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57. Forsberg, A. P.\u2020<\/sup>; Khakre, Y.\u2020<\/sup>; Marinescu, S. C.; Brutchey, R. L.*, “Sustainable Synthesis of NiMo Alloy Nanoparticles for Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis Using a Recyclable Ionic Liquid Solvent”, ChemSusChem<\/em>, 2026<\/strong>, 19, 7, e70620 DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/cssc.70620<\/a><\/p>\n

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56. Gittins, J. W.; Balhatchet C. J.; Hill, J.; Trisukhon, T.; Seyffertitz, M.; Shin, S. J.; Khakre, Y.; Ge, K.;\u00a0 Kress, T.; Marinescu, S. C.; Walsh, A.; Paris, O.; Seymour, I. D.; Forse, A. C.* “Controlling Electrode\u2013Electrolyte Interactions to Enhance Capacitance”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., <\/i>2026<\/strong>, ASAP DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/jacs.5c20988<\/a><\/p>\n

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55. Khakre, Y.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Enhanced Per-Site Electrocatalytic H2<\/sub> Evolving Activity of Cobalt in Co\/Ni-Dithiolene-Based Heterometallic Metal\u2013Organic Frameworks”, ACS Catalysis, 2026<\/strong>, 16, 4, 3405-3414; DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acscatal.5c07598<\/a><\/p>\n

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54. Samuel, A. D.; Intrator, J. A.; Mahapatra, A. A.; Mendoza, M. J.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electrocatalytic CO2<\/sub> Reduction to Formate by a Highly Conjugated TriCobalt Phosphino-Thiolate Complex”, ChemPhysChem 2025<\/strong>, ASAP DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/cphc.202500386<\/a><\/p>\n

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53. Silva Jr., I.; Hsu, P. C.; Cruz-Ceja, R.; Choate, J. C.; Gil-Sepulcre, M.; Prakash, G. K. S.; DeBeer, S.; Uribe, A,; R\u00fcdiger, O.*; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electrodeposited Films of Manganese\u2013Bipyridine Complexes for Aqueous Electrochemical CO2<\/sub> Reduction”, ACS Catal. <\/i><\/span>2025<\/span><\/strong>, 15<\/span>,<\/span> 18804\u201318816;<\/span>\u00a0DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acscatal.5c03678<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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52. Nguyen, A. T. A.; Khakre, Y.; Avishai, A.; Kawakami, M.; Ennis, C.;* Marinescu, S. C.* “Tunability of Nickel Benzenehexathiolate Electrocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces<\/em>, 2025<\/strong>, 17<\/span>, 37<\/span>, 52090\u201352101;<\/span> DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acsami.5c11085<\/a><\/p>\n

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51. Khakre, Y.; Pham, T. K.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Tunable Electrocatalytic H2<\/sub> Evolving Activity of Nickel-dithiolene Coordination Polymers”, Sustainable Energy Fuels<\/em>, 2025<\/strong>, 9<\/em>, 5869-5881; DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/D5SE01084E<\/a><\/p>\n

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50. Saund, S. S.; Gish, M. K.; Choate, J. C.; Le, T. H.; Marinescu, S. C.; Neale, N. R.* “Design Strategies for Coupling CO2<\/sub> Reduction Molecular Electrocatalysts to Silicon Photocathodes”, ACS Mater. Au<\/em>, 2025<\/strong>, 5<\/span>, <\/span>3<\/span>, <\/span>569\u2013579;<\/span>\u00a0DOI: doi\/10.1021\/acsmaterialsau.5c00010<\/a><\/p>\n

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49. Khakre, Y.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electronic structure and mechanistic understanding of electrochemical H2<\/sub> evolving activity of metal-bis(dithiolenes)”, Coordination Chemistry Reviews<\/em>, 2025, <\/strong>535<\/em>, 216586, DOI : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ccr.2025.216586<\/a><\/p>\n

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48. Choate, J. C.; Silva Jr., I.; Hsu, P. C.; Tran, K; Marinescu, S. C.* \u201cThe Positional Effect of an Immobilized Re Tricarbonyl Catalyst for CO2<\/sub> Reduction\u201d,\u00a0 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces,<\/i><\/span>2024<\/span><\/strong>, 16<\/em><\/span>, 38<\/span>, 50534\u201350549<\/span>, <\/em>DOI: https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.4c05536<\/a><\/p>\n

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47. Intrator, J. A.; Velazquez, D. A.; Fan, S.; Mastrobattista, E.; Yu, C.; Marinescu, S. C.* \u201cElectrocatalytic CO2<\/sub> Reduction to Formate by a Cobalt Phosphino-thiolate Complex\u201d, Chem. Sci.<\/i>, 2024<\/strong>, 15<\/em>, 6385-6396, DOI: 10.1039\/D3SC06805F<\/a><\/p>\n

