Publications

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Kaul, N.; Asempa, E.; Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Smith, J.M.; Jakubikova, E.; Hammarström, L. “Enter MnIV−NHC: A Dark Photooxidant with a 15 ns Charge-Transfer Excited State” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, ASAP.
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115

Ghosh, M.; Ezhov, R.; Braley, S.E.; Losovyj, Y.; Bury, G.; Pushkar, Y.N.; Smith, J.M. “Metal-Dependent Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction in Surface-Conjugated Macrocyclic Electrodes” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2024, 7, ASAP.
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114

Chivington, A.D.; Squire, S.; Yamamoto, N.; Pink, M.; Griffith, M.D.; Fletcher, J.; Gao, Y.; Zadrozny, J.M.; Smith, J.M. “Trimethylsilyldiazomethane Disassembly at a Three-Fold Symmetric Iron Site” Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 10221-10229.
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113

Partovi, S.; Dalton, E.Z.; Smith, J.M. “Buffer-Induced Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction: Impact on Catalytic Rate and Product Selectivity” ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 7756-7761.
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112

Gao, Y.; Smith, J.M. “Enabling Nucleophilic Reactivity in High-Spin Fe(II) Imido Complexes: From Elementary Steps to Cooperative Catalysis” Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 3392-3403.
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Richerme, P.; Revelle, M.C.; Yale, C.G.; Lobser, D.; Burch, A.D.; Clark, S.M.; Saha, D.; Lopez-Ruiz, M.A.; Dwivedi, A.; Smith, J.M.; Norrell, S.A.; Sabry, A.; Iyengar, S.S. “Quantum Computation of Hydrogen Bond Dynamics and Vibrational Spectra” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 7256-7263.
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Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Wannipurage, D.C.; Pink, M.; Carta, V.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Telser, J.; Smith, J.M.  “Hydrogen Atom Abstraction by a High-Spin [FeIII=S] Complex” Chem. 2023, 9, 2601–2609.
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109

Gao, Y.; Li, X.; Stevens, J.E.; Tang, H.; Smith, J.M.  “Catalytic 1,3-Proton Transfer in Alkenes Enabled by Fe═NR Bond Cooperativity: A Strategy for pKa-Dictated Regioselective Transposition of C═C Double Bonds” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 11978–11987.
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108

Cao, Y.; Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Hay, S.; Smith, J.M.; de Visser, S.P.  “Reactivity Differences of Trigonal Pyramidal Nonheme Iron(IV)-Oxo and Iron(III)-Oxo Complexes: Experiment and Theory” Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202300271.
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Gao, Y.; Lee, W.-T..; Carta, V.; Chen, C.-H.; Telser, J.; Smith, J.M..  ““Heteroleptic Square Planar Cobalt(I/II) Complexes” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2023, e202200675
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Huerfano, I.J.; Laskowsi, C.A.; Pink, M.; Carta, V.; Hillhouse, G.L.; Caulton, K.G.; Smith, J.M. "Redox-Neutral Transformations of Carbon Dioxide Using Coordinatively Unsaturated Late Metal Silyl Amide Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 20986–20993.
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105

Tran, B.G.; Carta, V.; Pink, M.; Caulton, K.G.; Smith, J.M.  “Facile Addition of B–H and B–B Bonds to an Iron(IV) Nitride Complex” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 19800-19805.
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Ghosh, M.; Braley, S.E.; Ezhov, R.; Worster, H.; Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Losovoyj, Y.; Jakubikova, E.; Pushkar, Y.N.; Smith, J.M.  “A Spectroscopically Observed Iron Nitrosyl Intermediate in the Reduction of Nitrate by a Surface-Conjugated Electrocatalyst” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 17824-17831.
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Gao, Y.; Pink, M.; Carta, V.; Smith, J.M.  “Ene Reactivity of an Fe=NR Bond Enables the Catalytic α-Deuteration of Nitriles and Alkynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 17165-17172.
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Braley, S.E; Kwon, H.-Y.; Xu, S.; Dalton, E.Z.; Jakubikova, E.; Smith, J.M.  “Buffer Assists Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction by a Cobalt Macrocycle Complex” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 12998-13006.
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Partovi, S.; Xiong, Z.; Kulesa, K.M.; Smith, J.M.  “Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen Oxyanions with a Redox-Active Cobalt Macrocycle Complex” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 9034-9039
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Ghosh, M.; Ibrar, M.; Smith, J.M.  “Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate by in-situ Generated Cobalt Nanoparticles” Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4783-4786.
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Gao, Y.; Pink, M.; Smith, J.M.  “Alkali Metal Ions Dictate the Structure and Reactivity of an Iron(II) Imido Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 1789-1794.
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Saha, D.; Iyengar, S.S.; Richerme, P.; Smith, J.M.; Sabry, A.  “Mapping Quantum Chemical Dynamics Problems to Spin-Lattice Simulators” J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2021, 17, 6713-6732.
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Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Beagan, D.M.; Yang, H.; Telser, J.; Hoffman, B.M.; Pink, M.; Carta, V.; Smith, J.M.  “Hydrocarbon Oxidation by an Exposed, Multiply Bonded Iron(III) Oxo Complex” ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7, 1751-1755.
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Kwon, H.-Y.; Braley, S.E.; Madriaga, J.P.; Smith, J.M.; Jakubikova, E.  “Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction with Co-based Catalysts: Comparison of DIM, TIM and cyclam Ligands” Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 12324-12331.
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Braley, S.E.; Xie, J.; Losovyj, Y.; Smith, J.M. “Graphite Conjugation of a Macrocyclic Cobalt Complex Enhances Nitrite Electroreduction to Ammonia” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 7203-7208.
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Gao, Y.; Carta, V.; Pink, M.; Smith, J.M. “Catalytic Carbodiimide Guanylation by a Nucleophilic, High Spin Iron(II) Imido Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021,143, 5324-5329.
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Gao, Y.; Pink, M.; Smith, J.M. “Iron(II) Complexes of an Anionic Bis(ylide)diphenylborate Ligand” Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 17303-17309.
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Martinez, J.L.; Lutz, S.A.; Yang, H.; Xie, J.; Telser, J.; Hoffman, B.M.; Carta, V.; Pink, M.; Losovyj, Y.; Smith, J.M. “Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of an Fe(VI) Bis(imido) Complex” Science 2020, 370, 356-359.
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Martinez, J.L.; Lutz, S.A.; Beagan, D.M.; Gao, X.; Pink, M.; Chen, C.-H.; Carta, V.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Smith, J.M. “Stabilization of the Dinitrogen Analogue, Phosphorus Nitride” ACS. Cent. Sci. 2020, 6, 1572-1577.
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Lutz, S.A.; Hickey, A.K.; Gao, Y.; Chen, C.-H.; Smith, J.M. “Two-State Reactivity in Iron-Catalyzed Alkene Isomerization Confers σ-Base Resistance” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15527-15535.
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Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Millikan, S.P.; Gao, X.; Carta, V.; Chen, C.-H.; Smith, J.M. “Hydrosilylation of an Iron Nitride Complex” Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 579-583.
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Braley, S.E.; Ashley, D.C.; Kulesa, K.M.; Jakubikova, E.; Smith, J.M. “Electrode Adsorption Activates trans-[Cr(cyclam)Cl2]+ for Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction” Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 603-606.
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Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Thorarinsdottir, A.E.; DeGayner, J.A.; Lutz, S.A.; Chen, C.-H.; Losovyj, Y.; Pink, M.; Harris, T.D.; Smith, J.M. “Strong 𝜋-Backbonding Enables Record Magnetic Exchange Coupling Through Cyanide” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 17902-17097.
