| Spotlights |
| Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16093-16094 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Formation and Stabilization of Palladium Nanoparticles on Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots |
| Xin Yan, Qiqi Li, and Liang-shi Li |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16095-16098 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Selective Luminescent Probe for the Direct Time-Gated Detection of Adenosine Triphosphate |
| Evan A. Weitz, Jennifer Y. Chang, Adam H. Rosenfield, and Valerie C. Pierre |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16099-16102 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Stabilizing Ion and Radical Ion Pair States in a Paramagnetic Endohedral Metallofullerene/π-Extended Tetrathiafulvalene Conjugate |
| Yuta Takano, Shota Obuchi, Naomi Mizorogi, Raúl García, M. Ángeles Herranz, Marc Rudolf, Silke Wolfrum, Dirk M. Guldi, Nazario Martín, Shigeru Nagase, and Takeshi Akasaka |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16103-16106 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Computational and Experimental Analyses Reveal the Essential Roles of Interdomain Linkers in the Biological Function of Chemotaxis Histidine Kinase CheA |
| Xiqing Wang, Chun Wu, Anh Vu, Joan-Emma Shea, and Frederick W. Dahlquist |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16107-16110 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| A Tunable Route for the Synthesis of Azomethine Imines and β-Aminocarbonyl Compounds from Alkenes |
| Christian Clavette, Wei Gan, Amanda Bongers, Thomas Markiewicz, Amy B. Toderian, Serge I. Gorelsky, and André M. Beauchemin |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16111-16114 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Synthesis and Assembly of Colloidal Particles with Sticky Dimples |
| Seung-Hyun Kim, Andrew D. Hollingsworth, Stefano Sacanna, Sung-Jin Chang, Gaehang Lee, David J. Pine, and Gi-Ra Yi |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16115-16118 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Conductance Switching in the Photoswitchable Protein Dronpa |
| Katalin V. Korpany, Pinky Langat, Dong Myeong Kim, Neil Edelman, Daniel R. Cooper, Jay Nadeau, and Amy Szuchmacher Blum |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16119-16122 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Probing the Mycobacterial Trehalome with Bioorthogonal Chemistry |
| Benjamin M. Swarts, Cynthia M. Holsclaw, John C. Jewett, Marina Alber, Douglas M. Fox, M. Sloan Siegrist, Julie A. Leary, Rainer Kalscheuer, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16123-16126 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Phosphorus-Doped Ordered Mesoporous Carbons with Different Lengths as Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Alkaline Media |
| Dae-Soo Yang, Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjya, Shaukatali Inamdar, Jinsol Park, and Jong-Sung Yu |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16127-16130 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Copper-Catalyzed Recycling of Halogen Activating Groups via 1,3-Halogen Migration |
| R. David Grigg, Ryan Van Hoveln, and Jennifer M. Schomaker |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16131-16134 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Hydrocarbon Chain Lengthening in Catalytic CO Hydrogenation: Evidence for a CO-Insertion Mechanism |
| Julien Schweicher, Adam Bundhoo, and Norbert Kruse |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16135-16138 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Synchronized Aromaticity as an Enthalpic Driving Force for the Aromatic Cope Rearrangement |
| David J. Babinski, Xiaoguang Bao, Marie El Arba, Bo Chen, David A. Hrovat, Weston Thatcher Borden, and Doug E. Frantz |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16139-16142 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Validation of PqsD as an Anti-biofilm Target in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Development of Small-Molecule Inhibitors |
| Michael P. Storz, Christine K. Maurer, Christina Zimmer, Nathalie Wagner, Christian Brengel, Johannes C. de Jong, Simon Lucas, Mathias Müsken, Susanne Häussler, Anke Steinbach, and Rolf W. Hartmann |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16143-16146 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Efficient Charge Transport in Semisynthetic Zinc Chlorin Dye Assemblies |
| Sameer Patwardhan, Sanchita Sengupta, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, Frank Würthner, and Ferdinand C. Grozema |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16147-16150 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Tunable Mid-Infrared Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances in Silicon Nanowires |
| Li-Wei Chou, Naechul Shin, Saujan V. Sivaram, and Michael A. Filler |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16155-16158 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Rhodium-Catalyzed Cascade Oxidative Annulation Leading to Substituted Naphtho[1,8-bc]pyrans by Sequential Cleavage of C(sp2)–H/C(sp3)–H and C(sp2)–H/O–H Bonds |
