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The following are articles suggested by faculty as primary research papers for your chemistry seminar. You are under no obligation to choose one of these, but they can be helpful in giving you a starting point in choosing your paper (and mentor).

Dominey

  1. "Transition-Metal-Free Direct Arylation of Anilines," Pirali, T., Zhang, F., Miller, A. H., Head, J. L., McAusland, D. and Greaney, M. F. (2012), Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 1006–1009. doi:10.1002/anie.201106150
  2. "The Benzyne Aza-Claisen Reaction," Cant, Alastair A., Bertrand, Guillaume H. V., Henderson, Jaclyn L., Roberts, L. and Greaney, Michael F. (2009), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 48: 5199–5202. doi:10.1002/anie.200901410
  3. "Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Cyclooligomeric Depsipeptides Enabled by FlowChemistry," Daniel Lìcke, Toryn Dalton, Steven V. Ley, and Zoe E. Wilson, Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 4206-4217. doi:10.1002/chem.201504457
  4. "Machines vs Malaria: A Flow-Based Preparation of the Drug Candidate OZ439," Shing-Hing Lau, Alicia Galvań, Rohan R. Merchant, Claudio Battilocchio, José A. Souto, Malcolm B. Berry, and Steven V. Ley, Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3218-3221. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b01307
  5. "Synthesis of trifluoromethylated isoxazoles and their elaboration through inter- and intra-molecular C–H arylation," Jian-Siang Poh, Cristina García-Ruiz, Andrea Zúñiga, Francesca Meroni, David C. Blakemore, Duncan L. Browne, and Steven V. Leya, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 5983-5991. doi:10.1039/c6ob00970k
  6. Nickel-Gallium-Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Highly Reduced Products at Low Overpotentials Daniel A. Torelli, Sonja A. Francis, J. Chance Crompton, Alnald Javier, Jonathan R. Thompson, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Manuel P. Soriaga, and Nathan S. Lewis, ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 2100-2104. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.5b02888
  7. "A Stabilized, Intrinsically Safe, 10% Efficient, Solar-Driven Water-Splitting Cell Incorporating Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts with Steady-State pH Gradients and Product Separation Enabled by a Bipolar Membrane," Ke Sun, Rui Liu, Yikai Chen, Erik Verlage, Nathan S. Lewis, and Chengxiang Xiang, Adv. Energy Mater. 2016, 6, 1600379-1600386. doi:10.1002/aenm.201600379
  8. "Re(I) NHC Complexes for Electrocatalytic Conversion of CO2," Charles J. Stanton, III, Charles W. Machan, Jonathon E. Vandezande, Tong Jin, George F. Majetich, Henry F. Schaefer, III, Clifford P. Kubiak, Gonghu Li, and Jay Agarwal, Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 3136-3144. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00079
  9. "Interrogating heterobimetallic co-catalytic responses for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 using supramolecular assembly," Charles W. Machan and Clifford P. Kubiak, Dalton Trans. 2016, XXXX: doi:10.1039/c6dt01956k
  10. "Tuning Electron Delocalization and Transfer Rates in Mixed-Valent Ru3O Complexes through “Push−Pull” Effects," Tyler M. Porter, Gabriele C. Canzi, Steven A. Chabolla, and Clifford P. Kubiak, J. Phys. Chem. A 2016, 120, 6309-6316. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05485

Downey

  1. These two articles should be considered together:
    Organic Letters 2013, 15, 3922-3925, "(Diisopinocampheyl)borane-Mediated Reductive Aldol Reactions of Acrylate Esters: Enantioselective Synthesis of Anti-Aldols," Allais, Christophe; Nuhant, Philippe; Roush, William R. doi: 10.1021/ol401679g.
    Organic Letters 2013, 15, 5436-5439, "Enantio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of syn-β-Hydroxy-α-vinyl Carboxylic Esters via Reductive Aldol Reactions of Ethyl Allenecarboxylate with 10-TMS-9-Borabicyclo[3.3.2]decane and DFT Analysis of the Hydroboration Pathway," Kister, Jeremy; Ess, Daniel H.; Roush, William R. doi: 10.1021/ol4025277.
  2. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4722-4725 "Enantioselective Photocatalytic [3 + 2] Cycloadditions of Aryl Cyclopropyl Ketones" Adrian G. Amador, Evan M. Sherbrook, and Tehshik P. Yoon. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b01728

