Recent Publications
Below are recent notable publications by Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members and their groups (May 2020 to present).
Oct 11 | Nanoengineered Antiviral Fibrous Arrays with Rose-Thorn-Inspired Architectures - ACS Materials Lett. Amir Nasajpour, Mohamadmahdi Samandari, Chandrashekhar D. Patil, Reza Abolhassani, Rahul K. Suryawanshi, Rainer Adelung, Horst-Günter Rubahn, Ali Khademhosseini, Yogendra Kumar Mishra, Deepak Shukla, Ali Tamayol, and Paul S. Weiss*. This publication was highlighted in Nanowerk.
Sept 27 | A shared mechanistic pathway for pyridoxal phosphate–dependent arginine oxidases – Proc. Natl. Acad. Elesha R. Hoffarth, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, Eugene Kuatsjah, Gregory A. MacNeil, Simran Saroya, Charles J. Walsby, Lindsay D. Eltis, K. N. Houk*, Marc Garcia-Borràs, and Katherine S. Ryan.
Sept 25 | On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Professor Yitai Qian: Celebrating 60 years of innovation in solid-state chemistry and nanoscience – Nano Res. Shu-Hong Yu, Xiangfeng Duan*, Yi Xie, Peidong Yang & Yadong Li.
Sept 24 | Breaking a dative bond with mechanical forces – Nat. Commun. Pengcheng Chen, Dingxin Fan, Yunlong Zhang, Annabella Selloni, Emily A. Carter*, Craig B. Arnold, David C. Dankworth, Steven P. Rucker, James R. Chelikowsky & Nan Yao.
Sept 20 | Profilin and Mical combine to impair F-actin assembly and promote disassembly and remodeling - Nature Comm. Elena E. Grintsevich, Giasuddin Ahmed, Anush A. Ginosyan, Heng Wu, Shannon K. Rich, Emil Reisler* & Jonathan R. Terman.
Sept 20 | Methods for the Extraction of Heme Prosthetic Groups from Hemoproteins – BioProtoc. Kat Ellis-Guardiola, Kat Ellis-Guardiola, Jess Soule, Jess Soule, Robert T. Clubb*.
Sept 20 | Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed Enantioselective Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Styrene Oxides with Aryl Iodides – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Sii Hong Lau, Meredith A. Borden, Talia J. Steiman, Lucy S. Wang, Marvin Parasram, and Abigail G. Doyle*.
Sept 20 | Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals for X-ray Imaging – Adv. Mater. Mingxi Chen, Lingjie Sun, Xiangyu Ou, Huanghao Yang, Xiaogang Liu, Huanli Dong, Wenping Hu, Xiangfeng Duan*.
Sept 17 | Silver nanoparticles boost charge-extraction efficiency in Shewanella microbial fuel cells – Science. Bocheng Cao, Zipeng Zhao, Lele Peng, Hui-Ying Shiu, Mengning Ding, Frank Song, Xun Guan, Calvin K. Lee, Jin Huang, Dan Zhu, Xiaoyang Fu, Gerard C. L. Wong*, Chong Liu*, Kenneth Nealson, Paul S. Weiss*, Xiangfeng Duan*, and Yu Huang. Click here to read article about the research.
Sept 16 | The expanding amyloid family: Structure, stability, function, and pathogenesis [Review] – Cell. Michael R. Sawaya, Michael P. Hughes, Jose A. Rodriguez*, Roland Riek, David S. Eisenberg*.
Sept 14 | Responsive Nanoparticles to Enable a Focused Ultrasound-Stimulated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spotlight – ACS Nano. Tian Deng, Le Zhang, Xinzhou Li, Jeffrey I. Zink*, and Holden H. Wu.
Sept 14 | Experimental Perspectives on Direct Visualization of Endosomal Rupture – ChemBioChem. Rachael A. Day, Ellen M. Sletten*.
Sept 13 | Spatiotemporal Control of Biology: Synthetic Photochemistry Toolbox with Far-Red and Near-Infrared Light - ACS Chem. Biol. Shang Jia and Ellen M. Sletten*.
Sept 13 | Cryo-EM structures of hIAPP fibrils seeded by patient-extracted fibrils reveal new polymorphs and conserved fibril cores – Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. Qin Cao, David R. Boyer, Michael R. Sawaya, Romany Abskharon, Lorena Saelices, Binh A. Nguyen, Jiahui Lu, Kevin A. Murray, Fouad Kandeel & David S. Eisenberg*.
Sept 13 | Nanoscale Extracellular Vesicles Carry the Mechanobiology Signatures of Breast Cancer Cells – ACS Nano. Michael LeClaire, James A. Wohlschlegel, Helena Chang, Madhuri Wadehra, Weibo Yu, JianYu Rao, David Elashoff, James K. Gimzewski*, and Shivani Sharm.
Sept 12 | Total Syntheses of (+)-Peniciketals A-B and (−)-Diocollettines A Exploiting a Photoisomerization/Cyclization Union Protocol – J. Org. Chem. Yifan Deng, Yike Zou, Chia-Ping H. Yang, K. N. Houk*, and Amos B. Smith III.
Sept 10 | Ambiphilic Reactivity of Vinyl Pd-Oxyallyl for Expeditious Construction of Highly Functionalized Cyclooctanoids - Org. Lett. Linhong Zuo, Pengchen Ma, Teng Liu, Xiangyang Chen, Robert H. Lavroff, Wei-Peng Chen, K. N. Houk*, and Wusheng Guo.
Sept 10 | Controlling the surface charge of simple viruses - PLos ONE. Duran-Meza, A. L.; Villagrana-Escareño, M. V.; Ruiz-García, J.; Knobler,* C. M.; Gelbart*.
Sept 9 | Cryo-EM structures of hIAPP fibrils seeded by patient-extracted fibrils reveal new polymorphs and conserved fibril cores – Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. Qin Cao, David R. Boyer, Michael R. Sawaya, Romany Abskharon, Lorena Saelices, Binh A. Nguyen, Jiahui Lu, Kevin A. Murray, Fouad Kandeel & David S. Eisenberg*.
Sept 9 | Colloidal magnesium hydroxide Nanoflake: One-Step Surfactant-Assisted preparation and Paper-Based relics protection with Long-Term Anti-Acidification and Flame-Retardancy - J. Colloid Interace Sci. Sinong Wang, Xue Yang, Yihan Li, Boxu Gao, Shanshan Jin, Rong Yu, Yahong Zhang, Yi Tang*.
Sept 8 | Genetic screening reveals phospholipid metabolism as a key regulator of the biosynthesis of the redox-active lipid coenzyme Q – Redox Biology. Anita Ayer, Daniel J. Fazakerley, Cacang Suarna, Ghassan J. Maghzal, Diba Sheipouri, Kevin J. Lee, Michelle C. Bradley, Lucía Fernández-del-Rio, Sergey Tumanov, Stephanie MY. Kong, Jelske N. van der Veen, Andrian Yang, Joshua W.K. Ho, Steven G. Clarke*, David E. James, Ian W. Dawes, Dennis E. Vance, Catherine F. Clarke*, René L. Jacobs, Roland Stocker.
Sept 8 | Microscopic Control of Nonequilibrium Systems: When Electrochemistry Meets Nanotechnology [Review] – Nano Lett. Chong Liu*
Sept 6 | Mr. Inorganic Chemistry: M. Frederick Hawthorne (August 24, 1928–July 8, 2021) - Inorganic Chemistry. William B. Tolman, William Evans, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
Sept 5 | Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages - Science Advances. Tianren Yu, Thomas G. Mason*. Read article about the research here.
Sept 5 | Two-dimensional van der Waals thin film transistors as active matrix for spatially resolved pressure sensing – Nano Res. Chao Ma, Dong Xu, Peiqi Wang, Zhaoyang Lin, Jingyuan Zhou, Chuancheng Jia, Jin Huang, Shengtao Li, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Sept 3 | Unveiling the full reaction path of the Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling in a single-molecule junction – Nat. Nanotechnol. Chen Yang, Lei Zhang, Chenxi Lu, Shuyao Zhou, Xingxing Li, Yanwei Li, Yang Yang, Yu Li, Zhirong Liu, Jinlong Yang, K. N. Houk*, Fanyang Mo & Xuefeng Guo.
Sept 3 | Computations on Pericyclic Reactions Reveal the Richness of Ambimodal Transition States and Pericyclases – Isr. J. Chem. K. N. Houk*,Xiao-Song Xue, Fang Liu, Yu Chen, Xiangyang Chen, Cooper Jamieson.
Sept 3 | Machine Learning to Predict Diels–Alder Reaction Barriers from the Reactant State Electron Density - J. Chem. Theory Comput. Santiago Vargas, Matthew R. Hennefarth, Zhihao Liu, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Sept 2 | Facile generation of bridged medium-sized polycyclic systems by rhodium-catalysed intramolecular (3+2) dipolar cycloadditions – Nat. Commun. Bao-Long Hou, Jonathan J. Wong, Na Lv, Yong-Qiang Wang, K. N. Houk* & Chuang-Chuang Li.
Sept 2 | Nucleophilic Phosphine Catalysis: The Untold Story [Review] – Asian J. Org. Chem. San Khong, Telugu Venkatesh, Ohyun Kwon*.
Sept 2 | van der Waals superlattices - National Science Review. Huaying Ren, Zhong Wan, Xiangfeng Duan*.
Sept 1 | Origin of Increased Reactivity in Rhenium-Mediated Cycloadditions of Tetrazines - The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Aneta Turlik, K. N. Houk* and Dennis Svatunek.
Aug 27 | Efficient synthesis of isoindolones by intramolecular cyclisation of pyridinylbenzoic acids – Org. Biomol. Chem. Atena B. Solea, Sining Wang, Xiao-Song Xue, Aurelien Crochet, Katharina M. Fromm, Kendall N. Houk*, Olimpia Mamula and Christophe Allemann.
Aug 26 | Coupled Effects of Temperature, Pressure, and pH on Water Oxidation Thermodynamics and Kinetics – ACS Catal. Ananth Govind Rajan, John Mark P. Martirez, and Emily A. Carter*.
Aug 25 | Ab Initio Simulations of Poorly and Well Equilibrated (CH3CN)n– Cluster Anions: Assigning Experimental Photoelectron Peaks to Surface-Bound Electrons and Solvated Monomer and Dimer Anions – J. Phys. Chem. A. Wilberth A. Narvaez and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.
Aug 25 | CANVS: an easy-to-use application for the analysis and visualization of mass spectrometry-based protein-protein interaction/association data - Molecular Biology of the Cell. Erick F. Velasquez, Yenni A. Garcia, Ivan Ramirez, Ankur A. Gholkar, and Jorge Z. Torres*.
Aug 24 | Identification of active catalysts for the acceptorless dehydrogenation of alcohols to carbonyls - Nature Communication. Tao Wang, Jin Sha, Maarten Sabbe, Philippe Sautet*, Marc Pera-Titus & Carine Michel.
Aug 24 | A bio-inspired cell-free system for cannabinoid production from inexpensive inputs - Nature Chemical Biology. Meaghan A. Valliere, Tyler P. Korman, Mark A. Arbing & James U. Bowie.
Aug 24 - Highly Basic Clusters in the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Nuclear Egress Complex Drive Membrane Budding by Inducing Lipid Ordering – mBio. Michael K. Thorsen, Alex Lai, Michelle W. Lee, David P. Hoogerheide, Gerard C. L. Wong*, Jack H. Freed, and Ekaterina E. Heldwein.
Aug 24 | Chiral Nanostructures: New Twists - ACS Nano. Nicholas A. Kotov, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Aug 20 | High-Titer Production of Olivetolic Acid and Analogs in Engineered Fungal Host Using a Nonplant Biosynthetic Pathway – ACS Synth. Biol. Ikechukwu C. Okorafor, Mengbin Chen, and Yi Tang*.
Aug 20 | Probing Catalyst Speciation in Pd-MPAAM-Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp3)–H Arylation: Catalyst Improvement via Destabilization of Off-Cycle Species – ACS Catal. Wei Hao, Katherine L. Bay, Caleb F. Harris, Daniel S. King, Ilia A. Guzei, Michael M. Aristov, Zhe Zhuang, R. Erik Plata, David E. Hill, K. N. Houk*, John F. Berry, Jin-Quan Yu, and Donna G. Blackmond.
Aug 19 | Photoaffinity labelling strategies for mapping the small molecule–protein interactome [Review] – Org. Biomol. Chem. Nikolas R. Burton, Phillip Kim, and Keriann M. Backus*.
Aug 19 - Convergence of a Reconstructed Density Matrix to a Pure State Using the Maximal Entropy Approach – J. Phys. Chem. A. Rishabh Gupta, Raphael D. Levine*, and Sabre Kais.
Aug 19 | Stretchable and Bioadhesive Gelatin Methacryloyl-Based Hydrogels Enabled by in Situ Dopamine Polymerization - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Hossein Montazerian, Avijit Baidya, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Elham Davoodi, Samad Ahadian, Nasim Annabi, Ali Khademhosseini, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Aug 17 - Contrasting Effects of Inhibitors Li+ and Be2+ on Catalytic Cycle of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β - J. Phys. Chem. B. David J. Reilley, Zaher Arraf, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Aug 17 - Thermodynamics of Atomic Layer Etching Chemistry on Copper and Nickel Surfaces from First Principles - Chem. Mater. Yantao Xia and Philippe Sautet*.
Aug 16 - Factors Governing Oxygen Vacancy Formation in Oxide Perovskites – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Robert B. Wexler, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam, Ellen B. Stechel, and Emily A. Carter*.
Aug 13 - Revising Manuscripts: Trying to Make Everyone Happy – J. Phys. Chem. B - Anastassia N. Alexandrova* and Gregory V. Hartland.
Aug 12 | Organocatalytic enantioselective dearomatization of thiophenes by 1,10-conjugate addition of indole imine methides – Nat. Commun. Xingguang Li, Meng Duan, Peiyuan Yu, K. N. Houk* & Jianwei Sun.
Aug 10 | Stereoselective Installation of Five Contiguous Stereogenic Centers in a Double Aldol–Tishchenko Cascade and Evaluation of the Key Transition State through DFT Calculation - Org. Lett. Pamela Mackey, Aneta Turlik, Kaori Ando, Mark E. Light, K. N. Houk*, and Gerard P. McGlacken.
Aug 6 | Li+ and Oxidant Addition To Control Ionic and Electronic Conduction in Ionic Liquid-Functionalized Conjugated Polymers - Chemistry of Materials. Dakota Rawlings, Dongwook Lee, Jeongmin Kim, Ioan-Bogdan Magdău, Gordon Pace, Peter M. Richardson, Elayne M. Thomas, Scott P. O. Danielsen, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Thomas F. Miller III, Ram Seshadri, and Rachel A. Segalman.
Aug 6 | Transparent silica aerogel slabs synthesized from nanoparticle colloidal suspensions at near ambient conditions on omniphobic liquid substrates - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Michal Marszewski, Sophia C. King, Tiphaine Galy, Glareh N. Kashanchi, Ali Dashti, Yan Yan, Man Li, Danielle M. Butts, Patricia E. McNeil, Esther Lan, Bruce Dunn, Yongjie Hu, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Laurent Pilon.
Aug 6 | Programmable Fading Memory in Atomic Switch Systems for Error Checking Applications [Book Chapter] – Natural Computing Series, pp 273-303. Renato Aguilera, Henry O. Sillin, Adam Z. Stieg, James K. Gimzewski*.
Aug 5 | De Novo Approach to Encapsulating Biocatalysts into Synthetic Matrixes: From Enzymes to Microbial Electrocatalysts - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Tianran Sheng, Xun Guan, Chong Liu*, and Yude Su.
Aug 5 | Conformational dynamics of androgen receptors bound to agonists and antagonists – Sci. Rep. Hyo Jin Gim, Jiyong Park, Michael E. Jung & K. N. Houk*.
