Mark D. Watson's Selected Publications

  1. Wang, Y.; Parkin, S. R.; Gierschner, J.; Watson, M.D. “Highly Fluorinated Benzobisbenzothiophenes” Org. Lett. 2008, ASAP.
  2. Dutta, T.; Woody, K.B.; Watson, M.D. “Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Poly (phenylene ethynylene)s with Alternating Aryl-Perfluoroaryl Units” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 452-3
  3. Woody, K.B.; Bullock, J.E.; Parkin, S.R.; Watson, M.D. "Alternating Arene-Perfluoroarene Poly (phenylene ethynylene)s" Macromolecules 2007, 40, 4470-73.
  4. Wang, Y.; Watson, M.D. “Transition-Metal-Free Synthesis of Alternating Thiophene-Perfluoroarene Copolymers” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006 128, 8, 2536-37.
  5. Cho, D.M.; Parkin, S.R.; Watson, M.D. "Partial Fluorination Overcomes Herringbone Crystal Packing in Small Polycyclic Aromatics"  Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 1067-8.
  6. Pisula, W.; Tomovic, Z.; El Hamaoui, B.; Watson, M.D.; Pakula, T.; Muellen, K.  "Control of the Homeotropic Order of Discotic Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes" Adv. Func. Mater. 2005, 15, 893-904.
  7. Wasserfallen, D.; Fischbach, I.; Chebotareva, N.; Kastler, M.; Pisula, W.; Jaeckel, F.; Watson, M.D.; Schnell, I.; Rabe, J.; Spiess, H.W.; Muellen, K.  “Influence of Hydrogen Bonds on the Supramolecular Order of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes” Adv. Func. Mater. 2005; 15, 1585-94
  8. Wu, J.; Fechtenkötter, A.; Gauss, J.; Watson, M.D.; Kastler, M.; Fechtenkötter, C.; Wagner, M.; Müllen, K. "Controlled Self-Assembly of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes in Solution" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 11311-21.
  9. Wu, J.; Watson, M.D.; Tchebotareva, N.; Wang, Z.; Müllen, K. "Oligomers of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene as 'Super-Oligophenylenes':  Synthesis, Electronic Properties, and Self-Assembly" J. Org. Chem., 2004, 69, 8194-8204.
  10. Samori, P.; Yin, Y.; Tchebotareva, N.; Wang, Z.; Pakula, T.; Jäckel, F.; Watson, M.D.; Venturini, A.; Müllen, K.; Rabe, J.P. "Self-assembly of electron donor - acceptors dyads into ordered architectures in 2 and 3 dimensions: surface patterning and columnar 'double cables' "  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 3567-75.
  11. Simpson, C.D.; Wu, J.; Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K. "From Graphite Molecules to Columnar Superstructures - an Exercise in Nanoscience" J. Mater. Chem. 2004, 14, 494-504.
  12. Tomovic, Z.; Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K. "Superphenalene-Based Columnar Liquid Crystals"  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Eng. 2004, 43, 755-58.
  13. Wang, Z.; Watson, M.D.; Wu, J. Müllen, K. "Partially Stripped Insulated Nanowires: A Lightly Substituted Hexa-peri- hexabenzocoronene-Based Columnar Liquid Crystal" Chem Comm, 2004, 3, 336-37.
  14. Watson, M.D.; Jäckel, F.; Severin, N.; Rabe, J.P.; Müllen, K. "A Hexa-peri- hexabenzocoronene Cyclophane: An Addition to the Toolbox for Molecular Electronics"  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 1402-07.
  15. Watson, M.D.; Debije, M. G.; Warman, J. M.; Müllen, K. "Peralkylated Coronenes via Regiospecific Hydrogenation of Hexa-peri- hexabenzocoronenes"  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 766-71.
