2022-02-23 | The acyl-proteome of Syntrophus aciditrophicus reveals metabolic relationships in benzoate degradation – Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. John M. Muroski, Janine Y. Fu,Hong Hanh Nguyen, Neil Q. Wofford, Housna Mouttaki, Kimberly L. James, Michael J. McInerney, Robert P. Gunsalus, Joseph A. Loo*, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo.
Recent Publications
2022-02-23 | The structure of the Clostridium thermocellum RsgI9 ectodomain provides insight into the mechanism of biomass sensing – Proteins: Struct. Funct. Bioinform. Brendan J. Mahoney, Allen Takayesu, Anqi Zhou, Duilio Cascio, Robert T. Clubb*.
2022-02-22 | Membrane potential sensing: Material design and method development for single particle optical electrophysiology – J. Chem. Phys. Debjit Roy, Zehavit Shapira, and Shimon Weiss*.
2022-02-22 | Multi-parameter photon-by-photon hidden Markov modeling – Nat. Commun. Paul David Harris, Alessandra Narducci, Christian Gebhardt, Thorben Cordes, Shimon Weiss* & Eitan Lerner.
2022-02-20 | Surface Valence State Effect of MoO2+x on Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction – Adv. Sci. Jiaqi Wang, Zhou Jiang, Guiming Peng, Eli Hoenig, Gangbin Yan, Mingzhan Wang, Yuanyue Liu, Xiwen Du, Chong Liu*.
2022-02-17 | Catalysis in Modern Drug Discovery: Insights from a Graduate Student-Taught Undergraduate Course – J. Chem. Educ. Jason V. Chari, Rachel R. Knapp, Timothy B. Boit, and Neil K. Garg*.
2022-02-15 | Trilayer Metal–Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion and Storage Applications – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Fatemeh Shahbazi Farahani, Mohammad S. Rahmanifar, Abolhassan Noori, Maher F. El-Kady, Nasim Hassani, Mehdi Neek-Amal, Richard B. Kaner*, and Mir F. Mousavi.
2022-02-11 | Decoding reactive structures in dilute alloy catalysts – Nat. Commun. Nicholas Marcella, Jin Soo Lim, Anna M. Płonka, George Yan, Cameron J. Owen, Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven, Alexandre C. Foucher, Hio Tong Ngan, Steven B. Torrisi, Nebojsa S. Marinkovic, Eric A. Stach, Jason F. Weaver, Joanna Aizenberg, Philippe Sautet*, Boris Kozinsky & Anatoly I. Frenkel.
2022-02-08 | Extended β-Strands Contribute to Reversible Amyloid Formation – ACS Nano. Kevin A. Murray, Declan Evans, Michael P. Hughes, Michael R. Sawaya, Carolyn J. Hu, Kendall N. Houk*, and David Eisenberg*.
2022-02-08 | 2D Heterostructures for Ubiquitous Electronics and Optoelectronics: Principles, Opportunities, and Challenges – Chem. Rev. Phuong V. Pham, Srikrishna Chanakya Bodepudi, Khurram Shehzad, Yuan Liu, Yang Xu, Bin Yu, and Xiangfeng Duan*.
2022-02-08 | Neutralizing antibodies induced in immunized macaques recognize the CD4-binding site on an occluded-open HIV-1 envelope trimer – Nat. Commun. Zhi Yang, Kim-Marie A. Dam, Michael D. Bridges, Magnus A. G. Hoffmann, Andrew T. DeLaitsch, Harry B. Gristick, Amelia Escolano, Rajeev Gautam, Malcolm A. Martin, Michel C. Nussenzweig, Wayne L. Hubbell* & Pamela J. Bjorkman.
2022-02-08 | How physical forces drive the process of helical membrane protein folding – EMBO Reports. Karolina Corin and James U. Bowie.
2022-02-07 | Fgf8 dynamics and critical slowing down may account for the temperature independence of somitogenesis – Commun Biol. Weiting Zhang, Pierluigi Scerbo, Marine Delagrange, Virginie Candat, Vanessa Mayr, Sophie Vriz, Martin Distel, Bertrand Ducos & David Bensimon*.
