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Emile L. Bominaar is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans materials science and chemistry, with a focus on materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry. The subfields of their work also include electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as cell biology and oncology.

Their scientific contributions include studies in metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, and magnetism in coordination complexes. Further topics of interest cover crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, metal complexes synthesis and properties, and photosynthetic processes and mechanisms.

Bominaar has published in several notable venues, with multiple papers appearing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Other frequent publication outlets include The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemical Science, ACS Catalysis, and Inorganic Chemistry.

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Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bominaar include:

  • Effects of Noncovalent Interactions on High-Spin Fe(IV)-Oxido Complexes (2020) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Artificial Metalloproteins with Dinuclear Iron-Hydroxido Centers (2021) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Catalytic Role of a Conserved Tyrosine in Nitric Oxide-Reducing Non-heme Diiron Enzymes (2020) in ACS Catalysis
  • Electronic State of the His/Tyr-Ligated Heme of BthA by Mössbauer and DFT Analysis (2020) in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Modulation of the Bonding between Copper and a Redox-Active Ligand by Hydrogen Bonds and Its Effect on Electronic Coupling and Spin States (2023) in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Chemical and Spectroscopic Evidence for an FeV-Oxo Complex

    Filipe Tiago de Oliveira;Arani Chanda;Deboshri Banerjee;Xiaopeng Shan

  • Aqueous FeIV==O: spectroscopic identification and oxo-group exchange.

    Oleg Pestovsky;Sebastian Stoian;Emile L. Bominaar;Xiaopeng Shan

  • A thiolate-ligated nonheme oxoiron(IV) complex relevant to cytochrome P450.

    Michael R. Bukowski;Michael R. Bukowski;Kevin D. Koehntop;Kevin D. Koehntop;Audria Stubna;Emile L. Bominaar

  • Planar three-coordinate high-spin Fe(II) complexes with large orbital angular momentum: Mössbauer, electron paramagnetic resonance, and electronic structure studies.

    Hanspeter Andres;Emile L Bominaar;Jeremy M Smith;Nathan A Eckert

  • A Synthetic High‐Spin Oxoiron(IV) Complex: Generation, Spectroscopic Characterization, and Reactivity

    Jason England;Marlène Martinho;Erik R. Farquhar;Jonathan R. Frisch

  • Properties of Prussian Blue Materials Manifested in Molecular Complexes: Observation of Cyanide Linkage Isomerism and Spin-Crossover Behavior in Pentanuclear Cyanide Clusters

    Mikhail Shatruk;Alina Dragulescu-Andrasi;Kristen E. Chambers;Sebastian A. Stoian

  • Excited-State Contributions to Ground-State Properties of Mixed-Valence Dimers: Spectral and Electronic-Structural Studies of [Fe2(OH)3(tmtacn)2]2+ Related to the [Fe2S2]+ Active Sites of Plant-Type Ferredoxins

    Daniel R. Gamelin;Emile L. Bominaar;Martin L. Kirk;Karl Wieghardt

  • Iron-containing proteins and related analogs — complementary Mössbauer, EPR and magnetic susceptibility studies

    Alfred X. Trautwein;Eckhard Bill;Emile L. Bominaar;Heiner Winkler

  • Trapping and spectroscopic characterization of an FeIII-superoxo intermediate from a nonheme mononuclear iron-containing enzyme

    Michael M. Mbughuni;Mrinmoy Chakrabarti;Joshua A. Hayden;Emile L. Bominaar

  • Modeling TauD-J: A High-Spin Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex with High Reactivity toward C–H Bonds

    Achintesh N. Biswas;Mayank Puri;Katlyn K. Meier;Williamson N. Oloo

  • (TAML)FeIV═O Complex in Aqueous Solution: Synthesis and Spectroscopic and Computational Characterization

    Arani Chanda;Xiaopeng Shan;Mrinmoy Chakrabarti;W. Chadwick Ellis

  • A more reactive trigonal-bipyramidal high-spin oxoiron(IV) complex with a cis-labile site

    Jason England;Yisong Guo;Katherine M. Van Heuvelen;Matthew A. Cranswick

  • Mössbauer and electron paramagnetic resonance study of the double-exchange and Heisenberg-exchange interactions in a novel binuclear Fe(II/III) delocalized-valence compound

    Xiao‐Qi Ding;Emile L. Bominaar;Eckhard Bill;Heiner Winkler

  • Density functional study of the electric hyperfine interactions and the redox-structural correlations in the cofactor of nitrogenase. Analysis of general trends in 57Fe isomer shifts

    Vladislav Vrajmasu;and Eckard Münck;Emile L. Bominaar

  • High-spin Mn–oxo complexes and their relevance to the oxygen-evolving complex within photosystem II

    Rupal Gupta;Taketo Taguchi;Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser;Emile L. Bominaar

  • A Tosylimido Analogue of a Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex

    Eric J. Klinker;Timothy A. Jackson;Michael P. Jensen;Audria Stubna

  • Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes of Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine with cis-Monoanionic Ligands

    Jan Uwe Rohde;Audria Stubna;Emile L. Bominaar;Eckard Münck

  • Reversal of Cyanide Inhibition of Cytochrome c Oxidase by the Auxiliary Substrate Nitric Oxide AN ENDOGENOUS ANTIDOTE TO CYANIDE POISONING

    Linda L. Pearce;Emile L. Bominaar;Bruce C. Hill;Jim Peterson

  • Double exchange and vibronic coupling in mixed valence systems. Origin of the broken-symmetry ground state of [Fe3S4]0 cores in proteins and models

    Serguei A. Borshch;Emile L. Bominaar;Genevieve Blondin;Jean Jacques Girerd

  • Mössbauer, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, and Crystallographic Characterization of a High-Spin Fe(I) Diketiminate Complex with Orbital Degeneracy

    Sebastian A. Stoian;Ying Yu;Jeremy M. Smith;Patrick L. Holland

  • Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Biological Systems

    Eckard Münck;Emile L. Bominaar

Frequent Co-Authors

Eckard Münck
Eckard Münck Carnegie Mellon University
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Michael P. Hendrich
Michael P. Hendrich Carnegie Mellon University
Terrence J. Collins
Terrence J. Collins Carnegie Mellon University
Alfred X. Trautwein
Alfred X. Trautwein University of Lübeck
Richard H. Holm
Richard H. Holm Harvard University
Alexander D. Ryabov
Alexander D. Ryabov Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick L. Holland
Patrick L. Holland Yale University
Jeremy M. Smith
Jeremy M. Smith Indiana University
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt Max Planck Society

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