Professor, Organic and PhysicalChemistry
E-mail: jtanko@vt.edu
Office: 3109 Hahn Hall
Phone: 540-231-6687
Fax: 540-231-3255
Group Web Pages: http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-dept/tanko/start.htm
Education
Ph.D. - Iowa State University, 1979 - 85
B.A. - University of Maryland, 1974 - 78
Postdoctoral - Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 1984 - 86
Research Interests
Kinetics and mechanism, electron transfer reactions, the structure and chemistry of free radicals and radical ions, radical ion rearrangements, oxygen-centered radicals
Selected Publications
- "Cyclopropylcarbinyl-Type Ring Openings. Reconciling the Chemistry of
Neutral Radicals and Radical Anions," Stevenson, J. P.; Jackson, W. F.; Tanko,
J. M., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 4271 - 4281
- "Enhanced Cage Effects in Supercritical Fluid Solvents. The Behavior of Diffusive
and Geminate Caged-Pairs in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide," Tanko, James M.;
Pacut, Ryszard, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 5703
- 5709.
- "tert-Butoxyl as a Model for Radicals in Biological Systems: Caveat Emptor,"
Tanko, J. M.; Friedline, Robert; Suleman, N. Kamrudin; Castagnoli, Neal, Jr.,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 5808 - 5809.
- "Photochemistry in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. The Benzophenone-Mediated
Addition of Aldehydes to a,b-Unsaturated
Carbonyl Compounds, Pacut, R.; Grimm, M. L.; Kraus, G. A.; Tanko, J. M.,
Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 1415 - 1418.
- "Green Chemistry Through the Use of Supercritical Fluids and Free Radicals,"Tanko,
J. M.; Fletcher, B.; Sadeghipour, M.; Suleman, N. K., ACS Symp. Ser.
2000, 767 (Green Chemical Syntheses and Processes), 258 - 269.
- "Rearrangements of Radical Ions: What it Means to be Both a Radical and an
Ion," Tanko, J. M. and Phillips, J. P., J. Am. Chem. Soc.
1999, 121, 6078 - 6079.
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