2022-02-07 | Scale-Dependent Photosalience and Topotactic Reaction of Microcrystalline Benzylidenebutyrolactone Determined by Electron Microscopy and Electron Diffraction – Cryst. Growth Des. Vince M. Hipwell, Chih-Te Zee, Jose Rodriguez*, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
2022-02-03 | Oscillatory bifurcation patterns initiated by seeded surface solidification of liquid metals – Nat. Synth. Tang, J.; Lambie, S.; Meftahi, N.; Christofferson, A. J.; Yang, J.; Han, J.; Rahim, Md. A.; Mayyas, M.; Ghasemian, M. B.; Allioux, F.-M.; Cao, Z.; Daeneke, T.; McConville, C. F.; Steenbergen, K. G.; Kaner,* R. B.; Russo, S. P.; Gaston, N.; Kalantar-Zadeh, K.
2022-02-03 | Chlamydomonas ATX1 is essential for Cu distribution to multiple cupro-enzymes and maintenance of biomass in conditions demanding cupro-enzyme-dependent metabolic pathways – Plant Direct. Keegan L. J. Pham, Stefan Schmollinger, Sabeeha S. Merchant*, Daniela Strenkert.
2022-02-02 | Comparative Analysis of Sulfonium−π, Ammonium−π, and Sulfur−π Interactions and Relevance to SAM-Dependent Methyltransferases – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Katherine I. Albanese, Andrew Leaver-Fay, Joseph W. Treacy, Rodney Park, K. N. Houk*, Brian Kuhlman, and Marcey L. Waters.
2022-02-01 | Force-Induced Changes of PilY1 Drive Surface Sensing by Pseudomonas aeruginosa – mBio. Webster, S. S.; Mathelié-Guinlet, M.; Verissimo, A. F.; Schultz, D.; Viljoen, A.; Lee, C. K.; Schmidt, W. C.; Wong,* G. C. L.; Dufrêne, Y. F.; O’Toole, G. A.
2022-02-01 | Palladium-catalyzed stereospecific C–P coupling toward diverse PN-heterocycles – Chem. Hong Deng, Minyan Wang, Yong Liang, Xiangyang Chen, Tianhang Wang, Jonathan J. Wong, Yue Zhao, Kendall N. Houk*, Zhuangzhi Shi.
2022-02-01 | Diastereoselective Addition of Prochiral Nucleophilic Alkenes to α-Chiral N-Sulfonyl Imines – Org. Lett. David A. Gutierrez, James Fettinger, K. N. Houk*, Kaori Ando, and Jared T. Shaw.
2022-01-31 | An Exception to the Carothers Equation Caused by the Accelerated Chain Extension in a Pd/Ag Cocatalyzed Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling Polymerization – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Liwen Xing, Ji-Ren Liu, Xin Hong*, Kendall N. Houk*, and Christine K. Luscombe.
2022-01-30 | Dispersion and Steric Effects on Enantio-/Diastereoselectivities in Synergistic Dual Transition-Metal Catalysis – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Bo Li, Hui Xu, Yanfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk*.
2022-01-28 | Intra- and intermolecular rovibrational states of HCl-H2O and DCl-H2O dimers from full-dimensional and fully coupled quantum calculations – Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. Peter M. Felker*, and Zlatko Bačić.
2022-01-26 | Gold Sunflower Microelectrode Arrays with Dendritic Nanostructures on the Lateral Surfaces for Antireflection and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering – ACS Appl. Nano Mater. Sunil Mehla, Ahmad Kandjani, Victoria Coyle, Christopher J. Harrison, Mei Xian Low, Richard B. Kaner*, Ylias Sabri, and Suresh K. Bhargava.
2022-01-25 | Computational Exploration of Anomalous Regioselectivities in Cycloadditions of Ketenes to Oxazolines – J. Org. Chem. Ledong Zhu, Mark A. Maskeri, Melissa Ramirez, F. Le Bideau, Léon Ghosez, and K. N. Houk.
