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Michelle L. Coote

Michelle L. Coote

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Chemistry
Australia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
21292
World Ranking
3811
National Ranking
97

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2017 - Australian Laureate Fellow

Overview

Michelle L. Coote is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields with a focus on materials science and chemistry. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively in areas such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, renewable energy and sustainability, as well as physical and theoretical chemistry.

The researcher's work touches on several key scientific topics, including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, radical photochemical reactions, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, electrochemical analysis and applications, and crystallography and molecular interactions.

Michelle L. Coote has authored publications in various significant venues. Notable among these are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Some recent papers authored include:

  • "Reversing RAFT Polymerization: Near-Quantitative Monomer Generation Via a Catalyst-Free Depolymerization Approach," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "The corona of a surface bubble promotes electrochemical reactions," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "High Electric Fields on Water Microdroplets Catalyze Spontaneous and Fast Reactions in Halogen-Bond Complexes," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Recent advances in the chemistry of benzoe[1,2,4]triazinyl radicals," 2020, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
  • "Diradical Generation via Relayed Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Li-Juan Yu
  • Martin G. Banwell
  • Le Nhan Pham
  • Annie L. Colebatch
  • Michael G. Gardiner

Michelle L. Coote received the Australian Laureate Fellow award in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction

    Albert C. Aragonès;Naomi L. Haworth;Nadim Darwish;Simone Ciampi

  • Understanding atom transfer radical polymerization: effect of ligand and initiator structures on the equilibrium constants.

    Wei Tang;Yungwan Kwak;Wade Braunecker;Nicolay V. Tsarevsky

  • Comment on the correct use of continuum solvent models.

    Junming Ho;Andreas Klamt;Michelle L. Coote

  • Deep Learning in Chemistry.

    Adam C. Mater;Michelle L. Coote

  • Mechanism and kinetics of dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization. I. The current situation

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michael Buback;Bernadette Charleux;Michelle L. Coote

  • Computational electrochemistry: prediction of liquid-phase reduction potentials

    Aleksandr V. Marenich;Junming Ho;Michelle L. Coote;Christopher J. Cramer

  • A universal approach for continuum solvent pK a calculations: are we there yet?

    Junming Ho;Michelle L. Coote

  • Molecular dynamics-driven drug discovery: leaping forward with confidence.

    Aravindhan Ganesan;Michelle L. Coote;Khaled Barakat

  • Adaptable Hetero Diels-Alder Networks for Fast Self-Healing under Mild Conditions

    Kim K. Oehlenschlaeger;Jan O. Mueller;Josef Brandt;Stefan Hilf

  • Ab initio evaluation of the thermodynamic and electrochemical properties of alkyl halides and radicals and their mechanistic implications for atom transfer radical polymerization.

    Ching Yeh Lin;Michelle L. Coote;Armando Gennaro;Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

  • Harnessing electrostatic catalysis in single molecule, electrochemical and chemical systems: a rapidly growing experimental tool box

    Simone Ciampi;Nadim Darwish;Heather M. Aitken;Ismael Díez-Pérez

  • Trends in R-X bond dissociation energies (R = Me, Et, i-Pr, t-Bu; X = H, CH3, OCH3, OH, F): a surprising shortcoming of density functional theory.

    Ekaterina I. Izgorodina;Michelle L. Coote;Leo Radom

  • Estimation of standard reduction potentials of halogen atoms and alkyl halides.

    Abdirisak A. Isse;Ching Yeh Lin;Michelle L. Coote;Armando Gennaro

  • Benchmark Calculations of Absolute Reduction Potential of Ferricinium/Ferrocene Couple in Nonaqueous Solutions.

    Mansoor Namazian;Ching Yeh Lin;Michelle L. Coote

  • Revising the mechanism of polymer autooxidation

    Ganna Gryn'ova;Jennifer L. Hodgson;Michelle L. Coote

  • Capturing snapshots of post-synthetic metallation chemistry in metal–organic frameworks

    Witold M. Bloch;Alexandre Burgun;Campbell J. Coghlan;Richmond Lee

  • The mechanism of the propagation step in free-radical copolymerisation

    M.L. Coote;T.P. Davis

  • Should contemporary density functional theory methods be used to study the thermodynamics of radical reactions

    Ekaterina I. Izgorodina;David R. B. Brittain;Jennifer L. Hodgson;Elizabeth H. Krenske

  • The reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer process and the strength and limitations of modeling: Comment on “the magnitude of the fragmentation rate coefficient”

    Christopher Barner-Kowollik;Michelle L. Coote;Thomas P. Davis;Leo Radom

  • Consistent experimental and theoretical evidence for long-lived intermediate radicals in living free radical polymerization

    Achim Feldermann;Michelle L. Coote;Martina H. Stenzel;Thomas P. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Christopher Barner-Kowollik Queensland University of Technology
Thomas P. Davis
Thomas P. Davis University of Queensland
Leo Radom
Leo Radom University of Sydney
Ekaterina I. Izgorodina
Ekaterina I. Izgorodina Monash University
Martina H. Stenzel
Martina H. Stenzel University of New South Wales
Anthony C. Willis
Anthony C. Willis Australian National University
Stephen J. Blanksby
Stephen J. Blanksby Queensland University of Technology
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Carnegie Mellon University
Martin G. Banwell
Martin G. Banwell Australian National University
Gordon G. Wallace
Gordon G. Wallace University of Wollongong

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