Publications 2011

(165) Kuzmanich, G.; Simoncelli, S.; Gard, M.N.; Spänig, F.; Hoekstra, R.; Guldi, D.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Self-Quenching of Benzophenone Excited States in Crystalline Nanoparticles.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 17296–17306.

(164) Kuzmanich, G.; Natarajan, A,; Shi, Y.; Patrick, B.O.; Scheffer, J.R.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Stable Radicals During Photodecarbonylations of Trityl-alkyl Ketones Enable Solid State Reactions through Primary and Secondary Radical Centers.” Photochem. Photobio. Sc., 2011, 10, 1731-1734.

(163) Commins, P.; Nuñez, J.E.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Synthesis of Bridged Molecular Gyroscopes with Closed Topologies: Triple One-Pot Macrocyclization.” J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76, 8355–8363.

(162) Morris, W.; Taylor, R.E.; Dybowski, C.; Yaghi, O.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Framework Mobility in the Metal-Organic Framework Crystal IRMOF-3: Evidence for Aromatic Ring and Amine Rotation.” J. Mol. Struct., 2011, 1004, 94–101.

(161) Kuzmanich, G.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Ring strain release as a strategy to enable the singlet state photodecarbonylation of crystalline 1,4-cyclobutanediones.” J. Phys. Org. Chem., 2011, 23, 376–381.

(160) Kuzmanich, G.; Xue, J.; Netto-Ferreira, J. C.; Scaiano, J. C.; Platz, M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Steady state and transient kinetics in crystalline solids: the photochemistry of nanocrystalline 1,1,3-triphenyl-3-hydroxy-2-indanone.” Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 1497-1501.

(159) Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Farfan, N.; Romero, M.; Mendez-Stivalet, J.M.; Santillan, R.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Anisochronous Dynamics in a Crystalline Array of Steroidal Molecular Rotors: Evidence of Correlated Motion within 1D Helical Domains.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 7280–7283.

(158) Shiraki, S.; Natarajan, A.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “The Synthesis and Stereospecific Solid-State Photodecarbonylation of Hexasubstituted meso- and d,l-Ketones.” Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2011, 10, 1480-1487.

(157) O’Brien, Z.J.; Natarajan, A.; Khan, S.I.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Synthesis and Solid-State Rotational Dynamics of Crystalline Molecular Gyroscopes with a Robust and Low Density Structure Built with a Phenylene Rotator and a Tri-(meta-terphenyl)methyl Stator.” Crystal Growth & Design, 2011, 11, 2654-2659.

(156) Lemouchi, C.; Vogelsberg, C.S.; Zorina, L.; Simonov, S.; Batail, P.; Brown, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Ultra-fast Rotors for Molecular Machines and Functional Materials via Halogen Bonding: Crystals of 1,4-Bis(iodoethynyl)bicyclo[2.2.2]octane with Distinct Gigahertz Rotation at Two Sites.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 6371–6379.

(155) Radhakrishnan, C.; Lo, M.K.F.; Knobler, C.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Monbouquette, H.G. “Capping Ligand Effect on the Stability of CdSe Quantum Dot Langmuir Monolayers.” Langmuir, 2011, 27, 2099-2103.

(154) Kuzmanich, G; Spanig, F.; Tsai, C.K.; Um, J.M.; Hoekstra, R.M.; Houk, K.N.; Guldi, D.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Oxyallyl Exposed: An Open Shell Singlet with Picosecond Lifetimes in Solution but Persistent in Crystals of a Cyclobutanedione Precursor.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 2342-2345.


Publications 2012

(180) Lo, M.K.F.; Gard, M.N.; Goldsmith, B.R.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Monbouquette, H.G. “Synthesis and Micropatterning of Photocatalytically Reactive Self-Assembled Monolayers Covalently Linked to Si(100) Surfaces via a Si-C Bond.” Langmuir, 2012, 28, 16156–16166.

(179) Czajkowska-Szczykowska, D.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Magaña-Vergara, N.E.; Santillan, R.; Morzycki, J.W.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Macrocyclic Molecular Rotors with Bridged Steroidal Frameworks.” J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77, 9970–9978.

