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Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16919-16920
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
ye Regeneration Kinetics in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Torben Daeneke, Attila J. Mozer, Yu Uemura, Satoshi Makuta, Monika Fekete, Yasuhiro Tachibana, Nagatoshi Koumura, Udo Bach, and Leone Spiccia
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16925-16928
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Reversible Photodynamic Chloride-Selective Sensor Based on Photochromic Spiropyran
Xiaojiang Xie, Günter Mistlberger, and Eric Bakker
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16929-16932
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
A Transition-State Interaction Shifts Nucleobase Ionization toward Neutrality To Facilitate Small Ribozyme Catalysis
Joseph A. Liberman, Man Guo, Jermaine L. Jenkins, Jolanta Krucinska, Yuanyuan Chen, Paul R. Carey, and Joseph E. Wedekind
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16933-16936
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Superatom Electron Configuration Predicts Thermal Stability of Au25(SR)18 Nanoclusters
Marcus A. Tofanelli and Christopher J. Ackerson
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16937-16940
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Total Synthesis of (±)-Communesin F via a Cycloaddition with Indol-2-one
Johannes Belmar and Raymond L. Funk
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16941-16943
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Characterization of a Saturated and Flexible Aliphatic Polyol Anion Receptor
Alireza Shokri, Jacob Schmidt, Xue-Bin Wang, and Steven R. Kass
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16944-16947
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Transesterification Catalyzed by Ionic Liquids on Superhydrophobic Mesoporous Polymers: Heterogeneous Catalysts That Are Faster than Homogeneous Catalysts
Fujian Liu, Liang Wang, Qi Sun, Longfeng Zhu, Xiangju Meng, and Feng-Shou Xiao
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16948-16950
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Iron-Catalyzed Chemo- and Stereoselective Hydromagnesiation of Diarylalkynes and Diynes
Laurean Ilies, Takumi Yoshida, and Eiichi Nakamura
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16951-16954
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Silicon-Stereogenic Dibenzooxasilines via Enantioselective Transmetalation
Ryo Shintani, Eleanor E. Maciver, Fumiko Tamakuni, and Tamio Hayashi
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16955-16958
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
The Nature of Lithium Battery Materials under Oxygen Evolution Reaction Conditions
Seung Woo Lee, Christopher Carlton, Marcel Risch, Yogesh Surendranath, Shuo Chen, Sho Furutsuki, Atsuo Yamada, Daniel G. Nocera, and Yang Shao-Horn
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16959-16962
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Polymer-Incarcerated Chiral Rh/Ag Nanoparticles for Asymmetric 1,4-Addition Reactions of Arylboronic Acids to Enones: Remarkable Effects of Bimetallic Structure on Activity and Metal Leaching
Tomohiro Yasukawa, Hiroyuki Miyamura, and Shu̅ Kobayashi
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16963-16966
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Mechanistic Investigation of the Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Reaction of N,O-Acetals: Evidence for Boronic Acid Assisted Oxidative Addition and an Iminium Activation Pathway
Kevin T. Sylvester, Kevin Wu, and Abigail G. Doyle
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16967-16970
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Chirality Enriched (12,1) and (11,3) Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Biological Imaging
Shuo Diao, Guosong Hong, Joshua T. Robinson, Liying Jiao, Alexander L. Antaris, Justin Z. Wu, Charina L. Choi, and Hongjie Dai
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16971-16974
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Sensitized Photodecomposition of Organic Bisphosphonates By Singlet Oxygen
Kenneth Hanson, Dennis L. Ashford, Javier J. Concepcion, Robert A. Binstead, Sohrab Habibi, Hanlin Luo, Christopher R. K. Glasson, Joseph L. Templeton, and Thomas J. Meyer
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16975-16978
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Redox Switching of Adenosine-5′-phosphosulfate Kinase with Photoactivatable Atomic Oxygen Precursors
