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2026

Seamus S. Lowe, Jesse A. Wisch, Isaac Walton, Tuo Hu, Chiao-Jung Su, John E. Anthony, Barry P. Rand, “Low-Threshold Visible-to-Ultraviolet Solid-State Triplet-Fusion Upconversion”, ACS Energy Lett. 2026, available online.

Aditi Singh, Emmanuel Adu Fosu, Shuohao Wang, Elena Jakubikova, Lisa Olshansky, “Assessing the Impacts of Conformational Fluxionality on Copper(II/I) Electron Transfer Self-Exchange”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, available online.

Atanu Ghosh, Björn Pfund, Jonathan T. Yarranton, Yi-Jyun Lien, James K. McCusker, “Kinetics vs Thermodynamics: Engineering Photoredox Reactivity
from an Upper Excited State of FeII”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, 148, 23879, available online.

Nathanael Brown, Felix N. Castellano, and Jan Genzer, “Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Using Hydrogel Reactors”, Langmuir 2026, 42, 9647, available online.

Yi Liu, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Gianluca Dell’Orletta, and Todd K. Hyster, “Photoenzymatic Csp3–Csp3 bond formation via enzyme-templated radical–radical coupling”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 2026, 123, e2529018123, available online.

Junho Kim, Nidhi Kaul, Matthew V. Pecoraro, Paul J. Chirik, “Hydrosilylation of a Molecular Molybdenum Nitride Provides Mechanistic Insights into Photodriven Ammonia Synthesis from N2 and H2″, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, 148, 7761, available online.

Eris Villalona, Rodrigo E. Domínguez, Edwin J. Gonzalez Lopez, Walter D. Guerra, Daniel A. Heredia, Anton Y. Khmelnitskiy, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Yohana Palacios, Thomas A. Moore, Gregory D. Scholes, Robert R. Knowles, Ana L. Moore, “Leveraging Multiproton-Coupled Electron Transfer to Improve Ir(III) Photocatalyst Efficiency”, J. Phys. Chem. C 2026, 130, 2492, available online.

Reagan X. Hooper, Benjamin I. Poulter, Jesper Schwarz, Mariam Barakat, Kristjan Kunnus, Kacie J. Nelson, Aleksandra Ilic, Clara Garcia-Mateos, Rajdip Chowdhury, Jens Uhlig, Kenneth Warnmark, Elena Jakubikova, Amy A. Cordones, Kelly J. Gaffney, “Highly destabilized ligand field excited states of iron carbene complexes and their relation to charge transfer state lifetimes”, Chem. Sci. 2026, available online.

Sumana L. Raj, Felipe Curtolo, Kacie J. Nelson, David A. Cagan, Reagan X. Hooper, Daniel Bím, Alec H. Follmer, Ryan D. Ribson, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak, Brendon J. McNicholas, Natalia Powers-Riggs, Michael Sachs, Elisa Biasin, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Jinkyu Lim, Leland B. Gee, Matthieu Chollet, Patrick Kramer, Roberto Alonso Mori, Tim B. van Driel, Kelly J. Gaffney, Sijia S. Dong, Ryan G. Hadt, Amy A. Cordones, “Ultrafast Population and Structural Dynamics of a Ni-Bipyridine Photoredox Catalyst Reveal a Significant Deactivation Pathway”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2026, available online.

2025

Alexander Q. Cusumano, Braden C. Chaffin, David A. Cagan, Stephen DiLuzio, Erica Sutcliffe, Ryan G. Hadt, Abigail G. Doyle, “Light-Promoted C(sp3)–C(sp3) Reductive Elimination from Dialkyl Ni(II) Complexes”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 32941, available online. 

Junho Kim, Grace B. Panetti, Nidhi Kaul, Sangmin Kim, Paul J. Chirik, “Photodriven Ammonia Synthesis from N2 and H2: Recycling of a Molecular Molybdenum Nitride”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 8215, available online.

