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Babak Borhan is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and specializes in the field of Chemistry. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of Babak Borhan's work include:

  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Vanadium and Halogenation Chemistry
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Their recent papers reflect a focus on luminescent solar concentrators, fluorescent proteins, and stereochemical determination in organic molecules. Notable publications include:

  • Consensus statement: Standardized reporting of power-producing luminescent solar concentrator performance, 2022, Joule
  • Design of Large Stokes Shift Fluorescent Proteins Based on Excited State Proton Transfer of an Engineered Photobase, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • High-Performance Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials
  • Ultraviolet and Near-Infrared Dual-Band Selective-Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Absolute Stereochemical Determination of Organic Molecules through Induction of Helicity in Host-Guest Complexes, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research

Babak Borhan has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Mehdi Moemeni
  • James H. Geiger
  • Richard R. Lunt
  • Wei Sheng
  • Hadi Gholami

The scientist has published multiple times in high-impact venues. The most frequent publication venues for Babak Borhan's research are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Journal of Molecular Structure

Best Publications

  • Facile Oxidation of Aldehydes to Acids and Esters with Oxone

    Benjamin R. Travis;Meenakshi Sivakumar;G. Olatunji Hollist;Babak Borhan

  • Osmium tetroxide-promoted catalytic oxidative cleavage of olefins: an organometallic ozonolysis.

    Benjamin R. Travis;Radha S. Narayan;Babak Borhan

  • The antimicrobial compound reuterin (3-hydroxypropionaldehyde) induces oxidative stress via interaction with thiol groups.

    Laura Schaefer;Thomas A. Auchtung;Karley E. Hermans;Daniel Whitehead

  • An organocatalytic asymmetric chlorolactonization.

    Daniel C. Whitehead;Roozbeh Yousefi;Arvind Jaganathan;Babak Borhan

  • Magnetic glyco-nanoparticles: a tool to detect, differentiate, and unlock the glyco-codes of cancer via magnetic resonance imaging.

    Kheireddine El-Boubbou;David C. Zhu;Chrysoula Vasileiou;Babak Borhan

  • Movement of retinal along the visual transduction path.

    Babak Borhan;Maria L. Souto;Hiroo Imai;Yoshinori Shichida

  • Zinc Porphyrin Tweezer in Host−Guest Complexation: Determination of Absolute Configurations of Diamines, Amino Acids, and Amino Alcohols by Circular Dichroism

    Xuefei Huang;Barry H. Rickman;Babak Borhan;Nina Berova

  • A catalytic asymmetric chlorocyclization of unsaturated amides.

    Arvind Jaganathan;Atefeh Garzan;Daniel C. Whitehead;Richard J. Staples

  • Fluorinated porphyrin tweezer: a powerful reporter of absolute configuration for erythro and threo diols, amino alcohols, and diamines.

    Xiaoyong Li;Marina Tanasova;Chrysoula Vasileiou;Babak Borhan

  • Point-to-Axial Chirality Transfer—A New Probe for “Sensing” the Absolute Configurations of Monoamines

    Mercy Anyika;Hadi Gholami;Kumar D. Ashtekar;Robert Acho

  • Tuning the electronic absorption of protein-embedded all-trans-retinal.

    Wenjing Wang;Zahra Nossoni;Tetyana Berbasova;Camille T. Watson

  • Consensus Statement: Standardized Reporting of Power-Producing Luminescent Solar Concentrator Performance

    Chenchen Yang;Harry A. Atwater;Marc Baldo;Derya Baran

  • Zinc porphyrin tweezer in host-guest complexation: determination of absolute configurations of primary monoamines by circular dichroism.

    Xuefei Huang;Babak Borhan;Barry H. Rickman;Koji Nakanishi

  • On the chlorenium source in the asymmetric chlorolactonization reaction.

    Roozbeh Yousefi;Daniel C. Whitehead;Janet M. Mueller;Richard J. Staples

  • Improved radiolabeled substrates for soluble epoxide hydrolase.

    B. Borhan;T. Mebrahtu;S. Nazarian;M.J. Kurth

  • Mechanism of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase FORMATION OF AN α-HYDROXY ESTER-ENZYME INTERMEDIATE THROUGH Asp-333

    Babak Borhan;A. Daniel Jones;Franck Pinot;David F. Grant

  • Molecular and Biochemical Evidence for the Involvement of the Asp-333–His-523 Pair in the Catalytic Mechanism of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase

    Franck Pinot;David F. Grant;Jeffrey K. Beetham;Anthony G. Parker

  • Synthesis of diastereomerically and enantiomerically pure 2,3-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans using a sulfoxonium ylide

    Jennifer M. Schomaker;Veera Reddy Pulgam;Babak Borhan

  • Diastereomerically and enantiomerically pure 2,3-disubstituted pyrrolidines from 2,3-aziridin-1-ols using a sulfoxonium ylide: a one-carbon homologative relay ring expansion.

    Jennifer M. Schomaker;Somnath Bhattacharjee;Jun Yan;Babak Borhan

  • Prompt determination of absolute configuration for epoxy alcohols via exciton chirality protocol.

    Xiaoyong Li;Babak Borhan

  • Kinetic resolution of unsaturated amides in a chlorocyclization reaction: concomitant enantiomer differentiation and face selective alkene chlorination by a single catalyst.

    Arvind Jaganathan;Richard J. Staples;Babak Borhan

  • Nucleophile-Assisted Alkene Activation: Olefins Alone Are Often Incompetent

    Kumar Dilip Ashtekar;Mathew Vetticatt;Roozbeh Yousefi;James E. Jackson

  • Preparation of Purified KHSO5·H2O and nBu4NHSO5 from Oxone by Simple and Efficient Methods

    Benjamin R. Travis;Benjamin P. Ciaramitaro;Babak Borhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Staples
Richard J. Staples Michigan State University
Bruce D. Hammock
Bruce D. Hammock University of California, Davis
Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi Columbia University
James E. Jackson
James E. Jackson Michigan State University
Mark J. Kurth
Mark J. Kurth University of California, Davis
Marcos Dantus
Marcos Dantus Michigan State University
Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
Richard R. Lunt
Richard R. Lunt Michigan State University
Piotr Piecuch
Piotr Piecuch Michigan State University
Xuefei Huang
Xuefei Huang Michigan State University

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