2022-01-25 | Broadcasting of amplitude- and frequency-modulated c-di-GMP signals facilitates cooperative surface commitment in bacterial lineages – PNAS. Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Shanice S. Webster, Jonathan W. Chen, George A. O’Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong*. Read an article about the research here.
2022-01-24 | Ultrapermeable nanofiltration membranes with tunable selectivity fabricated with polyaniline nanofibers – J. Material Chem. Chenhao Ji, Cheng-Wei Lin, Shenghao Zhang, Yaoli Guo, Zhe Yang, Weiping Hu, Shuangmei Xue, Q. Jason Niu and Richard B. Kaner*.
2022-01-24 | Biosynthesis of Terpenoid–Pyrrolobenzoxazine Hybrid Natural Product CJ-12662 – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Wei Cheng, Mengbin Chen, Masao Ohashi, Yi Tang*.
2022-01-22 | Noble Metal Based Electrocatalysts for Alcohol Oxidation Reactions in Alkaline Media – Adv. Funct. Mater. Xiaoyang Fu, Chengzhang Wan, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan*.
2022-01-21 | Broadcasting of amplitude- and frequency-modulated c-di-GMP signals facilitates cooperative surface commitment in bacterial lineages – PNAS. Calvin K. Lee, William C. Schmidt, Shanice S. Webster, Jonathan W. Chen, George A. O’Toole, Gerard C. L. Wong*.
2022-01-20 | Interpreting the Operando X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure of Supported Cu and CuPd Clusters in Conditions of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane: Dynamic Changes in Composition and Size – J. Phys. Chem. C. Patricia Poths, Geng Sun, Philippe Sautet*, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
2022-01-20 | Thin-Film Composite Membranes with a Hybrid Dimensional Titania Interlayer for Ultrapermeable Nanofiltration – Nano Lett. Shuangmei Xue, Cheng-Wei Lin, Chenhao Ji, Yaoli Guo, Liping Liu, Zhe Yang, Shuzhen Zhao, Xingke Cai, Qingshan Jason Niu, and Richard B. Kaner*.
2022-01-19 | Thermodynamics-driven interfacial engineering of alloy-type anode materials – Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. Qizhang Yan, Shu-Ting Ko, Andrew Dawson, David Agyeman-Budu, Grace Whang, Yumin Zhao, Mingde Qin, Bruce S. Dunn, Johanna Nelson Weker, Sarah H. Tolbert*, Jian Luo.
2022-01-19 | Intermolecular rovibrational states of the H2O-CO2 and D2O-CO2 van der Waals complexes – J. Chem. Phys. (in press). Peter M. Felker* and Zlatko Bačić.
2022-01-18 | A Green Chemistry Approach toward the Stereospecific Synthesis of Densely Functionalized Cyclopropanes via the Solid-State Photodenitrogenation of Crystalline 1-Pyrazolines – J. Org. Chem. Trevor Y. Chang, Daniel M. Adrion, Alana Rose Meyer, Steven A. Lopez, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
2022-01-17 | Bisulfate as a redox-active ligand in vanadium-based electrocatalysis for CH4 functionalization – Chem. Commun. Danlei Xiang, Sheng-Chih Lin, Jiao Deng, Hao Ming Chen and Chong Liu*.
2022-01-14 | Electrochemical Fluorination of Vinyl Boronates through Donor-Stabilized Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Benjamin Wigman, Woojin Lee, Wenjing Wei, Kendall N. Houk*, Hosea M. Nelson.
2022-01-14 | Lipid bilayer induces contraction of the denatured state ensemble of a helical-bundle membrane protein – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Kristen A. Gaffney, Ruiqiong Guo, Michael D. Bridges, Shaima Muhammednazaar, Daoyang Chen, Miyeon Kim, Zhongyu Yang, Anthony L. Schilmiller, Nabil F. Faruk, Xiangda Peng, A. Daniel Jones, Kelly H. Kim, Liangliang Sun, Wayne L. Hubbell*, Tobin R. Sosnick, Heedeok Hong.
