Publications

Undergraduate co-authors are indicated in bold.

2021

Guzman-Luna, V.; Fuchs, A. M.; Allen, A. J.; Staikos, A.; Cavagnero, S. An Intrinsically Disordered Nascent Protein Interacts with Specific Regions of the Ribosomal Surface near the Exit Tunnel. Commun Biol. 2021, 4 (1236). https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1038/s42003-021-02752-4
Fernandez, R.; Juntunen, N.; Fox, B.; Brunold, T. Spectroscopic investigation of iron(III) cysteamine dioxygenase in the presence of substrate (analogs): implications for the nature of substrate-bound reaction intermediates. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2021, 26, 947–955. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1007/s00775-021-01904-5
Hutchinson, R. B.; Chen, X.; Zhou, N.; Cavagnero, S. Fluorescence Anisotropy Decays and Microscale-Volume Viscometry Reveal the Compaction of Ribosome-Bound Nascent Proteins. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2021, 125 (24), 6543-6558. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04473
Yang, H.; Mecha, M.F.; Goebel, C.P.; Cavagnero, S. Enhanced Nuclear-Spin Hyperpolarization of Amino Acids and Proteins via Reductive Radical Quenchers. Journal of Magnetic Resonance 2021, 324, 106912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmr.2021.106912
Zdanovskaia, M.; Esselman, B.; Kouguas, S.; Patel, A.; Woods, C.; McMahon, R. The 130 – 360 GHz Rotational Spectrum of syn-2-Cyano-1,3-Butadiene – A Molecule of Astrochemical Relevance. Molecular Physics 2021. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1080/00268976.2021.1964629
Orr, V.; Ichikawa, Y.; Patel, A.; Kougias, S.; Kobayashi, K.; Stanton, J.; Esselman, B.; Woods, C.; McMahon, R. Precise Equilibrium Structure Determination of Thiophene (c-C₄H₄S) by Rotational Spectroscopy – Structure of a Five-membered Heterocycle containing a Third-Row Atom. The Journal of Chemical Physics 2021, 154, 244310. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0055267
Esselman, B.; Zdanovskaia, M.; Adkins, T.; Billinghurst, B.; Zhao, J.; Woods, C.; McMahon, R. Millimeter-Wave and Infrared Spectroscopy of Thiazole (c-C₃H₃NS) in its Ground State and Lowest-Energy Vibrationally Excited States (ν₁₈, ν₁₇, and ν₁₃). Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 2021, 379, 111493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jms.2021.111493
Hilleke, K. P.; Kamp, K. R.; Lin, Y.; Fredrickson, D. C. Structural Plasticity in the Frank-Kasper Realm: Chemical Pressure Roles of the μ- and χ-Phase Units in the Mo-Fe-Cr System. Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2021, 647, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1002/zaac.202000340
Lu, E.; Van Buskirk, J. S.; Cheng, J.; Fredrickson, D. C. Tutorial on Chemical Pressure Analysis: How Atomic Packing Drives Laves/Zintl Intergrowth in K₃Au₅Tl. Crystals 2021, 11, 906. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11080906
West, K. H. J.; Shen, W.; Eisenbraun, E. L.; Yang, T.; Vasquez, J. K.; Horswill, A. R.; Blackwell, H. E. Non Native Peptides Capable of Pan-Activating the agr Quorum Sensing System across Multiple Specificity Groups of Staphylococcus epidermidis. ACS Chem. Biol. 2021, 16, 1070-1078. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acschembio.1c00240
Plaskon, D.; Henderson, K.; Felth, L.; Molzahn, C.; Evensen, C.; Dyke, S.; Shkel, I.; Record, T. Temperature Effects on RNA Polymerase Initiation Kinetics Reveal Which Open Complex Initiates and that Bubble Collapse is Stepwise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021, 118, e2021941118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021941118
Kumar, P.; Meza, A.; Ellis, J. M.; Carlson, G. A.; Bingman, C. A.; Buller, A. R. l-Threonine Transaldolase Activity Is Enabled by a Persistent Catalytic Intermediate. ACS Chem. Biol. 2021, 16, 86-95. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.0c00753
Ross, D. R.; Sheng, H.; Parihar, A.; Huang, J.; Jin, S. Compositionally Tuned Trimetallic Thiospinel Catalysts for Enhanced Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide and Built-In Hydroxyl Radical Generation. ACS Catalysis 2021, 11 (20), 12643-12650. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c03349
Fu, H.; Li, W.; Yang, Y.; Lin, C.; Veyssal, A.; He, J.; Jin, S. An efficient and stable solar flow battery enabled by a single-junction GaAs photoelectrode. Nature Communications 2021, 12(156). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20287-w
Kleman, A.F.; Dufek, D. L.; Fobe, T. L.; McCaslin, D. R.; Cary, B. P.; Shirts, M. R.; Gellman, S. H. Potential Foldamers Based on an ortho-Terphenyl Amino Acid. Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 4855. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01592
Kurgan, K. K.; Chen, B.; Brown, P. F.; Cobra, P. F.; Ye, X.; Ge, Y.; Gellman, S. H. Stable Picodisc Assemblies from Saposin Proteins and Branched Detergents. Biochemistry 2021, 60, 1108. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00924
Liu, L.; Courtney, K. C.; Huth, S. W.; Rank, L. A.; Weisblum, B.; Chapman, E. R.; Gellman, S. H. Beyond Amphiphilic Balance: Changing Subunit Stereochemistry Alters the Pore-Forming Activity of Nylon-3 Polymers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 3219. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/jacs.0c12731

2020

Addabbo, R.M.; Dalphin_, M.D.; Mecha, M.F._;Liu, Y.; Staikos, A.; Guzman-Luna, V.; Cavagnero, S. Complementary Role of Co- and Post-Translational Events in De Novo Protein Biogenesis. J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 6488-6507. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c03039
Yaeger-Weiss, S.K.; Jennaro, T.S.; Mecha, M.M.; Becker, J.H.; Cavagnero, S. Net Charge and Nonpolar Content Guide the Identification of Folded and Prion Proteins. Biochemistry 2020, 59, 1881-1895. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b01114
Dalphin, M.D.; Stangl, A.J., Liu, Y.; Cavagnero, S. KLR-70: a Novel Cationic Inhibitor of the Bacterial Hsp70 Chaperone. Biochemistry 2020, 59, 1946-1960. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00320
Kougias, S. M.; Knezz, S. N.; Owen, A. N.; Sanchez, R. A.; Hyland, G. E.; Lee, D. J.; Patel, A. R.; Esselman, B. J.; Woods, C. R.; McMahon, R. J. Synthesis and Characterization of Cyanobutadiene Isomers – Molecules of Astrochemical Significance. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 5787-5798. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.9b03388
Dorman, M. P.; Esselman, B. J.; Park, J. E.; Woods, C. R.; McMahon, R. J. Millimeter-Wave Spectrum of 4-Cyanopyridine in its Ground State and Lowest-Energy Vibrationally Excited States, ν₂₀ and ν₃₀. J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2020, 369, 111274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jms.2020.111274
Heim, Z. N.; Amberger, B. K.; Esselman, B. J.; Stanton, J. F.; Woods, C. R.; McMahon, R. J. Molecular Structure Determination: Equilibrium Structure of Pyrimidine (m-C₄H₄N₂) from Rotational Spectroscopy (r_e^SE) and High-Level Ab-initio Calculation (r_e) Agree within the Uncertainty of Experimental Measurement. J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 152, 104303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5144914
Mitchell Warden, H. E.; Lee, S. B.; Fredrickson, D. C. Frustrated and Structurally Allowed Transitions at the Limits of the BaAl₄ Type: the (3+2)D Modulated Structure of Dy(Cu_0.18Ga_0.82)_3.71. Inorganic Chemistry 2020, 59, 10208-10222. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01347
Peterson, G. G. C.; Geisler, E. E.; Fredrickson, D. C. Intermetallic Reactivity: Ca₃Cu_7.8Al_26.2 and the Role of Electronegativity in the Stabilization of Modular Structures. Inorganic Chemistry 2020, 56, 5018-5029. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00246
Styles, M. J.; Early, S. A.; Tucholski, T.; West, K. H. J.; Ge, Y.; Blackwell, H. E. Chemical Control of Quorum Sensing in E. coli: Identification of Small Molecule Modulators of SdiA and Mechanistic Characterization of a Covalent Inhibitor. ACS Infect. Dis. 2020, 6, 3092-3103. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acsinfecdis.0c00654
Cheng, X.; Shkel, I. A.; O’Connor, K.; Record Jr, T. M. Experimentally Determined Strengths of Atom-Atom (C, N, O) Interactions Responsible for Protein Self-Assembly in Water: Applications to Folding and Other Protein Processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020, 117, 27339-27345. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.26.104851
Sreenivasan, R.; Shkel, I.; Chhabra, M.; Drennan, A.; Heitkamp, S.; Wang, H.; Sridevi, M.; Plaskon, D.; McNerney, C.; Callies, K.; Cimperman, K.; Record Jr.,T. M. Fluorescence-Detected Conformational Changes in Open Complex Formation by E. coli RNA Polymerase: Upstream Wrapping, Clamp Opening, and Bending of Downstream Duplex DNA into the Cleft. Biochemistry 2020 59, 1565-1581. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00098
Li, W.; Zheng, J.; Hu, B.; Fu, H.; Hu, M.; Veyssal, A.; Zhao, Y.; He, J.; Liu, L. T.; Ho-Baillie, A.; Jin, S. High-performance solar flow battery powered by a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell. Nature Materials 2020, 19, 1326-1331. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-020-0720-x
Sheng, H.; Janes, A.; Ross, D. R.; Kaiman, D.; Huang, J.; Song, B.; Schmidt, J. R.; Jin, S. Stable and selective electrosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide and the electro-Fenton process on CoSe₂ polymorph catalysts. Energy & Enviormental Science 2020, 13, 4189-4203. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/EE/D0EE01925A
Hautzinger, M. P.; Pan, D.; Pigg, A. K.; Fu, Y.; Morrow, D. J.; Leng, M.; Kuo, M.; Spitha, N.; Lafayette II, D. P.; Kohler, D. D.; Wright, J.; Jin, S. Band Edge Tuning of Two-Dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskites by A Cation Size Revealed through Nanoplates. ACS Energy Letters 2020, 5(5), 1430-1437. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00450
Peters-Clarke, T.; Qiuwen, Q.; Brademan, D.; Hebert, A. S.; Westphall, M; Coon, J. J. Ribonucleic acid sequence characterized by negative electron transfer dissociation mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Chemistry 2020, 92 (6), 4436–4444. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05388
Ryan, M. C.; Kim, Y.-J.; Gerken, J. B.; Wang, F.; Aristov, M. M.; Martinelli, J. R.; Stahl, S. S. Mechanistic Insights into Copper-Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of N–N Bonds. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 1170-1175. DOI: 10.1039/C9SC04305E
Outlaw, V. K.; Lemke, J. T.; Zhu, Y.; Gellman, S. H.; Porotto, M.; Moscona, A. Structure-Guided Improvement of a Dual HPIV3/RSV Fusion Inhibitor. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 (5), 2140–2144. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/jacs.9b11548
Checco, J. W.; Eddinger, G. A.; Rettko, N. J.; Chartier, A. R.; Gellman, S. H. Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Trimer Disassembly and Inactivation via Peptide-Small Molecule Synergy. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15 (8) 2116–2124. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acschembio.0c00313

