September research round up

Blakey Group

The Mechanism of Rhodium Catalyzed Allylic C–H Amination

Harris, R. J., Park, J., Nelson, T. A., Iqbal, N., Salgueiro, D. C., Bacsa, J., … & Blakey, S. B
ChemRxiv

Davies Group

Finding Opportunities from Surprises and Failures. Development of Rhodium-Stabilized Donor/Acceptor Carbenes and their Application to Catalyst-Controlled C—H Functionalization

Davies, H. M.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Dunham Group

Monomeric YoeB toxin retains RNase activity but adopts an obligate dimeric form for thermal stability

Pavelich, I. J., Maehigashi, T., Hoffer, E. D., Ruangprasert, A., Miles, S. J., & Dunham, C. M.
Nucleic Acids Research

Dyer Group

An Abrupt Change of Configuration of Surface Ligands Affects the H2 Production Efficiency of Mediator-Based CdS Nanorod/Hydrogenase Assemblies

Yang, W., Vansuch, G., Liu, Y., Jin, T., Ge, A., Sanchez, M., … & Lian, T.
The Electrochemical Society

Investigating the Kinetic Competency of CrHydA1 [FeFe] Hydrogenase Intermediate States via Time-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Sanchez, M. L., Sommer, C., Reijerse, E., Birrell, J. A., Lubitz, W., & Dyer, R. B.
Journal of the American Chemical Society

Evangelista Group

Time Dependent Adaptive Configuration Interaction Applied to Attosecond Charge Migration

Schriber, J. B., & Evangelista, F. A.
arXiv– Chemical Physics

Heaven Group

O2 (b1Σg+) Removal by I2 and NO at Temperatures of 297–750 K

Zagidullin, M. V., Khvatov, N. A., Medvedkov, I. A., Mebel, A. M., Heaven, M. C., & Azyazov, V. N.
Chemical Physics Letters

Hill Group

Polyoxometalate Complexes and Uses in Managing Cancer

Song, J., Nie, S., & Hill, C.
Patent Application

MacBeth Group

The Mechanism of Rhodium Catalyzed Allylic C–H Amination

Harris, R. J., Park, J., Nelson, T. A., Iqbal, N., Salgueiro, D. C., Bacsa, J., … & Blakey, S. B.
ChemRxiv

Salaita Group

Emerging uses of DNA mechanical devices

Blanchard, A. T., & Salaita, K.
Science

Chameleon-Inspired Strain-Accommodating Smart Skin

Dong, Y., Bazrafshan, A., Pokutta, A., Sulejmani, F., Sun, W., Combs, J. D., … & Salaita, K.
ACS Nano