Hartwig veröffentlichte mehr als 300 Arbeiten in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften, mehr als 10 Patente und folgende Monografien:
John F. Hartwig: Synthesis and reactivity of compounds containing ruthenium-carbon, -nitrogen, and -oxygen bonds. Thesis (Ph.D.), University of California, Berkeley, 1990
John F. Hartwig: Organotransition Metal Chemistry. From Bonding to Catalysis. University Science Books, Mill Valley, California 2010, ISBN 1-891389-53-X, ISBN 978-1-891389-53-5 (Überarbeitung des Lehrbuchs von James P. Collman u. a.: Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry. University Science Books, Mill Valley, California 1980, ISBN 0-935702-03-2, ISBN 0-19-855703-5; 2. Auflage 1987)
↑John F. Hartwig, Maitland Jones Jr., Robert A. Moss und Witold Ławrynowicz: A Photochemical Source of Dibromo- and Dichlorocarbene. A Cautionary Tale Regarding the Stereochemistry of Dibromocarbene Addition Reactions. In: Tetrahedron Letters. Band 27, Nr. 49, 1986, S. 5907–5910, doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)85359-9
↑John F. Hartwig und Stephen J. Lippard: DNA Binding Properties of cis-[Pt(NH3)(C6H11NH2)Cl2], a Metabolite of an Orally Active Platinum Anticancer Drug. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Band 114, Nr. 14, 1992, S. 5646–5654, doi:10.1021/ja00040a026; John F. Hartwig, Pieter M. Pil und Stephen J. Lippard: Synthesis and DNA-Binding Properties of a Cisplatin Analogue Containing a Tethered Dansyl Group. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Band 114, Nr. 21, 1992, S. 8292–8293, doi:10.1021/ja00047a051
↑Originalarbeiten: Frederic Paul, Joe Patt und John F. Hartwig: Palladium-Catalyzed Formation of Carbon-Nitrogen Bonds. Reaction Intermediates and Catalyst Improvements in the Hetero Cross-Coupling of Aryl Halides and Tin Amides. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Band 116, Nr. 13, 1994, S. 5969–5970, doi:10.1021/ja00092a058; Anil S. Guram und Stephen L. Buchwald: Palladium-Catalyzed Aromatic Aminations with in situ Generated Aminostannanes. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Band 116, Nr. 17, 1994, S. 7901–7902, doi:10.1021/ja00096a059
↑Huiyuan Chen, Sabine Schlecht, Thomas C. Semple und John F. Hartwig: Thermal, Catalytic, Regiospecific Functionalization of Alkanes. In: Science. Band 287, Nr. 5460, 17. März 2000, S. 1995–1997, doi:10.1126/science.287.5460.1995
↑Janis Louie und John F. Hartwig: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Arylamines from Aryl Halides. Mechanistic Studies Lead to Coupling in the Absence of Tin Reagents. In: Tetrahedron Letters. Band 36, Nr. 21, 22. Mai 1995, S. 3609–3612, doi:10.1016/0040-4039(95)00605-C; Michael S. Driver und John F. Hartwig: A Second-Generation Catalyst for Aryl Halide Amination: Mixed Secondary Amines from Aryl Halides and Primary Amines Catalyzed by (DPPF)PdCl2. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Band 118, Nr. 30, 1996, S. 7217–7218, doi:10.1021/ja960937t; John F. Hartwig: Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reductive Eliminations of Amines, Ethers, and Sulfides. In: Accounts of Chemical Research. Band 31, Nr. 12, 1998, S. 852–860, doi:10.1021/ar970282g; John F. Hartwig, Motoi Kawatsura, Sheila I. Hauck, Kevin H. Shaughnessy und Luis M. Alcazar-Roman: Room-Temperature Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Bromides and Chlorides and Extended Scope of Aromatic C−N Bond Formation with a Commercial Ligand. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Band 64, Nr. 15, 1999, S. 5575–5580, doi:10.1021/jo990408i; Noriyasu Kataoka, Quinetta Shelby, James P. Stambuli und John F. Hartwig: Air Stable, Sterically Hindered Ferrocenyl Dialkylphosphines for Palladium-Catalyzed C−C, C−N, and C−O Bond-Forming Cross-Couplings. In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Band 67, Nr. 16, 2002, S. 5553–5566, doi:10.1021/jo025732j