2022-01-12 | Allylic C(sp3)–H arylation of olefins via ternary catalysis – Nat. Synth. Huang, H.-M.; Bellotti, P.; Chen, P.-P.; Houk,* K. N.; Glorius, F.
2022-01-11 | Systematic Variation of Both the Aromatic Cage and Dialkyllysine via GCE-SAR Reveal Mechanistic Insights in CBX5 Reader Protein Binding – J. Med. Chem. Kelsey M. Kean, Stefanie A. Baril, Kelsey N. Lamb, Sarah N. Dishman, Joseph W. Treacy, Kendall N. Houk*, Eric M. Brustad, Lindsey I. James, and Marcey L. Waters.
2022-01-10 | The tree of life and the table of the elements – Oxford University Press. Eric Scerri* and David Reznick.
2022-01-07 | A Diazo-Hooker Reaction, Inspired by the Biosynthesis of Azamerone – Org. Lett. Oussama Yahiaoui, Lauren A. M. Murray, Fengyue Zhao, Bradley S. Moore, Kendall N. Houk*, Fang Liu, and Jonathan H. George.
2022-01-06 | Revisiting the link between magnetic properties and chemisorption at graphene nanoribbon zigzag edge – J. Chem. Phys. Ziyang Wei and Philippe Sautet*.
2022-01-05 | A generalized kinetic model for compartmentalization of organometallic catalysis† – Chem. Sci. Brandon J. Jolly, Nathalie H. Co, Ashton R. Davis, Paula L. Diaconescu* and Chong Liu*.
2022-01-05 | Wearable aptamer-field-effect transistor sensing system for noninvasive cortisol monitoring – Science Advances. Bo Wang, Chuanzhen Zhao, Zhaoqing Wang, Kyung-Ae Yang, Xuanbing Cheng, Wenfei Liu, Wenzhuo Y, Shuyu Lin, Yichao Zhao, Kevin M. Cheung, Haisong Lin, Hannaneh Hojaiji, Paul S. Weiss*, Milan N. Stojanović, A. Janet Tomiyama, Anne M. Andrews*, Sam Emaminejad.
2022-01-05 | Using Data Science To Guide Aryl Bromide Substrate Scope Analysis in a Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Acetals as Alcohol-Derived Radical Sources – J. Am. Chem. Stavros K. Kariofillis, Shutian Jiang, Andrzej M. Żurański, Shivaani S. Gandhi, Jesus I. Martinez Alvarado, and Abigail G. Doyle*.
2022-01-03 | Predicting Effects of Site-Directed Mutagenesis on Enzyme Kinetics by QM/MM and QM Calculations: A Case of Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II – J. Phys. Chem. B. Daniel Bím, Michal Navrátil, Ondrej Gutten, Jan Konvalinka, Zsófia Kutil, Martin Culka, Václav Navrátil, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Cyril Bařinka, and Lubomír Rulíšek.
2021-12-30 | Towards understanding the formation of internal fragments generated by collisionally activated dissociation for top-down mass spectrometry – Anal. Chim. Acta. Benqian Wei, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Carter Lantz, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Joseph A. Loo.
2021-12-30 | Template-Enabled Biofabrication of Thick Three-Dimensional Tissues with Patterned Perfusable Macro-Channels – Adv. Healthcare Mater. Elham Davoodi, Hossein Montazerian, Masoud Zhianmanesh, Reza Abbasgholizadeh, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Avijit Baydia, Homeyra Pourmohammadali, Nasim Annabi, Paul S. Weiss*, Ehsan Toyserkani, Ali Khademhosseini.
2021-12-30 | Various forms of the periodic table including the left-step table, the regularization of atomic number triads and first-member anomalies – ChemTexts. Eric Scerri*.
2021-12-28 | Oxidation Dynamics of Supported Catalytic Cu Clusters: Coupling to Fluxionality – ACS Catal. Han Guo, Patricia Poths, Philippe Sautet*, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
2021-12-28 | New Leadership at ACS Nano – ACS Nano. Paul S. Weiss*.