(178) Shiraki, S.; Vogelsberg, C.S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Solid-state photochemistry of crystalline pyrazolines: reliable generation and reactivity control of 1,3-biradicals and their potential for the green chemistry synthesis of substituted cyclopropanes.” Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, 11, 1929-1937.

(177) Escalante-Sánchez, E.; Rodríguez-Molina, B.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Towards Crystalline Molecular Rotors with Linearly Conjugated Diethynyl-Phenylene Rotators and Pentiptycene Stators.” J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77, 7428–7434.

(176) Arcos-Ramos, R.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Romero, M.; Méndez-Stivalet, J.M.; Ochoa, M.E.; Ramírez-Montes, P.I.; Santillan, R.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Farfan, N. “Synthesis and Evaluation of Molecular Rotors with Large and Bulky tert-Buthyldiphenylsilyloxy-substituted Trityl Stator.” J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77, 6887–6894.

(175) de Loera, D.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Efficient Aziridine Synthesis in Metastable Crystalline Phases by Photoinduced Denitrogenation of Crystalline Triazolines.” Org. Lett., 2012, 14, 3874–3877.

(174) Stopin, A.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Crystals and Aggregates of a Molecular Tetrarotor with Multiple Trityl Embraces Derived from Tetraphenyladamantane.” Cryst. Growth Des., 2012, 12, 3792–3798.

(173) Morris, W.; Stevens, C. J.; Taylor, R. E.; Dybowski, C.; Yaghi, O.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “NMR and X-ray Study Revealing the Rigidity of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs).” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116, 13307–13312.

(172) Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Advances at the Frontiers of Photochemical Sciences.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 8289–8292.

(171) Lemouchi, C.; Mézière, C.; Zorina, L.; Simonov, S.: Rodríguez-Fortea, A.; Canadell, E,; Wzietek, P.; Auban-Senzier, P.; Pasquier, C.; Giamarchi, T.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Batail, P. “Design and Evaluation of a Crystalline Hybrid of Molecular Conductors and Molecular Rotors.”J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 7880–7891.

(170) Gard, M.N.; Zucchero, A.J.; Kuzmanich, G.; Oelsner, C.; Guldi, D.; Dreuw, A.; Bunz, U.H.F.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Cruciforms’ Polarized Emission Confirms Disjoint Molecular Orbitals and Excited States.” Org. Lett., 2012, 14, 1000–1003.

(169) Vogelsberg, C.S.; Bracco, S.; Beretta, M.; Comotti, C.; Sozzani, P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Dynamics of Molecular Rotors Confined in Two Dimensions: Transition from a 2D Rotational Glass to a 2D Rotational Fluid in a Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica.” J. Phys. Chem. B., 2012, 116, 1623–1632.

(168) Vogelsberg C S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Crystalline molecular machines: Function, phase order, dimensionality, and composition.” Chem. Soc. Rev., 2012, 41, 1892-1910.

(167) Kuzmanich, G.; Vogelsberg C. S.; Maverick, E. F.; Netto-Ferreira, J. C.: Scaiano, J. C.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Reaction Mechanism in Crystalline Solids: Kinetics and Conformational Dynamics of the Norrish Type II Biradicals from a-Adamantyl p-Methoxyacetophenone.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 1115–1123.

(166) Doan, S.C.; Kuzmanich, G.; Gard, M. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Schwarts, B.J. “Ultrafast Spectroscopic Observation of a Quantum Chain Reaction: The Photodecarbonylation of Nanocrystalline Diphenylcyclopropenone.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 3, 81-86.


Publications 2013

(186) Tse, L.A.; Stopin, A.; Ganapathi, G,B.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Wirz, R.E. “Thermal Testing of Organic Fluids for Supercritical Thermal Energy Storage Systems.” Proc. ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, ES2013-18195, pp. V001T03A007.

(185) de Loera, D.; Liu, F.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Aziridine Nitrogen Inversion by Dynamic NMR: Activation Parameters in a Fused Bicyclic Structure” J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 11623-11626.

(184) Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Ochoa, M.E.; Romero, M.; Khan,S.I.; Farfan, N.; Santillan,R.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Conformational Polymorphism and Isomorphism of Molecular Rotors with Fluoroaromatic Rotators and Mestranol Stators.” Cryst. Growth Des., 2013, 13, 5107-5115.