2019

Warzecha, E.; Berto, T. C.; Wilkinson, C. C.; Berry, J. F. Rhodium Rainbow: A Colorful Laboratory Experiment Highlighting Ligand Field Effects of Dirhodium Tetraacetate. Journal of Chemical Education 2019, 96 (3), 571-576. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00648
Reed, N. L.; Herman, M. I.; Miltchev, V. P.; Yoon, T. P. Tandem copper and photoredox catalysis in photocatalytic alkene difunctionalization reactions Beilstein. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 351–356. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.15.30
Henderson, K. L.; Evensen, C. E.; Molzahn, C. M.; Felth, L. C.; Dyke, S.; Liao, G.; Shkel, I. A.; Record Jr., T. M. RNA Polymerase: Step by Step Kinetics and Mechanism of Transcription Initiation. Biochemistry 2019, 58(18), 2339–2352. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00049
Kozack, C. V.; Sowin, J. A.; Jaworski, J. N.; Iosub, A. V.; Stahl, S. S. Aerobic Acyloxylation of Allylic C–H Bonds Initiated by a Pd0 Precatalyst with 4,5‐Diazafluoren‐9‐one as an Ancillary Ligand. Chem. Sus. Chem. 2019, 12, 3003-3007. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201900727
Biok, N. A.; Passow, A. D.; Wang, C.; Bingman, C. A.; Abbott, N. L.; Gellman, S. H. Retention of Coiled-Coil Dimer Formation in the Absence of Ion Pairing at Positions Flanking the Hydrophobic Core. Biochemistry 2019, 58, 4821-4826.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00668
Love, A. M.; Cendejas, M. C.; Hanrahan, M. P.; Carnahan, S. L.; Uchupalanun, P.; Rossini, A. J.; Hermans, I. Understanding the Synthesis of Supported Vanadium Oxide Catalysts using Chemical Grafting. Chem. – Eur. J. 2019, 58 (48), 4821–4826. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1002/chem.201904260
Love, A. M.; Cendejas, M. C.; Thomas, B.; McDermott, W. P.; Uchupalanun, P.; Kruszynski, C.; Burt, S. P.; Agbi, T.; Rossini, A. J.; Hermans, I. Synthesis and Characterization of Silica-Supported Boron Oxide Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (44), 27000-27011. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07429
Cunniff, C. Z.; Specht, S. E.; Love, A. M.; Uchupalanun, P.; Venegas, J. M.; Kruszynski, C. E.; Hermans, I. Investigation of Supported Metal Oxide Species with Shell-Isolated Nanoparticle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. C 2019, 123 (41), 25220-25227. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b07019
Jones, A. C.; Bohlmann Kunz, M.; Tigges-Green, I.; Zanni, M. T. Dual spectral phase and diffraction angle compensation of a broadband AOM 4-f pulse-shaper for ultrafast spectroscopy. Opt. Express 2019, 27 (26), 37236-37247. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1364/OE.27.03723
Boursier, M. E. ; Combs, J. B.; Blackwell, H. E. N-Acyl L-homocysteine thiolactones are potent and stable synthetic modulators of the RhlR quorum sensing receptor in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. ACS Chem. Biol. 2019, 14, 186-191. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1021/acschembio.8b01079
Higgins, P. M.; Esselman, B. J.; Zdanovskaia, M. A.; Woods, C. R.; McMahon, R. J. Millimeter-wave Spectroscopy of the Chlorine Isotopologues of Chloropyrazine and Twenty-two of their Vibrationally Excited States. J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2019, 364, 111179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jms.2019.111179
Wang, J.; Cary, B. P.; Beyer, P. D.; Gellman, S. H.; Weix, D. J. Ketones from Nickel-Catalyzed Decarboxylative, Non-Symmetric Cross-Electrophile Coupling of Carboxylic Acid Esters. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 12081-12085. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1002/ange.201906000
Varela A.E., England, K.A., Cavagnero, S. Kinetic Trapping in Protein Folding. Prot. Eng. Des. Sel. 2019, 32 (2), 103-108. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1093/protein/gzz018