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46. Hellman, A. N.; Intrator, J. A.; Choate, J.; Velazquez, D. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Primary- and Secondary-Sphere Effects of Amine Substituent Position on Rhenium Bipyridine Electrocatalysts for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction”\u00a0Polyhedron\u00a0<\/i>2022<\/b>,\u00a0223<\/i>, 115933. DOI: 10.1016\/j.poly.2022.115933<\/a><\/p>\n

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45. Intrator, J. A.; Orchanian, N. M.; Clough, A. J.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electronically-Coupled Redox Centers in Trimetallic Cobalt Complexes”\u00a0Dalton Trans.\u00a0<\/i>2022<\/b>,\u00a051<\/i>, 5660-5672. DOI: 10.1039\/D1DT03404A<\/a><\/p>\n

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44. Johnson, E. M.; Liu, J. J.; Samuel, A. D.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Switching Catalyst Selectivity via the Introduction of a Pendant Nitrophenyl Group”\u00a0Inorg. Chem.\u00a0<\/i>2022<\/b>,\u00a061, 3<\/i>, 1316-1326. DOI: 10.1021\/acs.inorgchem.1c02636<\/a><\/p>\n

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43. Liu, J. J.; Chapovetsky, A.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Effects of Protonation State on Electrocatalytic CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction by a Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocyclic Complex”\u00a0Inorg. Chem.\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a060, 23<\/i>, 17517-17528. DOI: 10.1021\/acs.inorgchem.1c01977<\/a><\/p>\n

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42. Chen, K.; Downes, C. A.; Goodpaster, J. D.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Hydrogen Evolving Activity of Dithiolene-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks with Mixed Cobalt and Iron Centers”\u00a0Inorg. Chem.\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a060, 16<\/i>, 11923-11931. DOI: 10.1021\/acs.inorgchem.1c00900<\/a><\/p>\n

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41. Chen, K.; Ray, D.; Ziebel, M. E.; Gaggioli, C. A.; Gagliardi, L.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Cu[Ni(2,3-pyrazinedithiolate)2<\/sub>] Metal-Organic Framework for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution”\u00a0ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a013, 29<\/i>, 34419-34427. DOI: 10.1021\/acsami.1c08998<\/a><\/p>\n

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40. Orchanian, N. M.; Hong, L. E.\u2020<\/sup>; Velazquez, D. A.\u2020<\/sup>; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electrocatalytic Syngas Generation with a Redox Non-Innocent Cobalt 2-Phosphinobenzenethiolate Complex”\u00a0Dalton Trans.\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a050<\/i>, 10779-10788. DOI: 10.1039\/D0DT03270K<\/a>
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39. Hellman, A. N.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Influence of intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions on the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0to CO by 6,6′-amine substituted rhenium bipyridine complexes”\u00a0ChemElectroChem\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a08<\/i>, 1864-1872. DOI: 10.1002\/celc.202100306<\/a><\/p>\n

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38. Chen, K.; Downes, C. A.; Schneider, E.; Goodpaster, J. D.*; Marinescu, S. C.* “Improving and Understanding the Hydrogen Evolving Activity of a Cobalt Dithiolene Metal-Organic Framework”\u00a0ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.\u00a0<\/i>2021<\/b>,\u00a013<\/i>, 16384-16395. DOI: 10.1021\/acsami.1c01727<\/a><\/p>\n

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37. Chapovetsky, A.; Liu, J. J.; Welborn, M.; Luna, J.M.; Do, T.; Haiges, R.; Miller, T.F.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electronically Modified Cobalt Aminopyridine Complexes Reveal an Orthogonal Axis for Catalytic Optimization for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction”\u00a0Inorg. Chem.\u00a0<\/i>2020<\/b>,\u00a059, 18<\/i>, 13709-13718. DOI: 10.1021\/acs.inorgchem.0c02086<\/a><\/p>\n

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36. Clough, A. J.; Orchanian, N. M.; Skelton J. M.; Neer, A. J.; Howard, S. A.; Downes, C. A.; Piper, L. F. J.; Walsh, A.; Melot, B. C.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Room Temperature Metallic Conductivity in a Metal-Organic Framework Induced by Oxidation”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>2019<\/b>,\u00a0141<\/i>, 16323-16330. DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.9b06898<\/a><\/p>\n