(183) Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Perez-Estrada, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Amphidynamic Crystals of a Steroidal Bicyclo[2.2.2]octane Rotor: A High Symmetry Group that Rotates Faster than Smaller Methyl and Methoxy Groups.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 10388–10395.

(182) Hughs, M.; Jimenez, M.; Khan,S.I.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Synthesis, Rotational Dynamics, and Photophysical Characterization of a Crystalline Linearly Conjugated Phenyleneethynylene Molecular Dirotor.” J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78, 5293–5302.

(181) de Loera, D.; Stopin, A.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Photoinduced and Thermal Denitrogenation of Bulky Triazoline Crystals: Insights into Solid-to-Solid Transformations.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 6626–6632.


Publications 2014

(196) Vadehra, G.S.; Maloney, R.P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Dunn, B. “Naphthalene Diimide Based Materials with Adjustable Redox Potentials: Evaluation for Organic Lithium-Ion Batteries.” Chem. Mater., 2014, 26, 7151-7157.

(195) Matute, R.A.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Houk, K.N. “Theory of Substituent Effects on the Regioselectivity of Di-π-methane Rearrangements of Dibenzobarrelenes.” Org. Lett., 2014, 16, 5232-5234.

(194) Pearlstein, E.; Hughs, M.; Mazurek, J.; McGraw, K.; Pesme, C.; Garcia-Garibay, M. “Correlations Between Photochemical Damage and UV Fluorescence of Feathers.” ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference Preprints, Melbourne, 15–19 September 2014, J. Bridgland, Ed., Art. 0406, 8 pp. Paris: International Council of Museums.

(193) Jiang, X.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Nazarian, N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Rotation of a Bulky Triptycene in the Solid State: Towards Engineered Nanoscale Artificial Molecular Machines.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8871–8874.

(192) Staehle I.O.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Khan, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Engineered Photochromism in Crystalline Salicylidene Anilines by Facilitating Rotation to Reach the Colored trans-Keto Form.” Cryst. Growth Des., 2014, 14, 3667–3673.

(191) Lorbach, A.; Maverick, E.; Carreras, A.; Alemany, Pere; Wu, Gang,; Garcia-Garibay M.A; Bazan, G.C. “A Fullerene–Carbene Adduct as a Crystalline Molecular Rotor: Remarkable Behavior of a Spherically-Shaped Rotator.” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 12980-12986.

(190) Nielsen, A.; Kuzmanich, G.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Quantum Chain Reaction of Tethered Diarylcyclopropenones in the Solid State and Their Distance-Dependence in Solution Reveal a Dexter S2-S2 Energy Transfer Mechanism. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 1858–1863.

(189) Islas-Jácome, A.; Gutiérrez-Carrillo, A.; García-Garibay, M. A.; González-Zamora, E. “One-Pot Synthesis of Nuevamine Aza-Analogues by Combined Use of an Oxidative Ugi Type Reaction and Aza-Diels-Alder Cycloaddition.” Synlett, 2014, 25, 403-406.

(188) Commins, P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Photochromic Molecular Gyroscope with Solid State Rotational States Determined by an Azobenzene Bridge.” J. Org. Chem., 2014, 79, 1611–1619.

(187) Torres-Huerta, A.; Rodríguez-Molina, B.; Höpfl, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Synthesis and Solid-State Characterization of Self-Assembled Macrocyclic Molecular Rotors of Bis(dithiocarbamate) Ligands with Diorganotin(IV).” Organometallics, 2014, 33, 354–362.


Publications 2015

(204) Catalano, L.; Pérez-Estrada, S.; Terraneo, G.; Pilati, T.; Resnati, G.; Metrangolo, P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Dynamic Characterization of Crystalline Supramolecular Rotors Assembled through Halogen Bonding” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15386-15389.

(203) Staehle, I.O.; Chung, T.S.; Stopin, A.; Vadehra, G.S.; Hsieh, S.I.; Gibson, J. H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “An Approach to Enhance the Safety Culture of an Academic Research Laboratory by Addressing Behavioral Factors” J. Chem. Educ., 2016, 93, 217–222

(202) Zhang, K.; Cai, L.; Xing, J.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A.; Kwon, O. “Phosphine-Mediated Iterative Arene Homologation Using Allenes” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 11258-11261.