2021-12-27 | Nonequilibrium lateral force and torque by thermally excited nonreciprocal surface electromagnetic waves – Phys. Rev. Chinmay Khandekar, Siddharth Buddhiraju, Paul R. Wilkinson, James K. Gimzewski*, Alejandro W. Rodriguez, Charles Chase, and Shanhui Fan.
2021-12-26 | Atomic view of an amyloid dodecamer exhibiting selective cellular toxic vulnerability in acute brain slices – Protein Sci. Amber L. H. Gray, Michael R. Sawaya, Debalina Acharyya, Jinchao Lou, Emery M. Edington, Michael D. Best, Rebecca A. Prosser, David S. Eisenberg*, Thanh D. Do.
2021-12-25 | Extent and Instability of Trimethylation of Histone H3 Lysine Increases With Degree of Malignancy and Methionine Addiction – Cancer Genomics Proteomics. Jun Yamamoto, Yusuke Aoki , Sachiko Inubushi, Qinghong Han, Kazuyuki Hamada, Yoshihiko Tashiro, Kentaro Miyake, Ryusei Matsuyama, Michael Bouvet, Steven G Clarke*, Itaru Endo, Robert M Hoffman.
2021-12-24 | How and why RNA genomes are (partially) ordered in viral capsids – Current Opinion in Virology. Charles M. Knobler* and William M. Gelbart*.
2021-12-23 | An Enzymatic Platform for Primary Amination of 1-Aryl-2-alkyl Alkynes – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhen Liu, Zi-Yang Qin, Ledong Zhu, Soumitra V. Athavale, Arkajyoti Sengupta, Zhi-Jun Jia, Marc Garcia-Borràs, K. N. Houk*, and Frances H. Arnold.
2021-12-23 | Extraction of Hidden Science from Nanoscale Images – J. Phys. Chem. C. Kristopher K. Barr, Naihao Chiang, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Jérôme Gilles, Stanley J. Osher, and Paul S. Weiss*.
2021-12-22 | Combined anodic and cathodic hydrogen production from aldehyde oxidation and hydrogen evolution reaction – Nat. Catal. – Tehua Wang, Li Tao, Xiaorong Zhu, Chen Chen, Wei Chen, Shiqian Du, Yangyang Zhou, Bo Zhou, Dongdong Wang, Chao Xie, Peng Long, Wei Li, Yanyong Wang, Ru Chen, Yuqin Zou, Xian-Zhu Fu, Yafei Li, Xiangfeng Duan* & Shuangyin Wang.
2021-12-21 | Toward benchmarking theoretical computations of elementary rate constants on catalytic surfaces: formate decomposition on Au and Cu – Chem. Sci. Eri Muramoto, Wei Chen, Xiwen Jia, Cynthia M. Friend, Philippe Sautet* and Robert J. Madix.
2021-12-21 | Towards High-Performance Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics: Dual-Functional p-Type Soft Interlayer – ACS Nano. Yepin Zhao, Pei Cheng*, Hangbo Yang, Minhuan Wang, Dong Meng, Yuan Zhu, Ran Zheng, Tengfei Li, Anni Zhang, Shaun Tan, Tianyi Huang, Jiming Bian, Xiaowei Zhan, Paul S. Weiss*, and Yang Yang.
2021-12-20 | Molecular damage in aging – Nature Aging. Vadim N. Gladyshev, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Steven G. Clarke*, Ana Maria Cuervo, Oliver Fiehn, João Pedro de Magalhães, Theresa Mau, Michal Maes, Robert L. Moritz, Laura J. Niedernhofer, Emile Van Schaftingen, Gregory J. Tranah, Kenneth Walsh, Yoshimitsu Yura, Bohan Zhang & Steven R. Cummings.
2021-12-19 | Establishing design principles for emissive organic SWIR chromophores from energy gap laws – Chem. Hannah C. Friedman, Emily D. Cosco, Timothy L. Atallah, Shang Jia, Ellen M. Sletten*, Justin R. Caram*.