2018

2017

2016

Y. Fu, H. Zhu, A. W. Schrader, D. Liang, Q. Ding, P. Joshi, L. Hwang, X-Y. Zhu, and S. Jin. “Nanowire Lasers of Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskites and Their Stabilized Alloys with Improved Stability” Nano Lett., 2016, 16 (2), 1000-1008.

2015

J.H. Lee^,, D. Zhang, C.P. Hughes, Y. Okuno, A. Sekhar^,, S. Cavagnero. “Heterogeneous Binding of the SH3 Client Protein to the DnaK Molecular Chaperone” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2015 112, E4206-4215.

B. J. Esselman, F. L. Emmert III, A. J. Wiederhold, S. J. Thompson, L. V. Slipchenko, R. J. McMahon. “Thermal Isomerizations of Diethynyl Cyclobutadienes and Implications for Fullerene Formation” J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 11863-11868.

J. P. Gerdt, C. E. McInnis, T. L. Schell, and H. E. Blackwell. “Unraveling the contributions of hydrogen-bonding interactions to the activity of native and non-native ligands in the quorum-sensing receptor LasR.” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 1453–1462.

N. A. McGrath, K. A. Andersen, A. K. F. Davis, J. E. Lomax, R. T. Raines. “Diazo compounds for the bioreversible esterification of proteins,” Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 752-755.

R.J. Van Hoveln, B. Hudson, H. Wedler, D.M. Bates, G. Le Gros, D. Tantillo, J.M. Schomaker. “Experimental and Computational Insights into the Mechanism of Cu-catalyzed 1,3-Halogen Migration.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5346.

J. W. Checco, E. F. Lee, M. Evangelista, N. J. Sleebs, K. Rogers, A. Pettikiriarachchi, N. J. Kershaw, G. A. Eddinger, D. G. Belair, J. A. Wilson, C. H. Eller, R. T. Raines, W. L. Murphy, B. J. Smith, S. H. Gellman and W. D. Fairlie. “α/β-Peptide Foldamers Targeting Intracellular Protein-Protein Interactions with Activity in Living Cells,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11365.

R. W. Cheloha, J. A. Sullivan, T. Wang, J. M. Sand, J. Sidney, A. Sette, M. E. Cook, M. Suresh and S. H. Gellman. “Consequences of Periodic a-to-b³ Residue Replacement for Immunological Recognition of Peptide Epitopes,” ACS Chem. Biol. 2015, 10, 844.

2014

R.T. DeVol, R.A. Metzler, L. Kabalah-Amitai, B. Pokroy, Y. Politi, A. Gal, L. Addadi, S. Weiner, A. Fernandez-Martinez, R. Demichelis, J.D. Gale, J. Ihli, F.C. Meldrum, A.Z. Blonsky, C.E. Killian, C.B. Salling, A.T. Young, M.A. Marcus, A. Scholl, A. Doran, C. Jenkins, H.A. Bechtel, and P. Gilbert. “Oxygen spectromicroscopy and Polarization-dependent Imaging Contrast (PIC)-mapping of calcium carbonate minerals and biominerals” J. Phys. Chem. B. 2014, 118, 8449-8457.

M.S. Faber, R. Dziedzic, M.A. Lukowski, N.S. Kaiser, Q. Ding, S. Jin. “High-Performance Electrocatalysis Using Metallic Cobalt Pyrite (CoS₂) Micro- and Nanostructures” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 10053-10061.

J. P. Gerdt, C. E. McInnis, T. L. Schell, F. M. Rossi, and H. E. Blackwell. “Mutational analysis of the quorum-sensing receptor LasR reveals interactions that govern activation and inhibition by non-lactone ligands.” Chem. Biol. 2014, 21, 1361–1369.

2013

J.W. Rigoli, C.D. Weatherly, J. Alderson, B.T. Vo, J.M. Schomaker. “Tunable, Chemoselective Amination via Silver Catalysis.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 17238.

