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Electrochemistry of ethanol and dimethyl ether at a Pt electrode in a protic ionic liquid: the electrode poisoning mechanism (2023)
Journal Article
Muhammad, S., & Walsh, D. A. (2023). Electrochemistry of ethanol and dimethyl ether at a Pt electrode in a protic ionic liquid: the electrode poisoning mechanism. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25(32), 21509-21520. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp02645k

A protic ionic liquid (PIL), N,N-diethyl-N-methyl ammonium trifluoromethane sulfonate, [dema][TfO] was synthesized and confirmed using 1H-NMR and ion chromatography (IC). The surface electrocatalysis of ethanol (EtOH) and dimethyl ether (DME) was inv... Read More about Electrochemistry of ethanol and dimethyl ether at a Pt electrode in a protic ionic liquid: the electrode poisoning mechanism.

Silver(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Cuneanes from Cubanes and their Investigation as Isosteres (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, E., Jones, K. D., O’Brien, L., Argent, S. P., Salome, C., Lefebvre, Q., …Lam, H. W. (2023). Silver(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Cuneanes from Cubanes and their Investigation as Isosteres. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(30), 16365-16373. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c03207

Bridged or caged polycyclic hydrocarbons have rigid structures that project substituents into precise regions of 3D space, making them attractive as linking groups in materials science and as building blocks for medicinal chemistry. The efficient syn... Read More about Silver(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Cuneanes from Cubanes and their Investigation as Isosteres.

Programmable Deuteration of Indoles via Reverse Deuterium Exchange (2023)
Journal Article
Fitzgerald, L. S., McNulty, R. L., Greener, A., & O'Duill, M. L. (2023). Programmable Deuteration of Indoles via Reverse Deuterium Exchange. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 88(15), 10772-10776. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c00819

Methods for selective deuterium incorporation into drug-like molecules have become extremely valuable due to the commercial, mechanistic, and biological importance of deuterated compounds. Herein, we report a programmable labeling platform that allow... Read More about Programmable Deuteration of Indoles via Reverse Deuterium Exchange.

A simple, sustainable route to flexible microporous carbon cloth for energy storage applications (2023)
Journal Article
Alkhaldi, T., Blankenship, L. S., & Mokaya, R. (2023). A simple, sustainable route to flexible microporous carbon cloth for energy storage applications. Materials Advances, 4(16), 3559-3571. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ma00157a

Activated carbon cloth (ACC) has the potential to be extremely useful in gas capture and storage applications as it combines high porosity, robustness, and flexibility with ease of handling. While it has been produced by a few researchers, the synthe... Read More about A simple, sustainable route to flexible microporous carbon cloth for energy storage applications.

A Taxonomically-informed Mass Spectrometry Search Tool for Microbial Metabolomics Data (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Zuffa, S., Schmid, R., Bauermeister, A., Gomes, P. W. P., Caraballo-Rodriguez, A. M., Abiead, Y. E., …Dorrestein, P. C. A Taxonomically-informed Mass Spectrometry Search Tool for Microbial Metabolomics Data

MicrobeMASST, a taxonomically-informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool, tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments. Leveraging a curated database of >60,000 microbial monocultures, users can search known... Read More about A Taxonomically-informed Mass Spectrometry Search Tool for Microbial Metabolomics Data.

ML meets MLn: machine learning in ligand promoted homogeneous catalysis (2023)
Journal Article
Hirst, J. D., Boobier, S., Coughlan, J., Streets, J., Jacob, P. L., Pugh, O., …Woodward, S. (2023). ML meets MLn: machine learning in ligand promoted homogeneous catalysis. Artificial Intelligence Chemistry, 1(2), Article 100006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aichem.2023.100006

The benefits of using machine learning approaches in the design, optimisation and understanding of homogeneous catalytic processes are being increasingly realised. We focus on the understanding and implementation of key concepts, which serve as condu... Read More about ML meets MLn: machine learning in ligand promoted homogeneous catalysis.

A lithium-air battery and gas handling system demonstrator (2023)
Journal Article
Jordan, J. W., Vailaya, G., Holc, C., Jenkins, M., McNulty, R. C., Puscalau, C., …Johnson, L. R. (2024). A lithium-air battery and gas handling system demonstrator. Faraday Discussions, 248, 381-391. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3fd00137g

The lithium-air (Li-air) battery offers one of the highest practical specific energy densities of any battery system at >400 W h kgsystem−1. The practical cell is expected to operate in air, which is flowed into the positive porous electrode where it... Read More about A lithium-air battery and gas handling system demonstrator.

Chemoselective Late-Stage Functionalization of Peptides via Photocatalytic C2-Alkylation of Tryptophan (2023)
Journal Article
Lee, J. C., Cuthbertson, J. D., & Mitchell, N. J. (2023). Chemoselective Late-Stage Functionalization of Peptides via Photocatalytic C2-Alkylation of Tryptophan. Organic Letters, 25(29), 5459-5464. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.3c01795

Across eukaryotic proteomes, tryptophan is the least abundant of the 20 canonical amino acids, which makes it an ideal chemical handle for the late-stage functionalization of peptide and protein scaffolds with minimal production of undesired isoforms... Read More about Chemoselective Late-Stage Functionalization of Peptides via Photocatalytic C2-Alkylation of Tryptophan.

Oxetane Synthesis via Alcohol C–H Functionalization (2023)
Journal Article
Paul, S., Filippini, D., Ficarra, F., Melnychenko, H., Janot, C., & Silvi, M. (2023). Oxetane Synthesis via Alcohol C–H Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145(29), 15688–15694. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c04891

Oxetanes are strained heterocycles with unique properties that have triggered significant advances in medicinal chemistry. However, their synthesis still presents significant challenges that limit the use of this class of compounds in practical appli... Read More about Oxetane Synthesis via Alcohol C–H Functionalization.

Synthesis of Multifunctional Polymersomes Prepared by Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (2023)
Journal Article
Phan, H., Cavanagh, R., Jacob, P., Destouches, D., Vacherot, F., Brugnoli, B., …Couturaud, B. (2023). Synthesis of Multifunctional Polymersomes Prepared by Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly. Polymers, 15(14), Article 3070. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15143070

Polymersomes are an exciting modality for drug delivery due to their structural similarity to biological cells and their ability to encapsulate both hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs. In this regard, the current work aimed to develop multifunctional... Read More about Synthesis of Multifunctional Polymersomes Prepared by Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly.