FL, January 13-18, 2013.

258. Regenerable polyamine based solid adsorbents for CO2 capture of from the air, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, R. B. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 568, Presented at the Division of Energy and Fuels, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

259. Ruthenium-catalyzed hydrogen generation from formic acid, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, J. Zhang, R. B. May, M. Sax, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 104, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

260. Hydrogen generation by selective decomposition of formic acid in the presence of ruthenium pincer ligand complexes, J. Kothandaraman, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1025, Presented at the Inorganic Division, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

261. Development of safe and efficient catalysts for organic transformations, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 371, Presented at the Organic Division, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7-11, 2013.

158 262. N-difluoromethylation of heterocyclic aromatic compounds using Ruppert-Prakash reagent, G. K. S. Prakash, S. Krishnamoorthy, A. Kulkarni, S. K. Ganesh and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 815, Presented at the Organic Division, 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7- 11, 2013.

263. Studies on the Iron-Chloride Redox Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage, A. K. Manohar, K. M. Kim, E. Plichta, M. Hendrickson, S. Rawlings, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract B1-0141, 223rd Electrochemical Society Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 12- 16, 2013.

264. Improvement of Faradaic Efficiency of Iron Electrode for Iron-Chloride Redox Flow Battery, K. M. Kim, A. K. Manohar, E. Plichta, M. Hendrickson, S. Rawlings, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Naryanan, Abstract B1-0237, 223rd Electrochemical Society Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 12- 16, 2013.

265. A Tutorial on Alternate Proton Conducting Membranes, S. R. Narayanan and G. K. S. Prakash, Abstract I6-1438, 223rd Electrochemical Society Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 12- 16, 2013.

266. Combined steam and carbon dioxide reforming of methane and natural gas at high pressures: bi-reforming, A. Goeppert, M. Czaun, R. B. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 56, Presented at the Division of Energy and Fuels, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

267. Insight into the hydrogen generation from formic acid in the presence of Ru-phosphine complexes, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, J. Kothandaraman, R. B. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 191, Presented at the Division of Energy and Fuels, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

268. Nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds: Trifluoroacetaldehyde hydrate as a trifluoromethyl source, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, S. Munoz and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 106, Presented at the Organic Division, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

269. Deoxygenation of aromatic ketones by solid formic acid equivalent with Pd/C, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 223, Presented at the Organic Division, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

159 270. Polymer based formic acid complexes: Convenient reduction systems, G. K. S. Prakash, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 332, Presented at the Organic Division, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

271. Studies on tetralyl cations using the "Gassman-Fentiman tool of increasing electron demand", A. Narayanan and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 556, Presented at the Organic Division, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, September 8-12, 2013.

272. Role of Bismuth and Sulfide Additives On the Performance of Iron Electrodes in Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract B1-0288, 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 27- November 1, 2013.

273. Understanding the Performance of Transition Metal Oxide-Carbon Composite Catalysts in Air Electrodes for Metal-Air Batteries and Alkaline Fuel Cells, S. Malkhandi, P. Trinh, A. K. Manohar, K. C. Jayachandrababu, A. Kindler, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract B1-0290, 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 27- November 1, 2013.

274. Inexpensive Flow Batteries Based on Organic Redox Couples, B. Yang, L. Hoober-Burkhardt, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract B2- 0468, 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 27- November 1, 2013.

275. The Use of Fluorinated Electrolytes in Lithium-Ion Batteries for Improved Safety In Human-Rated Aerospace and Terrestrial Applications, F. C. Krause, M. C. Smart and G. K. S. Prakash, Abstract B10-1032, 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 27- November 1, 2013.

276. Electrophilc amination of aromatics with azide salts, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, E. R. Martinez, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 667, Presented at the Organic Division, 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 16-20, 2014.

277. Synthesis of 3-sustituted isoindolin-1-ones via a tandem Sonogoshira type coupling-heteroannulation: A sustainable approach, S. B. Munoz, A. Aloia, E. Feinberg, K. Shu, E. R. Marinez, T. Mathew, S. Fustero, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 323, Presented at the Organic Division, 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 16-20, 2014.

160 278. Synthesis of 3-sustituted isoindolin-1-ones via a tandem Sonogoshira type coupling-heteroannulation: A sustainable approach, G. K. S. Prakash, A. N. Aloia, E. Feinberg, S. B. Munoz, S. Fustero, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 1085, Presented at the Division of Chemical Education, 247th ACS National Meeting, Dallsas, TX, March 16-20, 2014.

