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Britt Hedman is affiliated with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily in materials science and chemistry, with a strong focus on inorganic chemistry and materials chemistry as subfields. Additionally, their work touches on renewable energy, sustainability, molecular biology, and oncology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction

Hedman has published extensively, with a significant number of papers appearing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, The Cambridge Structural Database, and Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Methane Activation by a Mononuclear Copper Active Site in the Zeolite Mordenite: Effect of Metal Nuclearity on Reactivity" (2022) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A Thioether-Ligated Cupric Superoxide Model with Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactivity" (2021) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Kβ X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Cu(I)-Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase: Direct Observation of the Frontier Molecular Orbital for H2O2 Activation" (2023) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Short-lived metal-centered excited state initiates iron-methionine photodissociation in ferrous cytochrome c" (2021) in Nature Communications
  • "Effect of 3d/4p Mixing on 1s2p Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering: Electronic Structure of Oxo-Bridged Iron Dimers" (2021) in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Hedman frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Keith O. Hodgson, Edward I. Solomon, Thomas Kröll, Dimosthenis Sokaras, and Augustin Braun. These collaborations reflect a network of expertise contributing to their scientific output.

Best Publications

  • A Multiplet Analysis of Fe K-Edge 1s → 3d Pre-Edge Features of Iron Complexes

    Tami E. Westre;Pierre Kennepohl;Jane G. DeWitt;Britt Hedman

  • Catalytic Galactose Oxidase Models: Biomimetic Cu(II)-Phenoxyl-Radical Reactivity

    Yadong Wang;Jennifer L. DuBois;Britt Hedman;Keith O. Hodgson

  • Ligand K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Covalency of ligand-metal bonds

    Edward I. Solomon;Britt Hedman;Keith O. Hodgson;Abhishek Dey

  • Ligand K-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: A Direct Probe of Ligand−Metal Covalency

    Thorsten Glaser;Britt Hedman;Keith O. Hodgson;Edward I. Solomon

  • Tyrosinase Reactivity in a Model Complex: An Alternative Hydroxylation Mechanism

    Liviu M. Mirica;Michael Vance;Deanne Jackson Rudd;Britt Hedman

  • Nature of the Intermediate Formed in the Reduction of O2 to H2O at the Trinuclear Copper Cluster Active Site in Native Laccase

    Sang-Kyu Lee;Serena Debeer George;William E. Antholine;Britt Hedman

  • X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies of the blue copper site: Metal and ligand K-edge studies to probe the origin of the EPR hyperfine splitting in plastocyanin

    Susan E. Shadle;James E. Penner-Hahn;Harvey J. Schugar;Britt Hedman

  • Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear non-haem iron( III )–peroxo complex

    Jaeheung Cho;Sujin Jeon;Samuel A. Wilson;Lei V. Liu

  • X-ray absorption, Moessbauer, and EPR studies of the dinuclear iron center in the hydroxylase component of methane monooxygenase

    Jane G. DeWitt;James G. Bentsen;Amy C. Rosenzweig;Britt Hedman

  • L-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Non-Heme Iron Sites: Experimental Determination of Differential Orbital Covalency

    Erik C. Wasinger;Frank M. F. De Groot;Britt Hedman;Keith O. Hodgson

  • EXAFS and Near Edge Structure III

    Keith O. Hodgson;Britt Hedman;James E. Penner-Hahn

  • Fe L-Edge XAS Studies of K4[Fe(CN)6] and K3[Fe(CN)6]: A Direct Probe of Back-Bonding

    Rosalie Katherine Hocking;Erik C Wasinger;Frank M F de Groot;Keith O Hodgson

  • A Systematic K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Study of Cu(III) Sites

    Jennifer L. DuBois;Pulakesh Mukherjee;T. D. P. Stack;Britt Hedman

  • K- and L-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) Determination of Differential Orbital Covalency (DOC) of Transition Metal Sites.

    Michael L. Baker;Michael William Mara;James J. Yan;Keith O. Hodgson

  • Spectroscopic and Theoretical Description of the Electronic Structure of S = 3/2 Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes and Their Relation to O2 Activation by Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Active Sites

    Carl A. Brown;Mark A. Pavlosky;Tami E. Westre;Yan Zhang

  • Phase determination by multiple-wavelength x-ray diffraction: crystal structure of a basic "blue" copper protein from cucumbers.

    JM Guss;EA Merritt;RP Phizackerley;B Hedman

  • A codeposition route to CuI-pyridine coordination complexes for organic light-emitting diodes.

    Zhiwei Liu;Munzarin F. Qayyum;Chao Wu;Matthew T. Whited

  • Spectroscopic and DFT Investigation of [M{HB(3,5-iPr2pz)3}(SC6F5)] (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) Model Complexes: Periodic Trends in Metal−Thiolate Bonding

    Serge I. Gorelsky;Lipika Basumallick;Josh Vura-Weis;Ritimukta Sarangi

  • Aryl CH Activation by CuII To Form an Organometallic Aryl–CuIII Species: A Novel Twist on Copper Disproportionation†

    Xavi Ribas;Deanne A. Jackson;Bruno Donnadieu;José Mahía

  • Spectroscopic and computational insight into the activation of O2 by the mononuclear Cu center in polysaccharide monooxygenases

    Christian H. Kjaergaard;Munzarin F. Qayyum;Shaun D. Wong;Feng Xu

  • Electronic structure of the perturbed blue copper site in nitrite reductase: spectroscopic properties, bonding and implications for the entatic/rack state.

    Louis B. LaCroix;Susan E. Shadle;Yaning Wang;Bruce A. Averill

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Ritimukta Sarangi
Ritimukta Sarangi SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Richard H. Holm
Richard H. Holm Harvard University
Yilin Hu
Yilin Hu University of California, Irvine
Markus W. Ribbe
Markus W. Ribbe University of California, Irvine
Kenneth D. Karlin
Kenneth D. Karlin Johns Hopkins University
Abhishek Dey
Abhishek Dey Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Thorsten Glaser
Thorsten Glaser Bielefeld University

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