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  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Hakim, Sikander.  Furanic Resins and Polymers.  In Furfural: An Entry Point of Lignocellulose in Biorefineries to Produce Renewable Chemicals, Polymers, and Biofuels, Eds: Lopez Grandos, Manuel; Alonso, David Martin.  World Scientific Publishing Co, 2018.

  • Abdulrazzaq, Hussein; Schwartz, Thomas J. Catalytic Conversion of Ethanol to Commodity and Specialty Chemicals.  In Ethanol: Science and Engineering, Eds: Basile, Angelo; Iulianelli, Adolfo; Veziroglu, Nejat T.  Elsevier, 2018.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Bond, Jesse Q.  A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analysis of Solvent-enhanced Selectivity in Monophasic and Biphasic Reactor Systems.  Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 8148-8151.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Shanks, Brent H.; Dumesic, James A. Coupling chemical and biological catalysis: A flexible paradigm for producing biorenewable chemicals.  Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2016, 38, 54-62.

Publications at UMaine

For the most up-to-date listing of our publications, please refer to Prof. Schwartz's Google Scholar Page, ORCID Page, or ResearcherID Page.

PUBLICATIONS

Publications at UW-Madison & Earlier

  • Perras, Frédéric A.; Padmos, Daniel; Johnson, Robert L.; Wang, Lin-Lin; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Kobayashi, Takeshi; Horton, J. Hugh; Dumesic, James A.; Shanks, Brent H.; Johnson, Duane D.; Pruski, Marek.  Characterizing Substrate-Surface Interactions on Alumina-Supported Metal Catalysts by DNP-Enhanced Double-Resonance NMR Spectroscopy.  Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 2702-2709.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Lyman, Spencer; Motagamwala, Ali H.; Mellmer, Max A.; Dumesic, James A. Selective Hydrogenation of Unsaturated Carbon−Carbon Bonds in Aromatic-Containing Platform Molecules.  ACS Catalysis 2016, 6, 2047-2054.

  • Johnson, Robert L.; Perras, Frédéric A.; Kobayashi, Takeshi; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Dumesic, James A.; Shanks, Brent; Pruski, Marek.  Identifying Low-Coverage Species on Noble Metal Nanoparticles by DNP-NMR.  Chemical Communications 2016, 52, 1859-1862.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Wesley, Thejas S.; Dumesic, James A. Modifying the Surface Properties of Heterogeneous Catalysts using Polymer-Derived Microenvironments.  Topics in Catalysis 2016, 59, 19-28.

  • Johnson, Robert L.; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Dumesic, James A.; Schmidt-Rohr, Klaus.  Solid State NMR Investigation of Methionine Poisoned Pd/γ-Al2O3 Catalysts.  Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 2015, 72, 64-72.

  • Pham, Hien N.; Anderson, Amanda E.; Johnson, Robert L.; O’Neill, Brandon J.; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Schmidt-Rohr, Klaus; Dumesic, James A.; Datye, Abhaya, K. Carbon Overcoating of Supported Metal Catalysts for Improved Hydrothermal Stability.  ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 4546-4555.

  • Cao, Fei; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Dumesic, James A.; Huber, George W.  Dehydration of Cellulose to Levoglucosenone using Polar Aprotic Solvents.  Energy & Environmental Science 2015, 8, 1808-1815.

  • Xiong, Haifeng; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Anderson, Nalin I.; Dumesic, James A.; Datye, Abhaya, K. Graphitic-Carbon Layers on Oxides: Hydrothermally Stable Heterogeneous Catalysts in Biomass Conversion Reactions.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 54, 7939-7943.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Brentzel, Zachary J.; Dumesic, James A.  Inhibition of Metal Hydrogenation Catalysts by Biogenic Impurities.  Catalysis Letters 2015, 145, 15-22.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Johnson, Robert L.; Cardenas, Javier; Okerlund, Adam; Da Silva, Nancy A.; Schmidt-Rohr, Klaus; Dumesic, James A.  Engineering Catalyst Microenvironments for Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Biologically-Derived Platform Chemicals.  Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 12718-12722.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; O’Neill, Brandon J.; Shanks, Brent H.; Dumesic, James A. Bridging the chemical and biological catalysis gap: Challenges and outlooks for producing sustainable chemicals.  ACS Catalysis 2014, 4, 2060-2069.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Goodman, Samuel M.; Osmundsen, Christian M.; Taarning, Esben; Mozuch, Michael D.; Gaskell, Jill; Cullen, Daniel; Kersten, Philip J.; Dumesic, James A.  Integration of Chemical and Biological Catalysis: Production of Furylglycolic Acid from Glucose via Cortalcerone.  ACS Catalysis 2013, 3, 2689-2693.

  • Chia, Mei; Schwartz, Thomas J.; Shanks, Brent H.; Dumesic, James A. Triacetic Acid Lactone as  Potential Biorenewable Platform Chemical.  Green Chemistry 2012, 14, 1850-1853.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; van Heiningen, Adriaan R.P.; Wheeler, M. Clayton.  Energy Densification of Levulinic Acid by Thermal Deoxygenation.  Green Chemistry 2010, 12, 1353-1356.

  • Schwartz, Thomas J.; Lawoko, Martin.  Removal of Acid-Soluble Lignin from Biomass Extracts using Amberlite XAD-4 Resin.  Bioresources 2010, 5, 2337-2347.

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