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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

John C. Walton is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the field of Chemistry, with a strong focus on Organic Chemistry. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields including Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, and Archeology.

Their research primarily covers topics such as:

  • Free Radicals and Antioxidants
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions

Recent papers by John C. Walton include:

  • "EPR Studies on the Addition of Ligated Boryl Radicals to Carbonyl Compounds," 2020, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • "Dissociations of free radicals to generate protons, electrophiles or nucleophiles: role in DNA strand breaks," 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Genesis and World Chronology," 2022, Kerygma

Other relevant publications in venues where Walton frequently published include:

  • "Free Radical Mediated Oxidative Degradation of Carotenes and Xanthophylls," 2020, Molecules
  • "Sulfur and Phosphorus Oxyacid Radicals," 2022, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

The journals and publication venues where Walton has appeared multiple times include:

  • Kerygma
  • Molecules
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Chemical Society Reviews
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Raphael C. Mordi
  • Olabisi Theresa Ademosun
  • C. O. Ajanaku
  • Ifedolapo O. Olanrewaju
  • Wen Dai

John C. Walton was recognized by being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Free-Radical Chemistry: Structure and Mechanism

    D.C. Nonhebel;J. C. Walton

  • FLIGHT FROM THE TYRANNY OF TIN : THE QUEST FOR PRACTICAL RADICAL SOURCES FREE FROM METAL ENCUMBRANCES

    Paul A. Baguley;John C. Walton

  • N-Heterocyclic Carbene Boryl Radicals: A New Class of Boron-Centered Radical

    Shau-Hua Ueng;Andrey Solovyev;Xinting Yuan;Steven J Geib

  • Programming Organic Molecules: Design and Management of Organic Syntheses through Free-Radical Cascade Processes.

    Andrew J. McCarroll;John C. Walton

  • EPR Studies of the Generation, Structure, and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Borane Radicals

    John C. Walton;Malika Makhlouf Brahmi;Louis Fensterbank;Emmanuel Lacôte

  • Oxidative degradation of β-carotene and β-Apo-8'-carotenal

    Raphael C. Mordi;John C. Walton;Graham W. Burton;Lise Hughes

  • Conceptual and Synthetic Strategies for the Preparation of Organic Magnets

    Joe A Crayston;John N Devine;John C Walton

  • The importance of polarity and steric effects in determining the rate and orientation of free radical addition to olefins

    John M. Tedder;John C. Walton

  • Desalination coupled with salinity-gradient solar ponds

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  • The kinetics and orientation of free-radical addition to olefins

    John M. Tedder;John C. Walton

  • The oxime portmanteau motif: released heteroradicals undergo incisive EPR interrogation and deliver diverse heterocycles.

    John Christopher Walton

  • Microwave-assisted syntheses of N-heterocycles using alkenone-, alkynone- and aryl-carbonyl O-phenyl oximes: formal synthesis of neocryptolepine.

    Fernando Portela-Cubillo;Jackie S. Scott;John C. Walton

  • Unconventional titania photocatalysis: direct deployment of carboxylic acids in alkylations and annulations.

    David W. Manley;Roy T. McBurney;Phillip Miller;Russell F. Howe

  • Evolution of functional cyclohexadiene-based synthetic reagents : The importance of becoming aromatic

    John C Walton;Armido Studer

  • Microwave-promoted syntheses of quinazolines and dihydroquinazolines from 2-aminoarylalkanone O-phenyl oximes.

    Fernando Portela-Cubillo;Jackie S. Scott;John C. Walton

  • UV promoted phenanthridine syntheses from oxime carbonate derived iminyl radicals.

    Roy T. McBurney;Alexandra M. Z. Slawin;Laura A. Smart;Yanping Yu

  • Electron paramagnetic resonance and computational studies of radicals derived from boron-substituted N-heterocyclic carbene boranes.

    John C. Walton;Malika Makhlouf Brahmi;Julien Monot;Julien Monot;Louis Fensterbank

  • Free Radical Mediated Oxidative Degradation of Carotenes and Xanthophylls

    Raphael C. Mordi;Olabisi T. Ademosun;Christiana O. Ajanaku;Ifedolapo O. Olanrewaju

  • Homolytic Substitution: A Molecular Ménage à Trois

    John C. Walton

  • The Influence of Boryl Substituents on the Formation and Reactivity of Adjacent and Vicinal Free Radical Centers

    John C. Walton;Andrew J. McCarroll;Qiao Chen;Bertrand Carboni, ,‡ and

  • Exploratory study of β-carotene autoxidation

    Raphael C. Mordi;John C. Walton;Graham W. Burton;Lise Hughes

  • Microwave-assisted preparations of dihydropyrroles from alkenone O-phenyl oximes

    Fernando Portela-Cubillo;Jackie S. Scott;John C. Walton

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith U. Ingold
Keith U. Ingold National Research Council Canada
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin University of St Andrews
Frank D. Gunstone
Frank D. Gunstone University of St Andrews
Dennis P. Curran
Dennis P. Curran University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Mills
Andrew Mills Queen's University Belfast
Armido Studer
Armido Studer University of Münster
David J. Cole-Hamilton
David J. Cole-Hamilton University of St Andrews
Derek A. Pratt
Derek A. Pratt University of Ottawa
Louis Fensterbank
Louis Fensterbank Sorbonne University
Max Malacria
Max Malacria Sorbonne University

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