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Overview

John Bacsa is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on materials science and chemistry, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. Their work also spans electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, as well as molecular biology.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes

John Bacsa has contributed to various academic journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Chemistry of Materials

They have collaborated multiple times with coauthors such as Henry S. La Pierre, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Huw M. L. Davies, and Tatiana V. Timofeeva.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by John Bacsa include:

  • The Mechanism of Rhodium-Catalyzed Allylic C-H Amination, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Comparison of tetravalent cerium and terbium ions in a conserved, homoleptic imidophosphorane ligand field, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Tuning the Structures of Metal-Organic Frameworks via a Mixed-Linker Strategy for Ethylene/Ethane Kinetic Separation, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Copper-Catalyzed Oxidation of Hydrazones to Diazo Compounds Using Oxygen as the Terminal Oxidant, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling Enabled by Fe and Ni Metallaphotoredox Catalysis, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Porous organic cages

    Tomokazu Tozawa;James T. A. Jones;Shashikala I. Swamy;Shan Jiang

  • Modular and predictable assembly of porous organic molecular crystals

    James T. A. Jones;Tom Hasell;Xiaofeng Wu;John Bacsa

  • A guest-responsive fluorescent 3D microporous metal-organic framework derived from a long-lifetime pyrene core.

    Kyriakos C. Stylianou;Romain Heck;Samantha Y. Chong;John Bacsa

  • An Adaptable Peptide-Based Porous Material

    J. Rabone;Y.-F. Yue;S. Y. Chong;K. C. Stylianou

  • Site-selective and stereoselective functionalization of unactivated C–H bonds

    Kuangbiao Liao;Solymar Negretti;Djamaladdin G. Musaev;John Bacsa

  • Anion template effect on the self-assembly and interconversion of metallacyclophanes.

    Cristian Saul Campos-Fernández;Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Jitendra K. Bera

  • Anion-π interactions as controlling elements in self-assembly reactions of Ag(I) complexes with π-acidic aromatic rings

    Brandi L. Schottel;Helen T. Chifotides;Mikhail Shatruk;Abdellatif Chouai

  • An Exceptionally Fast Homogeneous Carbon-Free Cobalt-Based Water Oxidation Catalyst

    Hongjin Lv;Jie Song;Yurii V. Geletii;James W. Vickers

  • A Versatile Catalyst for Reductive Amination by Transfer Hydrogenation

    Chao Wang;Alan Pettman;John Basca;Jianliang Xiao

  • Site-selective and stereoselective functionalization of non-activated tertiary C–H bonds

    Kuangbiao Liao;Thomas C. Pickel;Vyacheslav Boyarskikh;John Bacsa

  • Triply interlocked covalent organic cages.

    Tom Hasell;Xiaofeng Wu;James T. A. Jones;John Bacsa

  • A noble-metal-free, tetra-nickel polyoxotungstate catalyst for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

    Hongjin Lv;Weiwei Guo;Kaifeng Wu;Zheyuan Chen

  • Strong electron correlations in the normal state of the iron-based FeSe0.42Te0.58 superconductor observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

    Anna Tamai;A. Y. Ganin;E. Rozbicki;J. Bacsa

  • DNA binding and photocleavage in vitro by new dirhodium(II) dppz complexes: correlation to cytotoxicity and photocytotoxicity.

    Alfredo M. Angeles-Boza;Patricia M. Bradley;Patty K.-L. Fu;Sara E. Wicke

  • A Multilateral Mechanistic Study into Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation in Water

    Xiaofeng Wu;Jianke Liu;Devis Di Tommaso;Jonathan A. Iggo

  • On–Off Porosity Switching in a Molecular Organic Solid

    James T. A. Jones;Daniel Holden;Tamoghna Mitra;Tom Hasell

  • Generation of a solid Brønsted acid site in a chiral framework.

    Michael J Ingleson;Jorge Perez Barrio;John Bacsa;Calum Dickinson

  • Ruthenium(II) complexes of 1,12-diazaperylene and their interactions with DNA.

    Abdellatif Chouai;Sara E. Wicke;Claudia Turro;John Bacsa

  • The delicate balance between gelation and crystallisation: structural and computational investigations

    Dave J. Adams;Kyle Morris;Lin Chen;Louise C. Serpell

  • Design, Isolation, and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Tetravalent Terbium Complex.

    Natalie T. Rice;Ivan A. Popov;Dominic R. Russo;John Bacsa

  • Anion dependence of Ag(I) reactions with 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (bptz): isolation of the molecular propeller compound [Ag2(bptz)3][AsF6]2

    Brandi L. Schottel;John Bacsa;Kim R. Dunbar

  • Modular and predictable assembly of porous organic molecular crystals

    AI Cooper;GM Day;Jta Jones;X Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim R. Dunbar
Kim R. Dunbar Texas A&M University
Matthew J. Rosseinsky
Matthew J. Rosseinsky University of Liverpool
Alexander Steiner
Alexander Steiner University of Liverpool
Andrew I. Cooper
Andrew I. Cooper University of Liverpool
Craig L. Hill
Craig L. Hill Emory University
Djamaladdin G. Musaev
Djamaladdin G. Musaev Emory University
Dave J. Adams
Dave J. Adams University of Glasgow
Paul R. Chalker
Paul R. Chalker University of Liverpool
Anthony C. Jones
Anthony C. Jones University of Liverpool
Yaroslav Z. Khimyak
Yaroslav Z. Khimyak University of East Anglia

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