Growing energy demands and increasing carbon dioxide emissions represent significant global challenges that we must face in the next century. Using protein active sites as a source of inspiration, we aim design synthetic mimics that can generate hydrogen, or convert carbon dioxide into useful materials.
Relevant publications
Roy, S.; Laureanti, J. A.; Groy, T. L.; Jones, A. K., Synthesis and Electrocatalytic Activity of FeFe -Hydrogenase Model Complexes with Non-Innocent Chelating Nitrogen-Donor Ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017, (23), 2942-2950.
Pal, R.; Laureanti, J. A.; Groy, T. L.; Jones, A. K.; Trovitch, R. J. Hydrogen production from water using a bis(imino)pyridine molybdenum electrocatalyst. Chemical Communications 2016, 52, 11555-11558.
Roy, S.; Nguyen, T. A.; Gan. L.; Jones, A. K. Biomimetic peptide-based models of [FeFe]-hydrogenases: Utilization of phosphine-containing peptides. Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 14865-14876.
Mukhopadhyay, T. K.; MacLean, N. L.; Gan, L.; Ashley, D. C.; Groy, T. L.; Baik, M. H.; Jones, A. K.; Trovitch, R. J. Carbon dioxide promoted H(+) reduction using a bis(imino)pyridine manganese electrocatalyst. Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 54, 4475-4482.
Gan, L.; Groy, T. L.; Tarakeshwar, P.; Mazinani, S. K. S.; Shearer, J., Mujica, V.; Jones, A. K. A [NiFe] phospine Complex as a Fast and Efficient Hydrogen Production Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 1109-1115.
Roy, S.; Mazinani, S. K.; Groy, T. L.; Gan, L.; Tarakeshwar, P.; Mujica, V.; Jones, A. K. Catalytic hydrogen evolution by Fe(II) carbonyls featuring a dithiolate and a chelating phosphine. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53, 8919-8929.
Dutta, A.; Flores, M.; Roy, S.; Schmitt, J.; Hamilton, G. A.; Hartnett, H. E.; Shearer, J.; Jones, A. K. Sequential Oxidations of the Thiolates and the Cobalt Metallocenter in a Synthetic Metallopeptide: Implications for the Biosynthesis of Nitrile Hydratase. Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 5236-5245.
Roy, S.; Groy, T. L.; Jones, A. K. Biomimetic model for [FeFe]-hydrogenase: Asymmetically disubstituted diiron complex with a redox-actice 2,2'-bipyridyl ligand. Dalton Transactions 2013, 42, 3843-3853.
Dutta, A.; Hamilton, G. A.; Hartnett, H. E.; Jones, A. K. Construction of heterometalic clusters in a small peptide scaffold as [NiFe]-hydrogenase models: Development of a synthetic methodology. Inorganic Chemistry 2012, 51, 9580-9588.
Roy, S.; Shinde, S.; Hamilton, G. A.; Hartnett, H. E.; Jones, A. K. Artificial [FeFe] hydrogenase: On resin modification of an amino acid to anchor a diiron-hexacarbonyl cluster in a peptide framework. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 7, 1050-1055.