(201) Chung, T. S.; Lopes, S.A.; Houk, K.N. “Stereospecific Synthesis of Substituted Aziridines by a Crystal-to-Crystal Photodenitrogenation of Δ2-1,2,3-Triazolines” Org. Letters, 2015, 17, 4568-4571.

(200) Arcos-Ramos, R.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, E.; Ramirez-Montes, P.I.; Ochoa, M.E.; Santillan, R.; Farfan, N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Crystalline Arrays of Molecular Rotors with TIPS-Trityl and Phenolic-Trityl Stators Using Phenylene, 1,2-Difluorophenylene and Pyridine Rotators.” RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 55201-55208.

(199) Commins, P.; Natarajan, A.; Tsai, C.; Khan, S.I., Nath, N.K.; Naumov, P.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Structure-Reactivity Correlations and Mechanistic Understanding of the Photoreaarrangement and Photosalient Effect of α-Santonin and its Derivatives in Solutions, Crystals and Nanocrystalline Suspensions.” Cryst. Growth Des., 2015, 15, 1983-1990.

(198) Perez-Estrada, S.; Rodriguez-Molina, B.; Xiao, L.; Santillan, R.; Jimenez-Oses, G.; Houk, K.N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Thermodynamic Evaluation of Aromatic CH/π Interactions and Rotational Entropy in a Molecular Rotor.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 2175-2178.

(197) Hernandez-Linares, M.G.; Guerrero-Luna, G.; Perez-Estrada, S.; Ellison, M.; Ortin, M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Large-Scale Green Chemical Synthesis of Adjacent Quaternary Chiral Centers by Continuous Flow Photodecarbonylation of Aqueous Suspensions of Nanocrystalline Ketones.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137(4), 1679-1684.


Publications 2016

(208) Jiang, X.; Duan, H.-B.; Khan, S.I.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A, Diffusion-Controlled Rotation of Triptycene in a Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) Sheds Light on the Viscosity of MOF-Confined Solvent” ACS Central Science, 2016, 2, 608–613

(207) Jiang, X.; O’Brien, Z.J.; Yang, S.; Lai, L.H.; Buenaflor, J.; Tan, C.; Khan, S.; Houk, K.N.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Crystal Fluidity Reflected by Fast Rotational Motion at the Core, Branches and Peripheral Aromatic Groups of a Dendrimeric Molecular Rotor” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 4650–4656.

(206) Anoklase J.-L. Ayitou, A. J.-L.; Flynn, K.; Jockusch, S.; Khan, S.I.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Structure-Kinetics Correlations in Isostructural Crystals of α-(ortho-tolyl)-Acetophenones: Pinning Down Electronic Effects Using Laser-Flash Photolysis in the Solid State” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 2644-2648.

(205) Czajkowska-Szczykowska, D.: Aguilar-Granda, A,; Jadwiga Maj, J.; Wilczewska, A.Z.; Witkowski, S.; Santillan, R.; Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, M.G.; Morzycki, J.W.; Rodríguez-Molina, B. “Solid State Characterization of Bridged Steroidal Molecular Rotors: Effect of the Rotator Fluorination on Their Crystallization” Cryt. Growth Des., 2016, 16, 1599-1605.


Publications 2017

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(217) Vogelsberg, C.S.; Uribe-Romo, F.J.; Lipton, A.; Yang, S.; Houk, K.N.; Brown, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Ultrafast Rotations in a MOF Crystalline Material” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2017, Publication Date (Web): December 10, 2017; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708817115

(216) Jin, M.; Chung, T.S.; Seki, T.; Ito, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Phosphorescence Control Meditated by Molecular Rotation and Aurophilic Interactions in Amphidynamic Crystals of 1,4-Bis[tri-(p-fluorophenyl)phosphane-gold(I)-ethynyl]benzeneJ. Am. Chem. Soc, 2017, 139, 18115–18121.

(215) Chung, T.S.; Park, J.H.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Triplet Sensitized Photodenitrogenation of Δ2-1,2,3-Triazolines to form Aziridines in Solution and in the Crystalline State: Observation of the Triplet 1,3-Alkyl-aminyl Biradical” J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 12128−12133.

