Selected Publications – Organometallic Chemistry

Farrell, J. R.; Mirkin, C. A.: Guzei, I. A.; Liable-Sands, L. S.; Rheingold, A. L. “The Weak-Link Approach to the Synthesis of Inorganic Macrocycles,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 1998, 37, 465-467, doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(19980302)37:4<465::AID-ANIE465>3.0.CO;2-A.

Holliday, B. J.; Mirkin. C. A. “Strategies for the Construction of Supramolecular Compounds through Coordination Chemistry,” Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 2022-2043, doi: 10.1002/1521-3773(20010601)40:11<2022::AID-ANIE2022>3.0.CO;2-D.

Ovchinnikov, M. V; Holliday, B. J; Mirkin, C. A; Zakharov, L. N; Rheingold, A. L. “Threefold Symmetric Trimetallic Macrocycles Formed via the Weak-Link Approach,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 2002, 99, 4927-4931, doi: 10.1073/pnas.072690599.

Gianneschi, N. C.; Bertin, P. A.; Nguyen, S. T.; Mirkin, C. A. “A Supramolecular Approach to an Allosteric Catalyst,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 10508-10509, doi: 10.1021/ja035621h.

Brown, A. M.; Ovchinnikov, M. V.; Stern, C. L.; Mirkin, C. A. “Halide-induced supramolecular ligand rearrangement,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2004, 126, 14316-14317, doi: 10.1021/ja045316b.

Oliveri, C. G.; Ulmann, P. A.; Wiester, M. J.; Mirkin, C. A. “Heteroligated Supramolecular Coordination Complexes Formed via the Halide-Induced Ligand Rearrangement Reaction,” Acc. Chem. Res., 2008, 41, 16181629, doi: 10.1021/ar800025w.

Yoon, H.-J.; Kuwabara, J.; Kim, J.-H.; Mirkin, C. A. “Allosteric Supramolecular Triple-Layer Catalysts,” Science, 2010, 330, 66-69, doi: 10.1126/science.1193928.

Wiester, M. J.; Ulmann, P. A.; Mirkin, C. A. “Enzyme Mimics Based Upon Supramolecular Coordination Chemistry,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 114-137, doi: 10.1002/anie.201000380.

Spokoyny, A. M.; Machan, C. W.; Clingerman, D. J.; Rosen, M. S.; Wiester, M. J.; Kennedy, R. D.; Stern, C. L.; Sarjeant, A. A.; Mirkin, C. A. “A Coordination Chemistry Dichotomy for Icosahedral Carborane-Based Ligands,” Nature Chem., 2011, 3, 590-596, doi: 10.1038/nchem.1088.

McGuirk, C. M.; Mendez-Arroyo, J.; Lifschitz, A. M.; Mirkin, C. A. “Allosteric Regulation of Supramolecular Oligomerization and Catalytic Activity via Coordination-Based Control of Competitive Hydrogen-Bonding Events,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 16594-16601, doi: 10.1021/ja508804n.

Yoo, H; Rosen, M. S.; Brown, A. M.; Wiester, M. J.; Stern, C. L.; Mirkin, C. A. “Elucidating the Mechanism of the Halide-Induced Ligand Rearrangement Reaction,” Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 11986–11995, doi: 10.1021/ic3018776. 

Lifschitz, A. M.; Young, R. M.; Mendez-Arroyo, J.; Stern, C. L.; McGuirk, C. M.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Mirkin, C. A. “An Allosteric Photoredox Catalyst Inspired By Photosynthetic Machinery,” Nat. Commun., 2015, 6,  doi: 10.1038/ncomms7541.

Mendez-Arroyo, J.; d’Aquino, A. I.; Chinen, A. B.; Manraj, Y.; Mirkin, C. A. “Reversible and Selective Encapsulation of Dextromethorphan and β-Estradiol Using an Asymmetric Molecular Capsule Assembled via the Weak-Link Approach,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 1368-1371. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b10027.

Liu, Y.; Kean, Z. S.; d’Aquino, A. I.; Manraj, Y. D.; Mendez-Arroyo, J.; Mirkin, C. A “Palladium(II) Weak-Link Approach Complexes Bearing Hemilabile N-heterocyclic Carbene-Thioether Ligands,” Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 56, 5902-5910, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00543.

d’Aquino, A. I.; Kean, Z.; Mirkin, C. A. “Infinite Coordination Polymer Particles Composed of Stimuli-Responsive Coordination Complex Subunits,” Chemistry of Materials, 2017, doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03638.

d’Aquino, A. I.; Cheng, H. F.; Barroso-Flores, J.; Kean, Z. S.; Mendez-Arroyo, J.; McGuirk, C. M.; Mirkin, C. A. “An Allosterically-Regulated, Four-State Macrocycle,” Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 57, 3568-3578, doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02745.

Liu, Y.; Zhou, J.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Xing, H.; Mirkin, C. A. “A Four-State Fluorescent Molecular Switch,” Chem. Comm., 2018, 54, 12041-12044, doi: 10.1039/c8cc05159c.

Cheng, H. F.; d’Aquino, A. I.; Barroso-Flores, J.; Mirkin, C. A. “A Redox-Switchable, Allosteric Coordination Complex,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 14590–1459, doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b09321.