Y. Su, T. Majtan, R. Linck, S. Ponter, J. P. Kraus, J. N. Burstyn. “Comparative study of enzyme activity and heme reactivity in Drosophila melanogaster and Homo sapiens cystathionine beta-synthases.” Biochemistry. 2013, 52, 741-751.

K. R. Whitaker, D. J. Scifo, M. D. Ediger. “Highly Stable Glasses of cis-Decalin and cis/trans-Decalin Mixtures.” J. Phys. Chem B. 2013, 117, 17224-17233.

B. J. Esselman, B. K. Amberger, J. D. Shutter, M. A. Daane, J. F. Stanton, R. Claude Woods, R. J. McMahon. “Rotational Spectroscopy of Pyridazine and its Isotopologs from 235-360 GHz: Equilibrium Structure and Vibrational Satellites.” J. Chem. Phys. 2013, 139, 224304-13.

A. B. Hadler, N. A. Harris, D. C. Fredrickson. “New Roles for Icosahedral Clusters in Intermetallic Phases: Micelle-like Segregation of Ca-Cd and Cu-Cd Interactions in Ca₁₀Cd₂₇Cu₂.” JACS. 2013, 135, 17369-17378.

2012

J. W. Rigoli, L. A. Boralsky, J. C. Hershberger, A. R. Meis, I. A. Guzei, J. M. Schomaker. “1,4-Diazaspiro[2.2] pentanes as a platform for the synthesis of diamine-bearing stereotriads.” J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 2446.

J. W. Rigoli, R. D. Grigg, S. D. Pearce, J. M. Schomaker. “Synthesis of Propargylic and Allenic Carbamates via the C-H Amination of Alkynes.” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 280.

R. D. Grigg, J. W. Rigoli, R. Van Hoveln, S. Neale, J. M. Schomaker. “Facile generation of benzyl ‘carbanions’ from styrenes.” Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 9391-9396.

J. W. Rigoli, S. A. Moyer, S. D. Pearce, J. M. Schomaker. “α,β-Unsaturated imines via Ru-catalyzed coupling of allylic alcohols and amines.” Org. Biomol. Chem. 2012, 10, 1746.

S. Lin, C. E. Padilla, M.A. Ischay, T. P. Yoon. “Visible Light Photocatalysis of Intramolecular Radical Cation Diels-Alder Cycloadditions,” Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53, 3073-3076.

A. C. Cardiel, M. C. Benson, L. M. Bishop, K. M. Louis, J. C. Yeager, Y. Tan, R. J. Hamers. “Chemically Directed Assembly of Photoactive Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Heterojunctions via the Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition “Click” Reaction.” ACS Nano 2012, 6, 310-318. This article was also featured in C&EN on Jan. 23, 2012 in the News of the Week section (Volume 90, Issue 4, p. 8).

L. Guo, W. Zhang, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spencer, S. H. Gellman. “New Preorganizes Gamma-Amino Acids as Foldamer Building Blocks.” Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 2582.

L. M. Johnson, D. E. Mortenson, H. G. Yun, W. S. Horne, T. J. Ketas, M. Lu, J. P. Moore, S. H. Gellman. “Enhancement of alpha-Helix Mimicry by an alpha/beta-Peptide Foldamer via Incorporation of a Dense Ionic Side Chain Array.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 7317.

L. Guo, W. Zhang, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spencer, S. H. Gellman. “Helical Secondary Structures in 2:1 and 1:2 alpha/gamma-Pepetides.” Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 4413.

J. Zhang, M. J. Markiewicz, B. P. Mowery, B. Weisblum, S. S. Stahl, S. H. Gellman. “C-Terminal Functionalization of Nylon-3 Polymers: Effects of C-Terminal Groups on Antibacterial and Hemolytic Activities.” Biomacromolecules 2012, 13, 323

2011

J. M. Higgins, R. Ding, S. Jin. “Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese-Rich Silicide (α-Mn₅Si₃, β-Mn₅Si₃ and β-Mn₃Si) Nanowires” Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 3848-3853.

Gregory P. Sorenson, Keiva L. Coppage, and Mahesh K. Makanthappa. “Unusually Stable Aqueous Lyotropic Gyroid Phases from Gemini Dicarboxylate Surfactants.” JACS, 2011, 133, 14928–14931.

Steven M. Banik, Beau L. Monnot, Ryan L. Weber, and Mahesh K. Mahanthappa. “ROMP-CT/NMP Synthesis of Multiblock Copolymers Containing Linear Poly(ethylene) Segments.” Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 7141–7148.

Ryan L. Weber, Yuesheng Ye, Steven M. Banik, Yossef A. Elabd, Michael A. Hickner, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa. “Thermal and Ion Transport Properties of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Polymerized Styrenic Imidazolium Ionic Liquids.” Journal of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics, 2011, 49, 1287-1296.