(214) Park, J.H.; Hughs, M.; Chung, T.S.; Ayitou, A. J.-L.; Breslin, V.M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A “Generation and Reactivity Studies of DiarylmethyRadical Pairs in Crystalline Tetraarylacetones via Laser Flash Photolysis Using Nano-crystalline Suspensions” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 13312–13317.

(213) Chung, T.S.; Xue, Y.; Carranza, A.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Stereospecific Photochemistry of Delta-2-1,2,3-Triazolines in Solution and in the Solid-State: Scope and Mechanistic Studies”, Photochem. & Photobiol. Sc., 2017, 16, 1458-1463

(212) Chung, T.S.; Ayitou, A. J.-L.; Park, J. H.; Breslin, V. M.; Garcia-Garibay, M. “Photochemistry and Transmission Pump–Probe Spectroscopy of 2-Azidobiphenyls in Aqueous Nanocrystalline Suspensions: Simplified Kinetics in Crystalline Solids” Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8, 1845–1850.

(211) Vadehra, G. S.; Jiang, X.; Dotson,J. J.; Chu, G. M.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. A High Yielding and Divergent Paradigm for the Synthesis of D2h-Symmetric Octakis-Substituted Pentiptycenequinones” Org. Letters, 2017, 19, 1838–1841

(210) Breslin, V. M.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. Transmission Spectroscopy and Kinetics in Crystalline Solids Using Aqueous Nanocrystalline Suspensions: The Spiropyran-Merocyanine Photochromic System” Crystal Growth and Design, 2017, 7, 637–642

(209) Catalano. L.; Perez-Estrada, S.; Wang, H.S.; Ayitou, A. J.-L.; Khan, S.I.; Terraneo, G.; Metrangolo, P.; Brown, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. Rotational Dynamics of Diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane in Isomorphous Halogen-Bonded Co-crystals: Entropic and Enthalpic EffectsJ. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 843–848


Publications 2018

(221) Park, J. H.; Chung, T. S.; Hipwell, V. M.; Rivera, E. A.;  Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Transient Kinetics and Quantum Yield Studies of Nanocrystalline a-Phenyl-Substituted Ketones: Sorting Out Reactions from Singlet and Triplet Excited States,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 8192–8197

(220) Dotson, J. J.;  Perez-Estrada, S.;  Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Taming Radical Pairs in Nanocrystalline Ketones: Photochemical Synthesis of Compounds with Vicinal Stereogenic All-Carbon Quaternary Centers“, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018140, 8359–8371

(219) Simonov S.; Zorina, L.; Wzietek, P. Rodríguez-Fortea, A.; Canadell, E.; Mézière, C.; Bastien, G.; Lemouchi, C.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. Batail, P. “Static Modulation Wave of Halogen-Bond Network Transduced to a Hierarchy of Change Stimuli of Crystalline Rotors Dynamics”, Nano Lett., 2018, 18, 3780–3784

(218) Breslin, V.M.; Barbour, N.A.; Dang,D.-K.; Lopez, S.A.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A., “Nanosecond laser flash photolysis of a 6-nitroindolinospiropyran in solution and in nanocrystalline suspension under single excitation conditions”, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2018, 17, 741 – 749.


Publications 2019

(228) Jin, M.; Yamamoto, S.; Seki, T.; Ito, H.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Anisotropic Thermal Expansion as the Source of Macroscopic and Molecular Scale Motion in Phosphorescent Amphidynamic Crystals“, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 131, 18171.

(227) Jiang, X.; Duan, H.-B.; Jellen, M. J.; Chen, Y.; Chung, T. S.; Liang, Y.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Thermally Activated Transient Dipoles and Rotational Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bonded and Charge-Transferred Diazabicyclo [2.2.2]octane Molecular Rotors“, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 16802-16809

(226) Hipwell, V. M.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Mechanistic Studies of Adamantylacetophenones with Competing Reaction Pathways in Solution and in the Crystalline Solid State“, J. Org. Chem.2019, 84, 11103-11113

(225) Colin-Molina, A.; Karothu, D. P.; Jellen, M. J.; Toscano, R. A.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.; Naumov, P.; and Rodriguez-Molina, B. “Thermosalient Amphidynamic Molecular Machines: Motion at the Molecular and Macroscopic Scales“, Matter, 2019, 1, 1033-1046

(224) Howe, M. E.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Fluorescence and Rotational Dynamics of a Crystalline Molecular Rotor Featuring an Aggregation-Induced Emission Fluorophore“,  J. Org. Chem.2019, 84, 9570-9576

(223) Howe, M. E.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “The Roles of Intrinsic Barriers and Crystal Fluidity on the Dynamics of Crystalline Molecular Rotors and Molecular Machines”, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 9835-9849.

