Current address (March 2004): Roche Palo Alto LLC, Palo Alto CA 94304. e-mail: jason.manka@roche.com

1. Manka, J. T.; Douglass, A. G.; Kaszynski, P.; Friedli, A. C. "Retro Diels-Alder Reactions of 5,6-Disubstituted-7-Oxabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-enes: Experimental and Density Functional Theory Studies", J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 5202-5206.

2. Jason T. Manka and Piotr Kaszynski "Synthesis and Thiolation of 1,3-Difluoro-2,4,6-trihaloanilines and Benzenes", J. Fluorine Chem. 2003, 124, 39-43.

3. Manka, J. T.; Guo, F.; Huang, J.; Yin, H.; Farrar, J. M.; Sienkowska, M.; Benin, V.; Kaszynski, P. "Synthesis of Poly-Functionalized Biphenyls as Intermediates For a New Class of Liquid Crystals", J. Org. Chem. 2003, 68, 9574-9588.

4. Manka, J. T.; McKenzie, V. C.; Kaszynski P. "Azo Group-assisted Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitutions in Haloarene Derivatives: Preparation of Substituted 1-Iodo-2,6-bispropylthiobenzenes", J. Org. Chem. 2004, 69, 1967-1971.