Danny Q. Thach, Robert R. Knowles, “Light-Driven C(sp3)-C(sp3) Bond Functionalizations Enabled by the PCET Activation of Alcohol O–H Bonds”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2025, 58, 2061, available online.

Diego A. Granados, Y. Emily Du, Shiloh J. Andersson, Avery Cirincione-Lynch, Kai Cui, Adam Reinhold, Philip D. Jeffrey, Gregory D. Scholes, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Robert R. Knowles, “Iridium Polypyridyl Carboxylates as Excited-State PCET Catalysts for the Functionalization of Unactivated C–H Bonds”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 20703, available online.

Erin M. Bucci, Melecio A. Perea, Remy F. Lalisse, Poulami Mukherjee, T. Judah Raab, Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli, Daniel S. Min, Matthew J. Bird, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Abigail G. Doyle, “Development, Application, and Mechanistic Interrogation of a Dual Ni Catalysis Approach to Photoredox-Based C(sp3)–C(sp3) Cross-Coupling, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, available online.

Jesse A. Wisch, Kelvin A. Green, Amélie C. Lemay, Yiling Q. Li, Tersoo Upaa Jr., Evgeny O. Danilov, Hui Taou Kok, Seamus S. Lowe, Felix N. Castellano, Barry P. Rand, “Plasmon-enhanced ultralow threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion”, Nature Photon. 2025, available online.

Bekah E. Bowers, Björn Pfund, Hayden F. Beissel, Atanu Ghosh, James K. McCusker, “Spin-State and Reorganization Energy Considerations for Metal-
Centered Photoredox Catalysis”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 39898, available online.

Atanu Ghosh, Daniel Holmes, James K. McCusker, “Probing the Influence of Ion-Pairing on Ligand-field Excited-state Dynamics”, Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 16110, available online. 

Sarah Arteta, Mawuli Deegbey, Nicolas Durand, Russell Kibbe, Johannes Floß, Alexandra T. Barth, David C. Muddiman, Elena Jakubikova, Oliver Reiser, Felix N. Castellano, “Mechanistic Insights into Visible-Light-Induced ATRA Reactions Powered by the Symbiotic Relationship between Cu(II)/Cu(I) Phenanthroline Complexes”, ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 15657, available online. 

Max M. O’Connor, Steven H. Hayden, Melissa K. Gish, Justin L. Ratkovec, Lily H. Harmon, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Obadiah G. Reid, Garry Rumbles, “Polymer nanoparticle photocatalysts realized in non-aqueous solvents”, Sustainable Energy Fuels 2025, 9, 3796, available online.

Max Kudisch, Reagan X. Hooper, Lakshmy K. Valloli, Justin D. Earley, Anna Zieleniewska, Jin Yu, Stephen DiLuzio, Rebecca W. Smaha, Hannah Sayre, Xiaoyi Zhang, Matthew J. Bird, Amy A. Cordones, Garry Rumbles, Obadiah G. Reid, “Photolytic activation of Ni^(II)X₂L explains how Ni-mediated cross coupling begins”, Nature Communications 2025, 16, 5530, available online.

Eve Yuanwei Xu, Alberto Castanedo, Nick Y. Shin, Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli, David C. Grills, Matthew J. Bird, Robert R. Knowles, “Quantitative Determination of Electronic Effects in Free Radicals through Open-Shell Hammett Substituent Constants”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, available online.

Justin L. Ratkovec, Justin D. Earley, Max Kudisch, WilliamKopcha, Eve Yuanwei Xu, Robert R. Knowles, Garry Rumbles, Obadiah G. Reid, “Electrostatic Work Causes Unexpected Reactivity in Ionic Photoredox Catalysts in Low Dielectric Constant Solvents”, J.  Phys. Chem. B 2025, 129, 3895, available online.

John D. Sakizadeh, Rachel Weiss, Gregory D. Scholes, Bryan Kudisch, “Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Photoredox Catalysis”, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2025, 76, 203, available online.