Aug 5 | From mouse to mouse-ear cress: Nanomaterials as vehicles in plant biotechnology - Exploration. Xue Xia, Bingyang Shi, Lei Wang, Yang Liu, Yan Zou, Yun Zhou, Yu Chen, Meng Zheng, Yingfang Zhu, Jingjing Duan, Siyi Guo, Ho Won Jang, Yuchen Miao, Kelong Fan, Feng Bai, Wei Tao, Yong Zhao, Qingyu Yan, Gang Cheng, Huiyu Liu, Yan Jiao, Shanhu Liu, Yuanyu Huang, Daishun Ling, Wenyi Kang, Xue Xue, Daxiang Cui, Yongwei Huang, Zongqiang Cui, Xun Sun, Zhiyong Qian, Zhen Gu, Gang Han, Zhimou Yang, David Tai Leong, Aiguo Wu, Gang Liu, Xiaogang Qu, Youqing Shen, Qiangbin Wang, Gregory V. Lowry, Ertao Wang, Xing-Jie Liang, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Guoping Chen, Wolfgang J. Parak, Paul S. Weiss*, Lixin Zhang, Martina M. Stenzel, Chunhai Fan, Ashley I. Bush, Gaiping Zhang, Christopher P. L. Grof, Xuelu Wang, David W. Galbraith, Ben Zhong Tang, Christina E. Offler, John W. Patrick, Chun-Peng Song.
Aug 4 | Programmable Fading Memory in Atomic Switch Systems for Error Checking Applications [Book Chapter] – Natural Computing Series pp 273-303. Renato Aguilera, Henry O. Sillin, Adam Z. Stieg, James K. Gimzewski*.
Aug 4 | Unequivocal Identification of Aspartic Acid and isoAspartic Acid by MALDI-TOF/TOF: From Peptide Standards to a Therapeutic Antibody - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. John O. Hu, Tawnya Flick, Joseph A. Loo*, and Iain D. G. Campuzano.
Aug 3 | The Mammalian Family of Katanin Microtubule-Severing Enzymes - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. Nicole A. Lynn, Emily Martinez, Hieu Nguyen and Jorge Z. Torres*.
Aug 2 | Fabrication of Multilayered Composite Nanofibers Using Continuous Chaotic Printing and Electrospinning: Chaotic Electrospinning - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Sunshine Holmberg, Norma Alicia Garza-Flores, Mohammad Ali Almajhadi, Carolina Chávez-Madero, Alejandro Lujambio-Angeles, Binny Jind, Claudia Bautista-Flores, Christian Mendoza-Buenrostro, Esther Pérez-Carrillo, Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe, Sergio Omar Martínez-Chapa, Marc Madou, Paul S. Weiss*, Mario Moisés Álvarez, and Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago.
July 30 | Virtual Screening for Chemists (ACS In Focus e-book) - American Chemical Society - Ishika Saha and Patrick G. Harran*.
July 30 | Curvature-assisted self-assembly of Brownian squares on cylindrical surfaces - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Liu, Yiwu Zong, Mengjie Zu, Thomas G. Mason*, Fangfu Ye, Kun Zhao.
July 30 | Synthetic strategy toward ineleganolide: A cautionary tale – Tetrahedron. Alexander Q. Cusumano, K.N.Houk*, Brian M. Stoltza.
July 29 | Nonenzymatic Stereoselective S-Glycosylation of Polypeptides and Proteins – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Li-Qiang Wan, Xia Zhang, Yike Zou, Rong Shi, Jin-Ge Cao, Shi-Yang Xu, Li-Fan Deng, Li Zhou, Yanqiu Gong, Xiaoling Shu, Ga Young Lee, Haiyan Ren, Lunzhi Dai, Shiqian Qi, K. N. Houk*, and Dawen Niu.
July 28 | Cardiac-specific deletion of voltage dependent anion channel 2 leads to dilated cardiomyopathy by altering calcium homeostasis – Nat. Commun. Thirupura S. Shankar, Dinesh K. A. Ramadurai, Kira Steinhorst, Salah Sommakia, Rachit Badolia, Aspasia Thodou Krokidi, Dallen Calder, Sutip Navankasattusas, Paulina Sander, Oh Sung Kwon, Aishwarya Aravamudhan, Jing Ling, Andreas Dendorfer, Changmin Xie, Ohyun Kwon*, Emily H. Y. Cheng, Kevin J. Whitehead, Thomas Gudermann, Russel S. Richardson, Frank B. Sachse, Johann Schredelseker, Kenneth W. Spitzer, Dipayan Chaudhuri & Stavros G. Drakos.
July 27 | Starved to death: Can dietary methionine combat cancer? - ASBMB Today. Nicole Lynn (Ph.D. candidate, Torres group).
July 27 | Electrostatic Regulation of Blue Copper Sites - Chem. Sci. Daniel Bím and Anastassia Alexandrova*.
July 27 | Touting the Growing Contributions of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Editorial) - ACS Nano. Paul S. Weiss*.
July 26 | Prospecting for natural products by genome mining and microcrystal electron diffraction - Nature Chemical Biology. Lee Joon Kim, Masao Ohashi, Zhuan Zhang, Dan Tan, Matthew Asay, Duilio Cascio, José A. Rodriguez*, Yi Tang* & Hosea M. Nelson*. Read article about the research here.
July 23 | Cell-Free Total Biosynthesis of Plant Terpene Natural Products Using an Orthogonal Cofactor Regeneration System - ACS Catal. Undramaa Bat-Erdene, John M. Billingsley, William C. Turner, Benjamin R. Lichman, Francesca M. Ippoliti, Neil K. Garg*, Sarah E. O’Connor, and Yi Tang*.
July 23 | Mechanisms and Dynamics of Synthetic and Biosynthetic Formation of Delitschiapyrones: Solvent Control of Ambimodal Periselectivity – J. Am Chem. Soc. Yike Zou and K. N. Houk*.
July 23 | Whitlockite-Enabled Hydrogel for Craniofacial Bone Regeneration - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Sevda Pouraghaei Sevari, Jin Koo Kim, Chider Chen, Amir Nasajpour, Cun-Yu Wang, Paul H. Krebsbach, Ali Khademhosseini, Sahar Ansari, Paul S. Weiss*, and Alireza Moshaverinia.
July 21 | The Art of Reviewing Manuscripts - J. Phys. Chem. C. Anastassia N. Alexandrova* and Gregory V. Hartland.
July 20 | Cell contact guidance via sensing anisotropy of network mechanical resistance – PNAS. Greeshma Thrivikraman, Alicja Jagiełło, Victor K. Lai, Sandra L. Johnson, Mark Keating, Alexander Nelson, Billianne Schultz, Connie M. Wang, Alex J. Levine*, Elliot L. Botvinick, Robert T. Tranquillo.
July 19 | Engineering P450 TamI as an Iterative Biocatalyst for Selective Late-Stage C–H Functionalization and Epoxidation of Tirandamycin Antibiotics – ACS Catal. Rosa V. Espinoza, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, S. Wald Grossman, Jin Yi Tan, Caylie A. McGlade, Yogan Khatri, Sean A. Newmister, Jennifer J. Schmidt, Marc Garcia-Borràs, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk*, and David H. Sherman.
July 19 - Cleaving arene rings for acyclic alkenylnitrile synthesis – Nature. Xu Qiu, Yueqian Sang, Hao Wu, Xiao-Song Xue, Zixi Yan, Yachong Wang, Zengrui Cheng, Xiaoyang Wang, Hui Tan, Song Song, Guisheng Zhang, Xiaohui Zhang, K. N. Houk* & Ning Jiao.
July 16 - Advances in optimizing enzyme electrostatic preorganization - Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. Matthew R. Hennefarth and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
July 16 | Heterologous Catalysis of the Final Steps of Tetracycline Biosynthesis by Saccharomyces cerevisiae – ACS Chem. Biol. Ehud Herbst, Arden Lee, Yi Tang*, Scott A. Snyder, and Virginia W. Cornish.
July 16 | Entrepreneurial Talent Building for 21st Century Agricultural Innovation - ACS Nano. Bo Kyeong Yoon, Hyunhyuk Tae, Joshua A. Jackman, Supratik Guha, Cherie R. Kagan, Andrew J. Margenot, Diane L. Rowland, Paul S. Weiss*, and Nam-Joon Cho.
July 15 | DCl-H 2 O, HCl-D 2 O, and DCl-D 2 O Dimers: Inter- and Intramolecular Vibrational States and Frequency Shifts from Fully Coupled Quantum Calculations on a Full-Dimensional Neural Network Potential Energy Surface - J. Phys. Chem. A. Peter M. Felker*, Yang Liu, Jun Li, Zlatko Bačić.
July 15 - Cell contact guidance via sensing anisotropy of network mechanical resistance – PNAS. Greeshma Thrivikraman, Alicja Jagiełło, Victor K. Lai, Sandra L. Johnson, Mark Keating, Alexander Nelson, Billianne Schultz, Connie M. Wang, Alex J. Levine*, Elliot L. Botvinick, Robert T. Tranquillo.
July 9 - The density matrix via few dominant observables: The quantum interference in the isotope effect for atto-pumped N2 – J. Chem. Phys. K. Komarova, F. Remacle, and R. D. Levine.
July 9 | Kinetic sequencing (k-Seq) as a massively parallel assay for ribozyme kinetics: utility and critical parameters - Nucleic Acids Res. Yuning Shen, Abe Pressman, Evan Janzen, Irene A. Chen*.
July 9 | Electronic Structure of Superoxidized Radical Cationic Dodecaborate-Based Clusters - J. Phys. Chem. A. Bo Li, Xinglong Zhang, Julia M. Stauber, Thomas F. Miller III, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
July 8 | Large-Area Periodic Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanopyramid Arrays for High-Performance Photodetector and Image Sensor Applications - ACS Materials Lett. Xiuzhen Xu, Wenfei Liu, Zhenkai Ji, Dandan Hao, Wenyuan Yan, Zilong Ye, Yan Hu, Minghe Fang, Changchun Wang, Liang Ma, Jia Huang, Xiaobin Xu, and Paul S. Weiss*.
July 7 | Editorial: Focus on Protein Footprinting, Honoring Michael Gross, Recipient of the 2020 John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Joseph A. Loo*, David H. Russell, and Yinsheng Wang
July 3 | Regulation of hepatic coenzyme Q biosynthesis by dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids - Redox Biology. Lucía Fernández-del-Río, Sandra Rodríguez-López, Elena Gutiérrez-Casado, José Antonio González-Reyes, Catherine F. Clarke*, María Isabel Burón, José Manuel Villalba.
July 1 | scPNMF: sparse gene encoding of single cells to facilitate gene selection for targeted gene profiling – Bioinformatics. Dongyuan Song, Kexin Li, Zachary Hemminger, Roy Wollman*, Jingyi Jessica Li.
July 1 | Massively scaled-up testing for SARS-CoV-2 RNA via next-generation sequencing of pooled and barcoded nasal and saliva samples – Nat. Biomed. Eng. Joshua S. Bloom, Laila Sathe, Chetan Munugala, Eric M. Jones, Molly Gasperini, Nathan B. Lubock, Fauna Yarza, Erin M. Thompson, Kyle M. Kovary, Jimin Park, Dawn Marquette, Stephania Kay, Mark Lucas, TreQuan Love, A. Sina Booeshaghi, Oliver F. Brandenberg, Longhua Guo, James Boocock, Myles Hochman, Scott W. Simpkins, Isabella Lin, Nathan LaPierre, Duke Hong, Yi Zhang, Gabriel Oland, Bianca Judy Choe, Sukantha Chandrasekaran, Evann E. Hilt, Manish J. Butte, Robert Damoiseaux, Clifford Kravit, Aaron R. Cooper, Yi Yin, Lior Pachter, Omai B. Garner, Jonathan Flint, Eleazar Eskin, Chongyuan Luo, Sriram Kosuri*, Leonid Kruglyak & Valerie A. Arboleda.
July 1 - Braiding Dynamics in Semiflexible Filament Bundles under Oscillatory Forcing – Polymers. Valentin M. Slepukhin and Alex J. Levine*.
June 30 | Suggesting Reviewers to Improve Your Manuscript [Editorial] - J. Phys Chem. C. Anastassia N. Alexandrova* and Gregory V. Hartland.
June 29 | Interaction between the type 4 pili machinery and a diguanylate cyclase fine-tune c-di-GMP levels during early biofilm formation - PNAS. Shanice S. Webster, Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Gerard C. L. Wong*, George A. O’Toole.
June 28 | Perfluorocarbon nanoemulsions create a beneficial O2 microenvironment in N2-fixing biological | inorganic hybrid - Chem. Catalysis. Shengtao Lu, Roselyn M. Rodrigues, Shuyuan Huang, Daniel A. Estabrook, John O. Chapman, Xun Guan, Ellen M. Sletten*, Chong Liu*.
June 25 | Single-Step Dual-Layer Photolithography for Tunable and Scalable Nanopatterning - ACS Nano. Wenfei Liu, Jiabao Wang, Xiuzhen Xu, Chuanzhen Zhao, Xiaobin Xu, and Paul S. Weiss*.
June 24 | Titr-DMD-A Rapid, Coarse-Grained Quasi-All-Atom Constant pH Molecular Dynamics Framework - J. Chem Theory Comput. David J. Reilley, Jian Wang, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
June 23 | Synthetic strategy toward ineleganolide: A cautionary tale – Tetrahedron. Alexander Q.Cusumano, K.N.Houk, Brian M. Stoltza.
June 23 | Leveraging Fleeting Strained Intermediates to Access Complex Scaffolds - JACS Au. Sarah M. Anthony, Laura G. Wonilowicz, Matthew S. McVeigh, and Neil K. Garg*.
June 23 | A Bayesian nonparametric analysis for zero-inflated multivariate count data with application to microbiome study - Royal Statistical Society. Kurtis Shuler, Samuel Verbanic, Irene A. Chen*, Juhee Lee.
June 22 | An ecophysiological explanation for manganese enrichment in rock varnish - PNAS. Usha F. Lingappa, Chris M. Yeager, Ajay Sharma, Nina L. Lanza, Demosthenes P. Morales, Gary Xie, Ashley D. Atencio, Grayson L. Chadwick, Danielle R. Monteverde, John S. Magyar, Samuel M. Webb, Joan Selverstone Valentine*, Brian M. Hoffman, Woodward W. Fischer.
June 22 | Engineering P450 TamI as an Iterative Biocatalyst for Selective Late-Stage C–H Functionalization and Epoxidation of Tirandamycin Antibiotics – ACS Catal. Rosa V. Espinoza, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, S. Wald Grossman, Jin Yi Tan, Caylie A. McGlade, Yogan Khatri, Sean A. Newmister, Jennifer J. Schmidt, Marc Garcia-Borràs, John Montgomery, K. N. Houk*, and David H. Sherman.
June 22 | How was Nicholson’s highly inconsistent atomic theory able to yield explanatory as well as predictive success? Book chapter in Contemporary Scientific Challenge from the History of Science, Timothy D. Lyons and Peter Vickers (Eds.), Chapter 6, Eric R. Scerri*.
June 21 | Reassessing the Notion of a Kuhnian Revolution: What Happened in Twentieth-Century Chemistry. Book chapter in Interpreting Kuhn: Critical Essays, K. Wray (Ed.), pp. 125-142, Eric R. Scerri*.
June 21 | Highly dispersed Pt atoms and clusters on hydroxylated indium tin oxide: a view from first-principles calculations - J. Mater. Chem. A. Simran Kumaria and Philippe Sautet*.
June 18 | Probing and pushing the limit of emerging electronic materials via van der Waals integration - MRS Bulletin. Peiqi Wang & Xiangfeng Duan*.
