Publications

University at Buffalo Publications

(* = corresponding author; ‡ = undergraduate authors; § = equally contributing)

Published manuscripts

30. Saju, S.; Crawley, M. R.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy.* D. C. Manganese(III) nitrate complexes as bench-stable powerful oxidants. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c03411

29. Lacy,* D. C.; Heppner,* D. E.; Buckley,§ B.; Griffiths,§ J.; Gunasekera,§ P. S.; Patel,§ P.; Roche-Rivera,§‡ Z.; Coppola,‡ K.; Dempsey,‡ K.; Pillai,‡ S.; Renzoni‡ B.; Twelve CO molecules for the price of one. A simple water-soluble CORM, [Mn(CO)3(µ-OH)]4. Polyhedron 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2024.116859

28. Gunasekera, P. S.; Paul, S.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Synthesis and characterization of dearomatized pyridine-derived alkyl-amido-tert-butylphosphine iron(II) complexes. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202300757

27. Saju,§ A.; Gunasekera,§ P. S.; Morgante, P.; MacMillan, S. N.; Autschbach,* J.; Lacy,* D. C. Experimental and Computational Determination of a M–Cl Homolytic Bond Dissociation Free Energy: Mn(III)Cl Mediated C–H Cleavage and Chlorination. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03651.

26. Lacy,* D. C.; Abhyankar, P. C. Dinuclear Mn(I) complexes with phosphido and hydrido bridges: synthesis, reactivity, and hydrogenative catalysis Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202300518.

25. Saju, A.; Griffiths, J. R.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Synthesis of a bench-stable manganese(III) chloride compound: coordination chemistry and alkene dichlorination J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 16761.

24. Abhyankar, P. C.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Bench-stable dinuclear Mn(I) catalysts in E-selective alkyne semihydrogenation: a mechanistic investigation Chem., Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202201766.

23. Paul, S.; Morgante, P.; MacMillan, S. N.; Autschbach,* J.; Lacy,* D. C. Hydrogenative catalysis with three-coordinate zinc complexes supported with PN ligands is enhanced compared to PNP analogs Chem., Eur. J. 2022, 28, e202201042.

22. Abhyankar, P. C.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Activation of H2 with dinuclear manganese(I)-phosphido complexes Organometallics 2022, 41, 60-66.

21. Vigneswaran, V.; Abhyankar, P. C.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. H2 activation across manganese(I)-C bonds: atypical metal-ligand cooperativity in the aromatization/dearomatization paradigm Organometallics 2022, 41, 67-75.

20. Fanara,§ P. M.; Vigneswaran,§ V.; Gunasekera, P. S.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Reversible photoisomerization in a Ru cis-dihydride catalyst accessed through atypical metal–ligand cooperative H2 activation: photoenhanced acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation  Organometallics 2022, 41, 93-98.

19. Lacy,* D. C.; Paul, S.; Vigneswaran, V.; Abhyankar, P. C. Carbonyl and Isocyanide Complexes of Manganese, Chapter 6.06 Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV; Elsevier 2021, 6, 449-552.

18. Gunasekera, P. S.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Synthesis and coordination of a tert-butyl functionalized facially coordinating 2-histidine 1-carboxylate model ligand. J. Coord. Chem. 2021, 74, 315-320.

17. Gunasekera, P. S.; Abhyankar, P. C.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. A facially coordinating tris-benzimidazole ligand for nonheme iron enzyme models. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2021, 2021, 654-657.

16. Fanara, P. M.; MacMillan, S. N.;  Lacy,* D. C. Planar-locked Ru-PNN catalysts in 1-phenylethanol dehydrogenation.  Organometallics, 2020, 39, 3628-3644.

15. Kadassery, K. J.; Crawley, M. R.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. A Hemilabile Manganese(I)-Phenol Complex and its Coordination Induced O–H Bond Weakening. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 16217-16255.

14. Vigneswaran, V.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Beta-Amino Phosphine Mn Catalysts for 1,4-Transfer Hydrogenation of Chalcones and Allylic Alcohol Isomerization. Organometallics 2019, 38, 4387-4391.