2021-12-17 | A pathogenic role for histone H3 copper reductase activity in a yeast model of Friedreich’s ataxia – Sci Adv. Oscar A. Campos, Narsis Attar, Chen Cheng, Maria Vogelauer, Nathan V. Mallipeddi, Stefan Schmollinger, Nedas Matulionis, Heather R. Christofk, Sabeeha S. Merchant*, Siavash K. Kurdistani.
2021-12-17 | Ultrasensitive molecular building block for biothiol NMR detection at picomolar concentrations – iScience. Qingbin Zeng, Qianni Guo, Yaping Yuan, Baolong Wanh, Meiju Sui, Xin Lou, Louis- S. Bouchard*.
2021-12-16 | Violations. How Nature Circumvents the Woodward–Hoffmann Rules and Promotes the Forbidden Conrotatory 4n + 2 Electron Electrocyclization of Prinzbach’s Vinylogous Sesquifulvalene – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Garrett A. Kukier, Aneta Turlik, Xiao-Song Xue, and K. N. Houk*.
2021-12-15 | Catalytic properties of 4,5-bridged proline methano- and ethanologues in the Hajos–Parrish intramolecular aldol reaction – Org. Chem. Front. Sofiane Hocine, Gilles Berger, K. N. Houk*, and Stephen Hanessian.
2021-12-15 | Mechanistic and Electronic Insights into a Working NiAu Single-Atom Alloy Ethanol Dehydrogenation Catalyst – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Georgios Giannakakis, Paul Kress, Kaining Duanmu, Hio Tong Ngan, George Yan, Adam S. Hoffman, Zhen Qi, Antonios Trimpalis, Leelavathi Annamalai, Mengyao Ouyang, Jilei Liu, Nathaniel Eagan, Juergen Biener, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Simon R. Bare*, Philippe Sautet*, and E. Charles H. Sykes.
2021-12-15 | Epidermis-Inspired Wearable Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors Using Reduced Graphene Oxide Self-Wrapped Copper Nanowire Networks – Small Methods. Yangzhi Zhu, Martin C. Hartel, Ning Yu, Pamela Rosario Garrido, Sanggon Kim, Junmin Lee, Praveen Bandaru, Shenghan Guan, Haisong Lin, Sam Emaminejad, Natan Roberto de Barros, Samad Ahadian, Han-Jun Kim, Wujin Sun, Vadim Jucaud, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Paul S. Weiss*, Ruoxue Yan, Ali Khademhosseini.
2021-12-15 | Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology – ACS Nano. Lisa Pokrajac, Ali Abbas, Wojciech Chrzanowski, Goretty M. Dias, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Steven Maguire, Elicia Maine, Timothy Malloy, Jatin Nathwani, Linda Nazar, Adrienne Sips, Jun’ichi Sone, Albert van den Berg, Paul S. Weiss*, and Sushanta Mitra.
2021-12-14 | Electron Density Geometry and the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules – J. Phys. Chem. A – Timothy R. Wilson, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, and M. E. Eberhart.
2021-12-13 | Tunable heteroaromatic azoline thioethers (HATs) for cysteine profiling – Chem. Sci. Kuei C. Tang, Sean M. Maddox, Keriann M. Backus* and Monika Raj.
2021-12-13 | In Search of Small Molecules That Selectively Inhibit MBOAT4 – Molecules. [Special issue in honor of Daniel Comins]. Emily S. Murzinski, Ishika Saha, Hui Ding, David Strugatsky, Ryan A. Hollibaugh, Haixia Liu, Peter Tontonoz and Patrick G. Harran*.
2021-12-13 | Three-repeat and four-repeat tau isoforms form different oligomers – Protein|Science. Hedieh Shahpasand-Kroner, Jennifer Portillo, Carter Lantz, Paul M. Seidler, Natalie Sarafian, Joseph A. Loo*, Gal Bitan.
2021-12-09 | Finding your voice in a diverse audience: Lessons in writing and advocacy – Chem. Hannah C. Friedman (Ph.D. student, Caram group).
