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Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17986
World Ranking
5269
National Ranking
1643

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with an emphasis on materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion

Key publication venues where Marcetta Y. Darensbourg has frequently published include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemical Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the researcher include:

  • Dinitrosyl iron complexes (DNICs) as inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2021, Chemical Communications
  • Zinc thiotropolone combinations as inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2021, Dalton Transactions
  • Cooperative redox and spin activity from three redox congeners of sulfur-bridged iron nitrosyl and nickel dithiolene complexes, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The roles of chalcogenides in O2 protection of H2ase active sites, 2020, Chemical Science
  • Effects of Glutathione and Histidine on NO Release from a Dimeric Dinitrosyl Iron Complex (DNIC), 2020, Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Manuel Quiroz
  • Michael B. Hall
  • Donald J. Darensbourg
  • Manish Jana
  • Brad S. Pierce

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg has received several honors in recognition of their contributions to science, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011, and Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Beyond fossil fuel-driven nitrogen transformations.

    Jingguang G. Chen;Jingguang G. Chen;Richard M. Crooks;Lance C. Seefeldt;Kara L. Bren

  • CARBON MONOXIDE AND CYANIDE LIGANDS IN A CLASSICAL ORGANOMETALLIC COMPLEX MODEL FOR FE-ONLY HYDROGENASE

    Erica J. Lyon;Irene P. Georgakaki;Joseph H. Reibenspies;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • The Hydrophilic Phosphatriazaadamantane Ligand in the Development of H2 Production Electrocatalysts: Iron Hydrogenase Model Complexes

    Rosario Mejia-Rodriguez;Daesung Chong;Joseph H. Reibenspies;Manuel P. Soriaga

  • Oxygen Capture by Sulfur in Nickel Thiolates

    Craig A. Grapperhaus;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • The bio-organometallic chemistry of active site iron in hydrogenases

    Marcetta Y Darensbourg;Erica J Lyon;Jason J Smee

  • Coordination sphere flexibility of active-site models for Fe-only hydrogenase: studies in intra- and intermolecular diatomic ligand exchange.

    Erica J. Lyon;Irene P. Georgakaki;Joseph H. Reibenspies;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • The organometallic active site of [Fe]hydrogenase: models and entatic states.

    Marcetta Y. Darensbourg;Erica J. Lyon;Xuan Zhao;Irene P. Georgakaki

  • A mixed-valent, Fe(II)Fe(I), diiron complex reproduces the unique rotated state of the [FeFe]hydrogenase active site.

    Tianbiao Liu;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • H/D exchange reactions in dinuclear iron thiolates as activity assay models of Fe-H2ase.

    Xuan Zhao;Irene P. Georgakaki;Matthew L. Miller;Jason C. Yarbrough

  • Electrocatalysis of hydrogen production by active site analogues of the iron hydrogenase enzyme: structure/function relationships

    Daesung Chong;Irene P. Georgakaki;Rosario Mejia-Rodriguez;Jean Sanabria-Chinchilla

  • Catalysis of H(2)/D(2) scrambling and other H/D exchange processes by [Fe]-hydrogenase model complexes.

    Xuan Zhao;Irene P Georgakaki;Matthew L Miller;Rosario Mejia-Rodriguez

  • Fundamental properties of small molecule models of Fe-only hydrogenase: computations relative to the definition of an entatic state in the active site

    Irene P Georgakaki;Lisa M Thomson;Erica J Lyon;Michael B Hall

  • Reactions of transition metal carbonyls with organolithium compounds. II. Prediction of nucleophilic attack at carbon and resultant stereochemistry

    Donald J. Darensbourg;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • Metallodithiolates as ligands in coordination, bioinorganic, and organometallic chemistry.

    Jason A. Denny;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • Study of Sulfinate and Sulfenate Complexes Derived from the Oxygenation of Thiolate Sulfur in [1,5-Bis(2-mercapto-2-methylpropyl)-1,5-diazacyclooctanato(2-)]nickel(II)

    Rizalia M. Buonomo;Ivan Font;Michael J. Maguire;Joseph H. Reibenspies

  • De novo design of synthetic di-iron(I) complexes as structural models of the reduced form of iron-iron hydrogenase.

    Jesse W. Tye;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg;Michael B. Hall

  • Synthetic Support of De Novo Design: Sterically Bulky [FeFe]‐Hydrogenase Models

    Michael L. Singleton;Nattamai Bhuvanesh;Joseph H. Reibenspies;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • Dual Electron Uptake by Simultaneous Iron and Ligand Reduction in an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Substituted [FeFe] Hydrogenase Model Compound

    Jesse W. Tye;Jonghyuk Lee;Hsiao-Wan Wang;Rosario Mejia-Rodriguez

  • Ion Pairing Effects on Transition Metal Carbonyl Anions

    Marcetta York Darensbourg

  • Series of mixed valent Fe(II)Fe(I) complexes that model the Hox state of [FeFe]hydrogenase: redox properties, density-functional theory investigation, and reactivities with extrinsic CO.

    Christine M. Thomas;Tianbiao Liu;Michael B. Hall;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

  • Facile Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Anionic Group 6B Metal Hydrides. Chemistry Relevant to Catalysis of the Water-Gas Shift Reaction - Correction

    Donald J. Darensbourg;Andrzej Rokicki;Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph H. Reibenspies
Joseph H. Reibenspies Texas A&M University
Donald J. Darensbourg
Donald J. Darensbourg Texas A&M University
Michael B. Hall
Michael B. Hall Texas A&M University
Nattamai Bhuvanesh
Nattamai Bhuvanesh Texas A&M University
Manuel P. Soriaga
Manuel P. Soriaga California Institute of Technology
Abhishek Dey
Abhishek Dey Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Joseph C. Calabrese
Joseph C. Calabrese DuPont (United States)
David H. Russell
David H. Russell Texas A&M University
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Christian Amatore
Christian Amatore École Normale Supérieure

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