Publications

Undergraduate co-authors are indicated in bold.

2018

• E. Boursier, D. E. Manson, J. B. Combs, and H. E. Blackwell. “A comparative study of non-native N-acyl L-homoserine lactone analogs in two Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing receptors that share a common native ligand yet inversely regulate virulence.” Bioorg. Chem 2018, in press (DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2018.05.018).
• Xian Cheng, I. A. Shkel, Cristen Molzahn, David Lambert, Rezwana Karim, M. Thomas Record Jr., “Quantifying Interactions of Nucleobase Atoms with Model Compounds for the Peptide Backbone and Glutamine, Asparagine Side Chains in Water” Biochemistry 2018, 57 (15), 2227–2237.
• Matthew J. Stolt , Xavier Sigelko, Nitish Mathur, and Song Jin, “Chemical Pressure Stabilization of the Cubic B20 Structure in Skyrmion Hosting Fe1–xCoxGe Alloys” Chem. Mater​. 2018, 30, 1146-1154.
• Tao Wu, Michael L Stone, Melinda J. Shearer, Matthew J. Stolt, Ilia A. Guzei, Robert J Hamers, Ruifeng Lu, Kaiming Deng, Song Jin, and Jordan R. Schmidt. “Crystallographic Facet Dependence of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on CoPS: Theory and Experiments” ACS Catal., 2018, 8 (2), 1143–1152.

2017

• J. Vengas, J. Grant, W. McDermott, S. Burt, J. Micka, C. Carrero, I. Hermans. “Selective oxidation of n-butane and isobutane catalyzed by boron nitride” ChemCatChem. 2017, 9, 2118–2127.
• T. Carlson, K.W. Lam, C.W. Lam, J. He, J.H. Maynard, and S. Cavagnero. “Naked-Eye Detection of Reversible Protein Folding and Unfolding in Aqueous Solution” J. Chem. Ed. 2017, 94 (3), 350-355. (cover article)
• M. J. Shearer, L. Samad, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, A. A. Puretzky, K. W. Eliceiri, J. C. Wright, R. J. Hamers, S. Jin. “Complex and Non-Centrosymmetric Stacking of Layered Metal Dichalcogenide Materials Created by Screw Dislocations” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 3496−3504.
• P. Gilbert, K.D. Bergmann, C.E. Myers, M.A. Marcus, R.T. DeVol, C-Y Sun, A.Z. Blonsky, J. Zhao, E.A. Karan, E. Tamre, N. Tamura, A.J. Giuffre, S. Lemer, G. Giribet, J.M. Eiler, A.H. Knoll. “Nacre tablet thickness records formation temperature in modern and fossil shells.” Earth and Planet Sci. Lett. 2017, 460, 281-292. 
• H.-Y. Wang, C. J. Simmons, Y. Zhang, A. M. Smits, P. G. Balzer, S. Wang, and W. Tang. “Chiral Catalyst-Directed Dynamic Kinetic Diastereoselective Acylation of Anomeric Hydroxyl Groups and a Controlled Reduction of the Glycosyl Ester Products” Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 508-511.
• M. J. Stolt , Z. Li, B. Phillips, D. Song, N. Mathur, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, S. Jin. “Selective Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Cubic FeGe Nanowires That Support Stabilized Magnetic Skyrmions” Nano Lett., 2017, 17 (1), 508–514.
• Wang, H.-Y.; Simmons, C. J.; Blaszczyk, S. A.; Balzer, P. G.; Luo, R.; Duan, X.; and Tang W. “Isoquinoline-1-carboxylate as a Traceless Leaving Group for Chelation-Assisted Glycosylation under Mild Neutral Conditions.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 15698–15702.
• P. Gerdt, D. M. Wittenwyler (née Stacy), J. B. Combs, M. E. Boursier, J. W. Brummond, He Xu, and H. E. Blackwell. “Chemical interrogation of LuxR-type quorum sensing receptors reveals new insights into receptor selectivity and the potential for interspecies bacterial signaling.” ACS Chem. Biol. 2017, 12, 2457-2464.
• Xian Cheng, I. A. Shkel, Kevin O’ Connor, John Henrich, Cristen Molzahn, David Lambert, and M. Thomas Record Jr., “Experimental Atom-by-Atom Dissection of Amide-Amide and Amide-Hydrocarbon Interactions in H2O.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 9885-9894.
• Kate L. Henderson, Lindsey C. Felth, Cristen M. Molzahn, Irina A. Shkel, Si Wang, Munish Chhabra, Emily F. Ruff, Lauren Bieter, Joseph E. Kraft, and M. Thomas Record, Jr. “Mechanism of transcription initiation and promoter escape by E. coli RNA polymerase” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 114(15), E3032-E3040.
• M. J. MacDonald, N. R. Cornejo and S. H. Gellman “Inhibition of Ice Recrystallization by Nylon-3 Polymers” ACS Macro Lett. 2017, 6, 695.
• B. F. Fisher, S. H. Hong and S. H. Gellman “Helix Propensities of Amino Acid Residues via Thioester Exchange,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13292.
• Liang Hong, Linsen Li, Yuchen-Karen Chen-Wiegart, Jiajun Wang, Kai Xiang, Liyang Gan, Wenjie Li, Fei Meng, Fan Wang, Jun Wang, Yet-Ming Chiang, Song Jin and Ming Tang, “Two-dimensional lithium diffusion behavior and probable hybrid phase transformation kinetics in olivine lithium iron phosphate”, Nat. Comm. 2017, 8, 1194.
• Yifan Dong, Tyler Slade, Matthew J Stolt, Linsen Li, Steven N Girard, Liqiang Mai, and Song Jin, “Low Temperature Molten Salt Production of Silicon Nanowires by Electrochemical Reduction of CaSiO3” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56 (46), 14453.
• Yongping Fu, Tao Wu, Jue Wang, Jianyuan Zhai, Melinda J. Shearer, Yuzhou Zhao, Robert J. Hamers, Erjun Kan, Kaiming Deng, Xiaoyang Zhu, and Song Jin, “Stabilization of the Metastable Lead Iodide Perovskite Phase via Surface Functionalization” Nano Lett. 2017, 17 (7), 4405–4414.
• Bifan Chen, Leekyoung Hwang, William Ochowicz, Ziqing Lin , Tania Maria Guardado-Alvarez, Wenxuan Cai, Lichen Xiu, Kunal Dani, Cyrus Colah, Song Jin and Ying Ge, “Coupling Functionalized Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticle Enrichment with Online LC/MS/MS for Top-down Phosphoproteomics” Chem. Sci. 2017, 8(6), 4306-4311.
• Qi Ding, Kyle J. Czech, Yuzhou Zhao, Jianyuan Zhai, Robert J. Hamers, John C. Wright, Song Jin, “Basal Plane Ligand Functionalization on Semiconducting 2H-MoS2 Monolayers” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9 (14), 12734–12742.
• Martina A. Rau, Kristopher Kennedy, Lucas Oxtoby, Mark Bollom, and John W. Moore, “Unpacking ‘Active Learning’: A Combination of Flipped Classroom and Collaboration Support Is More Effective but Collaboration Support Alone Is Not” J. Chem. Educ. 2017, 94 (10), 1406–1414.