Leopold

  1. Anal. Chem., 2014, 86 (14), pp 7141–7149, "In Vivo Analytical Performance of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Glucose Biosensors," Robert J. Soto, Benjamin J. Privett, and Mark H. Schoenfisch. doi: 10.1021/ac5017425.
  2. Anal. Chem., 2013, 85 (21), pp 10488–10494, "Fabrication of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Porous Polyurethane Membranes-Coated Needle-type Implantable Glucose Biosensors," Ahyeon Koh, Yuan Lu, and Mark H. Schoenfisch. doi: 10.1021/ac402312b.
  3. "In-vivo imaging of O2 dynamics on coral surfaces spray-painted with sensor nanoparticles," Klaus Korena, Sofie L. Jakobsena, Michael Kühl, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical , (Article in press) 2016. doi:10.1016/j.snb.2016.05.147
  4. "Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles with a pH-Sheddable Layer for in Vivo Targeting of Tumor Hypoxia," Zhiyong Poon, Dongsook Chang, Xiaoyong Zhao, and Paula T Hammond, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (6), 4284-4292. doi:10.1021/nn200876f
  5. "Coaxial multishell nanowires with high-quality electronic interfaces and tunable optical cavities for ultrathin photovoltaics," Thomas J. Kempaa, James F. Cahoon, Sun-Kyung Kim, Robert W. Day, David C. Bell, Hong-Gyu Park, and Charles M. Lieber, PNAS, 2012, 109(5), 1407-1412. doi:10.1073/pnas.1120415109

Miller

  1. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 2429–2444. "Stereoselective Total Synthesis of Etnangien and Etnangien Methyl Ester"; Pengfei Li, Jun Li, Fatih Arikan, Wiebke Ahlbrecht, Michael Dieckmann, and Dirk Menche. doi: 10.1021/jo100201f
  2. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2010, 21, 153–155. "Efficient enantiodivergent total synthesis of (+) and (-)-bromoxone." Maitia Labora, Enrique M. Pandolfi, Valeria Schapiro. doi: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2009.12.016
  3. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5347–5350. "Iron-Catalyzed Domino Process for the Synthesis of α–Carbonyl Furan Derivatives via One-Pot Cyclization Reaction." Huanfeng Jiang, Wenjuan Yao, Hua Cao, Huawen Huang, and Derong Cao. doi: 10.1021/jo100813w
  4. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5008–5016. "Zinc(II)-Catalyzed Addition of Grignard Reagents to Ketones." Manabu Hatano, Orie Ito, Shinji Suzuki, and Kazuaki Ishihara. doi: 10.1021/jo100563p
  5. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 5134–5143. "A Highly Convergent Synthesis of Tricyclic NHeterocycles Coupling an Ugi Reaction with a Tandem SN2'-Heck Double Cyclization." Renata Riva, Luca Banfi, Andrea Basso, Valentina Cerulli, Giuseppe Guanti, and Marcella Pani. doi: 10.1021/jo100859y

Nolin

  1. "'On Water': Unique Reactivity of Organic Compounds in Aqueous Suspension," Sridhar Narayan, John Muldoon, M G Finn, Valery V Fokin, Hartmuth C Kolb, and K Barry Sharpless, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 3275-3279. doi: 10.1002/anie.200462883
  2. "Thermodynamic control of asymmetric amplification in amino acid catalysis," Klussmann, M.; Iwamura, H.; Mathew, S. P.; Wells, D. H.; Pandya, U.; Armstrong, A.; Blackmond, D. G. Nature 2006, 441, 621–623. doi: 10.1038/nature04780

Stevenson

  1. "Coupling of Nitrous Oxide and Methane by Global Atmospheric Chemistry," Michael J. Prather, Juno Hsu, Science 2010, 330 (6006), 952-954. doi: 10.1126/science.1196285
  2. "Effect of Acid Deposition on Quantity and Quality of Dissolved Organic Matter in SoilWater," Sara M. Ekström, Emma S. Kritzberg, Dan B. Kleja, Niklas Larsson, P. Anders Nilsson, Wilhelm Graneli, Bo Bergkvist, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45, 4733-4739. doi: 10.1021/es104126f
  3. "Increased River Alkalinization in the Eastern U.S.," Sujay S. Kaushal, Gene E. Likens, Ryan M. Utz, Michael L. Pace, Melissa Grese, Metthea Yepsen, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 10302-10311. doi:10.1021/es401046s
  4. "Linkages between ozone-depleting substances, troposphericoxidation and aerosols," A. Voulgarakis, D. T. Shindell, and G. Faluvegi, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2013, 13, 4907-4916. doi:10.5194/acp-13-4907-2013