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49)  Recyclable Iridium-Containing Copolymers for Homogeneous Photoredox Catalysis

Shweta Gaikwad, Argha Bhattacharjee, Stanley Baldwin, Steven Huss, Anna Griggs, Michael Spicuzza, and Elizabeth Elacqua* submitted.

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48)  Cyclobutane-linked Nanothreads through Thermal and Photochemically Mediated Polymerization of Cyclohexadiene

Morgan Murphy, Bohan Xu, Katie E. Rank, Sikai Wu, Steven Huss, John V. Badding, Steven A. Lopez, Vincent H. Crespi and Elizabeth Elacqua* submitted.

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47)  Diarylation encodes precision for polyolefins

Elizabeth Elacqua* Nature Synthesis​ 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s44160-024-00626-1.

46)  Visible-Light-Mediated Diels-Alder Reactions Under Single-Chain Polymer Confinement: Investigating the Role of the Crosslinking Moiety on Catalyst Activity

Michael Spicuzza, Shweta Prakash Gaikwad, Steven Huss, Annemarie A. Lee, Cristina V. Craescu, Anna Griggs, Joshmi Joseph, Mark Puthenpurayil, Wilson Lin, Christopher Matarazzo, Stanley Baldwin, Victoria PerezDiego Alejandro Rodriguez-Acevedo, John R. Swierk, and Elizabeth Elacqua* Polymer Chemistry, 2024DOI: 10.1039/D4PY00282B.

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45)  Synthesis and Characterization of a Ruthenium-Containing Polymer for Use as a Photoredox Catalyst

Steven Huss, Andrew R. Walsh, Anna Griggs, Diego Alejandro Rodriguez-Acevedo, Daniela M. Arias-Rotondo, and Elizabeth Elacqua* Polymer Chemistry, 2023DOI:10.1039/D3PY00428G.

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44)  Nickel-Catalyzed Alkene Difunctionalization as a Method for Polymerization

Julia N. Katzbaer, Vincent M. Torres, Elizabeth Elacqua,* and Ramesh Giri* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023145, 14196-14201DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03711 

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43)  Photochemically-Mediated Polymerization of Molecular Furan and Pyridine: Synthesis of Nanothreads at Reduced Pressures

Shalisa M. Oburn, Steven Huss, Jordan Cox, Margaret C. Gerthoffer, Sikai Wu, Arani Biswas, Morgan Murphy, Vincent H. Crespi, John V. Badding, Steven A. Lopez, and Elizabeth Elacqua* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022144, 22026-22034. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09204

42)  Ligand-induced shifts in conformational ensembles that predict transcriptional activation.

Sabab H. Khan, Sean M. Braet, Stephen J. Koehler, Elizabeth Elacqua, Ganesh S. Anand, and C. Denise Okafor* eLife, 2022, 11, e80140.

41)  Introduction to Molecularly-Defined Polymers

Jeremiah A. Johnson, Filip DuPrez, and Elizabeth Elacqua* Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 2400-2401. DOI: 10.1039/d2py90051c

40)  Mechanistic Insights into the Pressure-Induced Polymerization of Aryl/Perfluoroaryl Co-Crystals

Margaret C. Gerthoffer, Bohan Xu, Sikai Wu, Jordan Cox, Steven Huss, Shalisa M. Oburn, Steven A. Lopez, Vincent H. Crespi, John V. Badding, and Elizabeth Elacqua* Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 1359-1368. DOI: 10.1039/d1py01387d

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39)  Single-Chain Polymers as Homogeneous Oxidative Photoredox Catalysts

Jacob J. Piane, Steven Huss, Lucas T. Alameda, Stephen J. Koehler, Lauren E. ChamberlainMatthew J. SchubachAshley C. Hoover, and Elizabeth Elacqua* J. Polym Sci. 2021, 59, 2865-2875. DOI: 10.1002/pol20210576.

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38)  Metal-Free Photocatalytic C(Sp3)—H Bond Activation

Christina V. Craescu, Matthew J. Schubach, Steven Huss, and Elizabeth Elacqua* 

Trends Chem. 2021, 3, 686-687. DOI: 10.1016/j.trechm.2021..05.002

37)  Perfect and Defective 13C-Furan-Derived Nanothreads from Modest-Pressure Synthesis Analyzed by 13C NMR

Bryan Matsuura, Steven Huss, Zhaoxi Zheng, Shichen Yuan, Tao Wang, Bo Chen, John V. Badding, Dirk TraunerElizabeth Elacqua, Adri C.T. van Duin, Vincent H. Crespi, and Klaus Schmidt-Rohr* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021143, 9529-9542. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03671.