Miao Zhang, Geoffrey E. Ravilious, Leslie M. Hicks, Joseph M. Jez, and Ryan D. McCulla
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16979-16982
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Synthesis of Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on Mesoporous N-Doped Carbon and Their Catalytic Ability for Biofuel Upgrade
Xuan Xu, Yi Li, Yutong Gong, Pengfei Zhang, Haoran Li, and Yong Wang
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16987-16990
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Catalytic Functionalization of Unactivated sp3 C–H Bonds via exo-Directing Groups: Synthesis of Chemically Differentiated 1,2-Diols
Zhi Ren, Fanyang Mo, and Guangbin Dong
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16991-16994
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement Reveals Oligomerization Interface of a Membrane Protein
Shenlin Wang, Rachel A. Munro, So Young Kim, Kwang-Hwan Jung, Leonid S. Brown, and Vladimir Ladizhansky
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16995-16998
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Tuning the Reactivity of Difluoromethyl Sulfoximines from Electrophilic to Nucleophilic: Stereoselective Nucleophilic Difluoromethylation of Aryl Ketones
Xiao Shen, Wei Zhang, Chuanfa Ni, Yucheng Gu, and Jinbo Hu
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.16999-17002
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Catalytic Enantioselective Cross-Couplings of Secondary Alkyl Electrophiles with Secondary Alkylmetal Nucleophiles: Negishi Reactions of Racemic Benzylic Bromides with Achiral Alkylzinc Reagents
Jörg T. Binder, Christopher J. Cordier, and Gregory C. Fu
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17003-17006
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Self-Assembly of a [2]Pseudorota[3]catenane in Water
Ross S. Forgan, Jeremiah J. Gassensmith, David B. Cordes, Megan M. Boyle, Karel J. Hartlieb, Douglas C. Friedman, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, and J. Fraser Stoddart
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17007-17010
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Ultra-Small, Highly Stable, and Sensitive Dual Nanosensors for Imaging Intracellular Oxygen and pH in Cytosol
Xu-dong Wang, Judith A. Stolwijk, Thomas Lang, Michaela Sperber, Robert J. Meier, Joachim Wegener, and Otto S. Wolfbeis
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17011-17014
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Seeing Citrulline: Development of a Phenylglyoxal-Based Probe To Visualize Protein Citrullination
Kevin L. Bicker, Venkataraman Subramanian, Alexander A. Chumanevich, Lorne J. Hofseth, and Paul R. Thompson
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17015-17018
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Incorporation of Ketones to Cyclic Hemiaminals for the Synthesis of Versatile Alkaloid Precursors
Shi-Liang Shi, Xiao-Feng Wei, Yohei Shimizu, and Motomu Kanai
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17019-17022
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Enantioselective Baeyer–Villiger Oxidation: Desymmetrization of Meso Cyclic Ketones and Kinetic Resolution of Racemic 2-Arylcyclohexanones
Lin Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, Jie Ji, Yuheng Zhang, Xiaolei Hu, Lili Lin, and Xiaoming Feng
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17023-17026
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Synthesis and N–H Reductive Elimination Study of Dinuclear Ruthenium Imido Dihydride Complexes
Shin Takemoto, Yusuke Yamazaki, Takahiro Yamano, Daichi Mashima, and Hiroyuki Matsuzaka
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17027-17035
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Versatile Strategy for Biochemical, Electrochemical and Immunoarray Detection of Protein Phosphorylations
Sanela Martić, Michelle Gabriel, Jacob P. Turowec, David W. Litchfield, and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17036-17045
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Ostwald’s Rule of Stages and Its Role in CdSe Quantum Dot Crystallization
Aaron L. Washington, II, Megan E. Foley, Soshan Cheong, Lieth Quffa, Christopher J. Breshike, John Watt, Richard D. Tilley, and Geoffrey F. Strouse
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17046-17052
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Colloidal Photonic Crystals with Narrow Stopbands Assembled from Low-Adhesive Superhydrophobic Substrates
Yu Huang, Jinming Zhou, Bin Su, Lei Shi, Jingxia Wang, Shuoran Chen, Libin Wang, Jian Zi, Yanlin Song, and Lei Jiang
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17053-17058
