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Jenkins Groups Publications

61. Ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone with a macrocyclic tetracarbene indium complex, Brothers, Henry R.;  Chambenahalli, Raju; Nichol, Gary S.; Garden, Jennifer A.; Jenkins, David M. Dalton Trans. 2025, Advance Article.

60. Tailoring the Gating Effect of Organic Cage via a Porous Liquid Approach, Li, Errui; Ganesan, Arvind; Qiu, Liqi; Liu, Hongjun; Ivanov, Alexander S.; He, Lilin; Nalaoh, Phattananawee; Jenkins, David M.; Wang, Tao; Kim, Ellie; Jiang, De-en; Mahurin, Shannon M.; Yang, Zhenzhen; Dai, Sheng. Adv. Func. Mat. 2024, e2413668.

59. Tuning N-heterocyclic carbene wingtips to form electrochemically stable adlayers on metals, Isabel, Jensen M.; Clark, Vincent; Kirby, Harper L.; Arroyo-Currás, Netzahualcóyotl.; Jenkins, David M. Mater. Adv., 2024, 5, 7052-7060.

58. Vibrational Mode Assignment of Diisopropyl Benzimidazolium N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Gold, Chowdhury, Shayanta; Hu, Gaohe; Jensen, Isabel M.; Santos, Alyssa V.B.; Jenkins, David M.; Jensen, Lasse; Camden, Jon P. J. J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128, 32, 13550–13557.

57. Ligand engineering of tetra N-heterocyclic carbenes for boosting catalytic aziridination, Smith, Brett A.; Hakimov, Somon; Jenkins, David M.; Vogiatzis, Vogiatzis, Konstantinos D. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 14665-14677.

56. Disparate reactivity of a chiral iron(ii) tetracarbene complex with organic azides, Russell, Jerred J.; DeJesus, Joseph F.; Smith, Brett A.; Nalaoh, Phattananawee; Vogiatzis, Konstantinos D.; Jenkins, David M. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 10819-10823.

55. Solvent-Assisted Control of Metal–Organic Nanotube Size and Morphology, Rosenmann, Nathan D.; Barrett, Jacob A.; Su, Shengyi; Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Jenkins, David M. Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 8816–8821.

54. Unmasking the Electrochemical Stability of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers on Gold, Dominique, Nathaniel L.; Chandran, Aruna; Jensen, Isabel M.; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Chem. Eur. J. 2024. 30, e202303681.

53. Seeking a Au–C stretch on gold nanoparticles with 13C-labeled N-heterocyclic carbenes, Jensen, Isabel M.; Chowdhury, Shayanta; Hu, Gaohe; Jensen, Lasse; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Commun. 2023, 59 14524-14527.
Cover art for the Dec. 21st issue of Chemical Communications! 

52. Reactivity variance between stereoisomers of saturated N-heterocyclic carbenes on gold surfaces, Kaur, Gurkiran; Dominique, Nathaniel L.; Hu, Gaohe; Naloah, Phattananawee; Thimes, Rebekah L.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Jensen, Lasse; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M. Inorg. Chem. Front. 2023. 10, 6282-6293.

51. Di-triazole boat conformation leads to metal–organic nanotube while chair conformation leads to coordination polymer, Nalaoh, Phattananawee; Jenkins, David M. CrystEngCom. 2023, 25, 4929-4933.

50. Stability of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers under Continuous Voltammetric Interrogation, Pellitero, Miguel Aller; Jensen, Isabel M.; Dominique, Nathaniel L. Ekowo, Lilian Chinenye; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M; Arroyo-Currás, Netzahualcóyotl. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2023, 15, 35701-35709.
Featured in Advances in Engineering!

49. Using Surfaced Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to Unravel the Wingtip-Dependent Orientation of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Gold Nanoparticles, Thimes, Rebekah L.; Santos, Alyssa V. B.; Chen, Ran; Kaur, Gurkiran; Jensen, Lasse; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 4219-4224.

48. Giving Gold Wings: Ultrabright and Fragmentation Free Mass Spectrometry Reporters for Barcoding, Bioconjugation Monitoring, and Data Storage, Dominique, Nathaniel L.; Jensen, Isabel M.; Kaur, Gurkiran; Kotseos, Chandler Q.; Boggess, William C.; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202219182.
Inside cover art for the May 15th, 2023 issue of Angewandte Chemie!

47. Statistical copolymer metal organic nanotubes, Barrett, Jacob; Rosenmann, Nathan D.; Gnanasekaran, Karthikeyan; Carroll, Xian B.; Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Sci. 2023, 14, 1003-1009.

46. Fundamentals and applications of N-heterocyclic carbene functionalized gold surfaces and nanoparticles, Kaur, Gurkiran; Thimes, Rebekah L.; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Comm. 2022, 58, 13188-13197.
Inside cover art for the December 11,  2022 issue of Chemical Communications!

45. Ad aurum: tunable transfer of N-heterocyclic carbene complexes to gold surfaces, Dominique, Nathaniel L.; Chen, Ran; Santos, Alyssa V. B.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Rauch, Theodore; Kotseos, Chandler Q.; Boggess, William C.; Jensen, Lasse; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Inorg. Chem. Front. 2022, 9, 6279-6287.

44. Toward asymmetric aziridination with an iron complex supported by a D2-symmetric tetra-NHC, Blatchford, Kevin M.; Mize, Carson J.; Roy, Sharani; Jenkins, David M. Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 6153-6156.

43. Late Lanthanide Macrocyclic Tetra-NHC Complexes, Carroll, Xian B.; Errulat, Dylan; Murugesu, Muralee; Jenkins, David M. Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 1611-1619.

42. N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand Stability on Gold Nanoparticles in Biological Media, Sherman, Lindy M.; Finley, Matthew D.; Borsari, Rowan K.; Schuster-Little, Naviya; Strausser, Shelby L.; Whelan, Rebecca J.; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. ACS Omega. 2022, 7, 1444-1451.

41. Probing N-Heterocyclic Carbene Surfaces with Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Dominique, Nathaniel L.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Olsen, Jacob E.; Boggess, William C.; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Anal. Chem. 2021, 93, 13534–13538.

40. Synthesis of d10 N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes with a Perimidine Scaffold, Strausser, Shelby L.; Jenkins, David M. Organometallics. 2021, 40, 1706-1712.

39. Actinide Tetra-N-heterocyclic Carbene ‘Sandwiches,’ DeJesus, Joseph F.; Kerr, Ryan W. F.; Penchoff, Deborah A.; Carroll, Xian B.; Peterson, Charles C.; Arnold, Polly L.; Jenkins, David, M. Chem. Sci. 2021,12, 7882-7887.

38. Imidazolinium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands for Enhanced Stability on Gold Surfaces, Sherman Lindy M.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Borsari, Rowan K.; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Langmuir. 2021, 37, 5864–5871.

37. In Situ Monitoring of the Seeding and Growth of Silver Metal-Organic Nanotubes by Liquid-Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy, Gnanasekaran, Karthikeyan.; Vailonis, Kristina M.; Jenkins, David M.; Gianneschi, Nathan C. ACS Nano. 2020, 14, 8735-8743.

36. Investigating the Copolymerization of Ligands into Metal-Organic Nanotubes Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering: Implications for Nanostraws, Shrestha, Umesh M.; Vailonis, Kristina M.; Jenkins, David M.; Dadmun, Mark D. ACS Appl. Nano. Mater. 2020, 3, 5605-5611.

35. A Benchtop Method for Appending Protic Functional Groups to N-Heterocyclic Carbene Protected Gold Nanoparticles, DeJesus, Joseph F.; Sherman, Lindy M.; Yohannan, Darius J.; Becca, Jeffrey C.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Karger, Leonhard F. P.; Jensen, Lasse; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 7585-7590.

34. A Chiral Macrocyclic Tetra‐N‐heterocyclic Carbene Yields an “All Carbene” Iron Alkylidene Complex, DeJesus, Joseph F.; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 1429-1435.