June 18 | Palladium-Catalyzed Annulations of Strained Cyclic Allenes – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Andrew V. Kelleghan, Dominick C. Witkowski, Matthew S. McVeigh, and Neil K. Garg*
June 18 | Quantitatively Designing Porous Copper Current Collectors for Lithium Metal Anodes – ACS Appl. Energy Mater. Bingyu Lu, Edgar Olivera, Jonathan Scharf, Mehdi Chouchane, Chengcheng Fang, Miguel Ceja, Lisa E. Pangilinan, Shiqi Zheng, Andrew Dawson, Diyi Cheng, Wurigumula Bao, Oier Arcelus, Alejandro A. Franco, Xiaochun Li, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Ying Shirley Meng.
June 17 | A platform for on-the-complex annulation reactions with transient aryne intermediates - Nat Commun. Jason V. Chari, Katie A. Spence, Robert B. Susick & Neil K. Garg*.
June 17 | Tunable one-dimensional inorganic perovskite nanomeshes library for water splitting - Nano Energy. Yecan Pi, Qi Shao, Juan Wang, Bolong Huang, Zhiwei Hu, Chien-Te Chen, Chih-Wen Pao, Xiangfeng Duan*, Xiaoqing Huang.
June 16 | Harzianic Acid from Trichoderma afroharzianum Is a Natural Product Inhibitor of Acetohydroxyacid Synthase – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Linan Xie, Xin Zang, Wei Cheng, Zhuan Zhang, Jiahai Zhou, Mengbin Chen, and Yi Tang*.
July 16 | Computational Exploration of How Enzyme XimE Converts Natural S-Epoxide to Pyran and R-Epoxide to Furan – ACS Catal. Chuchu Jiang, Bei-Bei He, Rosalinda L. Zhao, Min-Juan Xu, K. N. Houk*, and Yi-Lei Zhao.
June 16 | Antibody-based inhibition of pathogenic New World Hemorrhagic Fever mammarenaviruses by steric occlusion of the human transferrin receptor 1 apical domain - J. Virol. Sol Ferrero, Maria D. Flores, Connor Short, Cecilia A. Vazquez, Lars E. Clark, James Ziegenbein,Samantha Zink, Daniel Fuentes, Cristian Payes, María V. Batto, Michael Collazo, Cybele C. García, Jonathan Abraham, Sandra M. Cordo, Jose A. Rodriguez*, and Gustavo Helguera. This is the work of BMSB graduate student Maria D. Flores.
June 16 | Simple Synthesis of Fluorinated Ene-Ynes via In Situ Generation of Allenes - Synth. (Ger.). Joseph A. Jaye, Ellen M. Sletten ∗.
June 16 | Formation of a Ti–Cu(111) single atom alloy: Structure and CO binding - J. Chem. Phys. Junjie Shi, Cameron J. Owen, Hio Tong Ngan, Siyu Qin, Vikram Mehar, Philippe Sautet*, and Jason F. Weaver.
June 11 | Deciphering Reactivity and Selectivity Patterns in Aliphatic C–H Bond Oxygenation of Cyclopentane and Cyclohexane Derivatives - J. Org. Chem. Teo Martin, Marco Galeotti, Michela Salamone, Fengjiao Liu, Yanmin Yu, Meng Duan, K. N. Houk*, and Massimo Bietti.
June 10 | Rotational Dynamics of an Amphidynamic Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework Determined by Dielectric Spectroscopy - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Zhiyu Liu, Yangyang Wang, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
June 9 | AgII-mediated electrocatalytic ambient CH4 functionalization inspired by HSAB theory - Angewandte Chemie. Danlei Xiang, Jesus A Iñiguez, Jiao Deng, Xun Guan, Antonio Martinez, Chong Liu*.
June 8 | Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis: An Update on the Origins of the Benzenoid Ring and Discovery of New Ring Precursors - Metabolites. Lucía Fernández-del-Río and Catherine F. Clarke*.
June 8 | Internal Fragments Generated from Different Top-Down Mass Spectrometry Fragmentation Methods Extend Protein Sequence Coverage - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Benqian Wei, Carter Lantz, Hoi Ting Wu, Tyler R. Lambeth, Jolene K. Diedrich, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Ryan R. Julian, and Joseph A. Loo*.
June 8 | Supramolecular Nanosubstrate-Mediated Delivery for CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Disruption and Deletion - Small. Qian Ban, Peng Yang, Shih-Jie Chou, Li Qiao, Haidong Xia, Jingjing Xue, Fang Wang, Xiaobin Xu, Na Sun, Ryan Y. Zhang, Ceng Zhang, Athena Lee, Wenfei Liu, Ting-Yi Lin, Yu-Ling Ko, Petar Antovski, Xinyue Zhang, Shih-Hwa Chiou, Chin-Fa Lee, Wenqiao Hui, Dahai Liu, Steven J. Jonas, Paul S. Weiss*, Hsian-Rong Tseng.
June 8 | Magnetic transitions and structural characteristics of Mn-doped α-Fe2O3/silica nanocomposites - AIP Advances. Hyon-Min Song, Ivo Atanasov, and Jeffrey I. Zink*.
June 7 | Projector-Free Capped-Fragment Scheme within Density Functional Embedding Theory for Covalent and Ionic Compounds – J. Chem. Theory Comput. John Mark P. Martirez and Emily A. Carter*.
June 4 | 3D Graphene Network with Covalently-Grafted Aniline Tetramer for Ultralong-Life Supercapacitors - Funct. Mater. Xueying Chang, Maher F. El-Kady, Ailun Huang, Cheng-Wei Lin, Stephanie Aguilar, Mackenzie Anderson, Jason Zi Jie Zhu, Richard B. Kaner*.
June 4 | Mapping Proximity Associations of Core Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Proteins - J. Proteome Res. Yenni A. Garcia, Erick F. Velasquez, Lucy W. Gao, Ankur A. Gholkar, Kevin M. Clutario, Keith Cheung, Taylor Williams-Hamilton, Julian P. WhiteleggeJulian P. Whitelegge, and Jorge Z. Torres*.
June 4 | Facile Fabrication of Multivalent VOx/Graphene Nanocomposite Electrodes for High-Energy-Density Symmetric Supercapacitors - Adv. Energy Mater. Ailun Huang, Maher F. El-Kady, Xueying Chang, Mackenzie Anderson, Cheng-Wei Lin, Christopher L. Turner, Richard B. Kaner*.
June 3 | Strongly Entangled Triplet Acyl–Alkyl Radical Pairs in Crystals of Photostable Diphenylmethyl Adamantyl Ketones - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Jin H. Park, Vince M. Hipwell, Edris A. Rivera, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
June 2 | Cycloaddition Cascades of Strained Alkynes and Oxadiazinones - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Melissa Ramirez, Evan Darzi, Joyann Donaldson, Kendall N. Houk*, Neil K. Garg*.
June 2 | Arene-Perfluoroarene Interactions in Solution – J. Org. Chem. Ga Young Lee, Elizabeth Hu, Arnold L. Rheingold, K. N. Houk*, and Ellen M. Sletten*.
June 2 | Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Spectrum of a Ru-Bipyridine-Sensitized TiO2 Cluster from Embedded Multiconfigurational Excited-State Theory - J. Phys. Chem. A. John Mark P. Martirez and Emily A. Carter*.
June 1 | An Organometallic Strategy for Cysteine Borylation - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mary A. Waddington, Xin Zheng, Julia M. Stauber, Elamar Hakim Moully, Hayden R. Montgomery, Liban M. A. Saleh, Petr Král, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
June 1 | Entropic Control of HD Exchange Rates over Dilute Pd-in-Au Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts - ACS Catal. Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven, Hio Tong Ngan, Austin Taylor, Nathaniel M. Eagan, Joanna Aizenberg, Philippe Sautet*, Robert J. Madix, and Cynthia M. Friend.
May 31 | Joint cell segmentation and cell type annotation for spatial transcriptomics - Mol Syst Biol. Russell Littman, Zachary Hemminger, Robert Foreman, Douglas Arneson, Guanglin Zhang, Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, Xia Yang, Roy Wollman*.
May 28 | Graphene's Role in Emerging Trends of Capacitive Energy Storage (Review) - Small. Chenxiang Wang, Mit Muni, Volker Strauss, Arie Borenstein, Xueying Chang, Ailun Huang, Sheng Qu, Kimberly Sung, Tera Gilham, Richard B. Kaner*.
May 28 | Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells (Review) - Curr. Opin.Microbiol. Jessica M. Ochoa, Todd O. Yeates*.
May 27 | Post-Transition State Bifurcation in Iron-Catalyzed Arene Aminations – ACS Catal. Bo Li, Yuli Li, Yanfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk*.
May 27 | Stochastic density functional theory: Real- and energy-space fragmentation for noise reduction - J. Chem. Phys. Ming Chen, Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser*, and Eran Rabani.
May 27 | Violation of generalized fluctuation-dissipation theorem in biological limit cycle oscillators with state-dependent internal drives: Applications to hair cell oscillations – Phys. Rev. Research. Janaki Sheth, Dolores Bozovic, and Alex J. Levine*.
May 26 | Visualizing the Dynamic Metalation State of New Delhi Metallo-β-lactamase-1 in Bacteria Using a Reversible Fluorescent Probe - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Radhika Mehta, Dann D. Rivera, David J. Reilley, Dominique Tan, Pei W. Thomas, Abigail Hinojosa, Alesha C. Stewart, Zishuo Cheng, Caitlyn A. Thomas, Michael W. Crowder, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Walter Fast, and Emily L. Que.
May 26 | Spoken Digit Classification by In-Materio Reservoir Computing With Neuromorphic Atomic Switch Networks - Front. Nanotechnol. Sam Lilak, Walt Woods, Kelsey Scharnhorst, Christopher Dunham, Christof Teuscher, Adam Z. Stieg and James K. Gimzewski.
May 25 | PD-L1 recruits phospholipase C and enhances tumorigenicity of lung tumors harboring mutant forms of EGFR – Cell Reports. Soma Ghosh, Nishanth Belugali Nataraj, Ashish Noronha, Sushant Patkar, Arunachalam Sekar, Saptaparna Mukherjee, Sabina Winograd-Katz, Lior Kramarski, Aakanksha Verma, Moshit Lindzen, Diana Drago Garcia, Joseph Green, Galit Eisenberg, Hava Gil-Henn, Arkaprabha Basu, Yan Lender, Shimon Weiss*, Moshe Oren, Michal Lotem, Benjamin Geiger, Eytan Ruppin, Yosef Yarden.
May 25 | Sequence determinants in the cathelicidin LL-37 that promote inflammation via presentation of RNA to scavenger receptors – J. Biol. Chem. Nikhil N. Kulkarni, Alan M. O’Neill, Tatsuya Dokoshi, Elizabeth W.C. Luo, Gerard C.L. Wong*, Richard L. Gallo.
May 25 | Putting the World Back Together and Announcing the 2021 ACS Nano Award Lecture Laureates - ACS Nano. Holly Bunje, Yan Li, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Jill E. Millstone, Guangjun Nie, Sergey N. Shmakov, and Paul S. Weiss*.
May 24 | Polyaniline Nanofibers: From Laboratory Curiosity to Commercial Products - The Chemist. Richard B. Kaner*.
May 22 | Effect of Poly(trehalose methacrylate) Molecular Weight and Concentration on the Stability and Viscosity of Insulin – Macromol. Mater. Eng. Madeline B. Gelb, Heather D. Maynard*.
May 21 | Receptor compaction and GTPase rearrangement drive SRP-mediated cotranslational protein translocation into the ER – Sci. Adv. Jae Ho Lee, Ahmad Jomaa, Sangyoon Chung, Yu-Hsien Hwang Fu, Ruilin Qian, Xuemeng Sun, Hao-Hsuan Hsieh, Sowmya Chandrasekar, Xiaotian Bi, Simone Mattei, Daniel Boehringer, Shimon Weiss*, Nenad Ban, Shu-Ou Shan.
May 20 | TNF controls a speed-accuracy tradeoff in the cell death decision to restrict viral spread – Nat. Commun. Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Alon Oyler-Yaniv, Evan Maltz & Roy Wollman*.
May 19 | Local Electric Fields As a Natural Switch of Heme-Iron Protein Reactivity - ACS Catal. Daniel Bím and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
May 19 | Dielectric Screening Modulates Semiconductor Nanoplatelet Excitons - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Ashley Shin, Azmain Hossain, Stephanie Tenney, Xuanheng Tan, Lauren Tan, Jonathan Foley IV, Timothy Atallah, and Justin Caram*.
May 19 | DEER Analysis of GPCR Conformational Heterogeneity - Biomolecules. Matthias Elgeti and Wayne L. Hubbell*.
May 19 | Bridging scales: From cell biology to physiology using in situ single-cell technologies (Review) – Cell. Syst. Maeve P. Nagle, Gabriela S. Tam Evan Maltz, Zachary Hemminger, Roy Wollman*.
May 18 | Classes of Drugs that Mitigate Radiation Syndromes - Frontiers in Pharmacology. Ewa D. Micewicz, Robert Damoiseaux, Gang Deng, Adrian Gomez, Keisuke Iwamoto, Michael Jung*, Christine Nguyen, Andrew Norris, Josephine Ratikan, Piotr Ruchala, James Sayre, Dörthe Schaue, Julian Whitelegge & William McBride.
May 17 | Encapsulation of ribozymes inside model protocells leads to faster evolutionary adaptation – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Yei-Chen Lai, Ziwei Liu, Irene A. Chen*.
May 17 | Enhanced Gearing Fidelity Achieved Through Macrocyclization of a Solvated Molecular Spur Gear - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Marcus J. Jellen, Ieva Liepuoniute, Mingoo Jin, Christopher G. Jones, Song Yang, Xing Jiang, Hosea M. Nelson*, K. N. Houk*, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
May 17 | Catalytic synthesis of PEGylated EGCG conjugates that disaggregate Alzheimer’s tau - Synthesis. Anton El Khoury, Paul M. Seidler, David S. Eisenberg* and Patrick G. Harran*.
May 13 | Layered Intercalation Materials - Adv. Mater. Jingyuan Zhou, Zhaoyang Lin, Huaying Ren, Xidong Duan, Imran Shakir, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan.
May 12 | Structures of telomerase at several steps of telomere repeat synthesis - Nature. Yao He, Yaqiang Wang, Baocheng Liu, Christina Helmling, Lukas Sušac, Ryan Cheng, Z. Hong Zhou & Juli Feigon *.
May 11 | Geometrically induced localization of flexural waves on thin warped physical membranes - Phys. Rev. E. Jonathan Kernes and Alex J. Levine*.
May 10 | Regularization of least squares problems in CHARMM parameter optimization by truncated singular value decompositions - J. Chem. Phys. Derek J. Urwin & Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
May 10 | Hot carrier multiplication in plasmonic photocatalyis - PNAS. Linan Zhou, Minhan Lou, Junwei Lucas Bao, Chao Zhang, Jun G. Liu, John Mark P. Martirez, Shu Tian, Lin Yuan, Dayne F. Swearer, Hossein Robatjazi, Emily A. Carter*, Peter Nordlander, Naomi J. Halas.
May 8 | Study of Ground State Interactions of Enantiopure Chiral Quaternary Ammonium Salts and Amides, Nitroalkanes, Nitroalkenes, Esters, Heterocycles, Ketones and Fluoroamides – Chem. Eur. J. Grazia Bencivenni, Diana Salazar Illera, Maria Moccia, Ken N. Houk*, Joseph A. Izzo, Johanna Novacek, Paolo Grieco, Mathew J. Vetticatt, Mario Waser, Mauro F. A. Adamo.
May 7 | pH Switch Controls Zinc Binding in Tomato Copper–Zinc Superoxide Dismutase – Biochemistry. Kevin W. Sea, Alexander B. Taylor, Susan T. Thomas, Amir Liba, Isabelle B. Bergman, Stephen P. Holloway, Xiaohang Cao, Edith B. Gralla, Joan S. Valentine*, P. John Hart, and Ahmad Galaleldeen.