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36)  Scalable Synthesis of Crystalline One-Dimensional Carbon Nanothreads through Modest-Pressure Polymerization of Furan

Steven Huss, Sikai Wu, Bo Chen, Tao Wang, Margaret C. Gerthoffer, Daniel J. Ryan, Stuart E. Smith, Vincent H. Crespi, John V. Badding, and Elizabeth Elacqua*

ACS Nano2021, 15, 4134-4143. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10400.

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35)  Comment on “Arresting an Unusual Amide Tautomer Using Divalent Cations"

Chad I. Drexler, Stephen J. Koehler, Ryan L. Myers, Braidon A. Lape, Elizabeth Elacqua, and Paul S. Cremer*

J. Phys. Chem., B. 2021125, 477–478.​ DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04272.

34)  Organic Chemistry:  A Retrosynthetic Approach to a Diverse Field

Laura K. G. Ackerman-Biegasiewicz, Daniela M. Arias-Rotondo, Kyle F. Biegasiewicz, Elizabeth Elacqua,* Matthew R. Golder, Laure V. Kayser, Jessica R. Lamb, Christine M. Le, Nathan A. Romero, Sidney M. Wilkerson-Hill, and Dwight A. Williams

ACS Cent. Sci., 2020, 6, 1845-1850.​  DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01138.

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33)  Organic Photoredox-Catalyzed Cycloadditions Under Polymer Confinement

Jacob J. Piane, Lauren Chamberlain, Steven Huss, Lucas T. Alameda, Ashley Hoover, and Elizabeth Elacqua* 

ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 13251-13256. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04499.

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32)  ‘Sacrificial’ Supramolecular Assembly and Pressure-Induced Polymerization:  Toward Sequence-Defined Functionalized Nanothreads

Margaret C. Gerthoffer, Sikai Wu, Bo Chen, Tao Wang, Steven Huss, Vincent H. Crespi, John V. Badding, and Elizabeth Elacqua*

Chem. Sci.2020,11, 11419-11424. DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03904G

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31)  Electronically-Governed ROMP:  Expanding Sequence Control for Donor-Acceptor Polymers

Stephen J. Koehler, Jinzhen Hu, and Elizabeth Elacqua*  

Synlett, 2020, 31, 1435-1442. DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1707180

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30)  A diamondoid net sustained by halogen bonds containing nodes generated from a solid-state [2+2] cycloaddition reaction

Shalisa M. Oburn, Carlos L. Santana, Elizabeth Elacqua, and Ryan H. Groeneman*

CrystEngComm, 2020, 22, 4349-4352. DOI: 10.1039/d0ce00627k. (*Cover Design)

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29)  An Oligomeric Ruthenium Polypyridyl Dye for Improved Stability of Aqueous Photoelectrochemical Cells

Christopher L. Gray, Pengtao Xu, August J. Rothenberger, Stephen J. Koehler, Elizabeth Elacqua, Bratoljub H. Milosavljevic, and Thomas E. Mallouk*  

J. Phys. Chem., C2020124, 3542-3550. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00493

28)  Poly(arylenevinylene)s through Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of an Unsymmetrical Donor-Acceptor Cyclophane

Elizabeth Elacqua* and Maria Gregor  

Angew. Chem., 2019, 131, 9627-9632; Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 9527-9532. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201905137 

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27)  Total Syntheses Supramolecular Style:  Solid-State Construction of [2.2]Cyclophanes with Modular Control of Stereochemistry

Tomislav Frisčíć, Elizabeth Elacqua, Saikat Dutta, Shalisa M. Oburn, and Leonard R. MacGillivray*

Cryst. Growth Des., 2020, 20, 2584-2589DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.9b01712 

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26)  Sub-10 nm Resolution Patterning of Pockets for Enzymes Immobilization with Independent Density and Quasi-3D Topography Control

Xiangyu Liu, Mohit Kumar, Annalisa Calo, Edoardo Albisetti, Xiaorui Zheng, Kylie B. Manning, Elizabeth Elacqua, Marcus Weck, Rein Ulijn, and Elisa Riedo*  

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces201911, 41780-41790. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b11844

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25)  High-throughput Enzyme Nanopatterning

Xiangyu Liu, Mohit Kumar, Annalisa Calo, Edoardo Albisetti, Xiaorui Zheng, Kylie B. Manning, Elizabeth Elacqua, Marcus Weck, Rein Ulijn, and Elisa Riedo.*  

Faraday Disc., 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9FD00025A

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24) Synthesis and folding behavior of poly(p-phenylene vinylene)-based β-sheet chromophores