Kacie J. Nelson, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak, David A. Cagan, Alec H. Follmer, Thais R. Scott, Sumana L. Raj, Douglas Garratt, Natalia Powers-Riggs, Kelly J. Gaffney, Ryan G. Hadt, Amy A. Cordones-Hahn, “Multiconfigurational Electronic Structure of Nickel Cross-Coupling Catalysts Revealed by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, 87–94, available online. 

2024

Angela Lin, Sumin Lee, Robert R. Knowles, “Organic Synthesis Away from Equilibrium: Contrathermodynamic Transformations Enabled by Excited-State Electron Transfer”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2024, 57, 1827, available online.

Jose M. Carceller, Bhumika Jayee, Claire G. Page, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Gustavo Mondragón-Solórzano, Nithin Chintala, Jingzhe Cao, Zayed Alassad, Zheyu Zhang, Nathaniel White, Danny J. Diaz, Andrew D. Ellington, Gregory D. Scholes, Sijia S. Dong, Todd K. Hyster, “Engineering a photoenzyme to use red light”, Chem 2024, 11, 102318, available online.

Walter D. Guerra, Emmanuel Odella, Kai Cui, Maxim Secor, Rodrigo E. Dominguez, Edwin J. Gonzalez, Thomas A. Moore, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Ana L. Moore, “The role of an intramolecular hydrogen bond in the redox properties of carboxylic acid naphthoquinones“, Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 17425, available online.

Grace B. Panetti, Junho Kim, Michele S. Myong, Matthew J. Bird, Gregory D. Scholes, Paul J. Chirik, “Photodriven Ammonia Synthesis from Manganese Nitrides: Photophysics and Mechanistic Investigations”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 27610, available online.

Alexandra T. Barth,  Austin J. Pyrch, Conor T. McCormick, Evgeny O. Danilov, Felix N. Castellano, “Excited State Bond Homolysis of Vanadium(V) Photocatalysts for Alkoxy Radical Generation”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2024, 128, 7609, available online.

Azka Arshad, Felix N. Castellano,” Homomolecular Triplet–Triplet Annihilation in Metalloporphyrin Photosensitizers”, J. Phys. Chem. A 2024, 128, 7648, available online.

Audrey C. Norris, Catrina Oberg, Leah C. Spangler, Gregory D. Scholes, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, “Discovery of Multiple Light-Harvesting States of the Photosynthetic Protein PE545″, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 27373, available online.

Stephen DiLuzio, Lakshmy Kannadi Valloli, Max Kudisch, Daniel T. Chambers, Garry Rumbles, Obadiah G. Reid, Matthew J. Bird, Hannah J. Sayre, “Reconceptualizing the Ir^III Role in Metallaphotoredox Catalysis: From Strong Photooxidant to Potent Energy Donor”, ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 11378, available online.

Alexander Q. Cusumano, Braden C. Chaffin, Abigail G. Doyle, “Mechanism of Ni-Catalyzed Photochemical Halogen Atom-Mediated C(sp³)–H Arylation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 15331, available online.

Max M. O’Connor, Taylor J. Aubry, Obadiah G. Reid, Garry Rumbles, “Charge Concentration Limits the Hydrogen Evolution Rate in Organic Nanoparticle Photocatalysts”, Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2210481, available online.

2023

Amy Y. Chan, Atanu Ghosh, Jonathan T. Yarranton, Jack Twilton, Jian Jin, Daniela M. Arias-Rotondo, Holt A. Sakai, James K. McCusker, David W. C. MacMillan, “Exploiting the Marcus inverted region for first-row transition metal-based photoredox catalysis”, Science 2023, 382, 191, available online.

