Probing Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and Fluorine Atom Transfer in CoII-Catalyzed Oxidative Hydrocarbon Fluorination, Agnideep Das, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 19325-19337.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c03072
Electrostatic Fields Induce Accelerated Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Rates in Chlorophyll Model Compounds, Oscar Reid Kelly, Brendan Twamley, Marcel Swart, Aidan R. McDonald, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 29399−29412.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacs.5c09511
Rivalling Self-Oxidation and Aldehyde Deformylation by a Dinuclear Copper(II)-Superoxide Complex, Andrea Squarcini, Marta Lovisari, Paolo Pirovano, Aidan R. McDonald, Marcella Bonchio, ChemCatChem 2025, 17, e00511.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cctc.202500511
High-Valent Cobalt-Difluoride in Oxidative Fluorination of Saturated Hydrocarbons, Agnideep Das, Brendan Twamley, Oscar Reid Kelly, Chakadola Panda, Paul Richardson, Aidan R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202421157.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202421157
A Structural and Functional Mimic of P680+, Sachidulal Biswas, Oscar Reid Kelly, Brendan Twamley, Aidan. R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202415688.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202415688
Reduction of exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets yields the semi-conducting 2H-polymorph rather than the metallic 1T-polymorph, Aleksandra M. Krajewska, Aislan Esmeraldo Paiva, Michael Morris, Aidan R. McDonald, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2024, e202400292.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.202400292
Preparation and characterization of MnIIMnIII complexes with relevance to class Ib ribonucleotide reductases. Lorna M. Doyle, Roel L.M. Bienenmann, Robert Gericke, Shuangning Xu, Erik R. Farquhar, Lawrence Que Jr, Aidan R. McDonald, J. Inorg. Biochemistry 2024, 112583.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0162013424001065
A CoII-hydroxide complex that converts directly to a CoII-acetamide during catalytic nitrile hydration. Philipp Heim, Sachidulal Biswas, Hugo Lopez, Robert Gericke, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 17, 7896-7902.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c00754
Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductases: Activation of a Peroxido-MnIIMnIII to Generate a Reactive Oxo-MnIIIMnIV Oxidant, Lorna Doyle, Adriana Magherusan, Shuangning Xu, Kayleigh Murphy, Erik R. Farquhar, Florian Molton, Carole Duboc, Lawrence Que, Jr., Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 4, 2194–2203.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c04163
Synthesis, Characterisation, and Functionalisation of Charged Two-Dimensional MoS2 , Aleksandra M. Krajewska, Aislan Esmeraldo, Michael Morris, Aidan R. McDonald, Chem Eur. J. 2023, e202302039.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202302039
Hydrocarbon Oxidation by a Porphyrin-π-Cation Radical Complex, Marta Lovisari, Oscar R. Kelly, Aidan R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202303083.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202303083
Biomimetic High-Valent Iron-Fluoride that Mediates Oxidative C(sp3)-H Fluorination, Chakadola Panda, Onyinyechukwuka Anny-Nzekwue, Lorna M. Doyle, Robert Gericke, Aidan R. McDonald, JACS Au 2023, 3, 919-928.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacsau.3c00021
Aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon hydroxylation via a formally NiIV=O oxidant, Philipp Heim, Robert Gericke, Giuseppe Spedalotto, Marta Lovisari, Erik R. Farquhar, Aidan R. McDonald, Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 2663-2671.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/dt/d2dt03949d
Synthesis and characterization of a masked terminal nickel-oxide complex, Philipp Heim, Giuseppe Spedalotto, Marta Lovisari, Robert Gericke, John O’Brien, Erik R. Farquhar, Aidan R. McDonald, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202203840.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202203840
Rapid Iron(III)-Fluoride Mediated Hydrogen Atom Transfer, Chakadola Panda, Lorna M. Doyle, Robert Gericke, Aidan R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 26281-26286.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202112683
Comparing Metal–Halide and −Oxygen Adducts in Oxidative C/O–H Activation: AuIII–Cl versus AuIII–OH, Marta Lovisari, Robert Gericke, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 15610–15616.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02222
Reactivity Properties of Mixed- and High-Valent Bis(μ-Hydroxide)-Dinickel Complexes, Giuseppe Spedalotto, Marta Lovisari, Aidan R. McDonald, ACS Omega 2021, 42, 28162–28170.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.1c04225
Unexpected Intramolecular Phosphite-Mediated Amide Coupling To Yield 3,5-Dioxo-1-Piperazines, Philipp Heim, Brendan Twamley, John O’Brien, Aidan R. McDonald, ChemistrySelect 2021, 6, 9663-9668.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/slct.202102576
Tuning Photoelectrochemical Performance of RuII-Sensitized Two-Dimensional MoS2, Xin Chen, Aleksandra Krajewska, Cormac McGuinness, Amy Lynes, David McAteer, Nina Berner, Georg Duesberg, Jonathan N. Coleman, Aidan R. McDonald, Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 984-992.
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202002615
Oxo-Free Hydrocarbon Oxidation by an Iron(III)-Isoporphyrin Complex, Robert Gericke, Lorna M. Doyle, Erik R. Farquhar, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 13952-13961.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01618
Bio-Relevant Chemistry of Nickel, Anna Company, Aidan R. McDonald, DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.14814-0.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124095472148140?via%3Dihub9
Fast Hydrocarbon Oxidation by a High-Valent Nickel-Fluoride Complex, Prasenjit Mondal, Marta Lovisari, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 13044-13050.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202004639
Phenol Oxidation by a Nickel(III)-Fluoride Complex: Exploring the Influence of the Proton Accepting Ligand in PCET Oxidation, Prasenjit Mondal, Aidan R. McDonald, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 10083-10089
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chem.202002135
Hydrogen atom transfer oxidation by a gold-hydroxide complex, Marta Lovisari, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 3659-3665
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03225
High-valent d7 NiIII versus d8 CuIII oxidants in PCET Duenpen Unjaroen, Robert Gericke Marta Lovisari, Daniel Nelis, Prasenjit Mondal, Paolo Pirovano, Brendan Twamley, Erik R. Farquhar, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 16838-16848
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03101
Preparation and characterisation of a bis-μ-hydroxo-NiIII2 complex Giuseppe Spedalotto, Robert Gericke, Marta Lovisari, Erik R. Farquhar, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 11983-11990.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/chem.201902812
35. A MnIIMnIII-peroxide complex capable of aldehyde deformylation Adriana M. Magherusan, Subhasree Kal, Daniel N. Nelis, Lorna M. Doyle, Erik R. Farquhar, Lawrence Que, Jr., Aidan R. McDonald, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 5718-5722
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201900717
Carboxamidate ligand noninnocence in proton coupled electron transfer Caitilín McManus, Prasenjit Mondal, Marta Lovisari, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 4515-4523.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00055