33. One Macrocyclic Ligand, Four Oxidation States: A 16-Atom Ringed Dianionic Tetra-NHC Macrocycle and Its Cr(II) through Cr(V) Complexes, Anneser, Markus R.; Powers, Xian B.; Peck, KatieAnn M.; Jensen, Isabel M.; Jenkins, David, M. Organometallics. 2019, 38, 3369-3376.

32. Elucidating the Growth of Metal-Organic Nanotubes Combining Isoreticular Synthesis with Liquid-Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy, Vailonis, Kristina M.; Gnanasekaran, Karthikeyan; Powers, Xian B.; Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Jenkins, David M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 10177-10182.
Featured in July 19, 2019 edition of Science

31. Elucidation of the Reaction Mechanism of C2+ NAziridination from Tetracarbene Iron Catalysts, Isbill, Sara B.; Chandrachud, Preeti P.; Kern, Jesse L.; Jenkins, David M.; Roy, Sharani. ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 6223-6233.

30. Unprecedented Five‐Coordinate Iron(IV) Imides Generate Divergent Spin States Based on the Imide R‐Groups, Anneser, Markus R.; Elpitya, Gaya R.; Townsend, Jacob; Johnson, Elizabeth J.; Powers, Xian B.; DeJesus, Joseph D.; Vogiatzis, Konstantinos D.; Jenkins, David M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 8115-8118.

29. Toward a Porphyrin-Style NHC: A 16-Atom Ringed Dianionic Tetra-NHC Macrocycle and Its Fe(II) and Fe(III) Complexes, Anneser, Markus R.; Elpitya, Gaya R.; Powers, Xian B.; Jenkins, David M. Organometallics. 2019, 38, 981-987.

28. Using SERS to Understand the Binding of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Gold Surfaces, Trujillo, Michael J.; Strausser, Shelby L.; Becca, Jeffrey C.; DeJesus,Joseph F.; Jensen, Lasse; Jenkins, David M.; Camden, Jon P. J. Phys. Chem. Lett2018, 9, 6779-6785.

27. Structural Characteristics, Population Analysis, and Binding Energies of [An(NO3)]2+ (with An = Ac to Lr), Penchoff, Deborah A.; Peterson, Charles C.; Quint, Mark S.; Auxier II, John C.; Schweitzer, George K.; Jenkins, David M.; Harrison, Robert J.; Hall, Howard L. ACS Omega 2018, 3, 14127-14143.

26. Structural Analysis of the Complexation of Uranyl, Neptunyl, Plutonyl, and Americyl with Cyclic Imide Dioximes, Penchoff, Deborah A.; Peterson, Charles C.; Camden, Jon P.; Bradshaw, James A.; Auxier II, John D.; Schweitzer, George K.; Jenkins, David M.; Harrison, Robert J.; Hall, Howard L. ACS Omega 2018, 3, 13984-13993.

25. N-Heterocyclic Carbenes as a Robust Platform for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, DeJesus, Joseph F.; Trujillo, Michael, J.; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 1247-1250.

24. Catalytic aziridination with alcoholic substrates via a chromium tetracarbene catalyst, Keller, C. Luke; Kern, Jesse L.; Terry, Bradley D.; Roy, Sharani; Jenkins, David M., Chem Commun, 2018, 54, 1429-1432.

23. Transition Metal Aziridination Catalysis,  Chandrachud, Preeti P.; Jenkins, David M, Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, 2017, 1–11.

22. A Chromium(II) Tetracarbene Complex Allows Unprecedented Oxidative Group Transfer, Elpitiya, Gaya R.; Malbrecht, Brian J.; Jenkins, David M., Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 14101-14110.

21. Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering of Uranyl in Aqueous Samples: Implications for Nuclear Forensics and Groundwater Testing, Trujillo, M. J.; Jenkins, D. M.; Bradshaw, J. A.; Camden, J. P. Anal. Methods, 2017, 9, 1575-1579.

Organometallics Cover Art20. Synthesis of Fully Aliphatic Aziridines with a Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Iron Catalyst, Chandrachud, Preeti P.; Bass, Heather M; Jenkins, David M. Organometallics201635, 1652–1657.
Cover art for the June 13, 2016 edition of Organometallics

19. Insights into the Morphology and Kinetics of Growth of Silver Metal–Organic Nanotubes, Etampawala, Thusitha; Mull, Derek L.; Keum, Jong K.; Jenkins, David M.; Dadmun, Mark Cryst. Growth Des., 2016, 16, 1395–1403.

