Adam M. Johns Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry   Email: ajohns@jsd.claremont.edu Office: Keck Science Center 227 Phone: 909-607-8275 Office Hours: M-F: 9-10am, T/Th:1-2pm Web Site:     Courses Taught This Year: Fall CHEM 116L Organic Chemistry Section 4   MWF 11:00-11:50 <> KS 125       Fall CHEM 126L Advanced Lab in Chemistry Section 1   MW 1:15-2:15 <> KS 125       Spring CHEM 117L Organic Chemistry Section 1   MWF 8:00-8:50 <> KS 31       Educational Background: Yale University New Haven, CT Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) 2001 – 2006 Dissertation: Advances in Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroamination: Improvements in Rates, Scope, and Regioselectivity, Thermodynamic Measurements, and Mechanistic Investigations. Advisor: Dr. John F. Hartwig Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA B.A. Chemistry 1997 – 2001 Cum Laude, Honors Thesis: Studies of Reactions Between Cobalt(III) Complexes and 1,1’-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene Thesis Advisor: Dr. Robert P. Pinnell Courses Taught: Organic Chemistry (CHEM116/CHEM117) Research Interests: Organometallic Complexes for Fundamental Small Molecule Transformations Catalytic Mechanisms and Reaction Kinetics Thesis Topics:   Selected Publications List: Click to open new window. 1.   Johns, A. M.; Chmely, S. C.; Hanusa, T. P . (2009). Solution Interaction of Potassium and Calcium Bis(triemthylsilyl)amides; Preparation of Ca[N(SiMe3)2]2 from Dibenzylcalcium. Inorg. Chem.   48 (4): 1380-1384. Article   2.   Tye, J. W.; Weng, Z; Johns, A. M.; Incarvito, C. D.; Hartwig, J. F . (2008). Copper Complexes of Anionic Nitrogen Ligands in the Amidation and Imidation of Aryl Halides. J. Am. Chem. Soc.   130 (30): 9971-9983. Article   3.   Johns, A. M.; Liu, Z.; Hartwig, J. F . (2007). Primary tert- and sec-Allylamines via Palladium-Catalyzed Hydroamination and Allylic Substitution with Hydrazine and Hydroxylamine Derivatives. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.   46 (38): 7259-7261. Article   4.   Johns, A. M.; Utsunomiya, M.; Incarvito, C. D.; Hartwig, J. F . (2006). A Highly Active Palladium Catalyst for Intermolecular Hydroamination. Factors that Control Reactivity and Additions of Functionalized Anilines to Dienes and Vinylarenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc.   128 (6): 1828-1839. Article   5.   Johns, A. M.; Sakai, N.; Ridder, A.; Hartwig, J. F . (2006). Direct Measurement of the Thermodynamics of Vinylarene Hydroamination. J. Am. Chem. Soc.   128 (29): 9306-9307. Article   6.   Johns, A. M.; Tye, J. W.; Hartwig, J. F . (2006). Relative Rates for the Amination of eta-3-Allyl and eta-3-Benzyl Complexes of Palladium. J. Am. Chem. Soc.   128 (50): 16010-16011. Article   7.   Olsen, R. A.; Liu, L.; Ghaderi, N.; Johns, A.; Hatcher, M. E.; Mueller, L. J . (2003). The Amide Rotational Barrier in Picolinamide and Nicotinamide: NMR and Ab Initio Studies. J. Am. Chem. Soc.   125 (33): 10125-10132. Article