R. L. Weber, Y. Ye, A. L. Schmitt, S. M. Banik, Y. A. Elabd, M. K. Mahanthappa. “Effect of Nanoscale Morphology on the Conductivity of Polymerized Ionic Liquid Block Copolymers.” Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 5727-5735.

W. H. James III, E. G. Buchanan, C. W. Muller, J. C. Deen, D. Kosenkov, L. V. Slipchenko, L. Guo, A. G. Reidenbach, S. H. Gellman, T. S. Zwier. “Evolution of Amide Stacking in Larger gamma-Pepetides: Triamide H-Bonded Cycles.” J. Phys. Chem. A. 2011, 115, 13783-13798.

W. C. Pomerantz, V. M. Yuwono, R. Drake, J. D. Hartgerink, N. L. Abbott, S. H. Gellman. “Lyotropic Liquid Crystals Formed form ACHC-Rich B-Peptides.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13604-13613.

L. Guo, W. Zhang, A. G. Reidenbach, M. W. Giuliano, I. A. Guzei, L. C. Spenser and S. H. Gellman. “Characteristic Structural Parameters for the g-Peptide 14-Helix: Importance of Subunit Preorganization.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 5843.

David N. Bunck, Gregory P. Sorenson and Mahesh K. Mahanthappa. “Cobalt-mediated radical polymerization routes to poly(vinyl ester) block copolymers.” J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2011, 49, 242-249.

B. D. Armstrong, J. Choi, C. López, D. A. Wesener, W. Hubbell, S. Cavagnero, S. Han. “Site-Specific Hydration Dynamics in the Nonpolar Core of a Molten Globule by Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of Water.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 5987-5995.

G. A. Ellis, M. L. Hornung, R. T. Raines. “Potentiation of ribonuclease cytotoxicity by a poly(amidoamine) dendrimer.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 2011, 21, 2756-2758.

A. Choudhary, K. H. Pua, R. T. Raines. “Quantum Mechanical Origin of the Conformational Preferences of 4-thiaproline and its S-oxides.” Amino Acids. 2011, 41, 181-186.

2010

S. A. Morin, M. J. Bierman, J. Tong, S. Jin. “Mechanism and Kinetics of Spontaneous Nanotube Growth Driven by Screw Dislocations.” Science 2010, 328, 476-480.

U. I. Zakai,G. Bikzhanova, D. Staveness, S. Gately, R. West. “Synthesis of lipophilic sila derivatives of N-acetylcysteinamide, a cell permeating thiol.” Applied Organomet. Chem. 2010, 24, 189-192.

A. K. M. Long, R. P. Yu, G. H. Timmer and J. F. Berry. “Aryl C–H Amination by an Electrophilic Diruthenium Nitride.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12228-12230.

Marek, P., Woys, A. M., Sutton, K., Zanni, M.T., Raleigh, D.P. “An Efficient Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Designed to Facilitate the Specific Incorporation of Labeled Amino Acids.” Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 4848.

DePorter, S. M., Jacobsen, A. C., Partridge, K. M., Williamson, K. S., Yoon, T. P. “N-Nosyl Oxaziridines as Terminal Oxidants in Copper(II)-Catalyzed Olefin Oxyaminations.” Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 5223-5225.

Joseph B. Binder, Anthony V. Cefali, Jacqueline J. Blank, and Ronald T. Raines. “Mechanistic insights on the conversion of sugars into 5‑hydroxymethylfurfural.” Energy & Environmental Science 2010, 3, 765–771.

Amit Choudhary, Kimberli J. Kamer, Matthew W. Powner, John D. Sutherland, and Ronald T. Raines. “A stereoelectronic effect in prebiotic nucleotide synthesis.” ACS Chemical Biology 2010, 5, 655–657.

Joseph B. Binder, Jacqueline J. Blank, Anthony V. Cefali, and Ronald T. Raines. “Synthesis of furfural from xylose and xylan.” ChemSusChem 2010, 3, 1268–1272.

L. M. Pegram, T. Wendorff, R. Erdmann, I. Shkel, D. Bellissimo, D. J. Felitsky and M. T. Record, Jr. “Why Hofmeister Effects of Many Salts Favor Protein Folding but Not DNA Helix Formation.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2010, 107(17), 7716-7721.

L. Guo, A. M. Almeida, W. Zhang, A. G. Reidenbach, S. H. Choi, I. A. Guzei and S. H. Gellman. “Helix Formation in Preorganized β/γ-Peptide Foldamers: Hydrogen-Bond Analogy to the α-Helix without α-Amino Acid Residues.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7868.

D. V. Fedyukina, S. Rajagopalan, A. Sekhar, E. C. Fulmer, Y.-J. Eun, and S. Cavagnero. “Contribution of Long-Range Interactions to the Secondary Structure of an Unfolded Globin.” Biophys. J. 2010, 99, L37-L39.