18. Isoreticular synthesis of 2D MOFs with rotating aryl rings, Hughes, Brianna C.; Murdock, Christopher R.; Jenkins, David M. Inorg. Chem. Front., 2015, 2, 1001-1005.

17. High valent FeIV chemistry in sustainable oxidation catalysis, Chandrachud, Preeti P.; Jenkins, David M. Tetrahedron Lett., 2015, 56, 2369-2376.

16. Probing the Role of an FeIV Tetrazene in Catalytic Aziridination, Cramer, S. Alan; Sanchez, Raul Hernandez; Brakhage, Desirae F.; Jenkins, David M. Chem Commun, 2014, 50, 13967-13970.

15. Isostructural Synthesis of Porous Metal-Organic Nanotubes, Murdock, Christopher R. Jenkins, David, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 10983–10988.

14. The Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of an Aromatic Uranium Amidoxime Complex, Bernstein, Karl J.; Do-Thanh, Chi-Linh; Penchoff, Deborah A.; Cramer, S. Alan; Murdock, Christopher R.; Lu, Zheng; Harrison, Robert J.; Camden, Jon P.; Jenkins, David M.  Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2014, 421, 374-379.

13. Overcoming NHCs neutrality: installing tetracarbenes on group 13 and 14 metals, Cramer, S. Alan; Sturgill, Forrest L.; Chandrachud, Preeti P.; Jenkins, David M. Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 7687-7690.

12. Rotating Phenyl Rings as a Guest-Dependent Switch in Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Frameworks, Murdock, Christopher R.; McNutt, Nicholas W.; Keffer, David J.; Jenkins, David M. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 671-678.

11. The final unadorned tris(azolyl)borate: finishing what Trofimenko started in 1966. Hughes, Brianna C.; Lu, Zheng; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Commun.,201450, 5273-5275.

10. Approaches for synthesizing breathing MOFs by exploiting dimensional rigidity. Murdock, Christopher R.; Hughes, Brianna C.; Lu, Zheng; Jenkins, David M. Coord. Chem. Rev. 2014, 258-259, 119-136.

9.Efficient CO2 Capture by a 3D Porous Polymer Derived from Tröger’s Base. Zhu, Xiang; Do-Thanh, Chi-Linh; Murdock, Christopher R.; Nelson, Kimberly M.; Tian, Chengcheng; Brown, Suree; Mahurin, Shannon M.; Jenkins, David M.; Hu, Jun; Zhao, Bin; Liu, Honglai; Dai, Sheng. ACS Macro. Lett. 2013, 2, 660-663.

8. Employing Dianionic Macrocyclic Tetracarbenes To Synthesize Neutral Divalent Metal Complexes. Bass, Heather M.; Cramer, S. Alan; McCullough, Alexander S.; Bernstein, Karl J.; Murdock, Christopher R.; Jenkins, David M. Organometallics 2013, 32, 2160–2167.

7. Effects of Solvation on the Framework of a Breathing Copper MOF Employing a Semirigid Linker. Murdock, Christopher R.; Lu, Zheng; Jenkins, David M. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 2182-2187.

6. Exploiting a dimeric silver transmetallating reagent to synthesize macrocyclic tetracarbene complexes. Lu, Zheng; Cramer, S. Alan; Jenkins, David M. Chem. Sci. 2012, 3, 3081-3087.

5.  Atom-Economical C2 + N1 Aziridination: Progress towards Catalytic Intermolecular Reactions Using Alkenes and Aryl Azides.  Jenkins, David M. Synlett 2012, 23,1267-1270.

4. Utilizing a copper MOF as a reagent in a solvent mediated reaction to form a topologically distinct MOF. Murdock, Christopher R.; Lu, Zheng; Jenkins, David M. Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 7839-7841.