May 6 | Total Synthesis of (−)-Strictosidine and Interception of Aryne Natural Product Derivatives “Strictosidyne” and “Strictosamidyne” - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Sarah M. Anthony, Veronica Tona, Yike Zou, Lucas A. Morrill, John M. Billingsley, Megan Lim, Yi Tang*, K. N. Houk*, and Neil K. Garg*.
May 6 | AoiQ Catalyzes Geminal Dichlorination of 1,3-Diketone Natural Products - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mengting Liu, Masao Ohashi, Yiu-Sun Hung, Kirstin Scherlach, Kenji Watanabe, Christian Hertweck, and Yi Tang*.
May 6 | A Fragment-based Protein Interface Design Algorithm for Symmetric Assemblies - Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. Joshua Laniado, Kyle Meador, Todd O Yeates*.
May 4 | An Asymmetric SN2 Dynamic Kinetic Resolution - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Nomaan M. Rezayee, Valdemar J. Enemærke, Sif T. Linde, Johannes N. Lamhauge, Gabriel J. Reyes-Rodríguez, Karl Anker Jørgensen, Chenxi Lu, and K. N. Houk*.
May 4 | Additively Manufactured Gradient Porous Ti–6Al–4V Hip Replacement Implants Embedded with Cell-Laden Gelatin Methacryloyl Hydrogels - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Elham Davoodi, Hossein Montazerian, Reza Esmaeilizadeh, Ali Ch. Darabi, Armin Rashidi, Javad Kadkhodapour, Hamid Jahed, Mina Hoorfar, Abbas S. Milani, Paul S. Weiss*, Ali Khademhosseini, and Ehsan Toyserkani.
May 3 | Bright Chromenylium Polymethine Dyes Enable Fast, Four-Color In Vivo Imaging with Shortwave Infrared Detection - JACS. Emily D. Cosco, Bernardo A. Arús, Anthony L. Spearman, Timothy L. Atallah, Irene Lim, Olivia S. Leland, Justin R. Caram*, Thomas S. Bischof, Oliver T. Bruns, and Ellen M. Sletten*.
May 3 | Cell-free synthetic biochemistry upgrading of ethanol to 1,3 butanediol - Scientific Reports. Hongjiang Liu & James U. Bowie*.
Apr 30 | Redox‐responsive Gene Delivery from Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions through Cleavable Poly(2‐oxazoline) Surfactants - Angew. Chem. Daniel A. Estabrook, Rachael Day, Ellen Sletten*.
Apr 28 | Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table - Synthese volume 198, pages 9709–9720. Eric R. Scerri*.
Apr 28 | Photophysical Properties of Indocyanine Green in the Shortwave Infrared Region - ChemPhotoChem. Emily D. Cosco, Irene Lim, Ellen Sletten*.
Apr 28 | Biosynthesis and synthetic biology of psychoactive natural products – Chem. Soc. Rev. Cooper S. Jamieson, Joshua Misa, Yi Tang* and John M. Billingsley.
Apr 28 | Origin and Control of Chemoselectivity in Cytochrome c Catalyzed Carbene Transfer into Si–H and N–H bonds - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Marc Garcia-Borràs, S. B. Jennifer Kan, Russell D. Lewis, Allison Tang, Gonzalo Jimenez-Osés, Frances H. Arnold, and K. N. Houk*.
Apr 26 | Structure Revision of the Lomaiviticins - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Lee Joon Kim, Mengzhao Xue, Xin Li, Zhi Xu, Eric Paulson, Brandon Mercado, Hosea M. Nelson*, and Seth B. Herzon.
Apr 23 | Imparting Scientific Literacy through an Online Materials Chemistry General Education Course – J. Chem. Educ. Roshini Ramachandran*, Nicholas A. Bernier, Christine M. Mavilian, Tina Izad, Leah Thomas, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*. Read article about the research here.
Apr 23 | scPNMF: sparse gene encoding of single cells to facilitate gene selection for targeted gene profiling – Bioinformatics. Dongyuan Song, Kexin Li, Zachary Hemminger, Roy Wollman*, Jingyi Jessica Li.
Apr 23 | Weak Electromagnetic Fields Accelerate Fusion of Myoblasts - Int. J. Mol. Sci. Dana Adler, Zehavit Shapira, Zehavit, Shimon Weiss*, Asher Shainberg, Abram Katz.
Apr 23 | Understanding the Hardness of Doped WB4.2 - J. Phys. Chem. C. Kirill D. Shumilov, Zerina Mehmedović, Hang Yin, Patricia Poths, Selbi Nuryyeva, Ieva Liepuoniute, Chelsea Jang, Isabelle Winardi, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Apr 23 | A fragment-based protein interface design algorithm for symmetric assemblies - Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. Joshua Laniado, Kyle Meador, Todd O Yeates*.
Apr 22 | Computational Exploration of the Mechanism of Critical Steps in the Biomimetic Synthesis of Preuisolactone A, and Discovery of New Ambimodal (5 + 2)/(4 + 2) Cycloadditions - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Hong Zhang, Alexander J. E. Novak, Cooper Jamieson, Xiao-Song Xue, Shuming Chen, Dirk Trauner, and K. N. Houk*.
Apr 22 | Conducting Polyaniline for Antifouling Ultrafiltration Membranes: Solutions and Challenges – Nano Lett. Cheng-Wei Lin, Shuangmei Xue, Chenhao Ji, Shu-Chuan Huang, Vincent Tung, and Richard B. Kaner*.
Apr 21 | Mesotrione Conjugation Strategies to Create Proherbicides with Reduced Soil Mobility - ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. Priera H. Panescu, Douglas A. Rose, Kathleen K. Chen, Glareh Natalie Kashanchi, and Heather D. Maynard*.
Apr 21 | Self-motion and heterogeneous droplet dynamics in moderately attractive dense emulsions - J. Phys. Condens. Matter. Ha Seong Kim, Yixuan Xu, Frank Scheffold and Thomas G Mason*
Apr 20 | Optical Cycling Functionalization of Arenes - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Claire E. Dickerson, Han Guo, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Eric R. Hudson, Justin R. Caram*, Wesley C. Campbell, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Apr 20 | Single-cell visualization and quantification of trace metals in Chlamydomonas lysosome-related organelles - PNAS. Stefan Schmollinger, Si Chen, Daniela Strenkert, Colleen Hui, Martina Ralle, and Sabeeha S. Merchant*.
Apr 19 | Atomic Environments in N-Containing Graphitic Carbon Probed by First-Principles Calculations and Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - J. Phys. Chem. C. Ziyang Wei, Shona M. Becwar, Bradley F. Chmelka, and Philippe Sautet*.
Apr 16 | Energy of Concert and Origins of Regioselectivity for 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Diazomethane - J. Org. Chem. Shuming Chen, Tuo Hu, and K. N. Houk*.
Apr 15 | Magnetism, Ultrasound, and Light-Stimulated Mesoporous Silica Nanocarriers for Theranostics and Beyond - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Fang-Chu Lin, Yijun Xie, Tian Deng, and Jeffrey I. Zink*.
Apr 15 | Targeted Genome Mining Reveals the Biosynthetic Gene Clusters of Natural Product CYP51 Inhibitors - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Nicholas Liu, Elizabeth D. Abramyan, Wei Cheng, Bruno Perlatti, Colin J.B. Harvey, Gerald F. Bills, and Yi Tang*.
Apr 14 | Revisiting Understanding of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu(111): Competing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reaction Mechanisms Revealed by Embedded Correlated Wavefunction Theory - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Qing Zhao, John Mark P. Martirez, and Emily A. Carter*.
Apr 14 | High-yield exfoliation of 2D semiconductor monolayers and reassembly of organic/inorganic artificial superlattices - Chem. Zhaoyang Lin, Zhong Wan, Frank Song, Bolong Huang, Chuancheng Jia, Qi Qian, Joon Sang Kang, Yutong Wu, Xingxu Yan, Lele Peng, Chengzhang Wan, Jingyuan Zhou, Zdenek Sofer, Imran Shakir, Zeyad Almutairi, Sarah Tolbert*, Xiaoqing Pan, Yongjie Hu, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan*.
Apr 14 | The Influence of Substitution on Thiol-Induced Oxanorbornadiene Fragmentation - Org. Lett. Lucrezia De Pascalis, Mei-Kwan Yau, Dennis Svatunek, Zhuoting Tan, Srinivas Tekkam, K. N. Houk*, and M. G. Finn.
Apr 13 | Origins of Endo Selectivity in Diels–Alder Reactions of Cyclic Allene Dienophiles - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Melissa Ramirez, Dennis Svatunek, Fang Liu, Neil K. Garg*, Kendall N. Houk*.
Apr 13 | Topological defects produce kinks in biopolymer filament bundles - PNAS. Valentin M. Slepukhin, Maximilian J. Grill, Qingda Hu, Elliot L. Botvinick, Wolfgang A. Wall, and Alex J. Levine*.
Apr 12 |Dramatic Effect of γ-Heteroatom Dienolate Substituents on Counterion Assisted Asymmetric Anionic Amino-Cope Reaction Cascades - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Pradipta Das, Michael D. Delost, Munaum H. Qureshi, Jianhua Bao, Jason S. Fell, Kendall N. Houk*, and Jon T. Njardarson.
Apr 10 | Library construction of stereochemically diverse isomers of spirooliganin: Their total synthesis and antiviral activity - Chem. Sci. Ru-Bing Wang, Shuang-Gang Ma, Cooper S. Jamieson, Rong-Mei Gao, Yun-Bao Liu, Yong Li, Xiao-Jing Wang, Yu-Huan Li, Kendall N. Houk*, Jing Qu and Shi-Shan Yu.
Apr 9 | Biosynthesis of para-Cyclophane-Containing Hirsutellone Family of Fungal Natural Products - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Masao Ohashi, Thomas B. Kakule, Man-Cheng Tang, Cooper S. Jamieson, Mengting Liu, Yi-Lei Zhao, Kendall N. Houk*, and Yi Tang*.
Apr 9 | Assembly of Nanofluidic MXene Fibers with Enhanced Ionic Transport and Capacitive Charge Storage by Flake Orientation - ACS Nano. Shuo Li, Zhaodi Fan, Guiqing Wu, Yanyan Shao, Zhou Xia, Chaohui Wei, Fei Shen, Xiaoling Tong, Jinchao Yu, Kang Chen, Menglei Wang, Yu Zhao, Zhipu Luo, Muqiang Jian, Jingyu Sun, Richard B. Kaner*, and Yuanlong Shao.
Apr 7 | Total Synthesis and Computational Investigations of Sesquiterpene-Tropolones Ameliorate Stereochemical Inconsistencies and Resolve an Ambiguous Biosynthetic Relationship - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Christopher Y. Bemis, Chad N. Ungarean, Alexander S. Shved, Cooper S. Jamieson, Taehwan Hwang, Ken S. Lee, K. N. Houk*, and David Sarlah.
Apr 6 | Re-visiting the diastereoselectivity of organocatalytic conjugate addition of 2-trimethylsiloxyfuran to trans-crotonaldehyde - Tetrahedron Letters (Special issue dedicated to Professor Dale Boger). Liubo Li, Anton El Khoury, Brennan O. Clement, Patrick G. Harran*.
Apr 5 | Structural Diversification of Hapalindole and Fischerindole Natural Products via Cascade Biocatalysis - ACS Catal. Robert M. Hohlman, Sean A. Newmister, Jacob N. Sanders, Yogan Khatri, Shasha Li, Nikki R. Keramati, Andrew N. Lowell, K. N. Houk*, and David H. Sherman.
Apr 1 | Direct Synthesis of Ketones from Methyl Esters by Nickel‐Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Yan‐Long Zheng, Pei‐Pei Xie, Omid Daneshfar, Kendall N. Houk*, Xin Hong, Stephen G. Newman.
Apr 1 | Polyaniline Nanofibers: From Laboratory Curiosity to Commercial Products - The Chemist. Richard Kaner*.
Apr 1 | Covalent Bonding-Based Adhesion Method for Rigidly Coupling Metal Nanocrystals to Metal and Metal Oxide Surfaces - ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Stephen Sasaki, Jeffrey Kurish, Shauna Robbennolt, Yan Yan, Eduardo Garcia, and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Apr 1 | Optimizing Kesterite Solar Cells from Cu2ZnSnS4 to Cu2CdGe(S,Se)4† - J. Mater. Chem. A. Robert B. Wexler, Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam and Emily A. Carter*.
Mar 31 | The Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) Awards in two-dimensional materials (Editorial) Nano Res. - Xiangfeng Duan* and Qihua Xiong.
Mar 31 | Perfluorocarbon nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy For Nanobubbles and nanodroplets issue - Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. Rachael A.Day & Ellen M.Sletten*.
Mar 29 | MCPdb: The bacterial microcompartment database – PLOS One. Jessica M. Ochoa, Kaylie Bair, Thomas Holton, Thomas A. Bobik, Todd O. Yeates*.
Mar 26 | FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices – eLife. Eitan Lerner, Anders Barth, Jelle Hendrix, Benjamin Ambrose, Victoria Birkedal, Scott C Blanchard, Richard Börner, Hoi Sung Chung, Thorben Cordes, Timothy D Craggs, Ashok A Deniz, Jiajie Diao, Jingyi Fei, Ruben L Gonzalez, Irina V Gopich, Taekjip Ha, Christian A Hanke, Gilad Haran, Nikos S Hatzakis, Sungchul Hohng, Seok-Cheol Hong, Thorsten Hugel, Antonino Ingargiola, Chirlmin Joo, Achillefs N Kapanidis, Harold D Kim, Ted Laurence, Nam Ki Lee, Tae-Hee Lee, Edward A Lemke, Emmanuel Margeat, Jens Michaelis, Xavier Michalet, Sua Myong, Daniel Nettels, Thomas-Otavio Peulen, Evelyn Ploetz, Yair Razvag, Nicole C Robb, Benjamin Schuler, Hamid Soleimaninejad, Chun Tang, Reza Vafabakhsh, Don C Lamb, Claus AM Seidel, Shimon Weiss*.
Mar 26 | Photochemical Intermolecular Dearomative Cycloaddition of Bicyclic Azaarenes with Alkenes - Science. Jiajia Ma, Shuming Chen*, Peter Bellotti, Renyu Guo, Felix Schäfer, Arne Heusler, Xiaolong Zhang, Constantin Daniliuc, M. Kevin Brown, Kendall N. Houk*, Frank Glorius. Read article about the research here.
Mar 26 | Computational Exploration of Ambiphilic Reactivity of Azides and Sustmann’s Paradigmatic Parabola - J. Org. Chem. Pan-Pan Chen, Pengchen Ma, Xue He, Dennis Svatunek, Fang Liu*, and Kendall N. Houk*.
Mar 26 | Franck-Condon Tuning of Optical Cycling Centers by Organic Functionalization - Phys. Rev. Lett. Claire E. Dickerson, Han Guo, Ashley J. Shin, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Justin R. Caram*, Wesley C. Campbell, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Mar 25 | Palladium-catalyzed acetylation of arylbromides - Org. Synth. Milauni M. Mehta, Andrew V. Kelleghan, and Neil K. Garg*.
Mar 23 | Sortase-assembled Pili in Corynebacterium diphtheriae are Built Using a Latch Mechanism - PNAS. Scott A. McConnell, Rachel A. McAllister, Brendan R. Amer, Brendan J. Mahoney, Christopher K. Sue, Chungyu Chang, Hung Ton-That, and Robert T. Clubb*.
Mar 23 | The Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transcription Factor SNAI1 Represses Transcription of the Tumor Suppressor miRNA let-7 in Cancer – Cancers. Hanmin Wang, Evgeny Chirshev, Nozomi Hojo,Tise Suzuki, Antonella Bertucci, Michael Pierce, Christopher Perry, Ruining Wang, Jeffrey Zink*, Carlotta A. Glackin, Yevgeniya J. Ioffeand Juli J. Unternaehrer.