13. Lacy,* D. C. Applications of the Marcus Cross Relation to Inner Sphere O2 Reduction: Implications in Small Molecule Activation. Inorg. Chem. Front.  2019, 6, 2396-2403.

12. Kadassery, K. J.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Resurgence of Organomanganese(I) Chemistry. Bidentate Phosphine-Phenol(ate) Mn(I) Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 10527-10535.

11. Crawley, M. R.; Kadassery, K. J.; Oldacre, A. N.; Freidman, A. E.; Lacy,* D. C.; Cook,* T. R. Rhenium(I) phosphazane complexes for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Organometallics.  2019, 38, 1664–1676.

10. Kadassery,§ K. J.; Sethi,§ K.; Fanara, P. M.; Lacy,* D. C. CO-photolysis-induced H-atom transfer from Mn(I)O–H bonds.  Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 4679–4685.

9. Kadassery, K. J.; Lacy,* D. C. Pentacarbonylmethylmanganese(I) as a synthon for Mn(I) pincer catalysts.  Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 4467 – 4470.

8. Cannella, A. F.; Surendhran,‡ R.; MacMillan, S. N.; Gupta, R.; Lacy,* D. C. Electronically varied manganese tris-arylacetamide tripodal complexes. J. Coord. Chem. 2019, 72, 1287-1297. Article in “Emerging Leader Issue”

7. Guan, Y.-S.; Zhong, G.; Hu, Y.; Cannella, A. F.; Li, C.; Lee, N.; Jia,* Q.; Lacy,* D. C.; Ren,* S. Magnetoelectric radical hydrocarbons. Adv. Mater. 2018, 31, 1806263.

6. Andrews, J. L.; Cho, J.; Wangoh, L.; Suwandaratne, N.; Sheng, A.; Chauhan S.; Nieto, K.; Mohr, A.; Kadassery, K. J.; Popeil, M. R.; Thakur, P. K.; Sfeir, M.; Lacy, D. C.; Lee, T.-L.; Zhang, P.; Watson,* D. F.; Piper,* L. F. J.; Banerjee,* S.; Hole extraction by design in photocatalytic architectures interfacing CdSe quantum dots with topochemically-stabilized tin vanadium oxide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 17163-17174.

5. Kadassery, K. J.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Bisphosphine phenol and phenolate complexes of Mn(I): Manganese(I) catalyzed Tishchenko reaction Dalton. Trans. 2018, 47, 12652-12655.

4. Surendhran,‡ R.; D’Arpino,‡ A. A.; Sciscent,‡ B. Y.; Cannella, A. F.; Friedman, A. E.; MacMillan, S. N.; Rupal, G.; Lacy,* D. C. Deciphering the Mechanism of O2 Reduction with Electronically Tunable Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Model Complexes Chem. Sci. 2018, 9, 5773-5780.

3. Cannella, A. F.; Dey, S. K. MacMillan, S. N.; Lacy,* D. C. Structural Diversity in Pyridine and Polypyridine Adducts of Ring Slipped Manganocene: Correlating Ligand Steric Bulk with Quantified Deviation from Ideal Hapticity. Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 5171-5180. Cover article for 2018 issue 15.

2. Kadassery, K. J.; Dey, S. K.; Cannella, A. F.; Surendhran,‡ R. Lacy,* D. C. Photochemical Water Splitting with Organomanganese Complexes. Inorg. Chem.2017, 56 (16), 9954–9965.

1. Kadassery, K. J.; Dey, S. K.; Friedman, A. E.; Lacy,* D. C. Exploring the Role of Carbonate in the Formation of an Organomanganese Tetramer. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56 (15), 8748–8751.