Angela Lee, Minjung Son, Mawuli Deegbey, Matthew D. Woodhouse, Stephanie M. Hart, Hayden F. Beissel, Paul T. Cesana, Elena Jakubikova, James K. McCusker, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, “Observation of parallel intersystem crossing and charge transfer-state dynamics in [Fe(bpy)3]2+ from ultrafast 2D electronic spectroscopy”, Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 13140, available online.

Suong T. Nguyen, Lydia R. Fries, James H. Cox, Yuting Ma, Brett P. Fors, Robert R. Knowles, “Chemical Recycling of Thiol Epoxy Thermosets via Light-Driven C–C Bond Cleavage”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 11151, available online.

Micheal M. Alowakennu, Atanu Ghosh, James K. McCusker, “Direct Evidence for Excited Ligand Field State-based Oxidative Photoredox Chemistry of a Cobalt(III) Polypyridyl Photosensitizer”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 20786, available online.

Yunjung Baek, Adam Reinhold, Lei Tian, Philip D. Jeffrey, Gregory D. Scholes, Robert R. Knowles, “Singly Reduced Iridium Chromophores: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photochemistry”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 12499, available online.

Xiankun Li, Claire G. Page, Laura Zanetti-Polzi, Aarat P. Kalra, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Isabella Daidone, Todd K. Hyster, Gregory D. Scholes, “Mechanism and Dynamics of Photodecarboxylation Catalyzed by Lactate Monooxygenase”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023,  145, 13232, available online.

Jesse A. Wisch, Xiao Liu, Patrick J. Sarver, Cesar N. Prieto Kullmer, Agustin Millet, David W. C. MacMillan, Barry P. Rand, “Plasmon Mediated Near-Field Energy Transfer From Solid-State, Electrically Injected Excitons to Solution Phase Chromophores”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2214367, available online.

2022

Yuxuan Ye, Jingzhe Cao, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Deeptak Verma, Christopher K. Prier, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd K. Hyster, “Using enzymes to tame nitrogen-centred radicals for enantioselective hydroamination”, Nature Chem. 2022, 15, 206, available online.

Nick Y. Shin, Elaine Tsui, Adam Reinhold, Gregory D. Scholes, Matthew J. Bird, Robert R. Knowles, “Radicals as Exceptional Electron-Withdrawing Groups: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution of Halophenols Via Homolysis-Enabled Electronic Activation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 21783, available online. 

Emily E. Brown, Iuliia Mandzhieva, Patrick M. TomHom, Thomas Theis, Felix N. Castellano, “Triplet Photosensitized para-Hydrogen Induced Polarization”, ACS Cent. Sci. 2022, 8, 1548, available online.

Sun Dongbang, Abigail Doyle, “Ni/Photoredox-Catalyzed C(sp³)–C(sp³) Coupling between Aziridines and Acetals as Alcohol-Derived Alkyl Radical Precursors”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 20067, available online.

Raymundo Moya, Audrey C. Norris, Leah C. Spangler, Gregory D. Scholes, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, “Observation of conformational dynamics in single light-harvesting proteins from cryptophyte algae”, J. Chem. Phys. 2022, 157, 035102, available online.

Paul T. Cesana, Claire G. Page, Dvir Harris, Megan A. Emmanuel, Todd K. Hyster, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, “Photoenzymatic Catalysis in a New Light: Gluconobacter “Ene”-Reductase Conjugates Possessing High-Energy Reactivity with Tunable Low-Energy Excitation”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 17516, available online.

Agustin Millet, Paul T. Cesana, Kassandra Sedillo, Matthew J. Bird, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Abigail G. Doyle, David W. C. MacMillan, Gregory D. Scholes, “Bioinspired Supercharging of Photoredox Catalysis for Applications in Energy and Chemical Manufacturing”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2022, 55, 1423, available online.

 

 

Tiffany Q. Chen, P. Scott Pedersen, Nathan W. Dow, Remi Fayad, Cory E. Hauke, Michael C. Rosko, Evgeny O. Danilov, David C. Blakemore, Anne-Marie Dechert-Schmitt, Thomas Knauber, Felix N. Castellano, David W. C. MacMillan, “A Unified Approach to Decarboxylative Halogenation of (Hetero)aryl Carboxylic Acids, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 8296, available online.

