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 Ketone” Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 8855–8859
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(237) Liepuoniute, I.; Jellen, M. J.; Garcia-Garibay, M. A.“Correlated motion and mechanical gearing in amphidynamic crystalline molecular machines” Chem. Sci. 11, 12994–13007
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(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 Framework” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 18513–18521
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(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 Spectroscopy” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2020, 124, 15391–15398
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(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 Scaffold” J. 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
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(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
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(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.
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(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
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(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 Stator, Org. Lett 2020, 22, 4049–4052
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