| Xing Tan, Bingxian Liu, Xiangyu Li, Bin Li, Shansheng Xu, Haibin Song, and Baiquan Wang |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16163-16166 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Trifluoromethylation of α-Haloketones |
| Petr Novák, Anton Lishchynskyi, and Vladimir V. Grushin |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16167-16170 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Evidence for Radical-Mediated Catalysis by HppE: A Study Using Cyclopropyl and Methylenecyclopropyl Substrate Analogues |
| Hui Huang, Wei-chen Chang, Pei-Jing Pai, Anthony Romo, Steven O. Mansoorabadi, David H. Russell, and Hung-wen Liu |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16171-16174 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Redox Brightening of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals Using Molecular Reductants |
| Jeffrey D. Rinehart, Amanda L. Weaver, and Daniel R. Gamelin |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16175-16177 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| The Influence of Hydrogenation and Oxygen Vacancies on Molybdenum Oxides Work Function and Gap States for Application in Organic Optoelectronics |
| Maria Vasilopoulou, Antonios M. Douvas, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Leonidas C. Palilis, Stella Kennou, Labrini Sygellou, Anastasia Soultati, Ioannis Kostis, Giorgos Papadimitropoulos, Dimitris Davazoglou, and Panagiotis Argitis |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16178-16187 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Formation of an Unusual Four-Membered Nitrogen Ring (Tetrazetidine) Radical Cation |
| David Camp, Marc Campitelli, Graeme R. Hanson, and Ian D. Jenkins |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16188-16196 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Computational Design of Catalytic Dyads and Oxyanion Holes for Ester Hydrolysis |
| Florian Richter, Rebecca Blomberg, Sagar D. Khare, Gert Kiss, Alexandre P. Kuzin, Adam J. T. Smith, Jasmine Gallaher, Zbigniew Pianowski, Roger C. Helgeson, Alexej Grjasnow, Rong Xiao, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Min Su, Sergey Vorobiev, Scott Lew, Farhad Forouhar, Gregory J. Kornhaber, John F. Hunt, Gaetano T. Montelione, Liang Tong, K. N. Houk, Donald Hilvert, and David Baker |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16197-16206 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Iron Particle Size Effects for Direct Production of Lower Olefins from Synthesis Gas |
| Hirsa M. Torres Galvis, Johannes H. Bitter, Thomas Davidian, Matthijs Ruitenbeek, A. Iulian Dugulan, and Krijn P. de Jong |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16207-16215 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| π–π Interaction Assisted Hydrodefluorination of Perfluoroarenes by Gold Hydride: A Case of Synergistic Effect on C–F Bond Activation |
| Hongbin Lv, Jin-Hui Zhan, Yuan-Bo Cai, Yi Yu, Bingwu Wang, and Jun-Long Zhang |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16216-16227 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Aggregation-Induced Fast Crystal Growth of SnO2 Nanocrystals |
| Zanyong Zhuang, Feng Huang, Zhang Lin, and Hengzhong Zhang |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16228-16234 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Spanning Four Mechanistic Regions of Intramolecular Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Ru(bpy)32+–Tyrosine Complex |
| Tania Irebo, Ming-Tian Zhang, Todd F. Markle, Amy M. Scott, and Leif Hammarström |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16247-16254 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Poly-amido-saccharides: Synthesis via Anionic Polymerization of a β-Lactam Sugar Monomer |
| Eric L. Dane and Mark W. Grinstaff |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16255-16264 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of π-Stacked Poly(fluorenemethylene) Oligomers. Multiple, Interacting Electron Transfers |
| Honglan Qi, Jinho Chang, Sameh H. Abdelwahed, Khushabu Thakur, Rajendra Rathore, and Allen J. Bard |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16265-16274 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Radically Enhanced Molecular Switches |
| Albert C. Fahrenbach, Zhixue Zhu, Dennis Cao, Wei-Guang Liu, Hao Li, Sanjeev K. Dey, Subhadeep Basu, Ali Trabolsi, Youssry Y. Botros, William A. Goddard, III, and J. Fraser Stoddart |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16275-16288 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Deposition of Ordered Layers of Tetralactam Macrocycles and Ether Rotaxanes on Pyridine-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold |
| Sebastian Richter, Johannes Poppenberg, Christoph H.-H. Traulsen, Erik Darlatt, Anja Sokolowski, Dominik Sattler, Wolfgang E. S. Unger, and Christoph A. Schalley |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16289-16297 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| An Azo-Bridged Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal with Highly Enhanced Second and Third Harmonic Generation |