2021-12-09 | Enzymatic control of endo- and exo-stereoselective Diels–Alder reactions with broad substrate scope – Nat. Catal. Lei Gao, Yike Zou, Xiaojing Liu, Jun Yang, Xiaoxia Du, Jin Wang, Xinshui Yu, Junping Fan, Mingxuan Jiang, Yuli Li, K. N. Houk* & Xiaoguang Lei.
2021-12-09 | Characterization of protein–ligand binding interactions of enoyl-ACP reductase (FabI) by native MS reveals allosteric effects of coenzymes and the inhibitor triclosan – Protein Sci. P. Matthew Joyner, Denise P. Tran, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Joseph A. Loo*.
2021-12-08 | Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Conversion of Epoxides into Thiiranes: Mechanism, Stereochemical Model, and New Catalyst Design – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Meng Duan, Christian David Díaz-Oviedo, Yang Zhou, Xiangyang Chen, Peiyuan Yu, Benjamin List, Kendall N. Houk*, Yu Lan.
2021-12-08 | Slip/Stick Viscosity Models of Nanoconfined Liquids: Solvent-Dependent Rotation in Metal–Organic Frameworks – J. Org. Chem. Marcus J. Jellen, Xing Jiang, Stefan Benders, Alina Adams, and Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
2021-12-06 | Wide-Gap Perovskite via Synergetic Surface Passivation and Its Application toward Efficient Stacked Tandem Photovoltaics – Small. Tianyi Huang, Rui Wang, Selbi Nuryyeva, Shaun Tan, Jingjing Xue, Yepin Zhao, Quantan Wu, Marc H. Weber, Pei Cheng, Dong Meng, Ilhan Yavuz, K. N. Houk*, Yang Yang.
2021-12-06 | Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation – Nat. Catal. Jianxin Kang, Xiaoyi Qiu, Qi Hu, Jun Zhong, Xiang Gao, Rong Huang, Chengzhang Wan, Li-Min Liu, Xiangfeng Duan* & Lin Guo.
2021-12-06 | Discovery and characterization of circulating tumor cell clusters in neuroendocrine tumor patients using nanosubstrate-embedded microchips – Biosensors and Bioelectronics. Na Sun, Yingying Yang, Hui Miao, Peter Redublo, Hongtao Liu, Wenfei Liu, Yen-Wen Huang, Pai-Chi Teng, Ceng Zhang, Ryan Y. Zhang, Matthew Smalley, Peng Yang, Shih-Jie Chou, Kevin Huai, Zhicheng Zhang, Yi-Te Lee, Jasmine J. Wang, Jing Wang, Icy Y. Liang, Tiffany X. Zhang, Dongyun Zhang, Li Liang, Paul S. Weiss*, Edwin M. Posadas, Timothy Donahue, J. Randolph Hecht, Martin S. Allen-Auerbach, Emily K. Bergsland, Thomas A. Hope, Renjun Pei, Yazhen Zhu, Hsian-Rong Tseng, Anthony P. Heaney.
2021-12-06 | Novel Isotope Effect in Coherent Non-adiabatic Dynamics Induced by an Attosecond Pulse [Conference Paper] – Optics InfoBase Conference Papers. Ksenia G. Komarova, Françoise Remacle, and Raphael D. Levine*.
2021-12-02 | Icosahedral m-Carboranes Containing Exopolyhedral B–Se and B–Te Bonds – Inorg. Chem. Harrison A. Mills, Fadi Alsarhan, Ta-Chung Ong, Milan Gembicky, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
2021-12-02 | Insight into the molecular basis of substrate recognition by the wall teichoic acid glycosyltransferase TagA – J. Biol. Chem. Orlando E. Martinez, Brendan J. Mahoney, Andrew K. Goring, Sung-Wook Yi, Denise P. Tran, Duilio Cascio, Martin L. Phillips, Musleh M. Muthana, Xi Chen, Michael E. Jung*, Joseph A. Loo*, Robert T. Clubb*. [Research Article Editors’ Pick]
2021-12-02 | Integrating the History and Philosophy of Science and restoring the centrality of the Periodic Table into a college general chemistry course – Chimica Nella Scuola. Eric Scerri*.
