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Keith O. Hodgson is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry. Within these domains, Hodgson's work is especially prominent in materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry, with contributions also related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics, including metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, and metal complexes synthesis and properties. Additional areas of study include enzyme structure and function, porphyrin metabolism and disorders, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction.

Hodgson has published frequently in several notable scientific journals. The primary venues of publication include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on copper and iron chemistry, as well as spectroscopic analysis techniques. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Methane Activation by a Mononuclear Copper Active Site in the Zeolite Mordenite: Effect of Metal Nuclearity on Reactivity," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A Thioether-Ligated Cupric Superoxide Model with Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactivity," 2021, 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, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Short-lived metal-centered excited state initiates iron-methionine photodissociation in ferrous cytochrome c," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Effect of 3d/4p Mixing on 1s2p Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering: Electronic Structure of Oxo-Bridged Iron Dimers," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of Hodgson's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Britt Hedman
  • Edward I. Solomon
  • Hyeongtaek Lim
  • Thomas Kröll
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras

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

  • X-ray absorption edge determination of the oxidation state and coordination number of copper: application to the type 3 site in Rhus vernicifera laccase and its reaction with oxygen

    Lung Shan Kau;Darlene J. Spira-Solomon;James E. Penner-Hahn;Keith O. Hodgson

  • Femtosecond diffractive imaging with a soft-X-ray free-electron laser

    Henry N. Chapman;Henry N. Chapman;Anton Barty;Michael J. Bogan;Sébastien Boutet;Sébastien Boutet;Sébastien Boutet

  • Single mimivirus particles intercepted and imaged with an X-ray laser

    M. Marvin Seibert;Tomas Ekeberg;Filipe R.N.C. Maia;Martin Svenda

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

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

  • Structural genomics of the Thermotoga maritima proteome implemented in a high-throughput structure determination pipeline

    Scott A. Lesley;Peter Kuhn;Adam Godzik;Ashley M. Deacon

  • High Resolution 3D X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy

    Jianwei Miao;Tetsuya Ishikawa;Bart Johnson;Erik H. Anderson

  • 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

  • Use of one‐electron theory for the interpretation of near edge structure in K‐shell x‐ray absorption spectra of transition metal complexes

    Frank W. Kutzler;C. R. Natoli;D. K. Misemer;S. Doniach

  • 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

  • Structural characterization of horseradish peroxidase using EXAFS spectroscopy: evidence for Fe=O ligation in compounds I and II

    James E. Penner-Hahn;Kim. Smith Eble;Thomas J. McMurry;Mark. Renner

  • Imaging whole Escherichia coli bacteria by using single-particle x-ray diffraction

    Jianwei Miao;Keith O. Hodgson;Tetsuya Ishikawa;Carolyn A. Larabell

  • Observation of an electric quadrupole transition in the X-ray absorption spectrum of a Cu(II) complex

    James E. Hahn;Robert A. Scott;Keith O. Hodgson;Sebastian Doniach

  • The molybdenum site of nitrogenase. Preliminary structural evidence from x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Stephen P. Cramer;Keith O. Hodgson;William O. Gillum;Leonard E. Mortenson

  • 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

  • EXAFS and Near Edge Structure III

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Scott A. Lesley
Scott A. Lesley Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Lukasz Jaroszewski
Lukasz Jaroszewski Discovery Institute
Ian A. Wilson
Ian A. Wilson Scripps Research Institute
Sanjay Krishna
Sanjay Krishna The Ohio State University
Gye Won Han
Gye Won Han University of Southern California
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of Southern California

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