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Hickey, A.K.; Greer, S.M.; Valdez-Moreira, J.A.; Lutz, S.A.; Pink, M.; DeGayner, J.A.; Harris, T.D.; Hill, S.; Telser, J.; Smith, J.M. “A Dimeric Hydride-Bridged Complex with Geometrically Distinct Iron Centers Giving Rise to an S = 3 Ground State” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 11970-11975.
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Xu, S.; Kwon, H.-Y.; Ashley, D.C.; Chen, C.-H.; Jakubikova, E.; Smith, J.M. “Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Facilitates Electrocatalytic Nitrite Reduction in Aqueous Solutions” Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 9443-9451.
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Ding, M.; Hickey, A.K.; Pink, M.; Telser, J.; Tierney, D.L.; Amoza, M.; Rouzières, M.; Ozumerzifon, T.J.; Hoffert, W.A.; Shores, M.P.; Ruiz, E.; Clérac, R.; Smith, J.M. “Magnetization Slow Dynamics in Ferrocenium Complexes” Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 10625-10623..
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Martinez, J.L.; Lee, W.-T.; Pink, M.; Chen, C.-H.; Smith, J.M. “Heteroleptic Nickel Complexes of a Bulky Bis(carbene)borate Ligand” Polyhedron 2018, 156, 297-302 (Bill Jones special issue).
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Crandell, D.W.; Muñoz, III, S.B.; Smith, J.M.; Baik, M-H. “Mechanistic Study of Styrene Aziridination by Iron(IV) Nitrides” Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 8542-8552.
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Xu, S.; Ashley, D.C.; Kwon, K.-Y.; Ware, G.R.; Chen, C.-H.; Losovyj, Y.; Gao, X.; Jakubikova, E.; Smith, J.M. “A Flexible, Redox-Active Macrocycle Enables the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia by a Cobalt Complex” Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 4950-4958.
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Xu, S.; Bucinsky, L.; Breza, M.; Krzystek, J.; Chen, C.-H.; Pink, M.; Telser, J.; Smith, J.M. “Ligand Substituent Effects in Manganese Pyridinophane Complexes: Implications for Oxygen-Evolving Catalysis” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 14315-14325.
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Martinez, J.L.; Lin, H.-J.; Lee, W.-T.; Pink, M.; Chen, C.-H.; Gao, X.; Dickie, D.A.; Smith, J.M. “Cyanide Ligand Assembly by Carbon Atom Transfer to an Iron Nitride” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 14037-14040.
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Bucinsky, L.; Breza, M.; Lee, W.-T.; Hickey, A.K.; Dickie, D.A.; Nieto, I.; DeGayner, J.A.; Harris, T.D.; Meyer, K.; Krzystek, J.; Ozarowski, A.; Nehrkorn, J.; Schnegg, A.; Holldack, K.; Herber, R.H.; Telser, J.; Smith, J.M. “Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Spin States of Iron(IV) Imido and Nitrido Complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 4751-4768.
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Crandell, D.; Xu, S.; Smith, J.M.; Baik, M.-H. “Intramolecular Oxyl Radical Coupling Promotes O–O Bond Formation in a Homogeneous Mononuclear Mn-based Water Oxidation Catalyst: A Computational Mechanistic Investigation” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 4436-4446.
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Baslon, V.; Harris, J.P.; Reber, C.; Colmer, H.E.; Jackson, T.A.; Forshaw, A.P.; Kinney, R.A.; Telser, J. “Near-infrared 2Eg4A2g and visible LMCT luminescence from a molecular bis- (tris(carbene)borate) manganese(IV) complex” Can. J. Chem. 2017, 95, 547-552.
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Hickey, A.K.; Lutz, S.A.; Chen, C.-H.; Smith, J.M. “Two-State Reactivity in C-H Activation by a Four-Coordinate Iron(0) Complex” Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 1245-1248.
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Hickey, A.K.; Muñoz, III, S.B.; Lutz, S.A.; Pink, M.; Chen, C.-H.; Smith, J.M. “Arrested α-Hydride Migration Activates a Phosphido Ligand for C-H Insertion” Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 412-415.
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Hickey, A.K.; Lee, W.-T.; Chen, C.-H.; Pink, M.; Smith, J.M. “A Bidentate Ligand Stabilizes a Low-Coordinate Iron(0) Carbonyl Complex” Organometallics 2016, 35, 3069-3073.
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Ding, M.; Aravena, D.; Amoza, M.; Cutsail, III, G.E.;Rouzières, M.; Dechambenoit, P.; Losovyj, Y.; Pink, M.; Ruiz, E.; Clérac, R.; Smith, J.M. “A Low Spin Manganese(IV) Nitride Single Molecule Magnet” Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 6132-6140.
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Colmer, H.E.; Margarit, C.G.; Smith, J.M.; Jackson, T.A.; Telser, J. “Spectroscopic and Computational spectroscopy and Investigation of Low-Spin MnIII Bis(scorpionate) Complexes” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 2143-2423.
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Hickey, A.K.; Chen, C.-H.; Pink, M.; Smith, J.M. “Low-Valent Iron Carbonyl Complexes with a Tripodal Carbene Ligand” Organometallics 2015, 34, 4560-4566.
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Ding, M.; Rouzières, M.; Losovyj, Y.; Pink, M.; Clérac, R.; Smith, J.M. “Partial Nitrogen Atom Transfer: a New Synthetic Tool to Design Single-Molecule Magnets” Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 9075-9080.
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68