Stephen I. Ting, Wendy L. Williams, Abigail G. Doyle, “Oxidative Addition of Aryl Halides to a Ni(I)-Bipyridine Complex”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 5575, available online.

Justin D. Earley, Anna Zieleniewska, Hunter H. Ripberger, Nick Y. Shin, Megan S. Lazorski, Z. J. Mast, Hannah J. Sayre, James K. McCusker, Gregory D. Scholes, Robert R. Knowles, Obadiah G. Reid, Garry Rumbles, “Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts”, Nature Chem. 2022, 14, 746, available online.

Yoonsu Park, Lei Tian, Sangmin Kim, Tyler P. Pabst, Junho Kim, Gregory D. Scholes, Paul J. Chirik, “Visible-Light-Driven, Iridium-Catalyzed Hydrogen Atom Transfer: Mechanistic Studies, Identification of Intermediates, and Catalyst Improvements”, JACS Au 2022, 2, 407, available online.

Alexander Reichle, Hannes Sterzel, Peter Kreitmeier, Remi Fayad, Felix N. Castellano, Julia Rehbein, Oliver Reiser, “Copper(ii)-photocatalyzed decarboxylative oxygenation of carboxylic acids”, Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4456, available online.

Walter D. Guerra , Hannah J. Sayre , Hunter H. Ripberger , Emmanuel Odella, Gregory D. Scholes , Thomas A. Moore , Robert R. Knowles , Ana L. Moore, “Ir(III)-Naphthoquinone complex as a platform for photocatalytic activity”, J. Photochem. Photobiol. 2022, 9, 100098, available online.

Kuo Zhao, Robert R. Knowles, “Contra-Thermodynamic Positional Isomerization of Olefins”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 137, available online.

Paul T. Cesana, Beryl X. Li, Samuel G. Shepard, Stephen I. Ting, Stephanie M. Hart, Courtney M. Olson, Jesus I. Martinez-Alvarado, Minjung Son, Talia J. Steiman, Felix N. Castellano, Abigail G. Doyle, David W. C. MacMillan, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, “A biohybrid strategy for enabling photoredox catalysis with low-energy light”, Chem 2022, 8, 174, available online.

Bryce Nicholls, Daniel Oblinsky, Sarah Kurtoic, Daria Grosheva, Yuxuan Ye, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd Hyster, “Engineering a Non-Natural Enzyme for Improved Photon Efficiency”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 2, e202113842, available online.

2021

Yoonsu Park, Sangmin Kim, Lei Tian, Hongyu Kim, Gregory D. Scholes, Paul J. Chirik, “Visible light enables catalytic formation of weak chemical bonds with molecular hydrogen”, Nature Chem. 2021, 13, 969, available online.

Alex J. Chinn, Kassandra Sedillo, Abigail G. Doyle, “Phosphine/Photoredox Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Hydroamination of Olefins with Primary Sulfonamides via α-Scission from Phosphoranyl Radicals”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 18331, available online.

Suong T. Nguyen, Elizabeth A. McLoughlin, James H. Cox, Brett P. Fors, Robert R. Knowles, “Depolymerization of Hydroxylated Polymers via Light-Driven C-C Bond Cleavage”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 12268, available online and explanatory slide.

Hannah Sayre, Hunter H. Ripberger, Emmanuel Odella, Anna Zieleniewska, Daniel A. Heredia, Garry Rumbles, Gregory D. Scholes, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, Robert R. Knowles, “PCET-Based Ligand Limits Charge Recombination with an Ir(III) Photoredox Catalyst”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 13034, available online and explanatory slide.

