Publications

Electronic Absorption of Ferricenium Derivatives: An Unexpected Twist

Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan,^§ Sandip Das,^§ and Shabnam Hematian*

Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2024, In Revision.

Invited contribution to the “Celebration of Professor Jim D. Atwood” special issue. 

Peptide Crosslinking by a Class of Plant Copper Enzymes

M. Rafiul O.K. Noyon and Shabnam Hematian*

Trends in Chemistry, 2024, 6, 11, 649–655.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2024.09.002

Selected for the Journal Cover!

Electrocatalytic Anaerobic Oxidation of Benzylic Amines Enabled by Ferrocene-Based Redox Mediators

Amy L. Waldbusser and Shabnam Hematian*

Organometallics, 2024, 43, 20, 2557–2564.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00219

Invited contribution to the Applied Organometallic Chemistry special issue.

Series of Protonated Nitrogen Bases with a Weakly Coordinating Counteranion: Observation of the ¹⁴N–¹H Spin–Spin Coupling

Maria C. Carrasco, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan and Shabnam Hematian*

ACS Organic & Inorganic Au, 2024, 4, 1, 91–96.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsorginorgau.3c00045

Invited contribution to the special issue celebrating the ‘2023 Risings Stars Organic & Inorganic Chemistry’.

Oxygenation of Copper(I) Complexes Containing Fluorine Tagged Tripodal Tetradentate Chelates: Significant Ligand Electronic Effects

Runzi Li, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan, Marcos Tapia and Shabnam Hematian*

Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2022, 75 (11–14), 1617–1635.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2022.2107429

Invited contribution to the 2022 Emerging Leaders of Coordination Chemistry Issue.

Insights into the Chemical Diversity of Selected Fungi from the Tza Itzá Cenote of the Yucatan Peninsula

Carlos A. Fajardo-Hernández, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan, Laura Flores-Bocanegra, Alejandra Prieto-Davó, Baojie Wan, Rui Ma, Mallique Qader, Rodrigo Villanueva-Silva, Anahí Martínez-Cárdenas, Marian A. López-Lobato, Shabnam Hematian, Scott G. Franzblau, Huzefa A. Raja, Rodolfo García-Contreras and Mario Figueroa*

ACS Omega, 2022, 7 (14), 12171–12185.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.2c00544

New Terpenoids from the Corticioid Fungus Punctularia atropurpurascens and their Antimycobacterial Evaluation

Daniel Acero, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan, Isabel Rivero-Cruz, Abraham J. Medina-Ortiz, Huzefa A. Raja, Laura Flores-Bocanegra, Carlos A. Fajardo-Hernández, Baojie Wan, Scott G. Franzblau, Shabnam Hematian and Mario Figueroa^*

Planta Medica, 2022, 88 (09/10), 729–734.

https://www.doi.org/10.1055/a-1786-8072

Dioxygen Reactivity of Copper(I)/Manganese(II)-Porphyrin Assemblies: Mechanistic Studies and Cooperative Activation of O₂

Runzi Li, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan and Shabnam Hematian*

Molecules, 2022, 27 (3), 1000–1015.

https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27031000

Invited contribution to the special issue celebrating “25th Anniversary of Molecules – Featuring Element 25: Manganese and/or Other Metals”

Structural Diversity of Perylenequinones is Driven by their Redox Behavior

Zeinab Y. Al Subeh, Amy L. Waldbusser, Huzefa A. Raja, Cedric J. Pearce, Kin Lok Ho, Michael J. Hall, Michael R. Probert, Nicholas H. Oberlies,^* and Shabnam Hematian^*

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 87 (5), 2697–2710.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c02639

Protonation of the Oxo-Bridged Heme/Copper Assemblies: Modeling the Oxidized State of the Cytochrome c Oxidase Active Site

Maria C. Carrasco, Katherine J. Dezarn, Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan, and Shabnam Hematian*

Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 2021, 225, 111593–111596. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2021.111593

Invited contribution to a Special Issue honoring “Professor Ken Karlin: Celebrating his 2021 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry.”

Proton Relay in Iron Porphyrins for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Sarmistha Bhunia, Atanu Rana, Shabnam Hematian, Kenneth D. Karlin,* Abhishek Dey*

Inorganic Chemistry, 2021, 60 (18), 13876–13887.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c01079 

Synthetic, Spectroscopic, Structural, and Electrochemical Investigations of Ferricenium Derivatives with Weakly Coordinating Anions: Ion Pairing, Substituent, and Solvent Effects

Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan,^§ Amy L. Waldbusser,^§ Maria C. Carrasco, Hadi Pourhadi, and Shabnam Hematian*

Dalton Transactions, 2021, 50 (21), 7433-7455.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT01192H

The Chemistry of Kratom [Mitragyna speciosa]: Updated Characterization Data and Methods to Elucidate Indole and Oxindole Alkaloids

Laura Flores-Bocanegra, Huzefa Raja, Tyler Graf, Mario Augustinović, Diane Wallace, Shabnam Hematian, Joshua J. Kellogg, Daniel A. Todd, Nadja B. Cech, and Nicholas H. Oberlies*

Journal of Natural Products 2020, 83 (7), 2165–2177.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00257

(Hydr)oxo-Bridged Heme Complexes: From Structure to Reactivity

Maria C. Carrasco and Shabnam Hematian*

Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2019, 23, 1286–1307.

Invited contribution to a Special Issue on “Women in Porphyrin Science.”

https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424619300258

Copper(I)/NO_(g) Reductive Coupling Producing a trans-Hyponitrite Bridged Dicopper(II) Complex: Redox Reversal Giving Copper(I)/NO_(g) Disproportionation

Shabnam Hematian, Gayan B. Wijeratne, Maxime A. Siegler, and Kenneth D. Karlin*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139 (38), 13276−13279.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b07808

Electrocatalytic O₂-Reduction by Synthetic Cytochrome c Oxidase Mimics: Identification of a “Bridging Peroxo” Intermediate Involved in Facile 4e^–/4H⁺ O₂-Reduction

Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Shabnam Hematian, Kenneth D. Karlin,* and Abhishek Dey*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (40), 12897–12905.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b06513

Synthetic Heme/Copper Assemblies: Toward an Understanding of Cytochrome c Oxidase Interactions with Dioxygen and Nitrogen Oxides

Shabnam Hematian, Isaac Garcia-Bosch, and Kenneth D. Karlin*

Accounts of Chemical Research 2015, 48 (8), 2462–2474.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00265

Nitrogen Oxide Atom-Transfer Redox Chemistry; Mechanism of NO_(g) to Nitrite Conversion Utilizing μ-oxo Heme-Fe^III–O–Cu^II Constructs

Shabnam Hematian, Isabell Kenkel, Tatyana E. Shubina, Maximilian Dürr, Jeffrey J. Liu, Maxime A. Siegler, Ivana Ivanovic-Burmazovic,* and Kenneth D. Karlin*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137 (20), 6602–6615.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.5b02174

Nitric Oxide Generation from Heme/Copper Assembly Mediated Nitrite Reductase Activity

Shabnam Hematian, Maxime A. Siegler, and Kenneth D. Karlin*

Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 19, 515–528.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-013-1081-6

Heme/Copper Assembly Mediated Nitrite and Nitric Oxide Interconversion

Shabnam Hematian, Maxime A. Siegler, and Kenneth D. Karlin*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134 (46), 18912–18915.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja3083818