279. Investigation of Various Calcium-Based Transition Metal Oxides Compounds for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media, S. Malkhandi, P. Trinh, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A4-0368, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

280. Cycling Behavior of Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Batteries, A. K. Manohar, C. Yang, S. Malkhandi, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A4-0370, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

281. The Effect of Dispersion of Metal Oxides on Carbon on the Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media, S. Malkhandi, P. Trinh, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A4-0373, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

282. Performance of Sintered Iron Electrodes for Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries for Large Scale Energy Storage, C. Yang, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi), G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A4-0376, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

283. Fundamental Properties of Organic Redox Couples for Aqueous Flow Batteries, L. Hoober-Burkhardt, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A4-0400, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

284. The Development of Electrolytes with Flame Retardant Additives for Multiple Lithium-Ion Chemistries, F. C. Krause, J. P. Jones, J. Soler, C. Hwang, R. V. Bugga, G. K. S. Prakash, and M. C. Smart, Abstract A1- 0034, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 11- 15, 2014.

285. Nucleophilic trifluoromethylations, G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 46, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 10 – 14, 2014.

286. Studies on Long Lived carbocations containing the 4-SF5-phenyl moiety, G. K. S. Prakash, A. Narayanan, K. Kohno, R. Haiges and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 82, Presented at the Fluorine Division, 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 10 – 14, 2014.

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287. Search for stable secondary propargylic carbocations: Observations, discoveries and insights, A. Naryanan, D. Nitsch, T. Bach, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 764, Presented at the Organic Division, 248th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 10 – 14, 2014.

288. Recent Advances in Inexpensive Aqueous Batteries for Large Scale Electrical Energy Storage, S. R. Narayanan, A. K. Manohar, S. Malkhandi, B. Yang, C. Yang, P. Trinh, L. Hoober-Burkhardt, K. M. Kim, and G. K. S. Prakash, Abstract A1-0019, 226th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, October 5 - 9, 2014.

289. Exploitation of the trifluoromethyl group as a conformational stabilizer and probe, G. K. S. Prakash, Z. Zhang, F. Wang, M. Rahm, C. Ni, R. Haiges, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 4, 22nd Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2015.

290. A facile access to fluorinated heterocycles: Fluoro-functionalization of unsaturated 3-substituted isoindolin-1-ones, S. B. Munoz, T. Mathew, S. Fustero and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 8, 22nd Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2015.

291. S-Difluoromethylation of thiols using the Ruppert-Prakash Reagent

(TMSCF3), G. K. S. Prakash, S. Krishnammorthy, S. Kar and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 16, 22nd Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL, January 11-16, 2015.

292. Photochemistry of trifluoromethylated 2-nitrobenzyl alcohols, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Belligund, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 579, Presented at the Organic Division, 249th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

293. Photochemistry of o-nitroarenes: Trifluoromethylated O-nitrobenzyl systems as efficient photosynthons for slective trifluoromethylated arenes and heteroarenes, G. K. S. Prakash, K. Belligund, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 227, Presented at the Organic Division, 249th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

294. Regioselective synthesis of chloro/bromostyrenes: Chloro/bromotrimethylsilane-nitrate salt as efficient reagent system, G. K. S. Prakash, L. Gurung, T. Mathew and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 228, Presented at the Organic Division, 249th ACS National Meeting, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

295. Properties of Redox Couples for Use in Organic Redox Flow Batteries, L. Hoober-Brookhardt, B, Yang, S. Krishnamoorthy, G. K. S. Prakash and S.

162 R. Narayanana, Abstract A03-0704, 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 24-28, 2015.

296. Effect of Sulfide Additives on the Cycling Behavior of Iron Electrodes in Alkaline Batteries, A. K. Maohar, C. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Naryanan, Abstract A03-0670, 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 24-28, 2015.

297. Performance of Rechargeable Sintered Electrodes for Large-Scale Energy Storage, C. Ynag, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Naryanan, Abstract A03-0673, 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 24-28, 2015.

298. Evalution of Performance of an Iron-Chloride Redox Battery for Large Scale Energy Storage, A. K. Manohar, K. M. Kim, E. J. Pichita, M. A. Hendrickson, S. Rawlings, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A03-0683, 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 24- 28, 2015.

299. Properties of Nickel-Iron Batteries with High-Performance Iron Electrodes, C. Yang, A. K. Manohar, G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Abstract A0702 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 24-28, 2015.

300. Solid CO2 adsorbent based on linear polyethylene and nanosilica for improved desorption kinetics, H. Zhang, A. Goeppert, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 12, Presented at the Division of Energy and Fuels, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 16-20, 2015.