Beryl X. Li, Daniel K. Kim, Steven Bloom, Richard Y.-C. Huang, Jennifer X. Qiao, William R. Ewing, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Gregory D. Scholes, David W. C. MacMillan, “Site-selective tyrosine bioconjugation via photoredox catalysis for native-to-bioorthogonal protein transformation”, Nature. Chem. 2021, 13, 902, available online.

Nicholas A. Till, Seokjoon Oh, David W. C. MacMillan, Matthew Bird, “The Application of Pulse Radiolysis to the Study of Ni(I) Intermediates in Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 9332,  available online.

Stavros K. Kariofillis, Abigail G. Doyle, “Synthetic and Mechanistic Implications of Chlorine Photoelimination in Nickel/Photoredox C(sp³)–H Cross-Coupling”, Acc. Chem. Res. 2021, 54, 988, available online.

Hannah Sayre, Lei Tian, Minjung Son, Stephanie M. Hart, Xiao Liu, Daniela Arias-Rotondo, Barry P. Rand, Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Gregory D. Scholes, “Solar Fuels and Feedstocks: The Quest for Renewable Black Gold”, Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14, 1402, available online.

Braddock A. Sandoval, Phillip D. Clayman, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Seokjoon Oh, Yuji Nakano, Matthew Bird, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd K. Hyster, “Photoenzymatic Reductions Enabled by Direct Excitation of Flavin-Dependent ‘Ene’-Reductases”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 1735, available online.

2020

Jacob S. DeHovitz, Yong Yao Loh, Jacob A. Kautzky, Kazunori Nagao, Andrew J. Meichan, Motoshi Yamaouchi, David W. C. MacMillan, Todd K. Hyster, “Static to inducibly dynamic stereocontrol: The convergent use of racemic β-substituted ketones”, Science 2020, 369, 1113, available online.

Remi Fayad, Anh Thy Bui, Samuel G. Shepard, Felix N. Castellano, “Photochemical Upconversion in Water Using Cu(I) MLCT Excited States: Role of Energy Shuttling at the Micellar/Water Interface”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, 3, 12557, available online.

Claire G. Page, Simon J. Cooper, Jacob DeHovitz, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Kyle F. Biegasiewicz, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd K. Hyster, “Quaternary Charge-Transfer Complex Enables Photoenzymatic Intermolecular Hydroalkylation of Olefins”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 97, available online.

Bryan Kudisch, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Michael J. Black, Anna Zieleniewska, Megan A. Emmanuel, Garry Rumbles, Todd K. Hyster, Gregory D. Scholes, “Active Site Environmental Factors Customize the Photophysics of Photoenzymatic Old Yellow Enzymes”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2020, 124, 11236, available online.

Nancy Awwad, Anh Thy Bui, Evgeny O. Danilov, Felix N. Castellano, “Visible-Light-Initiated Free-Radical Polymerization by Homomolecular Triplet-Triplet Annihilation”, Chem. 2020, 6, 3071, available online and explanatory slide.

Matthew D. Woodhouse, James K. McCusker, “Mechanistic Origin of Photoredox Catalysis Involving Iron(II) Polypyridyl Chromophores”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 16229, available online.

Andrew H. Proppe, Yuguang C. Li, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Curtis P. Berlinguette, Christopher J. Chang, Richard Cogdell, Abigail G. Doyle, Johannes Flick, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Rienk van Grondelle, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Shana O. Kelley, Mario Leclerc, Karl Leo, Thomas E. Mallouk, Prineha Narang, Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen, Gregory D. Scholes, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, Jenny Y. Yang, Edward H. Sargent, “Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis” Nature Rev. Mater. 2020, 5, 828, available online.

Hwon Kim, Gregory D. Scholes, “Configuration Mixing Upon Reorganization of Dihedral Angle Induces Rapid Intersystem Crossing in Organic Photocatalyst”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, 22, 13292, available online.

Elliot J. Taffet, Francesca Fassioli, Zi S.D. Toa, D. Toa, David Beljonne, Gregory D. Scholes, “Uncovering Dark Multichromophoric States in Peridinin-Chlorophyll-Protein”, J. R. Soc. Interface 2020, 17, 20190736, available online.