| Yongqiang Zhang, Josu Ortega, Ute Baumeister, César L. Folcia, Gerardo Sanz-Enguita, Christopher Walker, Sofía Rodriguez-Conde, Jesus Etxebarria, Michael J. O’Callaghan, and Kundalika More |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16298-16306 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| The Importance of Hydrogen Bonding to Stereoselectivity and Catalyst Turnover in Gold-Catalyzed Cyclization of Monoallylic Diols |
| Thomas Ghebreghiorgis, Berenger Biannic, Brian H. Kirk, Daniel H. Ess, and Aaron Aponick |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16307-16318 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| W-Band Time-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of Light-Induced Spin Dynamics in Copper–Nitroxide-Based Switchable Molecular Magnets |
| Matvey V. Fedin, Elena G. Bagryanskaya, Hideto Matsuoka, Seigo Yamauchi, Sergey L. Veber, Ksenia Yu. Maryunina, Evgeny V. Tretyakov, Victor I. Ovcharenko, and Renad Z. Sagdeev |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16319-16326 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Raising the Thermoelectric Performance of p-Type PbS with Endotaxial Nanostructuring and Valence-Band Offset Engineering Using CdS and ZnS |
| Li-Dong Zhao, Jiaqing He, Shiqiang Hao, Chun-I Wu, Timothy P. Hogan, C. Wolverton, Vinayak P. Dravid, and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16327-16336 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| “Brush-First” Method for the Parallel Synthesis of Photocleavable, Nitroxide-Labeled Poly(ethylene glycol) Star Polymers |
| Jenny Liu, Alan O. Burts, Yongjun Li, Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy, M. Francesca Ottaviani, Nicholas J. Turro, and Jeremiah A. Johnson |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16337-16344 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Small Molecules Based on Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene Unit for High-Performance Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells |
| Jiaoyan Zhou, Xiangjian Wan, Yongsheng Liu, Yi Zuo, Zhi Li, Guangrui He, Guankui Long, Wang Ni, Chenxi Li, Xuncheng Su, and Yongsheng Chen |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16345-16351 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| The Effect of Monomer Order on the Hydrolysis of Biodegradable Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Repeating Sequence Copolymers |
| Jian Li, Sam N. Rothstein, Steven R. Little, Harry M. Edenborn, and Tara Y. Meyer |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16352-16359 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Symmetry-Constrained Analysis of Pulsed Double Electron–Electron Resonance (DEER) Spectroscopy Reveals the Dynamic Nature of the KcsA Activation Gate |
| Olivier Dalmas, H. Clark Hyde, Raymond E. Hulse, and Eduardo Perozo |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16360-16369 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Photoinduced Phase Transfer of Luminescent Quantum Dots to Polar and Aqueous Media |
| Goutam Palui, Tommaso Avellini, Naiqian Zhan, Feng Pan, David Gray, Igor Alabugin, and Hedi Mattoussi |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16370-16378 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Stable Cu(II) and Cu(I) Mononuclear Intermediates in the Assembly of the CuA Center of Thermus thermophilus Cytochrome Oxidase |
| Kelly N. Chacón and Ninian J. Blackburn |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16401-16412 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Understanding the Quenching Effects of Aromatic C–H- and C–D-Oscillators in Near-IR Lanthanoid Luminescence |
| Christine Doffek, Nicola Alzakhem, Caroline Bischof, Jessica Wahsner, Tuba Güden-Silber, Joachim Lügger, Carlos Platas-Iglesias, and Michael Seitz |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16413-16423 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Ab Initio QM/MM Free Energy Simulations of Peptide Bond Formation in the Ribosome Support an Eight-Membered Ring Reaction Mechanism |
| Jun Xu, John Z. H. Zhang, and Yun Xiang |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16424-16429 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Solving the Convergence Problem in the Synthesis of Triantennary N-Glycan Relevant to Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) |
| Maciej A. Walczak and Samuel J. Danishefsky |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16430-16433 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Dynamics and Efficiency of Hole Transport in LNA:DNA Hybrid Diblock Oligomers |
| Arun K. Thazhathveetil, Josh Vura-Weis, Anton Trifonov, Michael R. Wasielewski, and Frederick D. Lewis |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16434-16440 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |
| Layered Metal Sulfides Capture Uranium from Seawater |
| Manolis. J. Manos and Mercouri G. Kanatzidis |
| JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY |
| 2012 |
| vol.134 no.39 pp.16441-16446 |
| http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/39 |