J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero. “Confined Dynamics of a Ribosome-Bound Nascent Globin: Cone Angle Analysis of Fluorescence Depolarization Decays in the Presence of Two Local Motions.” Protein Sci. 2010, 19, 1600.

D. R. Ziehr, J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero. “Production of Ribosome-Released Nascent Proteins with Optimal Physical Properties.” Analyt. Chem. 2010, 82, 4637-4643.

D. Staveness, S. Gately and R. West. “Synthesis of lipophilic sila derivatives of N-acetylcysteinamide, a cell permeating thiol. U. I. Zakai,G. Bikzhanova.” Applied Organomet. Chem. 2010, 24, 189-192.

A. Mitra, J.-C. Brodovitch, C. Krempner, P. W. Percival, P. Vyas and R. West. “A Silyl Radical formed by Muonium Addition to a Silylene.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 2893-2895.

2009

Y. H. A. Lau, D. J. Chernak, M. J. Bierman, S. Jin. “Epitaxial Growth of Hierarchical PbS Nanowires.” J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 934-940.

J. P. Ellis, P. H. Culviner and S. Cavagnero. “Confined Dynamics of a Ribosome-Bound Nascent Globin: Cone Angle Analysis of Fluorescence Depolarization Decays in the Presence of Two Local Motions.” Protein Sci. 2009, 18, 2003-2015.

B. Mounce, N. Kurt, P. A. Ellison and S. Cavagnero. “Nonrandom Distribution of Intramolecular Contacts in Native Single-Domain Proteins.” Proteins, Struct. Funct. Bioinf. 2009, 75, 404-412.

Brett R. Bodsgard, Robert W. Clark, Anthony W. Ehrbar, Judith N. Burstyn. “Silica-bound copper(II)triazacyclononane as a phosphate esterase: Effect of linker length and surface hydrophobicity.” Dalton Trans. 2009, 2365-2373.

Andrea J. Lee, Robert W. Clark, Hwan Youn, Sarah Ponter, Judith N. Burstyn. “Guanidine Hydrochloride-Induced Unfolding of the Three Heme Coordination States of the CO-Sensing Transcription Factor, CooA.” Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 6585-6597.

Allen, C. P., Benkovics, T., Turek, A. K., Yoon, T. P. “Oxaziridine-Mediated Intramolecular Amination of sp³-Hybridized C-H Bonds.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 12560-12561.

Matthew J. Allen, Kittikhun Wangkanont, Ronald T. Raines, and Laura L. Kiessling. “ROMP from ROMP: A new approach to graft copolymer synthesis.” Macromolecules 2009, 42, 4023–4027.

Matthew D. Shoulders, Kimberli J. Kamer, and Ronald T. Raines. “Origin of the stability conferred upon collagen by fluorination.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2009, 19, 3859–3862.

Rex T. Watkins, Luke D. Lavis, Vanessa M. Kung, Georgyi V. Los, and Ronald T. Raines. “Fluorogenic affinity label for facile, rapid imaging of proteins in live cells.” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2009, 7, 969–975.

Kelly L. Gorres, Khian Hong Pua, and Ronald T. Raines. “Stringency of the 2-His–1-Asp active-site motif in prolyl 4-hydroxylase.” PLoS ONE 2009, 4, e7635.

M. Nippe, E. Victor and J. F. Berry. “Oxidation Chemistry of Axially Protected Mo₂ and W₂ Quadruply Bonded Compounds.” Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 11889-11895.

J. S. Pap, J. Snyder, P. Piccoli and J. F. Berry. “Chloro and Azido Diruthenium Complexes Bearing Electron-Rich N,N’,N”-Triphenylguanidinate Ligands.” Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 9846-9852.

M. W. Capp, L. M. Pegram, R. M. Saecker, M. Kratz, D. Riccardi, T. Wendorff, J. G. Cannon, and M. T. Record, Jr. “Interactions of the osmolyte glycine betaine with molecular surfaces in water: Thermodynamics, structural interpretation, and prediction of m-values.” Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 10372-10379.

Susan M. Brastad, Daniel R. Albert, Mingwei Huang, and Gilbert M. Nathanson. “Collisions of DCl with a Solution Covered with Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Ions: Tetrahexylammonium Bromide in Glycerol.” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, 113, 7422.

B. M. Mowery, A. M. Lindner, B. Weisblum, S. S. Stahl and S. H. Gellman. “Structure-Activity Relationships Among Random Nylon-3 Copolymers that Mimic Antibacterial Host-Defense Peptides.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 9735.

B. M. McCollum, J.-C. Brodovitch, Jason A. C. Clyburne, P. W. Percival and R. West. “Detection of a secondary muoniated radical.” Physica B : Cond. Matter, 2009, 404, 940-942.

2008

Melissa M. Yatzeck, Luke D. Lavis, Tzu-Yuan Chao, Sunil S. Chandran, and Ronald T. Raines. “A highly sensitive fluorogenic probe for cytochrome P450 activity in live cells.” Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2008, 18, 5864–5866.