Mar 19 | Gold(III) Aryl Complexes as Reagents for Constructing Hybrid Peptide-Based Assemblies via Cysteine S-Arylation - Inorg. Chem. Julia M. Stauber, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
Mar 17 | High-order superlattices by rolling up van der Waals heterostructures - Nature. Bei Zhao, Zhong Wan, Yuan Liu, Junqing Xu, Xiangdong Yang, Dingyi Shen, Zucheng Zhang, Chunhao Guo, Qi Qian, Jia Li, Ruixia Wu, Zhaoyang Lin, Xingxu Yan, Bailing Li, Zhengwei Zhang, Huifang Ma, Bo Li, Xiao Chen, Yi Qiao, Imran Shakir, Zeyad Almutairi, Fei Wei, Yue Zhang, Xiaoqing Pan, Yu Huang, Yuan Ping, Xidong Duan & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Mar 16 | Phosphorus-Based Catalysis - ACS Cent. Sci. Changmin Xie, Andrew J. Smaligo, Xian-Rong Song, and Ohyun Kwon*.
Mar 16 | Yeast Grown in Continuous Culture Systems Can Detect Mutagens with Improved Sensitivity Relative to the Ames Test - PLOS One. Joseph Y. Ong*, Julia T. Pence, David C. Molik, Heather A. M. Shepherd, Holly V. Goodson. Ong is a BMSB Ph.D. student in Prof. Jorge Torres' group. This research is the result of his undergraduate work at Notre Dame.
Mar 16 | The mitochondrial carrier SFXN1 is critical for complex III integrity and cellular metabolism – Cell Rep. Michelle Grace Acoba, Ebru S. Selen Alpergin, Santosh Renuse, Lucía Fernández-del-Río, Ya-Wen Lu, Oleh Khalimonchuk, Catherine F. Clarke*, Akhilesh Pandey, Michael J. Wolfgang, Steven M. Claypool.
Mar 15 | HCl–H2O Dimer: An Accurate Full-dimensional Potential Energy Surface and Fully Coupled Quantum Calculations of Intra- and Intermolecular Vibrational States and Frequency Shifts - Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Yang Liu, Jun Li, Peter M. Felker* and Zlatko Bačić.
Mar 13 | Hot carrier multiplication in plasmonic photocatalyis - PNAS. Linan Zhou, Minhan Lou, Junwei Lucas Bao, Chao Zhang, Jun Liu, John Mark Martirez, Shu Tian, Lin Yuan, Dayne Swearer, Hossein Robatjazi, Emily Carter*, Peter Nordlander, Naomi Halas.
Mar 8 | Geometric Lessons and Design Strategies for Nanoscale Protein Cages - ACS Nano. Joshua Laniado, Kevin A. Cannon, Justin E. Miller, Michael R. Sawaya, Dan E. McNamara, and Todd O. Yeates*.
Mar 8 | Taming Radical Pairs in the Crystalline Solid State: Discovery and Total Synthesis of Psychotriadine - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Jordan J. Dotson, Ieva Liepuoniute, J. Logan Bachman, Vince M. Hipwell, Saeed I. Khan, K. N. Houk*, Neil K. Garg*, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*. This study was featured in JACS Spotlight. Read article about research here.
Mar 5 | Controlling the Formation of Charge Transfer Complexes in Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers - Chem. Mater. Dane A. Stanfield, Yutong Wu, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.
Mar 4 | Autobiography of Emily A. Carter – J. Phys. Chem., A. Emily A. Carter*. As part of the The American Chemical Society (ACS) tribute to the accomplishments of UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. Read more about it here.
Mar 3 | Layer spacing gradient (NaLi)1−xCoO2 for electrochemical Li extraction - Matter. Grant T. Hill, Fengyuan Shi, Hua Zhou, Yu Han, Chong Liu*.
Mar 3 | Promises and Prospects of Two-dimensional Transistors - Nature. Yuan Liu, Xidong Duan, Hyeon-Jin Shin, Seongjun Park, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan*. This article was featured in-depth in EE|Times magazine.
Mar 2 | ClipsMS: An Algorithm for Analyzing Internal Fragments Resulting from Top-Down Mass Spectrometry - J. Proteome Res. Carter Lantz, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Benqian Wei, Zachary Hemminger, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, and Joseph A. Loo*.
Mar 2 | Cycloadditions of Cyclopentadiene and Cycloheptatriene with Tropones: All Endo-[6+4] Cycloadditions Are Ambimodal - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Cooper S. Jamieson, Arkajyoti Sengupta, & K. N. Houk*.
Mar 2 | Expanding Nanoparticle Multifunctionality: Size-Selected Cargo Release and Multiple Logic Operations - Nanoscale. Wei Chen, Chi-An Cheng, Danlei Xianga and Jeffrey I. Zink*.
Mar 2 | X-Ray-Based Techniques to Study the Nano-Bio Interface - ACS Nano. C. Sanchez-Cano, R. A. Alvarez-Puebla, J. M. Abendroth, T. Beck, R. Blick, Y. Cao, F. Caruso, I. Chakraborty, H. Chapman, C. Chen, B. E. Cohen, A. L. C. Conceição, D. P. Cormode, D. Cui, K. A. Dawson, G. Falkenberg, C. Fan, N. Feliu, M. Gao, E. Gargioni, C.-C. Glüer, F. Grüner, M. Hassan, Y. Hu, Y. Huang, S. Huber, N. Huse, Y. Kang, A. Khademhosseini, T. F. Keller, C. Körnig, N. A. Kotov, D. Koziej, X.-J. Liang, B. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, L. M. Liz-Marzan, X. Ma, A. Machicote, W. Maison, A. P. Mancuso, S. Megahed, B. Nickel, F. Otto, C. P. Ramirez, S. Pascarelli, A. Pearson, O. Peñate-Medina, B. Qi, J. Rädler, J. J. Richardson, A. Rosenhahn, K. Rothkamm, M. Rübhausen, M. K. Sanyal, R. E. Schaak, H.-P. Schlemmer, M. Schmidt, O. Schmutzler, T. Schotten, F. Schulz, A. K. Sood, K. M. Spiers, T. Staufer, D. M. Stemer, A. Stierle, X. Sun, G. Tsakanova, P. S. Weiss*, H. Weller, F. Westermeier, M. Xu, H. Yan, Y. Zao, Y. Zeng, Y. Zhao, D. Zhu, Y. Zhu, & W. J. Parak.
Mar 2 | When Fluxionality Beats Size Selection: Acceleration of Ostwald Ripening of Sub‐Nano Clusters - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Borna Zandkarimi, Patricia Poths, & Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Mar 1 - Van der Waals Epitaxial Growth of Air-stable CrSe2 Nanosheets with Thickness-tunable Magnetic Order - Nature Materials. Bo Li, Zhong Wan, Cong Wang, Peng Chen, Bevin Huang, Xing Cheng, Qi Qian, Jia Li, Zhengwei Zhang, Guangzhuang Sun, Bei Zhao, Huifang Ma, Ruixia Wu, Zhongming Wei, Yuan Liu, Lei Liao, Yu Ye, Yu Huang, Xiaodong Xu, Xidong Duan, Wei Ji & Xiangfeng Duan*.
Mar 1 | Narratives of Undergraduate Research, Mentorship, and Teaching at UCLA - Pure and Applied Sciences. Simone L. Stevens, Alice C. Phung, Alejandra Gonzalez, Yanwu Shao, Elamar Hakim Moully, Vinh T. Nguyen, Joshua L. Martin, Chantel Mao, Azin Saebi, Daniel Mosallaei, Monica Kirollos, Paul Chong, Alexander Umanzor, Kevin Qian, Gustavo Marin, Omar M. Ebrahim, Ramya S. Pathuri, Morgan Hopp, Roshini Ramachandran, Mary A. Waddington & Alexander M. Spokoyny*. (Read article about research here.)
Mar 1 | Catalytic mechanism and endo-to-exo selectivity reversion of an octalin-forming natural Diels–Alderase - Nature Catalysis. Michio Sato, Shinji Kishimoto, Mamoru Yokoyama, Cooper S. Jamieson, Kazuto Narita, Naoya Maeda, Kodai Hara, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yuta Tsunematsu, Kendall N. Houk*, Yi Tang* & Kenji Watanabe.
Feb 28 - The Myosin Regulatory Light Chain Myl5 Localizes to Mitotic Spindle Poles and is Required for Proper Cell Division - Cytoskeleton. Ivan Ramirez, Ankur A. Gholkar, Erick F. Velasquez, Xiao Guo, Bobby Tofig, Robert Damoiseaux, Jorge Z. Torres*.
Feb 24 | Quantifying information accumulation encoded in the dynamics of biochemical signaling – Nature Communications. Ying Tang, Adewunmi Adelaja, Felix X.-F. Ye, Eric Deeds, Roy Wollman* & Alexander Hoffmann.
Feb 18 | A Switchable Dimeric Yttrium Complex and its Three Catalytic States in Ring Opening Polymerization - Inorg. Chem. Front. Shijie Deng & Paula L. Diaconescu*.
Feb 18 | From chemoproteomic‐detected amino acids to genomic coordinates: insights into precise multi‐omic data integration – Mol. Syst. Biol. Maria F Palafox, Heta S Desai, Valerie A Arboleda, Keriann M Backus*.
Feb 18 | Room Temperature Rectification in Tapered-channel Thermal Diodes Through Nanoscale Confinement-induced Liquid–solid Phase Change - J. Appl. Phys. - Matt Jacobs, Xinran Zhou, Edgar Olivera, Ryan Sheil, Shu Huang, Michal Marszewski, Jane Chang, Sarah Tolbert*, Stanley Osher, Laurent Pilon, and Jaime Marian.
Feb 18 | A Novel SOD1 Intermediate Oligomer, Role of Free Thiols and Disulfide Exchange – Front. Neurosci. Bon-Kyung Koo, William Munroe, Edith B. Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine* and Julian P. Whitelegge.
Feb 17 | Chlorinated Spiroconjugated Fused Extended Aromatics for Multifunctional Organic Electronics - Adv. Mater. Dong Meng, Rui Wang, Janice B. Lin, Jonathan Lee Yang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Yu‐Che Lin, Shuai Yuan, Zhao‐Kui Wang, Elizabeth Zhang, Chengyi Xiao, Danlei Zhu, Lang Jiang, Yepin Zhao, Zhenxing Li, Chenhui Zhu, Kendall N. Houk*, Yang Yang.
Feb 16 | Widespread Polycistronic Gene Expression in Green Algae - PNAS. Sean D. Gallaher, Rory J. Craig, Iniyan Ganesan, Samuel O. Purvine, Sean R. McCorkle, Jane Grimwood, Daniela Strenkert, Lital Davidi, Melissa S. Roth, Tim L. Jeffers, Mary S. Lipton, Krishna K. Niyogi, Jeremy Schmutz, Steven M. Theg, Crysten E. Blaby-Haas, Sabeeha S. Merchant*.
Feb 15 | Dipolar Order in an Amphidynamic Crystalline Metal–organic Framework Through Reorienting Linkers - Nature Chemistry. Yue-Shun Su, Erik S. Lamb, Ieva Liepuoniute, Aaron Chronister, Andrew L. Stanton, Pedro Guzman, Salvado Pérez-Estrada, Trevor Chang, Ken Houk*, Miguel Garcia-Garibay* & Stuart E. Brown. (Read article about research here.)
Feb 15 | Mechanism and Origins of Stereoselectivity of the Aldol-Tishchenko Reaction of Sulfinimines - J. Org. Chem. Aneta Turlik, Kaori Ando, Pamela Mackey, Emma Alcock, Mark Light, Gerard P. McGlacken, and K. N. Houk*.
Feb 12 | Celebrating 50 Years of KAIST: Collective Intelligence and Innovation for Confronting Contemporary Issues - ACS Nano. Jaewan Ahn, Choongsik Bae, Paul S. Weiss*, and Il-Doo Kim.
Feb 12 | Large-Scale Soft-Lithographic Patterning of Plasmonic Nanoparticles - ACS Materials Letters. Naihao Chiang, Leonardo Scarabelli, Gail A. Vinnacombe-Willson, Luis A. Pérez, Camilla Dore, Agustín Mihi, Steven J. Jonas, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Feb 11 | Synthesis of Disulfide-Bridging Trehalose Polymers for Antibody and Fab Conjugation Using a Bis-Sulfone ATRP Initiator - Polymer Chemistry. Neil Forsythe and Heather Maynard*.
Feb 8 | Structural Basis for the Biosynthesis of Llovastatin - Nat Commun. Jialiang Wang, Jingdan Liang, Lu Chen, Wei Zhang, Liangliang Kong, Chao Peng, Chen Su, Yi Tang*, Zixin Deng & Zhijun Wang.
Feb 8 | Genome mining of cryptic tetronate natural products from a PKS-NRPS encoding gene cluster in Trichoderma harzianum t-22 - Org. Biomol. Chem. Yiguang Zhu, Junfeng Wang, Pengyun Mou, Yan Yan, Mengbin Chena and Yi Tang*.
Feb 3 | Development of Novel Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier Inhibitors to Treat Hair Loss - J. Med. Chem. Xiaoguang Liu, Aimee A. Flores, Lisa Situ, Wen Gu, Hui Ding, Heather R. Christofk, William E. Lowry, and Michael E. Jung*.
Feb 2 | Ultrafast Rechargeable Zn Micro-batteries Endowing a Wearable Solar Charging System with High Overall Efficiency - Energy Environ. Sci. Zhengnan Tian, Zhongti Sun,Yanyan Shao, Liang Gao, Rong Huang, Yuanlong Shao, Richard B. Kaner* & Jingyu Sun.
Feb 2 | Unified Approach to Furan Natural Products via Phosphine–Palladium Catalysis - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Violet Chen and Ohyun Kwon*.
Feb 2 | The myosin regulatory light chain Myl5 localizes to mitotic spindle poles and is required for proper cell division – Cytoskeleton. Ivan Ramirez, Ankur A. Gholkar, Erick F. Velasquez, Xiao Guo, Bobby Tofig, Robert Damoiseaux, Jorge Z. Torres*.
Feb 2 | Single-cell RNA sequencing of batch Chlamydomonas cultures reveals heterogeneity in their diurnal cycle phase - The Plant Cell. Feiyang Ma, Patrice A Salomé, Sabeeha S Merchant, Matteo Pellegrini
Feb 2 | Co-expression networks in Chlamydomonas reveal significant rhythmicity in batch cultures and empower gene function discovery - The Plant Cell. Patrice A Salomé, Sabeeha S Merchant.
Feb 1 | Heterogeneous Intramolecular Electric Field as a Descriptor of Diels–Alder Reactivity - J. Phys. Chem. Matthew R. Hennefarth and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Feb 1 | From Chemoproteomic‐detected Amino Acids to Genomic Coordinates: Insights into Precise Multi‐omic Data Integration - Mol Syst Biol. Maria F. Palafox, Heta S. Desai, Valerie A. Arboleda, Keriann M. Backus*.
Feb 1 | Efficient Lewis Acid Catalysis of an Abiological Reaction in a de novo Protein Scaffold – Nature Chemistry. Sophie Basler, Sabine Studer, Yike Zou, Takahiro Mori, Yusuke Ota, Anna Camus, H. Adrian Bunzel, Roger C. Helgeson, K. N. Houk*, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés and Donald Hilvert. (Read article about research here.)
Jan 31 | Laser-Carbonization: Peering into the Formation of Micro-thermally produced (N-doped)carbons - Carbon. Huize Wang, Simon Delacroix, Oliver Osswald, Mackenzie Anderson, Tobias Heil, Enrico Lepre, Nieves Lopez-Salas, Richard Kaner*, Bernd Smarsly, Volker Strauss.
Jan 31 | New approaches to target RNA binding proteins – Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. Ashley R. Julio, Keriann M.Backus*.
Jan 29 | Provisional Report on Discussions on Group 3 of the Periodic Table - Chemistry International (IUPAC). Eric Scerri*.