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Ordering of the N-Terminus of Human MDM2 by Small Molecule Inhibitors
Klaus Michelsen, John B. Jordan, Jeffrey Lewis, Alexander M. Long, Evelyn Yang, Yosup Rew, Jing Zhou, Peter Yakowec, Paul D. Schnier, Xin Huang, and Leszek Poppe
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17059-17067
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
A Highly Compliant Protein Native State with a Spontaneous-like Mechanical Unfolding Pathway
Pétur O. Heidarsson, Immanuel Valpapuram, Carlo Camilloni, Alberto Imparato, Guido Tiana, Flemming M. Poulsen, Birthe B. Kragelund, and Ciro Cecconi
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17068-17075
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Label-Free Mapping of Osteopontin Adsorption to Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Crystals by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Nastaran Kazemi-Zanjani, Honghong Chen, Harvey A. Goldberg, Graeme K. Hunter, Bernd Grohe, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17076-17082
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Studies toward the Unique Pederin Family Member Psymberin: Full Structure Elucidation, Two Alternative Total Syntheses, and Analogs
Yu Feng, Xin Jiang, and Jef K. De Brabander
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17083-17093
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Reactivity of Borylenes toward Ethyne, Ethene, and Methane
Małgorzata Krasowska and Holger F. Bettinger
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17094-17103
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Visible Light-Induced Hole Injection into Rectifying Molecular Wires Anchored on Co3O4 and SiO2 Nanoparticles
Han Sen Soo, Anil Agiral, Andreas Bachmeier, and Heinz Frei
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17104-17116
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Effect of Sterically Demanding Substituents on the Conformational Stability of the Collagen Triple Helix
Roman S. Erdmann and Helma Wennemers
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17117-17124
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Oxidative Addition of Carbon–Carbon Bonds with a Redox-Active Bis(imino)pyridine Iron Complex
Jonathan M. Darmon, S. Chantal E. Stieber, Kevin T. Sylvester, Ignacio Fernández, Emil Lobkovsky, Scott P. Semproni, Eckhard Bill, Karl Wieghardt, Serena DeBeer, and Paul J. Chirik
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17125-17137
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Compound I Is the Reactive Intermediate in the First Monooxygenation Step during Conversion of Cholesterol to Pregnenolone by Cytochrome P450scc: EPR/ENDOR/Cryoreduction/Annealing Studies
Roman Davydov, Andrey A. Gilep, Natallia V. Strushkevich, Sergey A. Usanov, and Brian M. Hoffman
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17149-17156
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Modeling Near-Edge Fine Structure X-ray Spectra of the Manganese Catalytic Site for Water Oxidation in Photosystem II
Barbara Brena, Per E. M. Siegbahn, and Hans Ågren
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17157-17167
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Anti-Fab Aptamers for Shielding Virus from Neutralizing Antibodies
Darija Muharemagic, Mahmoud Labib, Shahrokh M. Ghobadloo, Anna S. Zamay, John C. Bell, and Maxim V. Berezovski
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17168-17177
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Spin-Transfer Pathways in Paramagnetic Lithium Transition-Metal Phosphates from Combined Broadband Isotropic Solid-State MAS NMR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations
Raphaële J. Clément, Andrew J. Pell, Derek S. Middlemiss, Fiona C. Strobridge, Joel K. Miller, M. Stanley Whittingham, Lyndon Emsley, Clare P. Grey, and Guido Pintacuda
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17178-17185
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Mixed 14/16 Helices in the Gas Phase: Conformation-Specific Spectroscopy of Z-(Gly)n, n = 1, 3, 5
Jacob C. Dean, Evan G. Buchanan, and Timothy S. Zwier
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17186-17201
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Length-Dependent Change of Optical, Magnetic, and Vibrational Properties of Vanadate (VIVO32–) Quantum Wire Embedded in AM-6 Vanadosilicate
Shuvo Jit Datta and Kyung Byung Yoon
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17202-17211
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Gold Nanoparticles as Electronic Bridges for Laccase-Based Biocathodes