Y. Chi, L. Guo, N. Kopf and S. H. Gellman. “Enantioselective Organocatalytic Michael Addition of Aldehydes to Nitroethylene: Efficient Access to γ²-Amino Acids.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5608.

J. P. Ellis, C. K. Bakke, R. N. Kirchdoerfer, L. M. Jungbauer and S. Cavagnero. “Chain Dynamics of Nascent Polypeptides Emerging from the Ribosome.” ACS Chem. Biol. 2008, 3, 555-566.

Y.-J. Eun, N. Kurt, A. Sekhar and S. Cavagnero. “Thermodynamic and Kinetic Characterization of ApoHmpH, a Fast-Folding Bacterial Globin.” J. Mol. Biol. 2008, 376, 879-897.

I. S. Toulokhonova, V. I Timokhin, D. N. Bunck, T. Mueller, I Guzei and R. West. “Silylene and Germylene Intermediates in the Reactions of Silole and Germole Dianions with N,N’-di-tert-butylethylenediamine.” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 2344-2349.

L. Zhang, Z. Zhang, S. Harring, M. Straughan, R. Butorac, L. Lyons, Z. Chen, K. Amine and R. West. “Highly Conductive Trimethylsilyl Oligo(Ethylene Oxide) Electrolytes for Energy Storage Applications.” J. Materials Chem. 2008, 18, 3713 – 3717.

B. M. McCollum, T. Abe, J.-C Brodovitch, J. A. C. Clyburne, T. Iwamoto, M. Kira, P. W. Percival and R. West. “Probing the reactivity of a stable silene using muonium.” Angew. Chem. 2008, 50, 9772-4.

2007

Joseph B. Binder, Jacqueline J. Blank, and Ronald T. Raines. “Olefin metathesis in homogeneous aqueous media catalyzed by conventional ruthenium catalysts.” Organic Letters 2007, 9, 4885–4888.

Stephen M. Fuchs, Thomas J. Rutkoski, Vanessa M. Kung, Ryan T. Groeschl, and Ronald T. Raines. “Increasing the potency of a cytotoxin with an arginine graft.” Protein Engineering, Design & Selection 2007, 20, 505–509.

E. B. Hadley, A. M. Witek, F. Friere, A. J. Peoples and S. H. Gellman. “Thermodynamic Analysis of β-Sheet Secondary Structure Via Backbone Thioester Exchange.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 7056.

Y. Chi, E. P. English, W. C. Pomerantz, W. S. Horne, L. A. Joyce, L. R. Alexander, W. S. Fleming, E. A. Hopkins and S. H. Gellman. “Practical Synthesis of Enantiomerically Pure β2-Amino Acids via Proline-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Aminomethylation of Aldehydes.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 6050.

R. N. Kirchdoerfer, J.-T. Huang, M. K. Isola and S. Cavagnero. “Fluorescence-Based Analysis of Aminoacyl- and Peptidyl-tRNA by Low-pH Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis.” Analyt. Biochem. 2007, 364, 92-94.

L. A. Leites, G. I . Magdanurov, S. S. Bukalov, S. P. Nolan, N. M. Scott and R. West. “Vibrational and Electronic spectra and the Electronic Structure of an unsaturated Arduengo-type carbene.” Mendeleyev Comm. 2007, 17, 92.

Y. Liu, S. A. Steiner III, C. W. Spahn, I. A. Guzei, I. Touokhonova and R. West. “A Stable, Highly Fluorescent Vinylogous Beta-Diketonate Silicon Complex.” Organometallics, 2007, 26, 1306.

R. Hamers, K.-Y. Tse, L. Zhang, S. Baker, B. Nichols, and R. West. “Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers coupled with organosilicon electrolytes: electrical properties of a high-stability nanostructured electrochemical interface.” Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 5734.

2006

M. D. Bowman, M. M. Jacobson, B. G. Pujanauski, and H. E. Blackwell. “Efficient Synthesis of Small Molecule Macroarrays: Optimization of the Macroarray Synthesis Platform and Examination of Microwave and Conventional Heating Methods.” Tetrahedron 2006, 62, 4715-4727.

Robert W. Clark, Nicholas D. Lanz, Andrea J. Lee, Robert L. Kerby, Gary P. Roberts, and Judith N. Burstyn. “Unexpected NO-dependent DNA Binding by the CooA Homolog from C. hydrogenoformans.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006, 103, 891-896.

I. S. Toulokhonova, D. R. Friedrichsen, N. J. Hill, T. Mueller and R. West. “Unusual reaction of 1,1-dilithio-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole with 1,3-dienes.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2006 , 45, 2578.

W. Li, N. J. Hill, A. C. Tomasik, G. Bikzhanova and R.West. “A new monomeric saturated silylene as a racemic mixture.” Organometallics, 2006, 25, 3802.

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