2020-06-01 | 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*.
Recent Publications
2020-05-31 | 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*.
2020-05-28 | 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*.
2020-05-28 | Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells (Review) – Curr. Opin.Microbiol. Jessica M. Ochoa, Todd O. Yeates*.
2020-05-27 | 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*.
2020-05-27 | Stochastic density functional theory: Real- and energy-space fragmentation for noise reduction – J. Chem. Phys. Ming Chen, Roi Baer, Daniel Neuhauser*, and Eran Rabani.
2020-05-27 | Post-Transition State Bifurcation in Iron-Catalyzed Arene Aminations – ACS Catal. Bo Li, Yuli Li, Yanfeng Dang, and K. N. Houk*.
2020-05-26 | 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.
2020-05-26 | 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.
2020-05-25 | 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*.
2020-05-25 | 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.
2020-05-25 | 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.
2020-05-24 | Polyaniline Nanofibers: From Laboratory Curiosity to Commercial Products – The Chemist. Richard B. Kaner*.
2020-05-24 | Formins – Curr. Biol. Dylan A. Valencia, Margot E. Quinlan*.
2020-05-22 | 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*.
2020-05-21 | 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.
2020-05-20 | 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*.
2020-05-19 | Local Electric Fields As a Natural Switch of Heme-Iron Protein Reactivity – ACS Catal. Daniel Bím and Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
2020-05-19 | DEER Analysis of GPCR Conformational Heterogeneity – Biomolecules. Matthias Elgeti and Wayne L. Hubbell*.
2020-05-19 | 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*.
2020-05-19 | 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*.
2020-05-18 | 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.
2020-05-17 | 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*.
2020-05-17 | 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*.
2020-05-17 | 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*.
2020-05-13 | Layered Intercalation Materials – Adv. Mater. Jingyuan Zhou, Zhaoyang Lin, Huaying Ren, Xidong Duan, Imran Shakir, Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan.
2020-05-12 | 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 *.
2020-05-11 | Geometrically induced localization of flexural waves on thin warped physical membranes – Phys. Rev. E. Jonathan Kernes and Alex J. Levine*.
2020-05-10 | 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.
2020-05-10 | Regularization of least squares problems in CHARMM parameter optimization by truncated singular value decompositions – J. Chem. Phys. Derek J. Urwin & Anastassia N. Alexandrova*.
2020-05-08 | 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.
2020-05-07 | 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.
2020-05-06 | 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*.
2020-05-06 | 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*.
2020-05-06 | A Fragment-based Protein Interface Design Algorithm for Symmetric Assemblies – Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. Joshua Laniado, Kyle Meador, Todd O Yeates*.
2020-05-04 | 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.
2020-05-04 | 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*.
2020-05-03 | Cell-free synthetic biochemistry upgrading of ethanol to 1,3 butanediol – Scientific Reports. Hongjiang Liu & James U. Bowie*.
2020-05-03 | 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*.
2020-04-30 | Redox‐responsive Gene Delivery from Perfluorocarbon Nanoemulsions through Cleavable Poly(2‐oxazoline) Surfactants – Angew. Chem. Daniel A. Estabrook, Rachael Day, Ellen Sletten*.
2020-04-28 | Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table – Synthese volume 198, pages 9709–9720. Eric R. Scerri*.
2020-04-28 | Photophysical Properties of Indocyanine Green in the Shortwave Infrared Region – ChemPhotoChem. Emily D. Cosco, Irene Lim, Ellen Sletten*.
2020-04-28 | 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*.
2020-04-28 | Biosynthesis and synthetic biology of psychoactive natural products – Chem. Soc. Rev. Cooper S. Jamieson, Joshua Misa, Yi Tang* and John M. Billingsley.
2020-04-26 | 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.
2020-04-23 | 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*.
2020-04-23 | 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.
2020-04-23 | 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.
2020-04-23 | Weak Electromagnetic Fields Accelerate Fusion of Myoblasts – Int. J. Mol. Sci. Dana Adler, Zehavit Shapira, Zehavit, Shimon Weiss*, Asher Shainberg, Abram Katz.
2020-04-23 | A fragment-based protein interface design algorithm for symmetric assemblies – Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. Joshua Laniado, Kyle Meador, Todd O Yeates*.
2020-04-22 | 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*.
2020-04-22 | 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*.
2020-04-21 | 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*
2020-04-21 | 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*.
2020-04-20 | 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*.
2020-04-20 | 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*.
2020-04-19 | 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*.
2020-04-16 | 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*.
2020-04-15 | 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*.
2020-04-15 | 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*.
2020-04-14 | 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.
2020-04-14 | 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*.
2020-04-14 | 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*.
2020-04-13 | 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*.
2020-04-13 | 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*.
2020-04-12 | 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.
2020-04-10 | 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.
2020-04-09 | 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.
2020-04-09 | 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*.
2020-04-07 | 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.
2020-04-06 | 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*.
2020-04-05 | 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.
2020-04-01 | 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*.
2020-04-01 | 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*.
2020-04-01 | Polyaniline Nanofibers: From Laboratory Curiosity to Commercial Products – The Chemist. Richard Kaner*.
2020-04-01 | 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.
2020-03-31 | The Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) Awards in two-dimensional materials (Editorial) Nano Res. – Xiangfeng Duan* and Qihua Xiong.
2020-03-31 | Perfluorocarbon nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy For Nanobubbles and nanodroplets issue – Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci. Rachael A.Day & Ellen M.Sletten*.
2020-03-29 | MCPdb: The bacterial microcompartment database – PLOS One. Jessica M. Ochoa, Kaylie Bair, Thomas Holton, Thomas A. Bobik, Todd O. Yeates*.
2020-03-26 | 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*.
2020-03-26 | 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.
2020-03-26 | 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*.
2020-03-26 | 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*.
2020-03-25 | Palladium-catalyzed acetylation of arylbromides – Org. Synth. Milauni M. Mehta, Andrew V. Kelleghan, and Neil K. Garg*.
2020-03-23 | 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.
2020-03-23 | 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*.
2020-03-19 | 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*.
2020-03-17 | 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*.
2020-03-16 | 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.
2020-03-16 | 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.
2020-03-16 | Phosphorus-Based Catalysis – ACS Cent. Sci. Changmin Xie, Andrew J. Smaligo, Xian-Rong Song, and Ohyun Kwon*.
2020-03-15 | 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.
2020-03-13 | 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.
2020-03-08 | 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*.
2020-03-08 | 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.
2020-03-05 | 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*.
2020-03-04 | 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.
2020-03-03 | 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.
2020-03-03 | Layer spacing gradient (NaLi)1−xCoO2 for electrochemical Li extraction – Matter. Grant T. Hill, Fengyuan Shi, Hua Zhou, Yu Han, Chong Liu*.
2020-03-02 | 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*.