Cristina Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Marcos Pita, Cristina Vaz-Domínguez, Sergey Shleev, and Antonio L. De Lacey
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17212-17220
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Uncovering Molecular Details of Urea Crystal Growth in the Presence of Additives
Matteo Salvalaglio, Thomas Vetter, Federico Giberti, Marco Mazzotti, and Michele Parrinello
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17221-17233
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Bis(1,3-di-tert-butylimidazolin-2-iminato) Titanium Complexes as Effective Catalysts for the Monodisperse Polymerization of Propylene
Manab Sharma, Haneen Simaan Yameen, Boris Tumanskii, Sabina-Alexandra Filimon, Matthias Tamm, and Moris S. Eisen
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17234-17244
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Sorting of Lipidated Peptides in Fluid Bilayers: A Molecular-Level Investigation
Trevor A. Daly, Paulo F. Almeida, and Steven L. Regen
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17245-17252
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Solution-Cast Metal Oxide Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution
Lena Trotochaud, James K. Ranney, Kerisha N. Williams, and Shannon W. Boettcher
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17253-17261
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Development of Enantioselective Synthetic Routes to (−)-Kinamycin F and (−)-Lomaiviticin Aglycon
Christina M. Woo, Shivajirao L. Gholap, Liang Lu, Miho Kaneko, Zhenwu Li, P. C. Ravikumar, and Seth B. Herzon
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17262-17273
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Post-Assembly Derivatization of Electrospun Nanofibers via Strain-Promoted Azide Alkyne Cycloaddition
Jukuan Zheng, Kaiyi Liu, Darrell H. Reneker, and Matthew L. Becker
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17274-17277
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Formation and Domain Partitioning of H-ras Peptide Nanoclusters: Effects of Peptide Concentration and Lipid Composition
Zhenlong Li, Lorant Janosi, and Alemayehu A Gorfe
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17278-17285
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Origin of Long-Range Ferromagnetic Ordering in Metal–Organic Frameworks with Antiferromagnetic Dimeric-Cu(II) Building Units
Lei Shen, Shuo-Wang Yang, Shengchang Xiang, Tao Liu, Bangchuan Zhao, Man-Fai Ng, Jörg Göettlicher, Jiabao Yi, Sean Li, Lan Wang, Jun Ding, Banglin Chen, Su-Huai Wei, and Yuan Ping Feng
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17286-17290
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Facile and General Preparation of Multifunctional Main-Chain Cationic Polymers through Application of Robust, Efficient, and Orthogonal Click Chemistries
Animesh Saha, Swati De, Mihaiela C. Stuparu, and Anzar Khan
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17291-17297
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Surfactant-Controlled Polymerization of Semiconductor Clusters to Quantum Dots through Competing Step-Growth and Living Chain-Growth Mechanisms
Christopher M. Evans, Alyssa M. Love, and Emily A. Weiss
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17298-17305
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
A pH-Sensitive, Colorful, Lanthanide-Chelating Paramagnetic NMR Probe
Wei-Min Liu, Peter H. J. Keizers, Mathias A. S. Hass, Anneloes Blok, Monika Timmer, Alexi J. C. Sarris, Mark Overhand, and Marcellus Ubbink
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17306-17313
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Mitochondrial Thioredoxin-Responding Off–On Fluorescent Probe
Min Hee Lee, Ji Hye Han, Jae-Hong Lee, Hyo Gil Choi, Chulhun Kang, and Jong Seung Kim
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17314-17319
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Epidithio-, Epitetrathio-, and bis-(Methylthio)diketopiperazines: Synthetic Methodology, Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Epicoccin G, 8,8′-epi-ent-Rostratin B, Gliotoxin, Gliotoxin G, Emethallicin E, and Haematocin and Discovery of New Antiviral and Antimalarial Agents
K. C. Nicolaou, Min Lu, Sotirios Totokotsopoulos, Philipp Heretsch, Denis Giguère, Ya-Ping Sun, David Sarlah, Thu H. Nguyen, Ian C. Wolf, Donald F. Smee, Craig W. Day, Selina Bopp, and Elizabeth A. Winzeler
JL OF THE AM CHEMICAL SOCIETY
2012
vol.134 no.41 pp.17320-17332
http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/134/41