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  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joseph L. Templeton is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within chemistry and engineering, focusing on materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, electrochemistry, and inorganic chemistry.

Their recent publications include work on water oxidation, molecular chromophore-catalyst assemblies, electron transfer dynamics, and inclusive excellence in STEM. Notable papers are:

  • Synthesis, characterization, and water oxidation by a molecular chromophore-catalyst assembly prepared by atomic layer deposition. The "mummy" strategy, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Mediator-assisted water oxidation by the ruthenium "blue dimer" cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuORu(OH2)(bpy)2]4+, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Replicating Meyerhoff for inclusive excellence in STEM, 2025, UNC Libraries
  • Ultrafast Recombination Dynamics in Dye-Sensitized SnO2/TiO2 Core/Shell Films, 2025, UNC Libraries
  • Pathways Following Electron Injection: Medium Effects and Cross-Surface Electron Transfer in a Ruthenium-Based, Chromophore-Catalyst Assembly on TiO2, 2025, UNC Libraries

Joseph L. Templeton frequently collaborates with researchers such as M. Kyle Brennaman, Alexander M. Lapides, Melissa K. Gish, Thomas J. Meyer, and Benjamin D. Sherman.

Their research covers topics including:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Joseph L. Templeton has published primarily in the venue UNC Libraries. Their work contributes to understanding complex chemical systems, particularly involving oxidation processes and electron transfer mechanisms in molecular assemblies and semiconductor materials.

In 2013, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Making Oxygen with Ruthenium Complexes

    Javier J. Concepcion;Jonah W. Jurss;M. Kyle Brennaman;Paul G. Hoertz

  • One site is enough. Catalytic water oxidation by [Ru(tpy)(bpm)(OH2)]2+ and [Ru(tpy)(bpz)(OH2)]2+.

    Javier J. Concepcion;Jonah W. Jurss;Joseph L. Templeton;Thomas J. Meyer

  • Molecular Chromophore–Catalyst Assemblies for Solar Fuel Applications

    Dennis L. Ashford;Melissa K. Gish;Aaron K. Vannucci;M. Kyle Brennaman

  • Mechanisms of water oxidation from the blue dimer to photosystem II

    Feng Liu;Javier J. Concepcion;Jonah W. Jurss;Thomas Cardolaccia

  • Four-electron alkyne ligands in molybdenum(II) and tungsten(II) complexes

    Joseph L. Templeton

  • Catalytic Water Oxidation by Single-Site Ruthenium Catalysts

    Javier J. Concepcion;Jonah W. Jurss;Michael R. Norris;Zuofeng Chen

  • Carbon-13 chemical shifts of alkyne ligands as variable electron donors in monomeric molybdenum and tungsten complexes

    Joseph L. Templeton;Bennett C. Ward

  • Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Synthesis of Aziridines

    Luis Casarrubios;Julio A. Pérez;Maurice Brookhart;Joseph L. Templeton

  • A copper(I) catalyst for carbene and nitrene transfer to form cyclopropanes, cyclopropenes, and aziridines

    Pedro J. Pérez;M. Brookhart;Joseph L Templeton

  • Substituent Effects on the Reaction Rates of Copper-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation and Aziridination of para-Substituted Styrenes†

    M. Mar Díaz-Requejo;Pedro J. Pérez;Maurice Brookhart;Joseph L. Templeton

  • Synthesis of phosphonic acid derivatized bipyridine ligands and their ruthenium complexes.

    Michael R. Norris;Javier J. Concepcion;Christopher R. K. Glasson;Zhen Fang

  • Role of ligand .pi.-donation in electron-deficient organometallic Group VIB complexes

    Joseph L. Templeton;Paul B. Winston;Bennett C. Ward

  • Reactions of an amphoteric terminal tungsten methylidyne complex.

    Alejandro E. Enriquez;Peter S. White;Joseph L. Templeton

  • Mediator-assisted water oxidation by the ruthenium “blue dimer” cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuORu(OH2)(bpy)2]4+

    Javier J. Concepcion;Jonah W. Jurss;Joseph L. Templeton;Thomas J. Meyer

  • Transformation of a tungsten(0) alkyne to a tungsten(II) alkyne via vinylidene, carbyne, and ketenyl ligands

    K. R. Birdwhistell;T. L. Tonker;J. L. Templeton

  • Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Chromophore–Catalyst Assembly Anchored to TiO2

    Dennis L. Ashford;Wenjing Song;Javier J. Concepcion;Christopher R. K. Glasson

  • SOLID-STATE STRUCTURE OF TP'PTME2H, A DIMETHYLHYDRIDO PLATINUM(IV) COMPLEX

    Stacy A. O'Reilly;Peter S. White;Joseph L. Templeton

  • Reductive Elimination/Oxidative Addition of Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds at Pt(IV)/Pt(II) Centers: Mechanistic Studies of the Solution Thermolyses of TpMe2Pt(CH3)2H

    Michael P. Jensen;Douglas D. Wick;Stefan Reinartz;Peter S. White

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of alkynes as four-electron donor ligands in monomeric tungsten(II) complexes

    Bennett C. Ward;Joseph L. Templeton

  • Structural and theoretical evidence for participation of the second acetylene .pi. orbital in transition metal alkyne complexes

    Kazuyuki. Tatsumi;Roald. Hoffmann;Joseph L. Templeton

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter S. White
Peter S. White University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maurice Brookhart
Maurice Brookhart University of Houston
Javier J. Concepcion
Javier J. Concepcion Brookhaven National Laboratory
Joseph M. DeSimone
Joseph M. DeSimone Stanford University
Pedro J. Pérez
Pedro J. Pérez University of Huelva
Edward T. Samulski
Edward T. Samulski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
T. Brent Gunnoe
T. Brent Gunnoe University of Virginia
Kenneth Hanson
Kenneth Hanson Florida State University
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University

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