Alan J. DeHope

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  • Title
    Group Leader, Explosives Performance Research and Technologies Group
  • Email
    dehope2@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 423-1018
  • Organization
    PLS-MSD-MATERIALS SCIENCE DIVISION

Research Interests

  • Energetic materials synthesis, formulation, and testing
  • Aging & Lifetimes of energetic materials
  • Explosives performance & safety

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, 2010

M.S., Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, 2006

B.S., Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, 2005

  1. Environmentally Benign and Scalable Preparation of Diethyl Furoxan-3,4-dicarboxylate Using Silver Carbonate as a Nitrile Oxide Generator Zhang, Mao-Xi; DeHope, Alan J.; Pagoria, Philip. F. Organic Process Research & Development 2019, 23, 2527-2531. 

  1. Effect of counter-ion on packing and crystal density of 5,5'-(3,3'-bi[1,2,4-oxadiazole]-5,5'-diyl)bis(1H-tetrazol-1-olate) with five different cations Giles, Ian D.; De Hope, Alan J.; Zuckerman, Nathaniel B.; Parrish, Damon A.; Pagoria, Philip F. Acta Crystallographica, Section E: Crystallographic Communications 2018, 74, 505-513. 

  1. Statistical analysis of the chemical attribution signatures of 3-methylfentanyl and its methods of production Mayer, Brian P.; Valdez, Carlos A.; De Hope, Alan J.; Spackman, Paul E.; Williams, Audrey M. Talanta 2018, 186, 645-654. 

  1. Synthetic Studies of 2,6-Diamino-3,5-Dinitropyrazine- 1-Oxide (LLM-105) from Discovery to Multi-Kilogram Scale Pagoria, Philip; Zhang, Mao-Xi; Zuckerman, Nathaniel; Lee, Gregory; Mitchell, Alexander; De Hope, Alan; Gash, Alexander; Coon, Clifford; Gallagher, Patrick. Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 2018, 43, 15-27. 

  1. Synthesis and characterization of multicyclic oxadiazoles and 1-hydroxytetrazoles as energetic materials Pagoria, Philip F.; Zhang, Mao-Xi; Zuckerman, Nathaniel B.; De Hope, Alan J.; Parrish, Damon A. Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds 2017, 53, 760-778. 

  1. Chemical Attribution of Fentanyl Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Orthogonal Mass Spectral Data Mayer Brian P; Mew Daniel A; Spackman Paul E; Williams Audrey M; DeHope Alan J. Analytical Chemistry 2016, 88, 4303-4310. 

  1. Searching for Low-Sensitivity Cast-Melt High-Energy-Density Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Decomposition Kinetics of 3,4-Bis(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1,2,5-ozadiazole-2-oxide Roman Tsyhevsky, Philip Pagoria, Maoxi Zhang, Ana Racoveanu, Alan DeHope, Damon Parrish and Maija M. Kuklja; Journal Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119, 3509-3521. 

  1. 3-(4-Amino-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-4-(4-nitro-1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-1,2,5-oxadiazole Philip Pagoria, Maoxi Zhang, Ana Racoveanu, Alan DeHope, Roman Tsyshevsky and Maija M. Kuklja; Molbank, 2014, M824/1-M824/4. 

  1. New polynitro alkylamino furazans  DeHope, Alan; Pagoria, Philip F.; Parrish, Damon.  New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Proceedings of the 16th Seminar, Pardubice, Czech Republic  2013, Pt. 1, 129-135. 

  1. “Green” energetic materials synthesis at LLNL  Pagoria, Philip; DeHope, Alan; Zhang, Mao Xi; Lee, Gregory; Mitchell, Alexander; Leonard, Philip.  New Trends in Research of Energetic Materials, Proceedings of the 15th Seminar, Pardubice, Czech Republic  2012, Pt. 1, 55-65. 

  1. Grubbs and Hoveyda-type ruthenium complexes bearing a cyclic bent-allene  DeHope, Alan; Donnadieu, Bruno; Bertrand, Guy.  Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2011, 696, 2899-2903. 

  1. A persistent (amino)(ferrocenyl)carbene  DeHope, Alan; Mendoza-Espinosa, Daniel; Donnadieu, Bruno; Betrand, Guy.  New Journal of Chemistry 2011, 35, 2037-2042. 

  1. Exocyclic Delocalization at the Expense of Aromaticity in 3,5-bis (π-Donor) Substituted Pyrazolium Ions and Corresponding Cyclic Bent Allenes  Fernandez Israel; Dyker C Adam; DeHope Alan; Donnadieu Bruno; Frenking Gernot; Bertrand Guy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, 11875-11881. 

  1. Recently Reported Crystalline Isothiazole Carbenes: Myth or Reality  DeHope, Alan; Lavallo, Vincent; Donnadieu, Bruno; Schoeller, Wolfgang W.; Bertrand, Guy.  Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2007, 46, 6922-6925. 

  1. A rigid cyclic (alkyl) (amino) carbene ligand leads to isolation of low-coordinate transition-metal complexes Lavallo, Vincent; Canac, Yves; DeHope, Alan; Donnadieu, Bruno; Bertrand, Guy.  Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 2005, 44, 7236-7239.