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35. Orchanian, N. M.; Hong, L. E.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Immobilized Molecular Wires on Carbon Cloth Electrodes Facilitate CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Electrolysis”\u00a0ACS Catal.<\/i>2019<\/b>,\u00a09<\/i>, 9393-9397. DOI: 10.1021\/acscatal.9b03134<\/a><\/p>\n

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34. Hellman, A. N.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Rhenium bipyridine catalysts with hydrogen bonding pendant amines for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0reduction”\u00a0Dalton Trans.<\/i>2019<\/b>,\u00a048<\/i>, 14251-14255. DOI: 10.1039\/C9DT02689D<\/a><\/p>\n

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33. Liu, J. J.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Harnessing the Oxidative Power of Monooxygenases through Electrochemistry”\u00a0ACS Cent. Sci.<\/i>2019<\/b>,\u00a05<\/i>(4), 577-578. DOI: 10.1021\/acscentsci.9b00320<\/a><\/p>\n

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32. Orchanian, N. M.; Hong, L. E.; Skrainka, J. A.; Esterhuizen, J. A.; Popov, D. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Surface-Immobilized Conjugated Polymers Incorporating Rhenium Bipyridine Motifs for Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction”\u00a0ACS Appl. Energy Mater.<\/i>2019<\/b>,\u00a02<\/i>(1), 110-123. DOI: 10.1021\/acsaem.8b01745<\/a><\/p>\n

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31. Popov, D. A.; Luna, J. M.; Orchanian, N. M.; Haiges, R.; Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “A 2,2′-Bipyridine-Containing Covalent Organic Framework Bearing Rhenium (I) Tricarbonyl Moieties for CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction”\u00a0Dalton Trans.<\/i>2018<\/b>,\u00a047<\/i>, 17450-17460. DOI: 10.1039\/C8DT00125A<\/a><\/p>\n

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30. Johnson, E. M.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Covalent Organic Frameworks Composed of Rhenium Bipyridine and Metal Porphyrins: Designing Heterobimetallic Frameworks with Two Distinct Metal Sites”\u00a0ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces<\/i>2018<\/b>,\u00a010<\/i>(44), 37919-37927. DOI:10.1021\/acsami.8b07795<\/a><\/p>\n

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29. Chapovetsky, A.\u2020<\/sup>; Welborn, M.\u2020<\/sup>; Luna, J. M.; Haiges, R.; Miller III, T. F.*; Marinescu, S. C.*; “Pendant Hydrogen-Bond Donors in Cobalt Catalysts Independently Enhance CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Reduction”\u00a0ACS Cent. Sci.<\/i>2018<\/b>,\u00a04<\/i>(3), 397-404. DOI:10.1021\/acscentsci.7b00607<\/a>
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28. Downes, C. A.; Clough, A. J.; Chen, K.; Yoo, J. W.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Evaluation of the H2<\/sub>\u00a0Evolving Activity of Benezenehexathiolate Coordination Frameworks and the Effect of Film Thickness on H2<\/sub>\u00a0Production”\u00a0ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces<\/i>2018<\/b>,\u00a010<\/i>, 1719-1727. DOI:10.1021\/acsami.7b15969<\/a><\/p>\n

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27. Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Understanding Variability in the Hydrogen Evolution Activity of a Cobalt Anthracenetetrathiolate Coordination Polymer”\u00a0ACS Catal.<\/i>2017<\/b>,\u00a07<\/i>, 8605-8612. DOI: 10.1021\/acscatal.7b02977<\/a><\/p>\n

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26. Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Electrocatalytic Metal-Organic Frameworks for Energy Applications”\u00a0ChemSusChem<\/i>,\u00a02017<\/b>,\u00a010<\/i>, 4374-4392. DOI: 10.1002\/cssc.201701420<\/a><\/p>\n

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25. Clough, A. J.; Skelton, J. M.; Downes, C. A.; de la Rosa, A. A.; Yoo, J. W.; Walsh, A.; Melot, B. C.*; Marinescu, S. C.* “Metallic Conductivity in a Two-Dimensional Cobalt Dithiolene Metal-Organic Framework”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>2017<\/b>,\u00a0139<\/i>, 10863-10867. DOI:10.1021\/jacs.7b05742<\/a><\/p>\n

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24. Downes, C. A.; Yoo, J. W.; Orchanian, N. M.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “H2<\/sub>\u00a0Evolution by a Cobalt Selenolate Electrocatalyst and Related Mechanistic Studies”\u00a0Chem. Commun.<\/i>2017<\/b>,\u00a053<\/i>, 7306-7309. DOI:10.1039\/C7CC02473H<\/a><\/p>\n

