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Morris J. Robins is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Chemistry, Energy, and Medicine. Within these broader disciplines, their work particularly focuses on specialized subfields such as Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Oncology.

The main topics covered in Morris J. Robins's research include Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms, Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, and Metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Their publication record includes articles in recognized scientific venues. One recent paper is titled "Model Substrate/Inactivation Reactions for MoaA and Ribonucleotide Reductases: Loss of Bromo, Chloro, or Tosylate Groups from C2 of 1,5-Dideoxyhomoribofuranoses upon Generation of an α-Oxy Radical at C3", published in 2020 in the journal Molecules.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Stanislaw F. Wnuk
  • Mukesh M. Mudgal
  • Ireneusz Nowak

Their publications have appeared notably in:

  • Molecules

Best Publications

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 42. A general procedure for the efficient deoxygenation of secondary alcohols. Regiospecific and stereoselective conversion of ribonucleosides to 2'-deoxynucleosides

    Morris J. Robins;John S. Wilson;Fritz Hansske

  • Smooth and efficient deoxygenation of secondary alcohols. A general procedure for the conversion of ribonucleosides to 2'-deoxynucleosides

    Morris J. Robins;John S. Wilson

  • NUCLEIC ACID RELATED COMPOUNDS. 39. EFFICIENT CONVERSION OF 5-IODO TO 5-ALKYNYL AND DERIVED 5-SUBSTITUTED URACIL BASES AND NUCLEOSIDES

    Morris J. Robins;Philip J. Barr

  • 2'-Deoxy-2'-methylenecytidine and 2'-deoxy-2',2'-difluorocytidine 5'-diphosphates: potent mechanism-based inhibitors of ribonucleotide reductase.

    C. H. Baker;J. Banzon;J. M. Bollinger;J. Stubbe

  • Removal of silyl protecting groups from hydroxyl functions with ammonium fluoride in methanol

    Weijian Zhang;Morris J. Robins

  • Purine Nucleosides. XI. The Synthesis of 2'-Deoxy-9-α- and -β-D-ribofuranosylpurines and the Correlation of Their Anomeric Structure with Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectra1

    Morris J. Robins;Roland K. Robins

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 37. Convenient and high-yield syntheses of N-[(2-hydroxyethoxy)methyl] heterocycles as "acyclic nucleoside" analogues

    Morris J. Robins;Peter W. Hatfield

  • Cerium(IV)-mediated halogenation at C-5 of uracil derivatives

    Junichi Asakura;Morris J. Robins

  • N-6-(delta-3-isopentenyl) adenosine. A component of the transfer ribonucleic acid of yeast and of mammalian tissue, methods of isolation, and characterization.

    Morris J. Robins;Ross H. Hall;Roosevelt Thedford

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 40. Synthesis and biological activities of 5-alkynyluracil nucleosides.

    Erik De Clercq;Johan Descamps;Jan Balzarini;Jerzy Giziewicz

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 33. Conversions of adenosine and guanosine to 2,6-dichloro, 2-amino-6-chloro, and derived purine nucleosides

    Morris J. Robins;Bogdan Uznański

  • The role of the 5'-hydroxyl group of adenosine in determining substrate specificity for adenosine deaminase.

    Alexander. Bloch;Morris J. Robins;James R. McCarthy

  • Isolation of N6-(γ,γ-Dimethylallyl)adenosine from Soluble Ribonucleic Acid1

    Ross H. Hall;Morris J. Robins;Lubomyr Stasiuk;Roosevelt Thedford

  • Synthesis and biological activity of selected 2,6-disubstituted-(2-deoxy- -and- -D-erythro-pentofuranosyl)purines.

    Leon F. Christensen;Arthur D. Broom;Morris J. Robins;Alexander Bloch

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 34. Non-aqueous diazotization with tert-butyl nitrite. Introduction of fluorine, chlorine, and bromine at C-2 of purine nucleosides

    Morris J. Robins;Bogdan Uznański

  • High-yield regioselective synthesis of 9-glycosyl guanine nucleosides and analogues via coupling with 2-N-acetyl-6-O-diphenylcarbamoylguanine

    Ruiming Zou;Morris J. Robins

  • Carbon-13 magnetic resonance. XIV. Aza-analogs of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    Ronald J. Pugmire;David M. Grant;Morris J. Robins;Roland K. Robins

  • Azoles as Suzuki cross-coupling leaving groups: syntheses of 6-arylpurine 2'-deoxynucleosides and nucleosides from 6-(imidazol-1-yl)- and 6-(1,2,4-triazol-4-yl)purine derivatives.

    Jiangqiong Liu;Morris J. Robins

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 12. The facile and high-yield stannous chloride catalyzed monomethylation of the cis-glycol system of nucleosides by diazomethane.

    Morris J. Robins;S. R. Naik;Alan S. K. Lee

  • Nucleic acid related compounds. 13

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  • Nucleic Acid Related Compounds. 93. A Solution for the Historic Problem of Regioselective Sugar−Base Coupling To Produce 9-Glycosylguanines or 7-Glycosylguanines1

    Morris J. Robins;Ruiming Zou;Zhiqiang Guo;Stanislaw F. Wnuk

  • 2' And 3'-ketonucleosides and their arabino and xylo reduction products: Convenient access via selective protection and oxidation of ribonucleosides☆

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland K. Robins
Roland K. Robins University of Utah
Jan Balzarini
Jan Balzarini KU Leuven
Ronald T. Borchardt
Ronald T. Borchardt University of Kansas
Erik De Clercq
Erik De Clercq Rega Institute for Medical Research
Carol E. Cass
Carol E. Cass University of Alberta
Roger A. Jones
Roger A. Jones Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Malcolm Maccoss
Malcolm Maccoss MSD (United States)
James D. Young
James D. Young University of Alberta
Philip J. Barr
Philip J. Barr BayMedica, Inc.

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