3. Chloride binding by a polyimidazolium macrocycle detected via fluorescence, NMR, and X-ray crystallography. Do-Thanh, Chi-Linh; Khanal, Neelam; Lu, Zheng; Cramer, S. Alan; Jenkins, David M.; Best, Michael D. Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 1669-1673.

2. Synthesis of Aziridines from Alkenes and Aryl Azides with a Reusable Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Iron Catalyst. Cramer, S. Alan; Jenkins, David. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 19342-19345.

1. 18-Atom-Ringed Macrocyclic Tetra-imidazoliums for Preparation of Monomeric Tetra-carbene Complexes. Bass, Heather M.; Cramer, S. Alan; Price, Julia L.; Jenkins, David M. Organometallics 2010, 3235-3238.

Previous Publications by Professor Jenkins

12. Slow Magnetic Relaxation and Charge-Transfer in Cyano-Bridged Coordination Clusters Incorporating [Re(CN)7]3−/4−. Zadrozny, Joseph M.; Freedman, Danna E.; Jenkins, David M.; Harris, T. David; Iavarone, Anthony T.; Mathonière, Corine; Clérac. Rodophle; Long, Jeffery R. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49, 8886-8896.

11. High-Spin Ground States via Electron Delocalization in Mixed-Valence Imidazolate-Bridged Divanadium Complexes.  Bechlars, Bettina; D’Alessandro, Deanna M.; Jenkins, David M.; Iavarone, Anthony T.; Glover, Starla D.; Kubiak, Clifford P.; Long; Jeffrey R. Nature Chemistry 20102, 362-368.

10. Strong magnetic exchange coupling in the cyano-bridged coordination clusters [(PY5Me2)4V4M(CN)6]5+ (M = Cr, Mo). Freedman, Danna E.; Jenkins, David M.; Long, Jeffrey R. Chem. Commun. 2009, 4829-4831.

9.  A Redox Switchable Single-Molecule Magnet Incorporating [Re(CN)7]3-.  Freedman, Danna E.; Jenkins, David M.; Long, Jeffrey R.  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008130, 2884-2885.

8.  Vibrational Spectroscopy and Analysis of Pseudo-tetrahedral Complexes with Metal Imido Bonds.  Mehn, Mark P.; Brown, Steven D.; Jenkins, David M.; Peters, Jonas C.; Que, Lawrence, Jr. Inorg. Chem. 200645, 7417-7427.

7.  Spin-State Tuning at Pseudotetrahedral d7 Ions: Examining the Structural and Magnetic Phenomena of Four-Coordinate [BP3]CoII-X Systems.  Jenkins, David M.; Peters, Jonas C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005127, 7148-7165.

6.  Solution and Solid-State Spin-Crossover Behavior in a Pseudotetrahedral d7 Ion.  Jenkins, David M.; Peters, Jonas C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003125, 11162-11163.

5.  Synthesis of 1,2-bis(di-tert-butylphosphino)ethane (dtbpe) Complexes of Nickel: Radical Coupling and Reduction Reactions Promoted by the Nickel(I) Dimer [(dtbpe)NiCl]2.  Mindiola, Daniel J.; Waterman, Rory; Jenkins, David M.; Hillhouse, Gregory L. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2003345, 299-308.

4.  Elucidation of a Low Spin Cobalt(II) System in a Distorted Tetrahedral Geometry.  Jenkins, David M.; Di Bilio, Angel J.; Allen, Matthew J.; Betley, Theodore A.; Peters, Jonas C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002124, 15336-15350.

3.  Oxidative Group Transfer to Co(I) Affords a Terminal Co(III) Imido Complex.  Jenkins, David M.; Betley, Theodore A.; Peters, Jonas C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002124, 11238-11239.

2.  Redox Induced Reversible Structural Transformations of Dimeric and Polymeric Phenanthroline-Based Copper Chelates.  Bernhard, Stefan; Takada, Kazutake; Jenkins, David; Abruña, Héctor D. Inorg. Chem. 200241, 765-772.

1.  A Homoleptic Phosphine Adduct of Tl(I).  Shapiro, Ian R.; Jenkins, David M.; Thomas, J. Christopher; Day, Michael W.; Peters, Jonas C. Chem. Commun. 2001, 2152-2153.