Elizabeth Elacqua, Geoffrey T. Geberth, David A. Vanden Bout,* and Marcus Weck* 

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 2144-2152. DOI:10.1039/C8SC05111A

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23) Synthesis of sheet-coil-helix and coil-sheet-helix triblock copolymers by combining ROMP with palladium-mediated isocyanide polymerization

Scott K. Pomarico, Diane S. Lye, Elizabeth Elacqua,* and Marcus Weck* 

Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 5655-5659.  DOI:10.1039/C8PY01361F (*Cover design)

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22) Molecular Recognition in the Colloidal World 

Elizabeth Elacqua,* Xiaolong Zheng, Cicely Shillingford, Mingzhu Liu, and Marcus Weck* 

Acc. Chem. Res., 2017, 50, 2756-2766. DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00370

21) Light-Mediated Self-Assembly of Polymeric Colloids

Elizabeth Elacqua, Xiaolong Zheng, and Marcus Weck* 

ACS Macro Lett., 2017, 6, 1060-1065.  DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00539

20) Supramolecular Multiblock Copolymers Featuring Complex Secondary Structures

Elizabeth Elacqua, Kylie B. Manning, Diane S. Lye, Scott K. Pomarico, Federica Morgia, and Marcus Weck* 

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 12240-12250.  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06201

19) Synthesis of Well-Defined Bivalent Newkome-Type Dendrimers

Elizabeth Kaufman, Rossella Tarallo, Elizabeth Elacqua, Tom P. Carberry, and Marcus Weck* 

Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 4897-4905.  DOI:  10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01035

18) Coil-Helix and Sheet-Helix Block Copolymers via Macroinitiation from Telechelic ROMP Polymers

Elizabeth Elacqua, Anna Croom, Diane S. Lye, and Marcus Weck* 

J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem., 2017, 55, 2991-2998.  DOI: 10.1002/pola.28542 (invited article).

17) Supramolecular Diblock Copolymers Featuring Well-Defined Telechelic Building Blocks

Elizabeth Elacqua, Anna Croom, Kylie B. Manning, Scott K. Pomarico, Diane Lye, Lauren Young, and Marcus Weck* 

Angew. Chem., 2016, 128, 16105-16110; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 15873-15878.  DOI:  10.1002/anie.201609103

16) Metal-Coordination versus Hydrogen Bonding: Highly Efficient Templated Photocycloadditions of Trisubstituted Isomeric Olefins in the Solid State

Elizabeth Elacqua, Michael A. Sinnwell, Bradley P. Loren, Paul T. Jurgens, Ryan H. Groeneman, Eric W. Reinheimer, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

ChemPlusChem, 2016, 81, 893-898.  DOI:10.1002/cplu.201600261 (Invited article).

15) Redox-Responsive Viologen-Mediated Self-Assembly of CB[7]-Modified Patchy Particles

Farah Benyettou, Xiaolong Zheng, Elizabeth Elacqua, Yu Wang, Parastoo Dalvand, Zouhair Asfari, John-Carl Olsen, Na’il Saleh, Mourad Elhabiri, Marcus Weck* and Ali Trabolsi* 

Langmuir, 2016, 32, 7144-7150.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b01433

14) Post-Application of Dry Vortex Grinding Improves the Yield of a [2+2] Photodimerization:  Addressing Static Disorder in a Cocrystal 

Elizabeth Elacqua, Kathleen A. Kummer, Eric W. Reinheimer, Leonard R. MacGillivray* and Ryan H. Groeneman*  J. Photochem. Photobio. A, 2016, 331, 42-47.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2015.12.004

13)  Photostable Co-crystals of (E)-Methyl-3-(pyridine-4-yl)prop-2-enoates Involving Homologous Resorcinols:  Effects of Secondary Interactions Involving Templates 

Elizabeth Elacqua, Ryan H. Groeneman, Eric W. Reinheimer, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* ​

American Crystallographic Association Symposium –  Transactions, 2015, 1.

 

12)  Regiocontrol of the [2+2] Photodimerization in the Solid State using Isosteric Resorcinols: Head-to-Tail Cyclobutane Formation via Unexpected Embraced Assemblies 

Devin P. Ericson, Zachary P. Zurfluh-Cunningham, Ryan H. Groeneman* Elizabeth Elacqua, Eric W. Reinheimer, Bruce C. Noll, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

Cryst. Growth Des., 2015, 15, 5744-5748.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00939

11)  Fabrication of Supramolecular Semiconductor Block Copolymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Elizabeth Elacqua and Marcus Weck* 

Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 7151-7158.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406204

10)  Engineering Orthogonality in Supramolecular Polymers:  From Simple Scaffolds to Complex Materials

Elizabeth Elacqua, Diane S. Lye, and Marcus Weck*  ​

Acc. Chem. Res., 2014, 47, 2405-2416.  DOI: 10.1021/ar500128w

9)  Organosulfonates Aid Argentophilic Forces in the Crystal Engineering of [2+2] Photodimerisations: Reactivity Involving 3-Pyridyl Groups 

Elizabeth Elacqua, Ryan H. Groeneman, Eric W. Reinheimer, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, and Leonard R. MacGillivray*  ​

Supramol. Chem., 2014, 26, 207-213.  DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2013.844815 (Invited article in connection ISMSC-VIII).