301. Ruthenium PNP-pincer complex-catalyzed amine-free reversible hydrogen storage in formate salts without ph control or solvent, J. Kothandaraman, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, R. M. Haiges, J-P. Jones, R. May, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 359, Presented at the Division of Energy and Fuels, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 16- 20, 2015.

302. Dry reforming of methane over NiO-MOx/MgO catalysts, H. Duong, M. Czaun, A. Goeppert, S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 268, Presented at the Division of Catalysis Science and Technology, 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2016.

303. Generation of hydrogen from formic acid in the presence of ruthenium- containing catalysts, M. Czaun, J. Kothandaraman, R. Haiges, S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper no. 177, Presented at the the Division of Energy and Fuels, 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2016.

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304. Trifluoromethyl ether and trifluoromethyl thioether synthesis by silver catalyzed decarboxylative fluorination, S. Krishnamoorthy, S. Schnell, H. Duong and S. Prakash, Paper No. 21, Presented at the Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 251st ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 13-17, 2016.

305. The Effect of Catalyst Layer Deposition Thickness on DMFC Performance via the Drawdown Method, D. Glass, G.K.S. Prakash, G.A. Olah, Paper No, 2069, 229th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 29- June 2, 2017.

306. Metal free difluorination-hydroxylation of isoindolin-1-ones: Facile access

to –CF2- containing heterocycles, S. Munoz, T. Mathew, G. A. Olah and S. Prakash, Paper No. 583, Presented at the Organic Division, 252nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 21-25, 2016.

307. Use of TMSCF 3 for gem-difluoroolefination of carbonyl compounds: The right conditions, S. Krishnamoorthy, J. Kothandaraman, J. Saldana and S. Prakash, Paper No. 344, Presented at the Organic Division, 252nd ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 21-25, 2016.

308. Understanding Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Activity of Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts in Oxygen Reduction Reaction, P. Trinh, S. Malkhandi, A. K. Manohar, A. Manivannan. G. K. S. Prakash and S. R. Narayanan, Paper No. A01-0052, Batteries and Energy Technology, General Session, Presented at PRiME 2016, Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 2-7, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii.

309. The Effect of pH on the Reduction of Graphene Oxide in Regards to the Structure and ORR Capabilities in Alkaline Media, D. Glass, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. A01-0052, Batteries and Energy Technolgy, General Session, Presented at PRiME 2016, Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 2-7, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii.

310. Organic Redox Flow Batteries for large-scale enrgy storage, L. Hoober- Burkhardt, B. Yang, S. Krishnamoorthy, A. Murali, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Paper No. A01-0035, Batteries and Energy Technology, General Session, Presented at PRiME 2016, Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 2-7, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii.

311. Investigation of nucleophilic difluoromethylation using the Ruppert- Prakash reagent, S. Krishnammoorthy and S. G. Prakash, Paper No. 18,

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312. 3-Difluoroalkyl-3-hydroxy-isoindolin-1-ones: Improved synthesis of a versatile scaffold, S. Munoz, V. Krishnamurti, G. A. Olah and S. G. Prakash, Paper No. 23, 23rd Winter Fluorine Meeting, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 15-20, 2017.

313. New trifluoromethylated organics: A photochemical approach, T. Mathew, K. Belligund, S. G. Prakash and G. A. Olah, Paper No. 67, 23rd Winter Fluorine Meeting, Clearwater Beach, Florida, January 15-20, 2017.

314. Halotrimethylsilane-nitrate salts: An efficient reagent system for versatile synthetic applications, T. Mathew, S. Roshandel, L. Gurung, G. K. S. Prakash and G. A. Olah, ORGN-96, Presented at the Organic Division, 253rd ACS National Meeting, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA.

315. Halogenation and ipso-nitration of cinnamic acids, S. Roshandel, L. Gurung T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash. and G. A. Olah, Paper No. ORGN- 144, Presented at the Organic Division, 253rd ACS National Meeting, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA.

316. The Effect of Catalyst Layer Deposition Thickness on DMFC Performance via the Drawdown Method, D. Glass, G.K.S. Prakash, G.A. Olah, PROF- 24, Presented at the Professional Relations Division, 253rd ACS National Meeting, April 2-6, 2017, San Francisco, CA.

317. o-Nitrotrifluoromethyl benzylic alcohols as green synthons towards new trifluoromethylated aromatics. K. Belligund, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Olah, GC&E 318, Presented in the 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 13-15, 2017, Reston, VA.