University of California-Irvine and California Institute of Technology affiliated publications

  1. Hill, E. A.; Weitz, A. C.; Onderko, E.; Romero-Rivera, A.; Guo,* Y.; Swart,* M.; Bominaar,* E. L.; Green,* M. T.; Hendrich,* M. P.; Lacy,* D. C.; Borovik,* A. S.; Reactivity of an Fe(IV)-Oxo Complex with Protons and Oxidants. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2016), 138, 13143-13146.
  2. Lacy, David C.; Roberts,‡ G. M.; Peters,* J. C.; The Cobalt Hydride that Never Was: Revisiting Schrauzer’s “Hydridocobaloxime.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2015) 137, 4860-4684.
  3. Sieh,§ D.; Lacy,§ D. C. ; Peters,* J. C.; Kubiak,* C. P.; Reduction of CO2 by pyridine monoamine molybdenum carbonyl complexes: Cooperative Metal-Ligand Binding of CO2. Chem., Eur. J. (2015) 21, 8497-8503. § = Equally contributing
  4. Zhang, M.; El-Roz, M.; Mendoza-Cortez, J. L.; Lacy, D. C.; Peters,* J. C.; Head-Gordon,* M.; Frei,* H.; Visible Light Sensitized CO2 Activation by the Tetraaza [CoIIN4H(MeCN)]2+ Complex Investigated by FT-IR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations. J.  Phys. Chem. C. (2015), 119, 4645-4654.
  5. Soriaga, M. P; Baricuatro, J. H.; Cummins, K. D.; Kim, Y. G.; Saadi, F. H.; Sun, G.; McCrory, C. C. L.; McKone, J. R.; Velazquez, J. M.; Ferrer, I. M.; Carim, A. I.; Javier, A.; Chmielowiec, B.; Lacy, D. C.; Gregoire, J. M.; Sanabria-Chinchilla, J.; Amashukeli, X. Royea, W. J.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Hemminger, J. C.; Lewis, N. S.; Stickney, J. L.; Electrochemical surface science twenty years later: Expeditions into the electrocatalysis of reactions at the core of artificial photosynthesis. Surface Science (2015) 631, 285-294.
  6. Lacy, David C.; McCrory, C. C. L; Peters,* J. C.; Studies of Cobalt-Mediated Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Using a Redox-Active Ligand. Inorg. Chem. (2014) 53, 4980-4988.
  7. Usharani, D.; Lacy, D. C.; Borovik,* A. S.; Shaik,* S.; Dichotomous Hydrogen Atom Transfer vs Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer During Activation of X–H Bonds (X = C, N, O) by Nonheme Iron–Oxo Complexes of Variable Basicity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2013) 135, 17090-17104.
  8. Lacy, David C.; Mukherjee, J.; Lucas, R. L.; Day, V. W.; Borovik,* A. S.; Metal Complexes with Varying Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding Networks. Polyhedron (2013) 52, 261-267.
  9. Lacy, David C., Park, Y. J.; Ziller, J. W.; Yano, J.; Borovik,* A. S.; Assembly and Properties of Heterobimetallic CoII/III/CaII Complexes with Aquo and Hyrdroxo Ligands. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012) 134, 17526-17535.
  10. Gupta, R.; Lacy, D. C.; Borovik, A. S.;* Hendrich P.;* Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory Analysis of a High-Spin FeIV–Oxo Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012) 134, 9775-9784.
  11. Nguyen, A. I.; Zarkesh, R. A.; Lacy, D. C.; Thorson, M. K.; Heyduk,* A. F.; Catalytic nitrene transfer by a zirconium(IV) redox-active ligand complex. Chem. Sci. (2011) 2, 166-169.
  12. Lacy, David C.; Gupta, R.; Stone, K. L.; Greaves, J.; Ziller, J. W.; Hendrich,* M. P.; Borovik,* A. S.; Formation, Structure, and EPR Detection of a High Spin Fe(IV)-Oxo Species Derived from Either an Fe(III)-Oxo or Fe(III)-OH Complex. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2010) 132, 12188-12190.
  13. Margulieux, G. W.; Weidemann, N.; Lacy, D. C.; Moore, C. E.; Rheingold, A. L; Figueroa, J. S.; Isocyano Analogues of [Co(CO)4]n: A Tetraisocyanide of Cobalt Isolated in Three States of Charge. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2010) 132, 5033-5035.
  14. Book Chapter Cook, S. A.; Lacy, D. C.; Borovik, A. S.; Terminal Metal-Oxo Species with Unusual Spin States. Book Chapter in Spin States in Biochemistry and Inorganic Chemistry: Influence on Structure and Reactivity Swart, M. and Costas M.; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2016