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Previous Work

Photoelectrochemical Arene Difluoroalkylation Enabled by Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer Reactivity of Ag(II) difluoromethyl carboxylates

Campbell, B. M.§, Gordon, J. B.§; Raguram, E. R.§; Reynolds, K.; Sullivan, M. G.; Drummer, M. C.; Nocera, D. N. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, Accepted. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202511642

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Visible light promotes PIII/PV-catalyzed reductive N-arylation of nitroarenes at room temperature

Kang, B.§; Lavagnino, M, N.§; Gordon, J. B.; Reynolds, K.; Nocera, D. N.; Radosevich, A. T. , ACS Catalysis. 2025, ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c04341

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Axial Ligation Impedes Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Reactivity of a Synthetic Compound I Analog

Thomas, J.; Mokkawes, T., Senft, L., Dey, A., Gordon, J. B.; Ivanovic-Burmazovic, I.; de Visser, S. P.; Goldberg, D. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18, 12338–12354 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08950

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Electrophotocatalytic perfluoroalkylation by LMCT excitation of Ag(II) perfluoroalkyl carboxylates

Campbell, B. M..; Gordon, J. B.; Raguram, E. R.; Gonzalez, M. I.; Reynolds, K. G.; Nava, M; Nocera, D. N. Science 2024, 383, 279-284. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk4919

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Oxygen Versus Sulfur Coordination in Cobalt Superoxo Complexes: Spectroscopic Properties, O2 Binding, and H-atom Abstraction Reactivity

Gordon, J. B.; Albert, T.; Yadav, S.; Thomas, J.; Siegler, M. A.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lancaster, K. M.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Goldberg, D. P. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 1, 392–400. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c03484

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Iron insertion at the assembly site of the ISCU scaffold protein is a conserved process initiating Fe-S cluster biosynthesis

Srour, B.; Gervason, S.; Monfort, B.; Larkem, D.; Trabelsi, N.; Landrot, G.; Zitolo, A.; Fonda, E.; Etienne, E.; Gerbaud, G.; Müller, C. S.; Hoock, M. H.; Oltmanns, J.; Gordon, J. B.; Yadav, V.; Kleczewska, M.; Jelen, M.; Toledano, M.; Dutkiewicz, R.; Goldberg, D. P.; Schünemann, V.; Guigliarelli, B.; Burlat, B.; Sizun, C.; D’Autréaux, B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 38, 17496–17515. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06338

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A Reactive, Photogenerated High-Spin (S = 2) FeIV(O) Complex via O2 Activation

Gordon, J. B.; Albert, T.; Dey, A.; Sabuncu, S.; Siegler, M. A.; Bill, E.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Goldberg, D. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 51, 21637–21647. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10051

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A Nonheme Mononuclear {FeNO}7 Complex with a Highly Activated NO Ligand that Produces N2O

Dey, A.; Gordon, J. B.; Albert, T.; Sabuncu, S.; Siegler, M. A.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lancaster, K. M.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Goldberg, D. P. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 21558-21564. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202109062

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Proton-Coupled Electron-Transfer Reactivity Controls Iron versus Sulfur Oxidation in Nonheme Iron–Thiolate Complexes

Gordon, J. B.§; McGale, J. P.§; Siegler, M. A.; Goldberg, D. P.  Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 9, 6255–6265. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03779

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Synthesis and Characterization of a Linear Triiron(II) Extended Metal Atom Chain Complex with Fe-Fe Bonds

Guillet, G. L.; Arpin K. Y.;  Boltin, A. M.; Gordon, J. B.; Rave, J. A.; Hillesheim, P. C. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 16, 11238–11243. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01625.

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Activation of Dioxygen by a Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Complex: Sequential Peroxo, Oxo, and Hydroxo Intermediates

Gordon, J. B.; Vilbert, A. C.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Lancaster, K. M.; Goldberg, D. P.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141 (44), 17533-17547. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05274

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Dioxygen-Derived Nonheme Mononuclear FeIII(OH) Complex and Its Reactivity with Carbon Radicals

Yadav, V., Gordon, J. B.; Siegler, M. A.; Goldberg, D. P. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141 (26), 10148-10153. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03329

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A Nonheme Thiolate-ligated Cobalt Superoxo Complex: Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization, Computational Studies, and Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactivity

Gordon, J. B.; Vilbert, A. C.; Siegler, M. A.; Moënne-Loccoz, P.; Lancaster, K. M.; Goldberg, D. P.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141 (8), 3641-3653. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13134

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Structures, spectroscopic properties, and dioxygen reactivity of 5- and 6-coordinate nonheme iron(II) complexes: a combined enzyme/model study of thiol dioxygenases

Gordon, J. B.; McGale, J. P.; Prendergast, J. R.; Shirani-Sarmazeh, Z.; Siegler, M. A.; Jameson, G. N. L.; Goldberg, D. P.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (44), 14807–14822. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08349

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Observation of Radical Rebound in a Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Model Complex

Pangia, T. M.; Davies, C. G.; Prendergast, J. R.; Gordon, J. B.; Siegler, M. A.; Jameson, G. N. L.; Goldberg, D. P.  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (12), 4191–4194. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12707

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Synthesis of trinuclear Tin(II), Germanium(II), and Aluminum(III) complexes using a macrobicyclic ligand

Ermert, D. M., Gordon, J. B., Abboud, K. A., Murray, L. J. Organometallics 201635 (21), 3651–3657. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00354

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Nitride-bridged triiron complex and its relevance to dinitrogen activation

Ermert, D. M.; Gordon, J. B.; Abboud, K. A.; Murray, L. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54 (19), 9282-9289. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00825

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A Family of Tri- and Dimetallic Pyridine Dicarboxamide Cryptates: Unusual O,N,O-Coordination and Facile Access to Secondary Coordination Sphere Hydrogen Bonding Interactions

Guillet, G. L.; Gordon, J. B.; Di Francesco, G. N.; Calkins, M. W.; Čižmár, E.; Abboud, K. A.; Meisel, M. W.; García-Serres, R.; Murray, L. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54 (6), 2691–2704. DOI: 10.1021/ic502873d

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Computocracy, Transistors, and Jobs

Green, A. E., Gordon, J. B. The Journal of the Oughtred Society, 2013. 22(2), 30-33.

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Slide Rules and WWII Bombing: A Personal History

Green, A. E., Gordon, J. B. The Journal of the Oughtred Society, 2012. 21(2), 2-6.

§ denotes equal contribution


Book Chapters

Sulfur-Ligated, Oxidative Nonheme Iron Enzymes and Related Complexes

Gordon, J. B.; Goldberg, D. P. in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry III, 2020.

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