  16. Wu, J.; Watson, M.D.; Zhang, L.; Wang, Z.; Müllen, K. "Hexakis (4-iodophenyl) -peri- hexabenzocoronene- A Versatile Building Block for Highly Ordered Discotic Liquid Crystalline Materials"  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 177-86.
  17. Wu, J.; Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K. "The Versatile Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Star-type Hexabenzocoronenes"  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Eng. 2003, 42(43) 5329-33.
  18. Friedlein, R.; Crispin, X.; Simpson, C.D.; Jäckel, F.; Osikowicz, W.; Marciniak, S.;de Jong, M.P.; Jönsson, S.K.M.; Samorí, P.; Fahlman, M.; Watson, M.; Müllen, K.; Rabe, J.P.;  Salaneck, W.R. "Electronic structure of highly-order films of self-assembled graphitic nano-columns" Phys. Rev. B 2003, 68, 195414.
  19. Piris, J.; Debije, M.G.; Stutzmann, N.; van de Craats, A.M.; Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K.; Warman, J.M. "Anisotropy in the Mobility and Photogeneration of Charge Carriers in Thin Films of Discotic Hexabenzocoronenes, Columnarly Self-Assembled on Friction-Deposited PTFE" Adv. Mater. 2003, 15(20), 1736-40.
  20. Wu, J.;  Gherghel, L.; Watson, M.D.; Wang, Z.; Müllen, K. "From branched polyphenylenes to graphite ribbons" Macromolecules 2003,36, 7082-89.
  21. Tchebotareva, Natalia; Yin, Xiaomin; Watson, Mark D.; Samori, Paolo; Rabe, Juergen P.; Müllen, Klaus. "Ordered Architectures of a Soluble Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-Pyrene Dyad: Thermotropic Bulk Properties and Nanoscale Phase Segregation at Surfaces." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125(32), 9734-9739.
  22. Kubowicz, Stephan; Pietsch, Ullrich; Watson, Mark D.; Tchebotareva, Natalia; Müllen, Klaus; Thünemann, Andreas F. "Thin Layers of Columns of an Amphiphilic Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene at Silicon Wafer Surfaces." Langmuir 2003, 19(12), 5036-5041.
  23. Hassheider, Thomas; Benning, Stephan A.; Lauhof, Marcus W.; Oesterhaus, Reinhold; Alibert-Fouet, Sonia; Bock, Harald; Goodby, John W.; Watson, Mark D.; Müllen, Klaus; Kitzerow, Heinz-Siegfried. "Electroluminescence and photovoltaic effects using columnar mesogenic compounds." Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering 2003, 5003 (Liquid Crystal Materials, Devices, and Applications IX), 167-174.
  24. Tracz, Adam; Jeszka, Jeremiasz K.; Watson, Mark D.; Pisula, Wojciech; Müllen, Klaus; Pakula, Tadeusz. "Uniaxial Alignment of the Columnar Super-Structure of a Hexa(Alkyl) Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene on Untreated Glass by Simple Solution Processing." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125(7), 1682-1683.
  25. Thünemann, Andreas F.; Kubowicz, Stephan; Burger, Christian; Watson, Mark D.; Tchebotareva, Natalia; Müllen, Klaus. "a-Helical-within-Discotic Columnar Structures of a Complex between Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(L-lysine) and a Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125(2), 352-356.
  26. Liu, Chong-yang; Fechtenkötter, Andreas; Watson, Mark D.; Müllen, K.; Bard, Allen J. "Room Temperature Discotic Liquid Crystalline Thin Films of Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene: Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties." Chem. Mater. 2003, 15(1), 124-130.
  27. van de Craats, A.M.; Stutzmann, N.; Bunk, O.; Nielsen,  M.M.; Watson, M.; Mullen, K.; Chanzy, H.D.; Sirringhaus, H.; Friend, R.H. "Meso-epitaxial solution-growth of self-organizing discotic liquid-crystalline semiconductors" Adv. Mater. 2003, 15,  495-99.