Jan 29 | Self-motion and heterogeneous droplet dynamics in moderately attractive dense emulsions - J. Phys. Condens. Matter. Ha Seong Kim, Yixuan Xu, Frank Scheffold and Thomas G Mason*
Jan 29 | Detection of genetic variation and base modifications at base-pair resolution on both DNA and RNA – Comm Biol. Zhen Wang, Jérôme Maluenda, Laurène Giraut, Thibault Vieille, Andréas Lefevre, David Salthouse, Gaël Radou, Rémi Moulinas, Sandra Astete, Pol D’Avezac, Geoff Smith, Charles André, Jean-François Allemand, David Bensimon*, Vincent Croquette, Jimmy Ouellet & Gordon Hamilton.
Jan 27 | Triorganotin (IV) carboxylates as potential anticancer agents: Their synthesis, physiochemical characterization, and cytotoxic activity against HeLa and MCF‐7 cancer cells - Appl. Organomet. Chem. Noor Uddin, Faisal Rashid, Ali Haider, Syed Ahmed Tirmizi, Ahmad Raheel, Muhammad Imran, Sumera Zaib, Paula L. Diaconescu*, Jamshed Iqbal, Saqib Ali.
Jan 27 | Global Activity Search Uncovers Reaction Induced Concomitant Catalyst Restructuring for Alkane Dissociation on Model Pt Catalysts - ACS Catal. Geng Sun, Jack T. Fuller III, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, and Philippe Sautet*.
Jan 26 | Actively Driven Fluctuations in a Fibrin Network - Front. Phys. Elliot L. Botvinick, Qingda Hu, Tessa A. Morris, Anna Grosberg and Alex J. Levine*.
Jan 26 | An Integrated Methodology for Screening Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Catalysts: Pt/Mo2C as an Example – (Book Chapter) Computational Materials, Chemistry, and Biochemistry: From Bold Initiatives to the Last Mile. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 284. Alexander J. Tkalych, Houlong Zhuang, Emily A. Carter*.
Jan 22 | Evolution of the Diels–Alder Reaction Mechanism since the 1930s: Woodward, Houk with Woodward, and the Influence of Computational Chemistry on Understanding Cycloadditions - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Kendall N. Houk*, Fang Liu, Zhongyue Yang. Jeffrey I. Seeman.
Jan 21 | L-Isoaspartyl Methyltransferase Deficiency in Zebrafish Leads to Impaired Calcium Signaling in the Brain - Frontiers in Genetics. Remon Soliman, Maria Lorena Cordero-Maldonado, Teresa G. Martins, Mahsa Moein, Jean-François Conrotte, Rebeccah A. Warmack, Alexander Skupin, Alexander D. Crawford, Steven G. Clarke* and Carole L. Linster.
Jan 21 | Overcoming Kinetic and Thermodynamic Challenges of Classic Cope Rearrangements - J. Org. Chem. Ehsan Fereyduni, Ouidad Lahtigui, Jacob N. Sanders, Breanna M. Tomiczek, Michael D. Mannchen, Roland A. Yu, K. N. Houk*, and Alexander J. Grenning.
Jan 21 | HDO–CO Complex: D-Bonded and H-Bonded Isomers and Intra- and Intermolecular Rovibrational States from Full-Dimensional and Fully Coupled Quantum Calculations - J. Phys. Chem. A. Peter M. Felker* and Zlatko Bačić*.
Jan 21 | New triorganotin(iv) compounds with aromatic carboxylate ligands: synthesis and evaluation of the pro-apoptotic mechanism – RSC Advances. Faisal Rashid, Noor Uddin, Saqib Ali, Ali Haider, Syed Ahmad Tirmizi, Paula L. Diaconescu* and Jamshed Iqbal.
Jan 20 | Multiplexed CuAAC Suzuki–Miyaura Labeling for Tandem Activity-Based Chemoproteomic Profiling - Anal. Chem. Jian Cao, Lisa M. Boatner, Heta S. Desai, Nikolas R. Burton, Ernest Armenta, Neil J. Chan, José O. Castellón, and Keriann M. Backus*.
Jan 19 | Large-Area Synthesis and Patterning of All-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films and Heterostructures - Nano Lett. Yiliu Wang, Chuancheng Jia, Zheng Fan, Zhaoyang Lin, Sung-Joon Lee, Timothy L. Atallah, Justin R. Caram*, Yu Huang, and Xiangfeng Duan*.
Jan 18 | Unique Surface Patterns Emerging during Solidification of Liquid Metal Alloys - Nature Nanotechnology. Jianbo Tang, Stephanie Lambie, Nastaran Meftahi, Andrew J. Christofferson, Jiong Yang, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Jialuo Han, Francois-Marie Allioux, Md. Arifur Rahim, Mohannad Mayyas, Torben Daeneke, Chris F. McConville, Krista G. Steenbergen, Richard B. Kaner*, Salvy P. Russo, Nicola Gaston & Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh.
Jan 14 | Hidden Vacancy Benefit in Monolayer 2D Semiconductors – Advanced Materials. Xiankun Zhang, Qingliang Liao, Zhuo Kang, Baishan Liu, Xiaozhi Liu, Yang Ou, Jiankun Xiao, Junli Du, Yihe Liu, Li Gao, Lin Gu, Mengyu Hong, Huihui Yu, Zheng Zhang, Xiangfeng Duan*, Yue Zhang.
Jan 14 | CO2 Photoelectrochemical Reduction Catalyzed by a GaP(001) Photoelectrode - ACS Catal. Shenzhen Xu and Emily A. Carter*.
Jan 14 | Computational Redesign of a PETase for Plastic Biodegradation under Ambient Condition by the GRAPE Strategy. ACS Catal. Yinglu Cui, Yanchun Chen, Xinyue Liu, Saijun Dong, Yu’e Tian, Yuxin Qiao, Ruchira Mitra, Jing Han, Chunli Li, Xu Han, Weidong Liu, Quan Chen, Wangqing Wei, Xin Wang, Wenbin Du, Shuangyan Tang, Hua Xiang, Haiyan Liu, Yong Liang, Kendall N. Houk*, and Bian Wu.
Jan 13 | Advances in the World of Bacterial Microcompartments – Trends. Biochem. Sci. Andrew M. Stewart, Katie L. Stewart,Todd O. Yeates*, Thomas A. Bobik.
Jan 13 | SP3‐FAIMS Chemoproteomics for High Coverage Profiling of the Human Cysteinome - ChemBioChem - Tianyang Yan, Heta S. Desai, Lisa M. Boatner, Stephanie L. Yen, Jian Cao, Maria F. Palafox, Yasaman Jami-Alahmadi, Keriann Backus*.
Jan 13 | Light Transfer through Semi-transparent Windows Supporting Pendant Droplets - Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. Eylul Simsek, KeyongZhu, Glareh N.Kashanchi, Megan J.Williams,Tiphaine Galy, Michal Marszewskim, Sarah H.Tolbert*, Laurent Pilon.
Jan 13 | Rounding Out the Understanding of ACD Toxicity with the Discovery of Cyclic Forms of Actin Oligomers - Int J Mol Sci. Harper Smith, Nick Pinkerton, David B. Heisler, Elena Kudryashova, Aaron R. Hall, Kelly R. Karch, Andrew Norris, Vicki Wysocki, Marcos Sotomayor, Emil Reisler*, Dimitrios Vavylonis, and Dmitri S. Kudryashov.
Jan 12 | Multiplexed Characterization of Rationally Designed Promoter Architectures Deconstructs Combinatorial Logic For IPTG-Inducible Systems - Nature Communications. Timothy C. Yu, Winnie L. Liu, Marcia S. Brinck, Jessica E. Davis, Jeremy Shek, Grace Bower, Tal Einav, Kimberly D. Insigne, Rob Phillips, Sriram Kosuri* & Guillaume Urtecho.
Jan 12 | [8+2] vs [4+2] Cycloadditions of Cyclohexadienamines to Tropone and Heptafulvenes—Mechanisms and Selectivities - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Xiangyang Chen, Mathias Kirk Thøgersen, Limin Yang, Rune F. Lauridsen, Xiao-Song Xue, Karl Anker Jørgensen, and K. N. Houk*.
Jan 12 | Effects of curvature on the propagation of undulatory waves in lower dimensional elastic materials - Phys. Rev. Jonathan Kernes and Alex J. Levine*.
Jan 12 | What does graphitic carbon nitride really look like? Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Sigismund T. A. G. Melissen, Tangui Le Bahers, Philippe Sautet* and Stephan N. Steinmann.
Jan 12, 2021 - Physics of viral dynamics (Review) - Nature Reviews Physics. Robijn F. Bruinsma*, Gijs J. L. Wuite & Wouter H. Roos.
Jan 10 | Continuous chaotic bioprinting of skeletal muscle-like constructs – Bioprinting. Edna Johana Bolívar-Monsalve, Carlos Fernando Ceballos-González, Karen Ixchel Borrayo-Montaño, Diego Alonso Quevedo-Moreno, Juan Felipe Yee-de León, Ali Khademhosseini, Paul S. Weiss*, Mario Moisés Alvarez, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago.
Jan 9 | Self-healing Flexible/stretchable Energy Storage Devices - Materials Today. Xiaoling Tong, Zhengnan Tian, Jingyu Sun, Vincent Tung, Richard B. Kaner*, Yuanlong Shao.
Jan 7 | Divalent Cation Dependence Enhances Dopamine Aptamer Biosensing - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Nako Nakatsuka, John M. Abendroth, Kyung-Ae Yang, and Anne M. Andrews*.
Jan 7 | Fungal Dioxygenase AsqJ Is Promiscuous and Bimodal: Substrate‐Directed Formation of Quinolones versus Quinazolinones - Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Manuel Einsiedler, Cooper S. Jamieson, Mark Maskeri, K. N. Houk*, Tobias Alexander, Marius Gulder.
Jan 7 | Continuous Chaotic Bioprinting of Skeletal Muscle-Like Constructs - Bioprinting - Edna Johana Bolívar-Monsalve, Carlos Fernando Ceballos-González, Karen Ixchel Borrayo-Montaño, Diego Alonso Quevedo-Moreno, Juan Felipe Yee-de León, Ali Khademhosseini, Paul S.Weiss*, Mario Moisés Alvarez, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago.
Jan 6 | Isolation and X-ray Crystal Structure of an Electrogenerated TEMPO–N3 Charge-Transfer Complex - Org. Lett. Hosea M. Nelson*, Juno C. Siu, Ambarneil Saha, Duilio Cascio, Samantha N. MacMillan, Song-Bai Wu, Chenxi Lu, José A. Rodríguez*, K. N. Houk*, and Song Lin.
Jan 5 | Multiplexed CuAAC Suzuki−Miyaura Labeling for Tandem Activity-Based Chemoproteomic Profiling - Anal. Chem. Jian Cao, Lisa M. Boatner, Heta S. Desai, Nikolas R. Burton, Ernest Armenta, Neil J. Chan, José O. Castellon, and Keriann M. Backus*.
Jan 5 | Surface Displayed Heme Chaperones That Enable Gram-Positive Bacteria to Capture Heme-Iron From Hemoglobin - Front. Microbiol. [Review]. Ken Ellis-Guardiola, Brendan J. Mahoney and Robert T. Clubb*.
Jan 5 - MoC nanodots toward efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: an interlayer-confined strategy with a 2D-zeolite precursor - J. Mater. Chem. A. Boxu Gao, Yanghuan Huang, Sinong Wang, Haiyang Lu, Luyao Zheng, Xueliang Fan, Xue Yang, Wenbiao Zhang, Yajun Wang, Yahong Zhang, Qingsheng Gao and Yi Tang*.
Jan 3 | Unequivocal Identification of Aspartic Acid and isoAspartic Acid by MALDI-TOF/TOF: From Peptide Standards to a Therapeutic Antibody - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. John O. Hui, Tawnya Flick, Joseph A. Loo*, and Iain D. G. Campuzano.
Jan 1 | DUSP7 regulates the activity of ERK2 to promote proper chromosome alignment during cell division - J. Biol. Chem. Xiao Guo, Ivan Ramirez, Yenni A. Garcia, Erick F. Velasquez, Ankur A. Gholkar, Whitaker Cohn, Julian P. Whitelegge, Bobby Tofig, Robert Damoiseaux, Jorge Z. Torres*.
The impact of twentieth century physics on the periodic table and some remaining questions in the twenty-first century - Book chapter in 150 Years of the Periodic Table - A Commemorative Symposium; Perspectives on the History of Chemistry, Giunta, Carmen, Mainz, Vera V., Girolami, Gregory S. (Eds.) pp. 409-423, Eric R Scerri*.
2020
Dec 31 | Encapsulating N-Heterocyclic Carbene Binuclear Transition-Metal Complexes as a New Platform for Molecular Rotation in Crystalline Solid-State - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Mingoo Jin, Rempei Ando, Marcus J. Jellen, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*, and Hajime Ito.
Dec 30 | An Eight Amino Acid Segment Controls Oligomerization and Preferred Conformation of the two Non-visual Arrestins – J. Mol. Bio. Qiuyan Chen, Ya Zhuo, Pankaj Sharma, Ivette Perez, Derek J. Francis, Srinivas Chakravarthy, Sergey A. Vishnivetskiy, Sandra Berndt, Susan M. Hanson, Xuanzhi Zhan, Evan K. Brooks, Christian Altenbach, Wayne L. Hubbell*, Candice S. Klug, T.M. Iverson, Vsevolod V. Gurevich.
Dec 30 | Structure-sensitive scaling relations among carbon-containing species and their possible impact on CO2 electroreduction – J. Catal. Manuel J. Kolb, David Loffreda, Philippe Sautet, Federico Calle-Vallejo.
Dec 29 | Diffusing wave microrheology of strongly attractive dense emulsions - Phys. Rev. E. Yixuan Xu, Frank Scheffold, and Thomas G. Mason*.
Dec 29 | Biosynthesis of the Immunosuppressant (−)-FR901483 - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhuan Zhang, Yui Tamura, Mancheng Tang, Tianzhang Qiao, Michio Sato, Yoshihiro Otsu, Satoshi Sasamura, Masatoshi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Yi Tang*.
Dec 28 | Higher-order structural characterisation of native proteins and complexes by top-down mass spectrometry - Chemical Science. Mowei Zhou, Carter Lantz, Kyle A. Brown, Ying Ge, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić, Joseph A. Loo* and Frederik Lermyte.
Dec 28 | PACAP is a pathogen-inducible resident antimicrobial neuropeptide affording rapid and contextual molecular host defense of the brain – PNAS. Ernest Y. Lee, Liana C. Chan, Huiyuan Wang, Juelline Lieng, Mandy Hung, Yashes Srinivasan, Jennifer Wang, James A. Waschek, Andrew L. Ferguson, Kuo-Fen Lee, Nannette Y. Yount, Michael R. Yeaman, Gerard C. L. Wong*.
Dec 23 | Seeded-Growth Experiment Demonstrating Size- and Shape-Dependence on Gold Nanoparticle–Light Interactions - J. Chem. Educ. Gail A. Vinnacombe-Willson, Naihao Chiang, Paul S. Weiss*, Sarah H. Tolbert*, and Leonardo Scarabelli.
Dec 22 | Growing Contributions of Nano in 2020 (Editorial) - ACS Nano. C. Jeffrey Brinker, Jillian M. Buriak, Warren C. W. Chan, Manish Chhowalla, Sharon C. Glotzer, Yury Gogotsi, Paula T. Hammond, Mark C. Hersam, Ali Javey, Cherie R. Kagan, Kazunori Kataoka, Ali Khademhosseini, Il-Doo Kim, Nicholas A. Kotov, Shuit-Tong Lee, Young Hee Lee, Yan Li, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Jill E. Millstone, Paul Mulvaney, Andre E. Nel, Peter Nordlander, Wolfgang J. Parak, Reginald M. Penner, Andrey L. Rogach, Raymond E. Schaak, A. K. Sood, Molly M. Stevens, Andrew T. S. Wee, Tanja Weil, C. Grant Wilson, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Dec 22 | A Polyketide Cyclase That Forms Medium-Ring Lactones - J. Am. Chem. Soc. De-Wei Gao, Cooper S. Jamieson, Gaoqian Wang, Yan Yan, Jiahai Zhou, K. N. Houk*, and Yi Tang*.