Nicholas A. Till, Lei Tian, Zhe Dong, Gregory D. Scholes, David W. C. MacMillan, “Mechanistic Analysis of Metallaphotoredox C–N Coupling: Photocatalysis Initiates and Perpetuates Ni(I)/Ni(III) Coupling Activity”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15830, available online.

Lei Tian, Nicholas A. Till, Bryan Kudisch, David W. C. MacMillan, Gregory D. Scholes, “Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Offers Mechanistic Insights for an Iridium/Nickel-Catalyzed C–O Coupling”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 4555, available online. 

Hwon Kim, Gregory D. Scholes, “Configuration mixing upon reorganization of dihedral angle induces rapid intersystem crossing in organic photoredox catalyst”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, 22, 13292, available online.

Remi Fayad, Sebastian Engl, Evgeny O. Danilov, Cory E. Hauke, Oliver Reiser, Felix N. Castellano, “Direct Evidence of Visible Light-Induced Homolysis in Chlorobis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(II)”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 5345, available online.

Suong T. Nguyen, Philip R. D. Murray, Robert R. Knowles, “Light-Driven Depolymerization of Native Lignin Enabled by Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer”, ACS Catal. 2020, 10, 800, available online.

Stephen I. Ting, Sofia Garakyaraghi, Chelsea M. Taliaferro, Benjamin J. Shields, Gregory D. Scholes, Felix N. Castellano, Abigail G. Doyle, “³d-d Excited States of Ni(II) Complexes Relevant to Photoredox Catalysis: Spectroscopic Identification and Mechanistic Implications”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5800, available online. 

 

Michael J. Black, Kyle F. Biegasiewicz, Andrew J. Meichan, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Bryan Kudisch, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd K. Hyster, “Asymmetric Redox-Neutral Radical Cyclization Catalyzed by Flavin-Dependent ‘Ene’-Reductases”, Nature Chem. 2020, 12, 71, available online.

2019

Elliot Taffet, Benjamin G. Lee, Zi Siang Desmond Toa, Natalie Pace, Garry Rumbles, June Southall, Richard Cogdell, Gregory Scholes, “Carotenoid Nuclear Motion Induces the Realization of a Dark First Excited State”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 8628, available online.

Jonathan Huff, Paul Davis, Allison Christy, Donald Kellis, Nirmala Kandadai, Desmond Zi Siang Toa, Gregory D. Scholes, Bernard Yurke, William Knowlton, Ryan Pensack, “DNA-Templated Aggregates of Strongly-Coupled Cyanine Dyes: Nonradiative Decay Governs Exciton Lifetime”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 2386, available online.

Zi S. D. Toa, Mary Helen deGolian, Chanelle C. Jumper, Roger G. Hiller, Gregory D. Scholes, “A Consistent Model of Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Peridinin Chlorophyll-a Protein Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy and Forster Theory”, J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 6410, available online.

Kyle F. Biegasiewicz, Simon J. Cooper, Xin Gao, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Ji Hye Kim, Samuel E. Garfinkle, Leo A. Joyce, Braddock A. Sandoval, Gregory D. Scholes, Todd K. Hyster, “Photoexcitation of flavoenzymes enables a stereoselective radical cyclization”, Science, 2019, 364, 1166, available online.

Zi S. D. Toa, Jacob C. Dean, Gregory D. Scholes, “Revealing Structural Involvement of Chromophores in Algal Light Harvesting Complexes using Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory”, J. Photochem. Photobiol. B. 2019, 190, 110, available online.

Hsin-Ya Kuo, Tia Lee, An Chu, Steven Tignor, Gregory D. Scholes, Andrew Bocarsly, “A cyanide-bridged di-manganese carbonyl complex that photochemically reduces CO₂ to CO”, Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 1226, available online.