  28. Fleming, A.J.; Coleman, J.N.; Dalton, A.B.; Fechtenköter, A.; Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K.; Byrne, H.J.; Blau, W.J. “Optical Spectroscopy of isolated and aggregate hexabenzocoronene derivatives:  A study of self-assembling molecular nanowires"  J. Phys. Chem. B. 2003, 107, 37-43.
  29. Grimsdale, A.C.; Bauerr, R.; Weil, T.; Tchebotareva, N.; Wu, J.; Watson, M.; Muellen, K. “The Chemical Desymmetrisation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Polyphenylenes as a Key Step to Functional Nanoparticles” Synthesis-Stuttgart 2002, 9, 1229-38.
  30. Keil, M.; Samori, P.; dos Santos, D.A.; Birgerson, J.; Friedlein, R.; Dkhissi, A.; Watson, M.; Mullen, K.; Bredas, J.L.; Rabe, J.P.; Salaneck, W.R. “High levels of alkali-metal storage in thin films of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene” J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 116, 10854-60.
  31. Kestemont, G.; de Halleux, V.; Lehmann, M.; Ivanov, D.A.; Watson, M.; Geerts, Y.H. “Discotic mesogens with potential electron carrier properties” Chem. Commun. 2001, 2074-75.
  32. Watson, Mark D.; Fechtenkötter, Andreas; Müllen, Klaus. "Big Is Beautiful-"Aromaticity" Revisited from the Viewpoint of Macromolecular and Supramolecular Benzene Chemistry." Chem. Rev. 2001, 101(5), 1267-1300.
  33. Fechtenkötter, A.; Tchebotareva, N.; Watson, M.; Müllen, K. “Discotic Liquid Crystalline Hexabenzocoronenes Carrying Chiral and Racemic Branched Alkyl Chains:  Supramolecular Engineering and Improved Synthetic Methods” Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 3769-83.
  34. Watson, Mark D.; Wagener, Kenneth B. "Functionalized Polyethylene via Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization: Effect of Precise Placement of Functional Groups." Macromolecules 2000, 33(24), 8963-8970.
  35. Watson, Mark D.; Wagener, Kenneth B. "Ethylene/Vinyl Acetate Copolymers via Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization. Examining the Effect of "Long" Precise Ethylene Run Lengths." Macromolecules 2000, 33(15), 5411-5417.
  36. Watson, Mark D.; Wagener, Kenneth B. "Tandem Homogeneous Metathesis/Heterogeneous Hydrogenation: Preparing Model Ethylene/CO2 and Ethylene/CO Copolymers." Macromolecules 2000, 33(9), 3196-3201.
  37. Watson, Mark D.; Wagener, Kenneth B. "Solvent-Free Olefin Metathesis Depolymerization of 1,4-Polybutadiene." Macromolecules 2000, 33(5), 1494-1496.
  38. Watson, M.D.; Wagener, K.B. “Acyclic Diene Metathesis (ADMET) Depolymerization:  Ethenolysis of 1,4-Polybutadiene Using a Ruthenium Catalyst” J. Poly. Sci., Poly. Chem. 1999, 37(12), 1857-61.
  39. Brzezinska, Krystyna; Wolfe, Patrick S.; Watson, Mark D.; Wagener, Kenneth B. "Acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization using a well-defined ruthenium based metathesis catalyst." Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 1996, 197(6), 2065-2074.

 

Patents and Disclosures

  1. Wagener, K.B.; Watson, M.D. “Homogeneous Metathesis/Heterogeneous Hydrogenation” United States Patent # 6,107,237. Issued Aug. 22, 2000.
  2. Watson, M.D.; Müllen, K. “Production of Peralkylated Coronenes” German Patent # DE10255363.  Issued 2004.
  3. Watson, M.D. “Transition-metal free coupling of highly fluorinated and non-fluorinated pi-electron systems” Utility Patent Application (# 11/506017).  Filed August 17, 2006.