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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Theodor Agapie is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with special attention to materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, organic and inorganic chemistry, and process chemistry and technology.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts
  • Organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion

Theodor Agapie's frequent co-authors include Paul H. Oyala, Shuoyan Xiong, Jonas C. Peters, Heather A. Spinney, and Joshua A. Buss.

Publication venues where Agapie has commonly contributed include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent notable papers authored by or involving Agapie include:

  • Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Cascade CO2 electroreduction enables efficient carbonate-free production of ethylene, 2021, Joule
  • High-Rate and Efficient Ethylene Electrosynthesis Using a Catalyst/Promoter/Transport Layer, 2020, ACS Energy Letters
  • Organic Additive-derived Films on Cu Electrodes Promote Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2+ Products Under Strongly Acidic Conditions, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dramatic HER Suppression on Ag Electrodes via Molecular Films for Highly Selective CO2 to CO Reduction, 2021, ACS Catalysis

Theodor Agapie has received recognition in their field through awards such as the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 2013 and being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Molecular tuning of CO2-to-ethylene conversion.

    Fengwang Li;Arnaud Thevenon;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Ziyun Wang

  • Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO 2 reduction.

    Dae-Hyun Nam;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Alonso Rosas-Hernández;Arnaud Thevenon

  • A Synthetic Model of the Mn3Ca Subsite of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II

    Jacob S. Kanady;Emily Y. Tsui;Michael W. Day;Theodor Agapie

  • Selective ethylene oligomerization: Recent advances in chromium catalysis and mechanistic investigations

    Theodor Agapie

  • Mechanistic Studies of the Ethylene Trimerization Reaction with Chromium−Diphosphine Catalysts: Experimental Evidence for a Mechanism Involving Metallacyclic Intermediates

    Theodor Agapie;Susan J. Schofer;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Redox-inactive metals modulate the reduction potential in heterometallic manganese–oxido clusters

    Emily Y. Tsui;Rosalie Tran;Junko Yano;Theodor Agapie

  • Cascade CO2 electroreduction enables efficient carbonate-free production of ethylene

    Adnan Ozden;Yuhang Wang;Fengwang Li;Mingchuan Luo

  • CO2 Reduction Selective for C≥2 Products on Polycrystalline Copper with N-Substituted Pyridinium Additives

    Zhiji Han;Ruud Kortlever;Hsiang-Yun Chen;Jonas C. Peters

  • Mechanistic Studies of Olefin and Alkyne Trimerization with Chromium Catalysts: Deuterium Labeling and Studies of Regiochemistry Using a Model Chromacyclopentane Complex

    Theodor Agapie;Jay A. Labinger;John E. Bercaw

  • Reduction potentials of heterometallic manganese–oxido cubane complexes modulated by redox-inactive metals

    Emily Y. Tsui;Theodor Agapie

  • Bimetallic Coordination Insertion Polymerization of Unprotected Polar Monomers: Copolymerization of Amino Olefins and Ethylene by Dinickel Bisphenoxyiminato Catalysts

    Madalyn R. Radlauer;Aya K. Buckley;Lawrence M. Henling;Theodor Agapie

  • Organic Additive-derived Films on Cu Electrodes Promote Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2+ Products Under Strongly Acidic Conditions.

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  • Toward models for the full oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II by ligand coordination to lower the symmetry of the Mn3CaO4 cubane: demonstration that electronic effects facilitate binding of a fifth metal.

    Jacob S. Kanady;Po-Heng Lin;Kurtis M. Carsch;Robert J. Nielsen

  • Nickel-mediated hydrogenolysis of C-O bonds of aryl ethers: what is the source of the hydrogen?

    Paul Kelley;Sibo Lin;Guy Edouard;Michael W. Day

  • High-Rate and Efficient Ethylene Electrosynthesis Using a Catalyst/Promoter/Transport Layer

    Adnan Ozden;Fengwang Li;F. Pelayo Garcĺa De Arquer;Alonso Rosas-Hernández

  • Synthetic cluster models of biological and heterogeneous manganese catalysts for O2 evolution.

    Emily Y. Tsui;Jacob S. Kanady;Theodor Agapie

  • Synthesis and C−C Coupling Reactivity of a Dinuclear Ni^I−Ni^I Complex Supported by a Terphenyl Diphosphine

    Alexandra Velian;Sibo Lin;Alexander J. M. Miller;Michael W. Day

  • A Chromium-Diphosphine System for Catalytic Ethylene Trimerization: Synthetic and Structural Studies of Chromium Complexes with a Nitrogen-Bridged Diphosphine Ligand with ortho-Methoxyaryl Substituents

    Theodor Agapie;Michael W. Day;Lawrence M. Henling;Jay A. Labinger

  • In‑Situ Nanostructuring and Stabilization of Polycrystalline Copper by an Organic Salt Additive Promotes Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction to Ethylene

    Arnaud Thevenon;Alonso Rosas‐Hernández;Jonas C. Peters;Theodor Agapie

  • Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site

    Joshua A. Buss;Theodor Agapie

  • Molybdenum catalyzed ammonia borane dehydrogenation: oxidation state specific mechanisms.

    Joshua A. Buss;Guy A. Edouard;Christine Cheng;Jade Shi

  • Arene non-innocence in dinuclear complexes of Fe, Co, and Ni supported by a para-terphenyl diphosphine

    Kyle T. Horak;Alexandra Velian;Michael W. Day;Theodor Agapie

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Day
Michael W. Day California Institute of Technology
Jonas C. Peters
Jonas C. Peters California Institute of Technology
Junko Yano
Junko Yano Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw California Institute of Technology
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University
R. David Britt
R. David Britt University of California, Davis
William A. Goddard
William A. Goddard California Institute of Technology
Jay A. Labinger
Jay A. Labinger California Institute of Technology
David Sinton
David Sinton University of Toronto
Mingchuan Luo
Mingchuan Luo Peking University

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