Muñoz, III, S.B.; Lee, W.-T.; Dickie, D.A.; Scepaniak, J.J.; Subedi, D.; Pink, M.; Johnson, M.D.; Smith, J.M. “Styrene Aziridination by Iron(IV) Nitrides” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10600-10603.
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Lin, H-.J.; Siretanu, D.; Dickie, D.A.; Subedi, D.; Scepaniak, J.J.; Mitcov, D.; Clérac, R.; Smith, J.M. “Steric and Electronic Control of the Spin State in Three-Fold Symmetric, Four-Coordinate Iron(II) Complexes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 13326-13332.
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Juarez, R.A.; Lee, W.-T.; Smith, J.M.; Wang, H. “Computational Evaluation of Tris(carbene)borate Donor Properties in {NiNO}10 Complexes” Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 14689-14695.
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Cutsail, G.E. III; Stein, B.W.; Subedi, D.; Smith, J.M.; Kirk, M.L.; Hoffman, B.M. “EPR, ENDOR and Electronic Structure Studies of the Jahn-Teller Distortion in an FeV Nitride” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 12323-12336.
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Lee, W.-T.; Muñoz, S.B. III; Dickie, D.A.; Smith, J.M. “Ligand Modification Transforms a Catalase Mimic into a Water Oxidation Catalyst” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 9856-9859.
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Lee, W.-T.; Jeon, I.-R.; Xu, S.; Dickie, D.A.; Smith, J.M. “Low-Coordinate Iron(II) Complexes of a Bulky Bis(carbene)borate Ligand” Organometallics, 2014, 33, 5654-5659 (invited contribution to a special issue on earth abundant metals).
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Lee, W.-T.; Juarez, R.A.; Scepaniak, J.J.; Muñoz, S.B; Dickie, D.A.; Wang, H.; Smith, J.M. “Reaction of an Iron(IV) Nitrido Complex with Cyclohexadienes: Cycloaddition and Hydrogen Atom Abstraction” Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 8425-8430.
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Smith, J.M. “Reactive Transition Metal Nitride Complexes” Progress Inorg. Chem. 2014, 58, 417-470 (invited review).
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Mathonière, C.; Lin, H.-J.; Siretanu, D.; Clérac, R.; Smith, J.M. “Photoinduced Single-Molecule Magnet Properties in a Four-Coordinate Iron(II) Spin Crossover Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 19083-19086.
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