2021-11-30 | Cross-metathesis of Allenes. Mechanistic Analysis and Identification of a Ru-CAAC as the Most Effective Catalyst – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Stella A. Gonsales, Zoé C. Mueller, Fengyue Zhao, Paulo H. S. Paioti, Lydia Karmazin, Jing Wan, Fang Liu, K. N. Houk*, and Amir H. Hoveyda.
2021-11-30 | Computational and Further Experimental Explorations of the Competing Cascades Following Claisen Rearrangements of Aryl Propargyl Ethers: Substituent Effects on Reactivity and Regioselectivity – J. Org. Chem. Melissa Ramirez, Vito Vece, Stephen Hanessian, and K. N. Houk*.
2021-11-30 | Quantum gates robust to secular amplitude drifts – Phys. Rev. Qile David Su, Robijn Bruinsma*, and Wesley C. Campbell.
2021-11-29 | Compacting the density matrix in quantum dynamics: Singular value decomposition of the surprisal and the dominant constraints for anharmonic systems – J. Chem. Phys. K. Komarova, Francoise Remacle, and R. D. Levine*.
2021-11-29 | Ex Vivo and In Vivo Evaluation of Dodecaborate-Based Clusters Encapsulated in Ferumoxytol Nanoparticles – Langmuir. Nicholas A. Bernier, James Teh, Derek Reichel, Joanne L. Zahorsky-Reeves, J. Manuel Perez, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
2021-11-29 | Deterioration of Kaihua handmade paper: Evolution of molecular, supermolecular and macroscopic structures – Polym. Degrad. Stab. Jingjing Yao, Ruohong Zhang, Chan Luo, Yueer Yan, Ning Bi, Yi Tang*.
2021-11-29 | A general strategy for C(sp3)–H functionalization with nucleophiles using methyl radical as a hydrogen atom abstractor – Nature Communications. Isabelle Nathalie-Marie Leibler, Makeda A.Tekle-Smith & Abigail G. Doyle*.
2021-11-29 | Approaching the intrinsic exciton physics limit in two-dimensional semiconductor diodes – Nature. Peng Chen, Timothy L. Atallah, Zhaoyang Lin, Peiqi Wang, Sung-Joon Lee, Junqing Xu, Zhihong Huang, Xidong Duan, Yuan Ping, Yu Huang, Justin R. Caram* & Xiangfeng Duan*.
2021-11-25 | Stereodivergent Attached-Ring Synthesis via Non-Covalent Interactions: A Short Formal Synthesis of Merrilactone A – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Benjamin J. Huffman, Tiffany Chu, Yusuke Hanaki, Jonathan J. Wong, Shuming Chen, Kendall N. Houk*, Ryan A. Shenvi.
2021-11-24 | Tempering stochastic density functional theory – J. Chem. Phys. Minh Nguyen, Wenfei Li, Yangtao Li, Eran Rabani, Roi Baer, and Daniel Neuhauser*.
2021-11-24 | Implantable aptamer–field-effect transistor neuroprobes for in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring – Sci. Adv. Chuanzhen Zhao, Kevin M. Cheung, I-Wen Huang, Hongyan Yang, Nako Nakatsuka, Wenfei Liu, Yan Cao, Tianxing Man, Paul S. Weiss*, Harold G. Monbouquette, Anne M. Andrews*. Read about the paper here.
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2021-11-23 | Diffusion Barriers for Carbon Monoxide on the Cu(001) Surface Using Many-Body Perturbation Theory and Various Density Functionals – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Ziyang Wei, Florian Göltl, and Philippe Sautet*.
2021-11-22 | How Water–Ion Interactions Control the Formation of Hydrated Electron:Sodium Cation Contact Pairs – J. Phys. Chem. B. Sanghyun J. Park, Wilberth A. Narvaez, and Benjamin J. Schwartz*.