318. Direct gem-difluorination-hydroxylation of enamides: Facile entry to CF2- containing heterocycles, S. B. Munoz, V. Krishnamurti, P. B. Fernandez, T. Mathew, G. Olah, G. K. S. Prakash, GC&E 319, Presented in the 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 13-15, 2017, Reston, VA.

319. Recent advances in sustainable fluoroalkylation, T. Mathew, G. K. S. Prakash, G. Olah, GC&E 320, Presented in the 21st Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 13-15, 2017, Reston, VA.

320. Relay catalysis approach for the synthesis of 3-ethoxy-1-H- isoindoles. J.E. Aguilar-Romero, S.B. Munoz, V. Krishnamurti, G.S. Prakash, CHED 227, Presented the Chemical Education Division, 254th ACS National Meeting, August 20- 24, 2017, Washington, DC.

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321. Oxidative C(sp2)–H trifluoromethylation of enamides using TMSCF3. S.B. Munoz, V. Krishnamurti, G.S. Prakash, ORGN-334, Presented at the Organic Division, 254th ACS National Meeting, August 20- 24, 2017, Washington, DC.

322. C–H trifluoromethylation of enamides: An oxidative approach. V. Krishnamurti, S.B. Munoz, G.S. Prakash, ORGN-593, Presented at the Organic Division, 254th ACS National Meeting, August 20- 24, 2017, Washington, DC.

323. Graphene Oxide as a Catalyst Support for Metal Catalysts and Catalyst Layer Preparation: Cutting Corners with Hummer’s Method, D. Glass, V. Galvan and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1735, General Electrocatalysis Session 2, 233rd ECS Meeting, May 13-17, 2018. Seattle, WA

324. Preparation and Characterization of Palladium Supported on Reduced Graphene Oxide for the Electrooxidation of Formate in the Alkaline Medium, V. Galvan, D. Glass and G. K. S. Prakash, Paper No. 1731, General Electrocatalysis Session 1, 233rd ECS Meeting, May 13-17, 2018. Seattle, WA.

325. Understanding and Mitigating Capacity Fade in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries, A. Murali, A. Nirmalchandar, S. Krishnamoorthy, L. Hoober-Burkhardt, B. Yang, G. K. S. Prakash, and S. R. Narayanan, Paper No. 242, Battery and Energy Storage Session, 233rd ECS Meeting, May 13-17, 2018. Seattle, WA.

326. CO2 capture and recycling (CCR): New silica supported polyamine based solid absorbents for efficient CO2 absorption. T. Mathew, L. Gurung, G. S. Prakash, Presented at the Energy and Fuel Division, ENFL 70, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

327. H-SAPO-34 catalyzed low-temperature single step conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons via in-situ chlorine or bromine monohalogenation. P.T. Batamack, T. Mathew, G. S. Prakash, Presented at the Energy and Fuel Division, ENFL 100, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

328. Phosphine-based reagent system for deoxofluorination. S.B. Munoz, H. Dang, V. Krishnamurti, G. S. Prakash, ORGN 9, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

- 329. Trifluoromethyl anion (CF3 ): What we do and do not know. F. Wang, Z. Zhang, R.M. Haiges, M. Rahm, K.O. Christe, T. Mathew, G. S. Prakash,

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330. Catalyst and solvent free microwave-assisted synthesis of substituted 1,2,3- triazoles. S. Roshandel, S.C. Suri, J.C. Marcischak, G. Rasul, G. S. Prakash, ORGN 606, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

331. Siladifluoromethylation of phosphorus compounds using TMSCF3: Accessing a new class of fluorinated phosphorus reagents with a range of potential applications. C. Barrett, V. Krishnamurti, G. S. Prakash, ORGN 609, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

332. Direct C(sp2-H) trifluoromethylation of enamides and pyridinones using TMSCF3. V. Krishnamurti, S.B. Munoz, G. S. Prakash, ORGN 611, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

333. Superelectrophilic activation of trifluoromethylaldimine to perform Friedel-Crafts reaction. A. Nirmalchandar, S. Roshandel, H.E. Vaghoo, T. Mathew, G. S. Prakash, ORGN 613, Presented at the Organic Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

334. Integrative CO2 capture and hydrogenation to methanol with reusable catalyst and amine: Toward a carbon neutral methanol economy. S. Kar, R. Sen, A. Goeppert, S. G. Prakash, I&EC 16, Presented at the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division, 256th ACS National Meeting, August 19- 23, 2018, Boston, MA.

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