(222) Perez-Estrada, S.; Rodríguez-Molina, B.; Maverick, E.; Khan, S.; Garcia-Garibay, M.A. “Throwing in a Monkey Wrench to Test and Determine Geared Motion in the Dynamics of a Crystalline 1D-Columnar Rotor Array“, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 2413–2420


Publications 2020

(238) Chang, T. Y.; Dotson, J. J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.“Scalable Synthesis of Vicinal Quaternary Stereocenters via the Solid-State Photodecarbonylation of a Crystalline Hexasubstituted KetoneOrg. Lett. 2020, 22, 8855–8859

(237) Liepuoniute, I.; Jellen, M. J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.“Correlated motion and mechanical gearing in amphidynamic crystalline molecular machinesChem. Sci. 11, 12994–13007

(236) Jellen, M. J.; Ayodele M.; Cantu A. L; Forbes, M. D. E.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.“2D Arrays of Organic Qubit Candidates Embedded into a Pillared-Paddlewheel Metal-Organic FrameworkJ. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 18513–18521

(235) Liepuoniute, I.; Huynh, C. M.; Pérez-Estrada, S.; Wang, Y.; Khan, S. I.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.“Enhanced Rotation by Ground State Destabilization in Amphidynamic Crystals of a Dipolar 2,3-difluorophenylene Rotator as Established by Solid State 2H NMR and Dielectric SpectroscopyJ. Phys. Chem. C, 2020, 124, 15391–15398

(234) Dotson, J. J.; Bachman, L. J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.; Garg, N. K. “Discovery and Total Synthesis of a Bis(Cyclotryptamine) Alkaloid Bearing the Elusive Piperidinoindoline ScaffoldJ. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 11685–11690

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(233) Liepuoniute, I.; Sanders, J. N.; V.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.; Houk, K. N. “Computational Investigation into Ligand Effects on Correlated Geared Dynamics in Dirhodium Supramolecular Gears – Insights Beyond the NMR Experimental Window” J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 8695–8701

(232) Howe, M.E.; Barbour, N. A.; Garcia, R. V.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “The Use of Fluorescence Anisotropy Decay to Measure Rotation of Acenes in Viscous Solution” J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 6872–6877

(231) Dotson, J. J.; Garg, N. K.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. Evaluation of the photodecarbonylation of crystalline ketones for the installation of reverse prenyl groups on the pyrrolidinoindoline scaffold, Tetrahedron, Publication Date:  April 10, 2020.

(230) Jiang, X.; Laffoon, S. D.; Chen, D.; Pérez-Estrada, S.; Danis, A. S.; Rodríguez-López, J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.; Zhu, J.; Moore, J. S. Kinetic Control in the Synthesis of a Möbius Tris((ethynyl)[5]helicene) Macrocycle Using Alkyne Metathesis,  J. Am. Chem. Soc.,  2020, 142, 6493–6498

(229)  Jiang, X.; Yang, S.; Jellen, M.J.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. Molecular Spur Gears with Triptycene Rotators and a Norbornane-Based StatorOrg. Lett 2020, 22, 4049–4052


Publications 2021

(244) Liu, Z.; Wang, Y.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Rotational Dynamics of an Amphidynamic Zirconium Metal–Organic Framework Determined by Dielectric Spectroscopy.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2021, 12, 5644-5648

(243) Park, J. H.; Hipwell, V. M.; Rivera, E. A.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Strongly Entangled Triplet Acyl–Alkyl Radical Pairs in Crystals of Photostable Diphenylmethyl Adamantyl Ketones.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021143, 886–892

(242) Jellen, M. J.; Liepuoniute, I.; Jin, M.; Jones, C. G.; Jiang, X.; Nelson, H. M.; Houk, K. N.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A. “Enhanced Gearing Fidelity Achieved Through Macrocyclization of a Solvated Molecular Spur Gear.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 7740–7747

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