Dec 19 | François N. Diederich: Pioneer of carbon allotropes and molecular recognition - PNAS - Kendall N. Houk* and J. Fraser Stoddart.
Dec 18 | Narrower Nanoribbon Biosensors Fabricated by Chemical Lift-off Lithography Show Higher Sensitivity - ACS Nano. Chuanzhen Zhao, Qingzhou Liu, Kevin M. Cheung, Wenfei Liu, Qing Yang, Xiaobin Xu, Tianxing Man, Paul S. Weiss*, Chongwu Zhou, and Anne M. Andrews*.
Dec 18 | Cooperative Stapling of Native Peptides at Lysine and Tyrosine or Arginine with Formaldehyde - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Bo Li, Hong Tang, Aneta Turlik, Zhao Wan, Xiao‐Song Xue, Li Li, Xiaoxiao Yang, Jiuyuan Li, Gang He, Kendall N. Houk*, Dr. Gong Chen.
Dec 15 | A Complete Rule Set for Designing Symmetry Combination Materials from Protein Molecules - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Joshua Laniado, Todd O Yeates*.
Dec 14 | Arene-Bridged Dithorium Complexes: Inverse Sandwiches Supported by a δ Bonding Interaction - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Chao Yu, Jiefeng Liang, Chong Deng, Guillaume Lefèvre, Thibault Cantat, Paula L. Diaconescu*, and Wenliang Huang.
Dec 11 | Investigating 3D Structures of Native Proteins and Complexes through Electron-based Dissociation (Chapter) – New Developments in Mass Spectrometry. Joseph A. Loo*, Andrew K. Goring, Carter Lantz, Benqian Wei and Muhammad A. Zenaidee.
Dec 9 | Enhanced Bioactivity of a Human GHR Antagonist Generated by Solid-Phase Site-Specific PEGylation - Biomacromolecules. Yue Wang, Ries J. Langley, Kyle Tamshen, Julia Harms, Martin J. Middleditch, Heather D. Maynard*, Stephen M. F. Jamieson, and Jo K. Perry.
Dec 9 | Driving Force and Optical Signatures of Bipolaron Formation in Chemically-Doped Conjugated Polymers - Adv. Mater. Matthew G. Voss; J. Reddy Challa; D. Tyler Scholes; Patrick Y. Yee; Eric C. Wu; Xiao Liu; Sanghyun J. Park; Omar Leon Ruiz; Selvam Subramanian; Mengdan Chen; Samson A. Jenekhe; Xiaolin Wang; Sarah H. Tolbert*; Benjamin J. Schwartz*. (Read article about research here.)
Dec 9 | Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Using 3D Aromatic Boron Cluster Radicals - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Yaewon Kim, Rebecca Kubena, Jonathan Axtell, Hamidreza Samouei, Pierce Pham, Julia M. Stauber, Alexander M. Spokoyny*, and Christian Hilty.
Dec 9 | Niobium Pentoxide Based Materials for High Rate Rechargeable Electrochemical Energy Storage - Materials Horizons. Fei Shen, Zhongti Sun, Qinggang He, Jingyu Sun, Richard B. Kaner*, Yuanlong Shao.
Dec 8 | Efficacy Analysis of Compartmentalization for Ambient CH4 Activation Mediated by a RhII Metalloradical in a Nanowire Array Electrode - Chemical Science. Benjamin S. Natinsky, Brandon J. Jolly, David M. Dumasa and Chong Liu*.
Dec 8 - Directed Force Propagation in Semiflexible Networks - Soft Matter. Maximilian J. Grill, Jonathan Kernes, Valentin M. Slepukhin, Wolfgang A. Walla and Alex J. Levine*.
Dec 7 | Examining the Role of Atomic Scale Heterogeneity on the Thermal Conductivity of Transparent, Thermally Insulating, Mesoporous Silica–Titania Thin Films - J. Phys. Chem. C. Sophia C. King, Man Li, Tiphaine Galy, Yan Yan, Joon Sang Kang, Victoria M. Basile, Yolanda L. Li, Michal Marszewski, Laurent Pilon, Yongjie Hu, and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Dec 6 | Phospho‐regulation of mitotic spindle assembly - Cytoskeleton. Joseph Y. Ong, Michelle C. Bradley, Jorge Z. Torres.
Dec 2 | Errata: “Atomic layer etching of metals with anisotropy, specificity, and selectivity” - J. Vac. Sci. Technol. Xia Sang, Yantao Xia, Philippe Sautet*, and Jane P. Chang.
Dec 1 | A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step (Editorial) - Chemistry—A European Journal. Jean‐François Nierengarten, Kendall N. Houk*, Kuiling Ding.
Nov 30 | Carborane Guests for Cucurbit[7]uril Facilitate Strong Binding and On-Demand Removal - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Anna Kataki-Anastasakou, Jonathan C. Axtell, Selena Hernandez, Rafal M. Dziedzic, Gary J. Balaich, Arnold L. Rheingold, Alexander M. Spokoyny*, and Ellen M. Sletten*.
Nov 29 | What Will We Carry Forward from This Time? (Editorial) - ACS Nano - Samuel Chigome, Chennupati Jagadish, Cherie R. Kagan, Ajay Sood, Haixia Zhang, and Paul S. Weiss*.
Nov 28 | Stochastically Realized Observables for Excitonic Molecular Aggregates - J. Phys. Chem. A. Nadine C. Bradbury, Chern Chuang, Arundhati P. Deshmukh, Eran Rabani, Roi Baer, Justin R. Caram*, and Daniel Neuhauser*.
Nov 26 | Expanding the Scope of Palladium-Catalyzed B–N Cross-Coupling Chemistry in Carboranes - Organometallics. Xin Mu, Morgan Hopp, Rafal M. Dziedzic, Mary A. Waddington, Arnold L. Rheingold, Ellen M. Sletten*, Jonathan C. Axtell, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
Nov 25 | Impact of Organic Templates on the Selective Formation of Zeolite Oligomers. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Marine Ciantar, Thuat T. Trinh, Carine Michel, Philippe Sautet*, Caroline Mellot‐Draznieks, Carlos Nieto‐Draghi.
Nov 24 | One-pot synthesis of few-layered molybdenum disulfide anchored on N, S-codoped carbon for enhanced hydrogen generation - Mater. Today Energy. L. Zheng, W. Zhang, B. Gao, H. Lu, X. Fan, Y. Zhang, Y. Wang, S. Wang, Q. Gao, Y. Tang*.
Nov 23 | A structurally conserved human and Tetrahymena telomerase catalytic core - PNAS. Yaqiang Wang, Marcus Gallagher-Jones, Lukas Sušac, He Song, and Juli Feigon*.
Nov 23 | Photorearrangement of [8]-2,6-Pyridinophane N-Oxide - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Evan E. Hurlow, Janice B. Lin, Morris J. Dweck, Selbi Nuryyeva, Zhengao Feng, Tyler K. Allred, K. N. Houk*, and Patrick G. Harran*
Nov 20 | Damaged lung gas-exchange function of discharged COVID-19 patients detected by hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI - Science Advances. Haidong Li, Xiuchao Zhao, Yujin Wang, Xin Lou, Shizhen Chen, He Deng, Lei Shi, Junshuai Xie, Dazhong Tang, Jianping Zhao, Louis-S. Bouchard*, Liming Xia, and Xin Zhou.
Nov 20 | - Lessons Learned—Aluminum Waste Container Rupture - J. Chem. Health Saf. Craig A. Merlic* and Imke Schröder.
Nov 18 | Observing Single-Atom Catalytic Sites During Reactions with Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Max J. Hülsey, Geng Sun, Philippe Sautet*, Ning Yan.
Nov 16 | Hydrogen Evolution on Restructured B-Rich WB: Metastable Surface States and Isolated Active Sites - ACS Catal. Zisheng Zhang, Zhi-Hao Cui, Elisa Jimenez-Izal, Philippe Sautet, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
Nov 16 | Engineering mesoporous silica for superior optical and thermal properties - MRS Energy and Sustainability. Danielle M. Butts, Patricia E. McNeil , Michal Marszewski , Esther Lan, Tiphaine Galy, Man Li, Joon Sang Kang, David Ashby, Sophia King, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Yongjie Hu, Laurent Pilon and Bruce S. Dunn.
Nov 14 | Elastic ceramic aerogels for thermal superinsulation under extreme conditions. Mater. Today. Xiang Xu, Shubin Fu, Jingran Guo, Hui Li, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan*.
Nov 12 | World Pneumonia Day 2020 - ASBMB Today. Nicole Lynn (PhD Candidate, Torres group).
Nov 10 | Cryogenic Milling Method to Fabricate Nanostructured Anodes - ACS Appl. Energy Mater. Qizhang Yan, Shu-Ting Ko, Yumin Zhao, Yumin Zhao, Grace Whang, Andrew Dawson, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Bruce S. Dunn, and Jian Luo.
Nov 5 | Callyspongiolide Is a Potent Inhibitor of the Vacuolar ATPase - J. Nat. Prod. Sarah Fogarty, Yeyun Ouyang, Liubo Li, Yu-chan Chen, Hallie Rane, Francesco Manoni, Karlett J. Parra, Jared Rutter, and Patrick G. Harran*. (Read article about research here.)
Nov 2 | Discovering Competing Electrocatalytic Mechanisms and Their Overpotentials: Automated Enumeration of Oxygen Evolution Pathways - J. Phys. Chem. C. Ananth Govind Rajan and Emily A. Carter*.
Nov 2 | Understanding Stabilization in Nanoporous Intermetallic Alloy Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries Using Operando Transmission X-ray Microscopy - ACS Nano. Terri C. Lin, Andrew Dawson, Sophia C. King, Yan Yan, David S. Ashby, Joseph A. Mazzetti, Bruce S. Dunn, Johanna Nelson WekerJohanna Nelson Weker. and Sarah H. Tolbert*.
Nov 1 | Structure of S. pombe telomerase protein Pof8 C-terminal domain is an xRRM conserved among LARP7 proteins - RNA Biology. Ritwika Basu,Catherine D. Eichhorn, Ryan Cheng, Robert D. Peterson, and Juli Feigon*.
Oct 29 | Distinct electronic structures and bonding interactions in inverse-sandwich samarium and ytterbium biphenyl complexes – Chemical Science. Yuyuan Xiao, Xiao-Kun Zhao, Tianpin Wu, Jeffrey T. Miller, Han-Shi Hu, Jun Li, Wenliang Huang* and Paula L. Diaconescu*.
Oct 29 | Scalable Synthesis of Vicinal Quaternary Stereocenters via the Solid-State Photodecarbonylation of a Crystalline Hexasubstituted Ketone - Org. Lett. - Miguel García-Garibay group.
Oct 29 | High-Capacity Li+ Storage through Multielectron Redox in the Fast-Charging Wadsley–Roth Phase (W0.2V0.8)3O7 - Chem. Mater. Sarah Tolbert group.
Oct 28 | A Review of the Biomechanical Properties of Single Extracellular Vesicles - Nano Select. James Gimzewski group.
Oct 23 | In Situ Shape Control of Thermoplasmonic Gold Nanostars on Oxide Substrates for Hyperthermia-Mediated Cell Detachment - ACS Cent. Sci. Paul Weiss group.
Oct 23 | Supramolecular nanosubstrate–mediated delivery system enables CRISPR-Cas9 knockin of hemoglobin beta gene for hemoglobinopathies - Science Advances. Paul Weiss group.
Oct 23 | Phage engineering and the evolutionary arms race. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. Huan Peng, Irene A Chen*.
Oct 21 | Cyanoamidine Cyclization Approach to Remdesivir’s Nucleobase. Org. Lett. Neil Garg group.
Oct 21 | Correlated Motion and Mechanical Gearing in Amphidynamic Crystalline Molecular Machines - Chemical Science. Miguel García-Garibay group.
Oct 20 | Stabilizing Oxidative Dehydrogenation Active Sites at High Temperature with Steam: ZnFe2O4-Catalyzed Oxidative Dehydrogenation of 1-Butene to 1,3-Butadiene - ACS Catal. Tieqiang Zeng, Geng Sun, Changxi Miao, George Yan, Yingchun Ye, Weimin Yang, and Philippe Sautet*
Oct 19 | Shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores matched to excitation lasers enable non-invasive, multicolour in vivo imaging in real time. Nature Chemistry. Ellen Sletten group. (Read article about research here.)
Oct 19 | Dihexyl-Substituted Poly(3,4-Propylenedioxythiophene) as a Dual Ionic and Electronic Conductive Cathode Binder for Lithium-Ion Batteries - Chem. Mater. Sarah Tolbert group.
Oct 19 | Nanoengineered Shear-Thinning and Bioprintable Hydrogel as a Versatile Platform for Biomedical Applications - Biomaterials. Paul Weiss group.
Oct 16 | Nonequilibrium Solvent Effects during Photodissociation in Liquids: Dynamical Energy Surfaces, Caging, and Chemical Identity - J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Benjamin Schwartz group.
Oct 15 | Dual Redox Mediators Accelerate the Electrochemical Kinetics of Lithium-sulfur Batteries - Nature Communications. Philippe Sautet group.
Oct 13 | Towards a Single Chemical Model for Understanding Lanthanide Hexaborides - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Julen Munarriz, Paul J. Robinson, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*
Oct 12 | Enzyme-free synthesis of natural phospholipids in water - Nature Chemistry. Ken Houk group.
Oct 9 | Black phosphorus composites with engineered interfaces for high-rate high-capacity lithium storage – Science. Xiangfeng Duan group. (Read article about research here.)
Oct 8 | Elucidation of Diverse Solid‐State Packing in a Family of Electron‐Deficient Expanded Helicenes via Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (MicroED)** - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Hosea Nelson group.
Oct 7 | Reductive Arylation of Amides via a Nickel‐Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling and Transfer Hydrogenation Cascade - Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Neil Garg group.
Oct 2 | Self‐Deposition of 2D Molybdenum Sulfides on Liquid Metals - Adv. Funct. Mater. Yifang Wang, Mohannad Mayyas, Jiong Yang, Jianbo Tang, Mohammad B. Ghasemian, Jialuo Han, Aaron Elbourne, Torben Daeneke, Richard B. Kaner*, Kourosh Kalantar‐Zadeh.
Oct 1 | Corrigendum to “Fire-retardant, self-extinguishing triboelectric nanogenerators” [Nano Energy 59 (2019) 336–345]. Nano Energy. Abdelsalam Ahmed, Maher F. El-Kady, Islam Hassan, Ayman Negm, Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, Mit Muni, Ponnambalam Ravi Selvaganapathy, Richard B. Kaner*.
Oct 1 | Corrigendum to “All printable snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator’’ [Nano Energy 60 (2019) 17–25], Nano Energy, Abdelsalam Ahmed, Islam Hassan, Islam M. Mosa, Esraa Elsanadidy, Gayatri S. Phadke, Maher F. El-Kady, James F. Rusling, Ponnambalam Ravi Selvaganapathy, Richard B. Kaner*.
Oct 1 | Human ARMT1 structure and substrate specificity indicates that it is a DUF89 family damage-control phosphatase - Journal of Structural Biology. Steven Clarke group.
Sept 30 | An enzymatic Alder-ene reaction - Nature. Yi Tang, Neil Garg, and Ken Houk research groups. (Read article about research here.)
Sept 28 | Programmable devices based on reversible solid-state doping of two-dimensional semiconductors with superionic silver iodide - Nature Electronics. Xiangfeng Duan group. (Read article about research here.)
