Publications

Published 

  • Alex J. Roche, Khalil A. Abboud, William R. Dolbier, Jr., “The unexpected formation of  9,9,10,10-tetrafluoro-1,2,4,12-tetraphenyl[2.2]paracyclophan-1-ene”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015, 80(10), 5355-5358.
  • Alex J. Roche “Palladium catalyzed Cross- and Homo-coupling reactions of 4-Halo-1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro[2.2]Paracyclophanes with various Organometallic reagents” Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 175, 2015, 1-5.
  • Alex J. Roche, Sheryl A. Rabinowitz, Kasey A. Cox “Efficient NMR enantiodiscrimination of bridge Fluorinated Paracyclophanes using Lanthanide tris ?-diketonate complexes” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2013, (24), 1382-1388.
  • (BOOK CHAPTER) Dolbier, W. R., Duan, J.-X., Roche, A. J. and Zhang, L. (2013) “Preparation of 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophane and Perfluoro[2.2]paracyclophane”, in Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds (ed. H. W. Roesky), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. Chapter 53: pages 343-348.
  • Alex J. Roche, Alexander A. Marchione  “Discrimination of Pseudo meta and Pseudo para diamino-octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophanes by 1H, 19F, and 13C NMR”  Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2012, 50, 809-812.
  • Luke Burke, Grazia Gonella, Fenton Heirtzler, Hai-Lung Dai, Stephanie Jones, Jon Zubieta and Alex J. Roche, “A Self-assembled, Metalloorganic Supramolecular Frequency Doubler”, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48 (7), 1000 – 1002.
  • Alex J. Roche, Alexander A. Marchione “Investigation of the correlations between 19F and 1H NMR signals for various mono- and di-substituted octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophanes” Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2009, 47, 428-436.
  • Alex J. Roche, Alexander A. Marchione, Sheryl A. Rabinowitz, “Full Multinuclear Resonance Analysis of 4-Amino-1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10 -Octafluoro[2.2]Paracyclophane” Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 2005, 43, 1016-1022.
  • Alex J. Roche, Belgin Canturk, “Suzuki Aryl Cross Coupling Chemistry using Derivatives of 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro[2.2]Paracyclophane” Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (2005), 126(4), 483-490.
  • Alex J. Roche, Belgin Canturk, “An Exploration of Suzuki Aryl Cross Coupling Chemistry Involving [2.2]Paracyclophane Derivatives.” Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2005, 3, 515-519.
  • Alex J. Roche, “Complete Assignment of 19F, 1H and 13C NMR Spectra of Monomers and Precursors Towards Bridge Trifluoromethylated poly(p-phenylenevinylene)” Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry 2004, (42), 944-949.
  • Alex J Roche, Anne D Loyle, Jean-Pierre Pinto, “Preparation of symmetrical and unsymmetrical monomers towards bridge trifluoromethylated poly(p-phenylenevinylene)”. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (2004), 125(10), 1473-1480.

For the papers above in italics, all the co-authors are either undergraduate or masters  students and graduates from Rutgers, Camden.

  • William R. Dolbier, Jr., Jian-Xin Duan and Alex J. Roche, “Process for the preparation of derivatives of Octafluoro[2.2]Paracyclophane”, USP 6,392,097, 2002.
  • Alex J. Roche, Jian-Xin Duan, William R. Dolbier, Jr., and Khalil. A. Abboud, “The First Synthesis and Characterization of Both Diastereomers of a Di[2.2]paracyclophane:4,4′-Bis(1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophane)”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 66, 2001, 7055-7058.
  • Alex J. Roche and William R. Dolbier, Jr., “Multiple Electrophilic Substitution of 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro [2.2] Paracyclophane”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 65, 2000, 5282-5290.
  • William R. Dolbier, Jr., Jian-Xin Duan and Alex J. Roche “A Novel, Non-High Dilution Method for Preparation of 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro[2.2]paracyclophane”, Organic Letters, 2, (13), 2000, 1867-1869.
  • Alex J. Roche and William R. Dolbier, Jr., “Electrophilic Substitution of 1,1,2,2,9,9,10,10-Octafluoro [2.2] Paracyclophane”, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 64, 1999, 9137-9143.
  • A.V. Kachur, W.R. Dolbier Jr., S.M. Evans, C.Y. Shiue, G.G. Shiue, K.A. Skov, I.R. Baird, B.R. James, A.R. Li, A. Roche and C.J. Koch, “Synthesis of new hypoxia markers EF1 and [F-18]-EF1″, Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 51, (6), 1999, 643-650.
  • William R. Dolbier, Jr., Jian-Xin Duan and Alex J. Roche, “Parylene AF4 Synthesis”, USP 5,841,005, 1998.
  • Neil Bartlett, Richard. D Chambers, Alex J. Roche, Robert C. H. Spink, Lisa Chacon and J. Marc Whalen, “ New Fluorination of Organic Compounds using thermodynamically unstable nickel fluorides”, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1996, 1049-1050.
  • Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche and Michael H. Rock, “Cycloaddition reactions involving Hexafluorobut-2-yne and (Z)-2H-Heptafluorobut-2-ene”, Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Trans. 1, 1996, 1095-1100.
  • Richard D. Chambers and Alex J. Roche, “(Z)-2H-Heptafluorobut-2-ene as a Synthon for the Corresponding -Butyne”, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 79, 1996, 139-143.
  • Richard D. Chambers and Alex J. Roche, “Eliminations from (Z)-2H-Heptafluorobut-2-ene”, Journal of Fluorine  Chemistry, 79, 1996, 121-124.
  • Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche and Julian F.S. Vaughan, “Novel By-Products in the Synthesis of (Z)-2H-Heptafluorobut-2-ene”, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 74, 1996, 1925-1929.
  • Richard D. Chambers, Steven J. Mullins, Alex J. Roche and Julian F. S. Vaughan, “Direct Syntheses of Pentakis(trifluoromethyl)cyclopentadienide Salts and related Dienes”, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 841-842.
  • R. D. Chambers, J. F. S. Vaughan, S. J. Mullins, T. Nakamura and A. J. Roche, “Fluorinated Dienes”, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 72, 1995, 231-233.
  • Richard D. Chambers, Alex J. Roche, Andrei S. Batsanov and Judith A. K. Howard, “1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene as a Difunctional Nucleophile”, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 2055-2056.