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23. Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Bioinspired Metal Selenolate Polymers with Tunable Mechanistic Pathways for Efficient H2<\/sub>\u00a0Evolution”\u00a0ACS Catal.<\/i>2017<\/b>,\u00a07<\/i>, 848-854. DOI:10.1021\/acscatal.6b03161<\/a><\/p>\n

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22. Chapovetsky, A.; Haiges, R.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Synthesis and characterization of a tetranickel complex supported by a dithiolate framework with pendant ether moieties”\u00a0Polyhedron<\/i>2017<\/b>,\u00a0123<\/i>, 9-13. DOI: 10.1016\/j.poly.2016.11.001<\/a><\/p>\n

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21. Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “One Dimensional Metal Dithiolene (M = Ni, Fe, Zn) Coordination Polymers for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction”\u00a0Dalton Trans.<\/i>2016<\/b>,\u00a045<\/i>, 19311-19321. DOI: 10.1039\/C6DT03257E<\/a><\/p>\n

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20. Chapovetsky, A.; Do, T. H.; Haiges, R.; Takase, M. K; Marinescu, S. C.* “Proton Assisted Reduction of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0by Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocycles”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>2016<\/b>,\u00a0138<\/i>, 5765-5768. DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.6b01980<\/a><\/p>\n

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19. Downes, C. A.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Efficient Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical H2<\/sub>\u00a0Production from Water by a Cobalt Dithiolene One Dimensional Metal-Organic Surface”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>2015<\/b>,\u00a0137<\/i>, 13740-13743. DOI: 10.1021\/jacs.5b07020<\/a><\/p>\n

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18. Clough, A. J.; Yoo, J. W.; Mecklenburg, M. H.; Marinescu, S. C.* “Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Surfaces for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Water”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>2015<\/b>,\u00a0137<\/i>, 118-121. DOI: 10.1021\/ja5116937<\/a><\/p>\n

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17. McKone, J. R.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Brunschwig, B. S.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* “Earth-abundant hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts”\u00a0Chem. Sci.<\/i>\u00a02014<\/b>,\u00a05<\/i>, 865-878.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

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16. Keith, J. A.; Behenna, D. C.; Sherden, N.; Mohr, J. T.; Ma, S.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Nielsen, R. J.; Oxgaard, J.; Stoltz, B. M.*; Goddard, W. A., III* “The Reaction Mechanism of the Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation: Inner-Sphere and Outer-Sphere Pathways, Internal Rearrangements, and Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>\u00a02012<\/b>,\u00a0134<\/i>, 19050-19060.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

15. Marinescu,<\/strong> S. C.<\/b>; Bracher, P. J.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* “Solar Fuels”\u00a0AIP Conf. Proc.<\/i>\u00a02013<\/b>,\u00a01519<\/i>, 64-67.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

14. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* “Molecular Mechanisms of Cobalt Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution”\u00a0Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA<\/i>\u00a02012<\/b>,\u00a0109<\/i>, 15127-15131.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

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13. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Ng, V. W. L.; Lichtscheidl, A. G.; Schrock, R. R.*; M\u00fcller, P.; Takase, M. K. “Syntheses of Variations of Stereogenic-at-Metal Imido Alkylidene Complexes of Molybdenum”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02012<\/b>,\u00a031<\/i>, 6336-6343.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

12. Behenna, D. C.; Mohr, J. T.; Sherden, N. H.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Harned, A. M.; Tani, K.; Seto, M.; Ma, S.; Nov\u00c3\u00a1k, Z.; Krout, M. R.; McFadden, R. M.; Roizen, J. L.; Enquist, J. A., Jr.; White, D. E.; Levine, S. R.; Petrova, K. V.; Iwashita, A.; Virgil, S. C.; Stoltz, B. M.* “Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation Reactions: Catalyst Development, Substrate Scope, and Mechanistic Studies”\u00a0Chem. Eur. J.<\/i>\u00a02011<\/b>,\u00a017<\/i>, 14199-14223.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

11. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Levine, D. S.; Zhao, Y.; Schrock, R. R.*; Hoveyda, A. H. “Isolation of Pure Disubstituted E Olefins through Mo-Catalyzed Z-Selective Ethenolysis of Stereoisomeric Mixtures”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>\u00a02011<\/b>,\u00a0133<\/i>, 11512-11514.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

10. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Schrock, R. R.*; M\u00fcller, P.; Takase, M. K.; Hoveyda, A. H. “Room-Temperature Z-Selective Homcoupling of \u03b1-Olefins by Tungsten Catalysts”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02011<\/b>,\u00a030<\/i>, 1780-1782.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

9. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; King, A. J.; Schrock, R. R.*; Singh, R.; M\u00fcller, P.; Takase, M. K. “Simple Molybdenum(IV) Olefin Complexes of the Type Mo(NR)(X)(Y)(olefin)”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02010<\/b>,\u00a029<\/i>, 6816-6828.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

8. Schrock, R. R.*; Jiang, A. J.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Simpson, J. H.; M\u00fcller, P. “Fundamental Studies of Molybdenum and Tungsten Methylidene and Metallacyclobutane Complexes”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02010<\/b>,\u00a029<\/i>, 5241-5251.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Schrock, R. R.*; M\u00fcller, P.; Hoveyda, A. H. “Ethenolysis Reactions Catalyzed by Imido Alkylidene Monopyrrolide (MAP) Complexes of Molybdenum”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>\u00a02009<\/b>,\u00a0131<\/i>, 10840-10841.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Rendon, N.; Berthoud, R.; Blanc, F.; Gajan, D.; Maishal, T.; Basset, J.-M.; Cop\u00c3\u00a9ret, C.*; Lesage, A.; Emsley, L.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Singh, R.; Schrock, R. R.* “Well-Defined Silica-Supported Mo-Alkylidene Catalyst Precursors containing one OR Substituent: Methods of Preparation and Structure-Reactivity Relationship in Alkene Metathesis”\u00a0Chem. Eur. J.<\/i>\u00a02009<\/b>,\u00a015<\/i>, 5083-5089.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Schrock, R. R.*; Li, B.; Hoveyda, A. H. “Inversion of Configuration at the Metal in Diastereomeric Imido Alkylidene Monoaryloxide Monopyrrolide Complexes of Molybdenum”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>\u00a02009<\/b>,\u00a0131<\/i>, 58-59.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Singh, R.; Hock, A. S.; Wampler, K. M.; Schrock, R. R.*; M\u00fcller, P. “Syntheses and Structures of Molybdenum Imido Alkylidene Pyrrolide and Indolide Complexes”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02008<\/b>,\u00a027<\/i>, 6570-6578.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Toyoki, N.; Mohr, J. T.; Stoltz, B. M.* “Homogeneous Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation”\u00a0Org. Lett.<\/i>\u00a02008<\/b>,\u00a010<\/i>, 1039-1042.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Keith, J. A.; Behenna, D. C.; Mohr, J. T.; Ma, S.; Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Oxgaard, J.; Stoltz, B. M.*; Goddard, W. A., III* “The Inner-Sphere Process in the Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation Reaction with (S)-t-Bu-phosphinooxazoline Ligands”\u00a0J. Am. Chem. Soc.<\/i>\u00a02007<\/b>,\u00a0129<\/i>, 11876-11877.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Agapie, T.; Day, M. W.; Bercaw, J. E.* “Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands – Synthesis and Reactivity”\u00a0Organometallics<\/i>\u00a02007<\/b>,\u00a026<\/i>, 1178-1190.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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  1. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Intrator, J. A.; Velazquez, D. A. “Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate by a Cobalt Phosphino-Thiolate Complex”, provisional patent, serial number USC0333PRV; 2022-185-001; filed 06\/16\/2022.<\/li>\n
  2. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Orchanian, N. M. “Immobilized Molecular Wires on Carbon Cloth Electrodes”, provisional patent, serial number 62\/894,173; filed 08\/30\/2019.<\/li>\n
  3. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Orchanian, N. M. “Electrocatalytic Syngas Generation with a Cobalt Phosphinothiolate Complex”, provisional patent, serial number 62\/874,896; filed 07\/16\/2019.<\/li>\n
  4. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Downes, C. A. “Bioinspired Metal Selenolate Polymers with Tunable Mechanistic Pathways for Efficient H2<\/sub>\u00a0Evolution”, provisional patent, USC 0172 PRV; filed 11\/17\/2016.<\/li>\n
  5. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Chapovetsky, A. “Proton Assisted Reduction of CO2<\/sub>\u00a0by Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocycles”, provisional patent, USC 0151 PRV; filed 04\/01\/2016.<\/li>\n
  6. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Downes, C. A.; Clough, A. J. “1D- and 2D-Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Water”, provisional patent, USC 0136 PRV; filed 10\/10\/2014.<\/li>\n
  7. Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Clough, A. J. “2D Metal-Organic Surfaces (MOS) for Efficient Water Reduction”, provisional patent, CIT-6775-P, filed 01\/16\/2014<\/li>\n
  8. Schrock, R. R.;\u00a0Marinescu, S. C.<\/b>; Hoveyda, A. H. “Catalysts and Processes for the Formation of Terminal Olefins by Ethenolysis”,\u00a02009<\/b>\u00a0U. S. Patent Application M0925.70258WO00.\u00a0Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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