Sept 25 | 2D Arrays of Organic Qubit Candidates Embedded into a Pillared-Paddlewheel Metal-Organic Framework - J. Am. Chem. Soc. – Miguel García-Garibay group.
Sept 24 | C–H Functionalization Reactions of Phenyl and Vinyl Carbocations Paired with Weakly Coordinating Anions - Synlett. Hosea Nelson group.
Sept 21 | Surface Chemical Trapping of Optical Cycling Centers – Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. – Justin Caram and Anastassia Alexandrova groups.
Sept 18 | Computational Generation of an Annotated Gigalibrary of Synthesizable, Composite Peptidic Macrocycles - PNAS. Patrick Harran and Ken Houk groups.
Sept 17 | Lipid-Bicelle-Coated Microfluidics for Intracellular Delivery with Reduced Fouling - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Paul Weiss group.
Sept 16 | Synthetic Amorphous Silica Nanoparticles: Toxicity, Biomedical and Environmental Implications - Nature Review Materials. Jonas Croissant, Kimberly Butler, Jeffrey Zink*, Jeffrey C. Brinker.
Sept 13 | Coupling Nanostructured Microchips with Covalent Chemistry Enables Purification of Sarcoma‐Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Downstream Functional Studies – Advanced Functional Materials. Paul Weiss group.
Sept 10 | Activation of C–O and C–N Bonds Using Non-Precious-Metal Catalysis - ACS Catal. Neil Garg group.
Sept 8 | Leveraging Immonium Ions for Targeting Acyl‐Lysine Modifications in Proteomic Datasets - Proteomics. John M. Muroski, Janine Y. Fu, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Rachel R. Ogorzalek, Joseph A. Loo*.
Sept 7 | Fjord-edge Graphene Nanoribbons with Site-Specific Nitrogen Substitution - J. Am. Chem. Soc.- Richard Kaner, Anastassia Alexandrova, Ken Houk, Sarah Tolbert, and Yves Rubin groups.
Sept 4 | Printing Precise Materials with Visible Light - ACS Cent. Sci. Ellen Sletten group.
Sept 3 | Alloying with Sn Suppresses Sintering of Size-Selected Subnano Pt Clusters on SiO2 with and without Adsorbates - Chem. Mater. Anastassia Alexandrova group.
Sept 2 | Thermodynamic Control over Molecular Aggregate Assembly Enables Tunable Excitonic Properties across the Visible and Near-Infrared - J. Phys. Chem. Lett.- Justin Caram group.
Sept 2 | For the Love of Analytical Instruments (Editorial) - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Joseph Loo.
Sept 1 | Selective Enzymatic Oxidation of Silanes to Silanols – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
Aug 31 | Mechanism of an Organocatalytic Cope Rearrangement Involving Iminium Intermediates: Elucidating the Role of Catalyst Ring Size - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk Group.
Aug 31 | A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction - Nature Catalysis. Sarah Tolbert, Philippe Sautet & Xiangfeng Duan groups.
Aug 27 | Isobutanol production freed from biological limits using synthetic biochemistry – Nat. Commun. – James Bowie group.
Aug 26 | Intercepting Fleeting Cyclic Allenes with Asymmetric Nickel Catalysis -Nature. Ken Houk and Neil Garg groups.
Aug 26 | Cloaking Silica Nanoparticles with Functional Protein Coatings for Reduced Complement Activation and Cellular Uptake – ACS Nano. Paul Weiss group.
Aug 24 | A bio-inspired cell-free system for cannabinoid production from inexpensive inputs – Nat. Chem. Biol. – James Bowie group.
Aug 18 | H2O–CO and D2O–CO Complexes: Intra- and Intermolecular Rovibrational States from Full-dimensional and Fully Coupled Quantum Calculations - J. Chem. Phys. Peter M. Felker* and Zlatko Bačić.
Aug 18 | Fluorous Soluble Cyanine Dyes for Visualizing Perfluorocarbons in Living Systems - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ellen Sletten group.
Aug 18 | Flexible Multiplexed In2O3 Nanoribbon Aptamer-Field-Effect Transistor s for Biosensing - iScience. Paul Weiss and Anne Andrews groups.
Aug 17 | Recent attempts to change the periodic table - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Eric Scerri.
Aug 14 | CryoEM structure of the low-complexity domain of hnRNPA2 and its conversion to pathogenic amyloid - Nat Commun. David Eisenberg group.
Aug 11 | Light Molecules Inside the Nanocavities Of Fullerenes and Clathrate Hydrates: Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectra and the Unexpected Selection Rule from Rigorous Quantum Simulations - International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. Minzhong Xu, Peter M. Felker* & Zlatko Bačić.
Aug 11 | Influence of Terminal Carboxyl Groups on the Structure and Reactivity of Functionalized m-Carboranethiolate Self-Assembled Monolayers – Chemistry of Materials. Ken Houk, Anastassia Alexandrova, and Paul Weiss groups.
Aug 10 | Genetic Code Expansion Enables Site-Specific PEGylation of a Human Growth Hormone Receptor Antagonist through Click Chemistry - Bioconjugate Chem. - Heather Maynard group.
Aug 7 | Direct Look at the Electric Field in Ketosteroid Isomerase and Its Variants - ACS Catal.- Anastassia Alexandrova group.
Aug 7 | Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future - Chem Soc Rev. David Eisenberg group.
Aug 6 | DFT-Guided Phosphoric-Acid-Catalyzed Atroposelective Arene Functionalization of Nitrosonaphthalen – Chem. Ken Houk group.
Aug 3 | Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral N-Arylpyrroles by Chiral-at-Rhodium Catalysis – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
Aug 3 | Internal Fragments Generated by Electron Ionization Dissociation Enhance Protein Top-Down Mass Spectrometry - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Joseph Loo group.
Aug 3 | Fragment-based determination of a proteinase K structure from MicroED data using ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER - Acta Crystallographica. Jose Rodriguez group.
Aug 3 | Developing a Virtual Reality Approach toward a Better Understanding of Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Orbitals - J. Chem. Educ. Paula Diaconescu group.
Aug 1 | Identification of Uric Acid Gluconucleoside–Ascaroside Conjugates in Caenorhabditis elegans by Combining Synthesis and MicroED - Org. Lett. Hosea Nelson group.
July 31 | Crystal structure of a conformational antibody that binds tau oligomers and inhibits pathological seeding by extracts from donors with Alzheimer's disease - J. Biol. Chem. David Eisenberg group.
July 31 | Interlaboratory Study for Characterizing Monoclonal Antibodies by Top-Down and Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry - J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Joseph Loo group.
July 29 | Interception of the Bycroft-Gowland Intermediate in the Enzymatic Macrocyclization of Thiopeptides – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
July 29 | Photophysical Tuning of Shortwave Infrared Flavylium Heptamethine Dyes via Substituent Placement - Org. Lett. Ellen Sletten group.
July 27 | Cryo-EM structure and inhibitor design of human IAPP (amylin) fibrils - Nat Struct Mol Biol. David Eisenberg group.
July 27 | Cholesteryl Ester Liquid Crystal Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering Applications - ACS Materials Letters. Paul S. Weiss group.
July 24 | Amentotaxins C-V, Structurally Diverse Diterpenoids from the Leaves and Twigs of the Vulnerable Conifer Amentotaxus argotaenia and Their Cytotoxic Effects – J. Nat. Prod. Ken Houk group.
July 24 | Detecting DNA and RNA and Differentiating Single-Nucleotide Variations via Field-Effect Transistors - Nano Letters. Anne M. Andrews and Paul S. Weiss groups.
July 24 | Systematic Study of Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions Stabilized by Polymer Amphiphiles - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Ellen Sletten group.
July 23 | Ambient methane functionalization initiated by electrochemical oxidation of a vanadium (V)-oxo dimer - Nature Communications. Anastassia N. Alexandrova & Chong Liu groups.
July 16 | Enhanced Rotation by Ground State Destabilization in Amphidynamic Crystals of a Dipolar 2,3-Difluorophenylene Rotator as Established by Solid State H-2 NMR and Dielectric Spectroscopy – J. Phys. Chem. C Ken Houk and Miguel Garcia-Garibay groups.
July 16 | Selective Promotion of Adhesion of Shewanella oneidensis on Mannose-Decorated Glycopolymer Surfaces – ACS Appl. Mater. Interaces. Paul Weiss group.
July 15 | Enantioselective Diarylcarbene Insertion into Si-H Bonds Induced by Electronic Properties of the Carbenes – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
July 11 | Dealkenylative Alkenylation: Formal σ‐Bond Metathesis of Olefins - Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. Ohyun Kwon group.
July 9 | A Super-Oxidized Radical Cationic Icosahedral Boron Cluster - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Alex Spokoyny group.
July 2 | Computational Investigation into Ligand Effects on Correlated Geared Dynamics in Dirhodium Supramolecular Gears-Insights Beyond the NMR Experimental Window – J. Org. Chem. Ken Houk and Miguel Garcia-Garibay groups.
July 1 | Fast-Charging Cathodes from Polymer-Templated Mesoporous LiVPO4F - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Sarah Tolbert group.
July 1 | Genes and lipids that impact uptake and assimilation of exogenous coenzyme Q in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Free Radic Biol Med. Catherine Clarke group.
June 30 | Treating a Global Health Crisis with a Dose of Synthetic Chemistry - ACS Cent. Sci. Neil Garg group.
June 30 | The Role of the Solvent in the Condensed-Phase Dynamics and Identity of Chemical Bonds: The Case of the Sodium Dimer Cation in THF - J. Phys. Chem. B. Benjamin Schwartz group.
June 27 | Metabolism of the Flavonol Kaempferol in Kidney Cells Liberates the B-ring to Enter Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis - Molecules. Catherine Clarke group.
June 24 | Expanded Helicenes as Synthons for Chiral Macrocyclic Nanocarbons – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
June 24 | Ligand-Controlled Regiodivergent Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrogermylation of Ynamides – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
June 23 | Enhanced Rotation by Ground State Destabilization in Amphidynamic Crystals of a Dipolar 2,3-difluorophenylene Rotator as Established by Solid State 2H NMR and Dielectric Spectroscopy” - J. Phys. Chem. C. Ken Houk and Miguel Garcia-Garibay groups.
June 22 | Confronting Racism in Chemistry Journals [Editorial] - ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. Burrows, C. J.; Huang, J.; Wang, S.; Kim, H. J.; Meyer, G. J.; Schanze, K.; Lee, T. R.;Lutkenhaus, J. L.; Kaplan, D.; Jones, C.; Bertozzi, C.; Kiessling, L.; Mulcahy, M. B.; Lindsley, C. W.; Finn, M. G.; Blum, J. D.; Kamat, P.; Choi, W.; Snyder, S.; Aldrich, C. C.; Rowan, S.; Liu, B.; Liotta, D.; Weiss,* P. S.; Zhang, D.; Ganesh, K. N.; Atwater, H. A.; Gooding, J. J.; Allen, D. T.; Voigt, C. A.; Sweedler, J.; Schepartz, A.; Rotello, V.; Lecommandoux, S.; Sturla, S. J.; Hammes-Schiffer, S.; Buriak, J.; Steed, J. W.; Wu, H.; Zimmerman, J.; Brooks, B.; Savage, P.; Tolman, W.; Hofmann, T. F.; Brennecke, J. F.; Holme, T. A.; Merz, K. M.; Scuseria, G.; Jorgensen, W.;Georg, G. I.; Wang, S.; Proteau, P.; Yates, J. R.; Stang, P.; Walker, G. C.; Hillmyer, M.; Taylor, L. S.; Odom, T. W.; Carreira, E.; Rossen, K.; Chirik, P.; Miller, S. J.; Shea, J.-E.; McCoy, A.; Zanni, M.; Hartland, G.; Scholes, G.; Loo, J.A.*; Milne, J.; Tegen, S. B.; Kulp, D. T.; Laskin, J.
June 22 | Why Boron Nitride is such a Selective Catalyst for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane - Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. Anastassia Alexandrova group.
June 22 | Chiral Phosphoric Acid Dual-Function Catalysis: Asymmetric Allylation with alpha-Vinyl Allylboron Reagents – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
June 16 | Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Perovskite Nanocrystal Heterostructures (Editorial) – ACS Energy Lett. – Paul Weiss.
June 10 | Discovery and Total Synthesis of a Bis(cyclotryptamine) Alkaloid Bearing the Elusive Piperidinoindoline Scaffold - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Neil Garg and Miguel García-Garibay groups.
June 9 | Rrp6 Moonlights in an RNA Exosome-Independent Manner to Promote Cell Survival and Gene Expression during Stress - Cell Reports. Guillaume Chanfreau group.
June 9 | Exploration of Advanced Electrode Materials for Approaching High‐Performance Nickel‐Based Superbatteries – Nano Micro Small. Richard Kaner group.
June 8 | Liquid‐Metal‐Templated Synthesis of 2D Graphitic Materials at Room Temperature – Advanced Materials. Richard Kaner group.
June 5 | Molecular Spur Gears with Triptycene Rotators and a Norbornane-Based Stator – Org. Lett. Ken Houk and Miguel Garcia-Garibay groups.
June 3 | Pd-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Olefination: Stereoselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Butadienes and Macrocyclic P-glycoprotein Inhibitors – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
June 2 | Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for biomedical applications – United States Patent and Trademark Office. Jeffrey Zink group.
June 1 | Intragenic suppressor mutations of the COQ8 protein kinase homolog restore coenzyme Q biosynthesis and function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - PLoS One. Catherine Clarke group.
June 1 | ADCK4 Deficiency Destabilizes the Coenzyme Q Complex, Which Is Rescued by 2,4-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Treatment – J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. Catherine Clarke group.
May 28 | Ultrapermeable Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Membranes with Precisely Tailored Support Layers Fabricated Using Thin-Film Liftoff - ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Richard Kaner group.
May 26 | Understand the Specific Regio- and Enantioselectivity of Fluostatin Conjugation in the Post-Biosynthesis -Biomol. Ken Houk group.
May 25 | FAD-dependent Enzyme-catalysed Intermolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition in Natural Product Biosynthesis – Nature Chem. Ken Houk group.
May 19 | Acoustofluidic sonoporation for gene delivery to human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells – PNAS. Paul Weiss group.
May 18 | Long-Acting Human Growth Hormone Receptor Antagonists Produced in E. coli and Conjugated with Polyethylene Glycol - Bioconjugate Chem.- Heather Maynard group.
May 14 | The role of CuI in the siloxane-mediated Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl iodides with aryl lithium reagents. Chin. Chem. Lett. Yu Chen, Xiao Zhang, Fang Liu, Gucheng He, Ju Zhang, K.N. Houk*, Amos B. Smith, Yong Liang.
May 13 | Iterative Catalysis in the Biosynthesis of Mitochondrial Complex II Inhibitors Harzianopyridone and Atpenin B – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk and Yi Tang groups.
May 12 | The Use of Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay to Measure Rotation of Acenes in Viscous Solution” - J. Org. Chem. Miguel Garcia-Garibay group.
May 11 | Stereoselective [4+2]-Cycloaddition with Chiral Alkenylboranes – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
May 8 | Huisgen's 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions to Fulvenes Proceed via Ambimodal [6+4]/[4+2] Transition States – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
May 6 | Highly Diastereoselective Functionalization of Piperidines by Photoredox-Catalyzed alpha-Amino C-H Arylation and Epimerization - J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
May 6 | Computational Design of Enhanced Enantioselectivity in Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Oxidative Desymmetrization of 1,3-Diol Acetals – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ken Houk group.
May 5 | Rolf Huisgen's Classic Studies of Cyclic Triene Diels-Alder Reactions Elaborated by Modern Computational Analysis – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Ken Houk group.
May 5 | D-loop Dynamics and Near-Atomic-Resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Phalloidin-Bound F-Actin – Structure. Emil Reisler group.
Please send links to new recently published papers to Penny Jennings, penny@chem.ucla.edu.