8)  Sonochemical Synthesis of Nano-Cocrystals 

Leonard R. MacGillivray,* Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, John R. Sander, and Elizabeth Elacqua  ​

J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 2013, 133, 3595.

 

7)  Supramolecular Complexes of Sulfadiazine and Pyridines:  Reconfigurable Exteriors and Chameleon-like Behavior of Tautomers at the Co-crystal – Salt Boundary

Elizabeth Elacqua, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, Rodger F. Henry, Geoff G. Z. Zhang, and Leonard R. MacGillivray*  ​

Cryst. Growth Des., 2013, 13, 393-403.  DOI: 10.1021/cg301745x (*Cover design; accepted for a virtual issue in honor of Prof. G. R. Desiraju).

6)  Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Direct Cross-linking and Photopolymerisation of a Discrete Ag(I) Complex to form a 1D Polycyclobutane Coordination Polymer

Saikat Dutta, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, Elizabeth Elacqua, and Leonard R. MacGillivray*  ​

Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 1064-1066.  DOI: 10.1039/c2cc36458a (Accepted for a themed issue on MOFs).

5)  Organic Nanocrystals of [2.2]Paracyclophanes Achieved via Sonochemistry:  Enhanced and Red-Shifted Emission Involving Edge-to-Face Chromophores

Elizabeth Elacqua, Paul T. Jurgens, and Leonard R. MacGillivray*  ​

CrystEngComm, 2012, 14, 7567-7571. DOI: 10.1039/c2ce26000j (Accepted for a themed issue on Nanocrystals).

4)  [2.2]Paracyclophane as a Target of the Organic Solid State:  Emergent Properties via Supramolecular Construction

Elizabeth Elacqua, Tomislav Frisčíć, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

Isr. J. Chem., 2012, 52, 53-59.  DOI:  10.1002/ijch.201100089 (Invited review).

3)  A Supramolecular Protecting Group Strategy Introduced to the Organic Solid State:  Enhanced Reactivity via Molecular Pedal Motion 

Elizabeth Elacqua, Poonam Kaushik, Ryan H. Groeneman, Joseph C. Sumrak, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

Angew. Chem., 2012, 124, 1061-1065; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 1037-1041.  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201106842

2)  From the Decks to the Bridges:  Optoelectronics in [2.2]Paracyclophane Chemistry 

Elizabeth Elacqua and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2010, 36, 6883-6894. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201000930 (Invited review).

1)  Dramatic Red-Shifted Fluorescence of [2.2]Paracyclophanes with Peripheral Substituents Attached to the Saturated Bridges

Elizabeth Elacqua, Dejan-Krešimir Bučar, Yulia Skvortsova, Jonas Baltrusaitis, M. Lei Geng, and Leonard R. MacGillivray* 

Org. Lett., 2009, 11, 5106-5109.  DOI: 10.1021/ol901907j

Book Chapters

3)  Elizabeth Elacqua, Niels ten Brummelhuis, and Marcus Weck.  Supramolecular Polymers, in Handbook of Metathesis, (Volume 3, Polymer Synthesis), 2nd Edition; Wiley-VCH, 2015, 71-92.  (Eds. Grubbs, R. H. and Khosravi, E).

 

2)  Tomislav Frisčíć, Dushyant B. Varshney, Elizabeth Elacqua, Joseph C. Sumrak, Anatoily N. Sokolov, and Leonard R. MacGillivray.  Molecular Self-Assemblies in Co-crystals:  Engineering Chemical Reactivity and Organic Semiconductors, in Molecular Self-Assembly:  Advances and Applications, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013, 223-238. (Ed. Li, A. D. Q.).

 

1)  Elizabeth Elacqua, Rebecca C. Laird, and Leonard R. MacGillivray.  Templated [2+2] Photodimerizations in the Solid State, in Supramolecular Chemistry:  From Molecules to Nanomaterials, John Wiley and Sons, 2012, 6, 3153-3165. (Eds. Gale, P. A.; and Steed, J. W.).

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