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123
Citations
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World Ranking
443
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190

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Shannon S. Stahl is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Chemistry, with significant contributions across several subfields including Organic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • CO₂ Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Shannon S. Stahl has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (28 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (8 publications)
  • ACS Catalysis (5 publications)
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (5 publications)
  • Science (4 publications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stahl include James B. Gerken, Ilia A. Guzei, Thatcher W. Root, Si-Jie Chen, and Shane W. Krska.

Among recent research papers with high citation counts are:

  • "Electrochemical Oxidation of Organic Molecules at Lower Overpotential: Accessing Broader Functional Group Compatibility with Electron−Proton Transfer Mediators," 2020, published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Mixed plastics waste valorization through tandem chemical oxidation and biological funneling," 2022, published in Science
  • "Radical C(sp3)-H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • "C(sp3)-H methylation enabled by peroxide photosensitization and Ni-mediated radical coupling," 2021, published in Science
  • "Mediated Fuel Cells: Soluble Redox Mediators and Their Applications to Electrochemical Reduction of O2 and Oxidation of H2, Alcohols, Biomass, and Complex Fuels," 2020, published in Chemical Reviews

Shannon S. Stahl has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2010 and as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2002.

Best Publications

  • Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative C ? H Functionalizations: Trends and Mechanistic Insights

    Alison E. Wendlandt;Alison M. Suess;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Palladium Oxidase Catalysis: Selective Oxidation of Organic Chemicals by Direct Dioxygen-Coupled Turnover

    Shannon S. Stahl

  • Palladium(II)-Catalyzed Alkene Functionalization via Nucleopalladation: Stereochemical Pathways and Enantioselective Catalytic Applications

    Richard I. McDonald;Guosheng Liu;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Formic-acid-induced depolymerization of oxidized lignin to aromatics

    Alireza Rahimi;Arne Ulbrich;Joshua J. Coon;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Tetramethylpiperidine N-Oxyl (TEMPO), Phthalimide N-Oxyl (PINO), and Related N-Oxyl Species: Electrochemical Properties and Their Use in Electrocatalytic Reactions.

    Jordan E. Nutting;Mohammad Rafiee;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Highly practical copper(I)/TEMPO catalyst system for chemoselective aerobic oxidation of primary alcohols.

    Jessica M. Hoover;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Operando Analysis of NiFe and Fe Oxyhydroxide Electrocatalysts for Water Oxidation: Detection of Fe4+ by Mössbauer Spectroscopy

    Jamie Y. C. Chen;Lianna Dang;Hanfeng Liang;Wenli Bi

  • Electrochemical Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Based Electrocatalysts from pH 0–14: The Thermodynamic Basis for Catalyst Structure, Stability, and Activity

    James B. Gerken;J. Gregory McAlpin;Jamie Y. C. Chen;Matthew L. Rigsby

  • Overcoming the "oxidant problem": strategies to use O2 as the oxidant in organometallic C-H oxidation reactions catalyzed by Pd (and Cu).

    Alison N. Campbell;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Chemoselective Metal-Free Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation in Lignin

    Alireza Rahimi;Ali Azarpira;Hoon Kim;John Ralph

  • Homogeneous Oxidation of Alkanes by Electrophilic Late Transition Metals

    Shannon S. Stahl;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Mixed plastics waste valorization through tandem chemical oxidation and biological funneling

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  • Enantioselective cyanation of benzylic C-H bonds via copper-catalyzed radical relay.

    Wen Zhang;Fei Wang;Scott D. McCann;Dinghai Wang

  • Mechanism of copper(I)/TEMPO-catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidation.

    Jessica M. Hoover;Bradford L. Ryland;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Practical aerobic oxidations of alcohols and amines with homogeneous copper/TEMPO and related catalyst systems.

    Bradford L. Ryland;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Electrochemical Oxidation of Organic Molecules at Lower Overpotential: Accessing Broader Functional Group Compatibility with Electron-Proton Transfer Mediators

    Fei Wang;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Ligand-Promoted Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation Reactions

    Dian Wang;Adam B. Weinstein;Paul B. White;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation of Organic Chemicals with O2

    Shannon S. Stahl

  • Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidations of Organic Molecules: Pathways for Two-Electron Oxidation with a Four-Electron Oxidant and a One-Electron Redox-Active Catalyst

    Scott D. McCann;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Copper-Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Amidation of Terminal Alkynes: Efficient Synthesis of Ynamides

    Tetsuya Hamada;Xuan Ye;Shannon S Stahl

  • Mimicry of antimicrobial host-defense peptides by random copolymers.

    Brendan P. Mowery;Sarah E. Lee;Denis A. Kissounko;Raquel F. Epand

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Dehydrogenation of Substituted Cyclohexanones to Phenols

    Yusuke Izawa;Doris Pun;Shannon S. Stahl

  • Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis

    Shannon S. Stahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel H. Gellman
Samuel H. Gellman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Clark R. Landis
Clark R. Landis University of Wisconsin–Madison
Guosheng Liu
Guosheng Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Yale University
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw California Institute of Technology
Jay A. Labinger
Jay A. Labinger California Institute of Technology
James A. Dumesic
James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin–Madison
John Ralph
John Ralph Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Hoon Kim
Hoon Kim University of Wisconsin–Madison

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