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Brandon Q. Mercado

Brandon Q. Mercado

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Chemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
7042
World Ranking
16127
National Ranking
4019

Overview

Brandon Q. Mercado is affiliated with Yale University in the United States, with a primary focus on materials science. Their research covers a range of subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and catalysis.

The scientist's work spans several key topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, and metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms.

Brandon Q. Mercado has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in several important venues. Notable journals where they have published include The Cambridge Structural Database with 178 publications, Inorganic Chemistry with 16 papers, the Journal of the American Chemical Society with 13 contributions, Chemical Science with 8 articles, and ACS Catalysis with 7 papers.

Among recent significant papers are the following:

  • "Coupling dinitrogen and hydrocarbons through aryl migration," 2020, Nature
  • "Electrocatalytic, Homogeneous Ammonia Oxidation in Water to Nitrate and Nitrite with a Copper Complex," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Generality-oriented optimization of enantioselective aminoxyl radical catalysis," 2023, Science
  • "Combining scaling relationships overcomes rate versus overpotential trade-offs in O 2 molecular electrocatalysis," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Tunable and Practical Homogeneous Organic Reductants for Cross-Electrophile Coupling," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Collaboration is a notable feature of Brandon Q. Mercado's research, with frequent coauthors including Patrick L. Holland, Nilay Hazari, James M. Mayer, Wesley H. Bernskoetter, and Robert H. Crabtree, each with numerous joint publications indicating ongoing partnerships across various research projects.

Best Publications

  • Lewis Acid-Assisted Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using a Pincer-Supported Iron Catalyst

    Elizabeth A. Bielinski;Paraskevi O. Lagaditis;Yuanyuan Zhang;Brandon Q. Mercado

  • Iron catalyzed CO2 hydrogenation to formate enhanced by Lewis acid co-catalysts.

    Yuanyuan Zhang;Alex D. MacIntosh;Janice L. Wong;Elizabeth A. Bielinski

  • Binding of dinitrogen to an iron–sulfur–carbon site

    Ilija Čorić;Brandon Q. Mercado;Eckhard Bill;David J. Vinyard

  • Rapid, Regioconvergent, Solvent-Free Alkene Hydrosilylation with a Cobalt Catalyst

    Chi Chen;Maxwell B. Hecht;Aydin Kavara;William W. Brennessel

  • Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Copper(II) Complex of an Oxidation-Resistant Ligand

    Katherine J. Fisher;Kelly L. Materna;Brandon Q. Mercado;Robert H. Crabtree

  • Concerted proton-electron transfer reactions in the Marcus inverted region

    Giovanny A. Parada;Zachary K. Goldsmith;Scott Kolmar;Belinda Pettersson Rimgard

  • A seven atom cluster in a carbon cage, the crystallographically determined structure of Sc4(μ3-O)3@Ih-C80

    Brandon Q. Mercado;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Christine M. Beavers;Michael L. Easterling

  • The Shape of the Sc2(μ2-S) Unit Trapped in C82: Crystallographic, Computational, and Electrochemical Studies of the Isomers, Sc2(μ2-S)@Cs(6)-C82 and Sc2(μ2-S)@C3v(8)-C82

    Brandon Q. Mercado;Ning Chen;Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea;Mary A. Mackey

  • Is the isolated pentagon rule merely a suggestion for endohedral fullerenes? The structure of a second egg-shaped endohedral fullerene--Gd3N@C(s)(39663)-C82.

    Brandon Q. Mercado;Christine M. Beavers;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Manuel N. Chaur

  • Diversity of Secondary Structure in Catalytic Peptides with β-Turn-Biased Sequences

    Anthony J. Metrano;Nadia C. Abascal;Brandon Q. Mercado;Eric K. Paulson

  • Rh(III)-Catalyzed Aryl and Alkenyl C–H Bond Addition to Diverse Nitroalkenes

    Tyler J. Potter;David N. Kamber;Brandon Q. Mercado;Jonathan A. Ellman

  • Alkali Metal Control over N–N Cleavage in Iron Complexes

    Katarzyna Grubel;William W. Brennessel;Brandon Q. Mercado;Patrick L. Holland

  • Roles of Iron Complexes in Catalytic Radical Alkene Cross-Coupling: A Computational and Mechanistic Study

    Dongyoung Kim;S. M. Wahidur Rahaman;Brandon Q. Mercado;Rinaldo Poli

  • Coupling dinitrogen and hydrocarbons through aryl migration.

    Sean F. McWilliams;Daniël L. J. Broere;Daniël L. J. Broere;Connor J. V. Halliday;Samuel M. Bhutto

  • Selective conversion of glycerol to lactic acid with iron pincer precatalysts

    Liam S. Sharninghausen;Brandon Q. Mercado;Robert H. Crabtree;Nilay Hazari

  • Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Imidoyl C–H Activation for Annulations to Azolopyrimidines

    Kim Søholm Halskov;Michael R. Witten;Gia L. Hoang;Brandon Q. Mercado

  • Synthesis and Reactivity of Paramagnetic Nickel Polypyridyl Complexes Relevant to C(sp 2 )–C(sp 3 )Coupling Reactions

    Megan Mohadjer Beromi;Gary W. Brudvig;Nilay Hazari;Hannah M. C. Lant

  • Isolation of a Small Carbon Nanotube: The Surprising Appearance of D5h(1)‐C90

    Hua Yang;Christine M. Beavers;Zhimin Wang;An Jiang

  • Isolation and Structural Characterization of the Molecular Nanocapsule Sm2@D3d(822)‐C104

    Brandon Q Mercado;An Jiang;Hua Yang;Zhimin Wang

  • [2 + 2] Cycloaddition Reaction to Sc3N@Ih-C80. The Formation of Very Stable [5,6]- and [6,6]-Adducts

    Fang Fang Li;Julio R. Pinzón;Brandon Q. Mercado;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Selective and synergistic cobalt(III)-catalyzed three-component C-H bond addition to dienes and aldehydes.

    Jeffrey A. Boerth;Soham Maity;Sarah K. Williams;Brandon Q. Mercado

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland Yale University
Gary W. Brudvig
Gary W. Brudvig Yale University
Robert H. Crabtree
Robert H. Crabtree Yale University
Marilyn M. Olmstead
Marilyn M. Olmstead University of California, Davis
Alan L. Balch
Alan L. Balch University of California, Davis
Jonathan A. Ellman
Jonathan A. Ellman Yale University
Scott J. Miller
Scott J. Miller Yale University
James M. Mayer
James M. Mayer Yale University
William W. Brennessel
William W. Brennessel University of Rochester
Robert G. Bergman
Robert G. Bergman University of California, Berkeley

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