Publications (2016-present)
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[Jeff's past publication list can be found here]
**Reprints of articles can be requested directly from Jeff**
71. Crudo, N. R.; Sonea, A.; Karn, L.M.; Leznoff, D. B.; Warren J. J. Modifying the Rate of Rhenium(Diimine)-Mediated Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction via the Addition of a Redox-Active Functional Group Near the Active Site. ACS Catal. 2025, 14293–14304. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5c04063
70. Ghazi, N.; Warren, J. J. “The Influence of pH on Long-Range Electron Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Ruthenium-Modified Azurin” Molecules, 2025, 30, 472. DOI: 10.3390/molecules30030472
69. Sonea, A.; Warren J. J. “Pendant Catechol Group Improves the Performance of Iron Porphyrin CO2 Reduction Catalysts” ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 1444-1454. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c05531
68. Li. X.; Warren J. J. “Solvents and their hydrogen bonding properties as general considerations in carbon dioxide reduction by molecular catalysts” Dalton Trans. 2025, 54, 2086-2092. DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02682A
67. Sonea, A.; Warren J. J. “Where do Molecular Electrocatalysts go from Here?” ChemCatChem 2024, 16, e202400517. DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202400517
66. Warren, J. J. "Examining the Importance of Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer in Iron Porphyrin-Mediated Carbon Dioxide Upconversion" Acc. Chem. Res. 2024, 57, 2512-2521. DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.4c00329
65. Nguyen, B. X.; Li, X.; Warren J. J. “The design and implementation of a CO2 reduction catalyst with an internal electron transfer mediator: improving turnover frequency by more than ten-fold” ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 12260-12268. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c01791
64. Lawson, S, E.; Roberts, R. J.; Leznoff, D. B.; Warren, J.J. "Dramatic Improvement of Homogeneous Carbon Dioxide and Bicarbonate Electroreduction Using a Tetracationic Water-Soluble Cobalt Phthalocyanine" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 22306-22317. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c04878
63. Sonea, A.; Warren, J. J.; "Assembling the pieces to improve catalysis. Nat. Chem. 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01513-0
62. Kidd, S. R.; Zhou, W.; Warren, J. J.; Leznoff, D. B. "Inducing ring distortions in unsubstituted metallophthalocyanines using axial N-heterocyclic carbenes" Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 6537-6546. DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00528G
61. Sonea, A.; Crudo, N. R.; Warren, J. J. "Understanding the Interplay of the Brønsted Acidity of Catalyst Ancillary Groups and the Solution Components in Iron-porphyrin-Mediated Carbon Dioxide Reduction" JACS. 2024, 146, 3721-3731. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10127
60. Gibbs, C.A.; Ghazi, N.; Tao, J.; Warren, J.J. "An investigation of the Influence of Tyrosine Local Interactions of Electron Hopping in a Model Protein" Molecules 2023, 29 (2), 350. DOI: 10.3390/molecules29020350
59. Nguyen, B.X.; Sonea, A.; Warren, J.J. "Further Understanding the Roles of Solvent, Brønsted Acids, and Hydrogen Bonding in Iron Porphyrin-Mediated Carbon Dioxide Reduction" Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62 (43), 17602–17611. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c01855.
58. Lawson, S.E.; Leznoff, D.B.; Warren, J.J. "Contemporary Strategies for Immobilizing Metallophthalocyanines for Electrochemical Transformations of Carbon Dioxide" Molecules 2023, 28, 5878-5896. DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155878
58. Lawson, S.E.; Leznoff, D.B.; Warren, J.J. "Contemporary Strategies for Immobilizing Metallophthalocyanines for Electrochemical Transformations of Carbon Dioxide" Molecules 2023, 28, 5878-5896. DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155878
57. Gibbs, C.A.; Fedoretz-Maxwell, B. P.; MacNeil, G. A.; Walsby, C. J.; Warren, J. J. "Proximal Methionine Amino Acid Residue Affects the Properties of Redox-Active Tryptophan in an Artificial Model Protein" ACS Omega. 2023. 8, 22, 19798-19806. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c01589
56. Sonea, A.; Branch, K.; Warren, J. J. "The Pattern of Hydroxyphenyl-Substitution Influences CO2 Reduction More Strongly than the Number of Hydroxyphenyl Groups in Iron-Porphyrin Electrocatalysts" ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 3902-3912. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c06275
55. Houshmand, A.; Heroux, D;. Liu, D. Y.; Zhou, W.; Linington, R. G.; Bally, M.; Warren, J. J.; Walsby, C. J. “Ferrocene-appended Anthraquinone and Coumarin as Redox-active Cytotoxins” Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 11437-11447. DOI: 10.1039/D2DT01251K
54. Shen, W.; Teo R. D.; Beratan D.; Warren J. J. “Cofactor Dynamics Couples the Protein Surface to the Heme in Cytochrome c, Facilitating Electron Transfer” J. Phys. Chem. B. 2022, 126, 3522–3529. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01632
53. Fedoretz-Maxwell, B. P.; Shin, C.; MacNeil, G.; R. Park, R.; Worrall, L.; Strynadka, N.; Walsby C. J., Warren, J. J. “Methionine-Aromatic Interactions in the Second Coordination Sphere of Copper Proteins: An Experimental and Bioinformatics Study” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 5563–5571. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c00030
52. Gibbs, C. A.; Fedoretz-Maxwell, B. P.; Warren J. J. “The roles and importance of methionine microenvironments in redox metalloproteins” Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 4976-4985. DOI: 10.1039/D1DT04387K
51. Gibbs, C. A.; Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. Clustering of Aromatic Amino Acid Residues around Methionine in Proteins. Biomolecules 2022, 12 (1), 1-6. DOI: 10.3390/biom12010006.
49. Agarwal, R. G.; Coste, S. C.; Groff, B. D.; Heuer, A. M.; Noh, H.; Parada, G. A.; Wise, C. F.; Nichols, E. M.; Warren, J. J.; Mayer, J. M. “Free Energies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and Their Applications” Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 1-49. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00521
50. Agarwal, R. G.; Wise, C. F.; Warren, J. J.; Mayer, J. M. “Correction to Thermochemistry of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and its Implications” 2021 Chem. Rev. 1482. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00791
48. Zhang, R.; Zhou, W.; Warren J. J. “Photo-initiated oxidation of C–H bonds by diimine complexes of vanadium(V)” Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4007-4010. DOI: 10.1039/D1CC00649E
47. Shumayrikh, N.; Warren, J. J.; Bennet, A. J.; Sen, D. “Rapid kinetics investigation of the active intermediate formed in a catalytic hemin-DNA G-quadruplex complex (heme•DNAzyme)” Nucleic Acids Res. 2021, 49, 1803–1815. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab007
46. Zhang, R; Warren J. J. “Recent developments in metalloporphyrin electrocatalysts for reduction of small molecules: strategies for managing electron and proton transfer reactions” ChemSusChem, 2021, 14, 293-302 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001914
45. Sinha, S.; Zhang, R.; Warren, J. J. “Low Overpotential CO2 Activation by a Graphite-Adsorbed Cobalt Porphyrin” ACS Catal. 2020 10, 12284–12291. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01367
44. Zhang R.; Warren, J. J. “Controlling the oxygen reduction selectivity of asymmetric cobalt porphyrins by using local electrostatic interactions” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13426-13434. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03861
43. Sinha, S.; Sonea, A. Gibbs, C. G.; Warren, J. J. “Heterogeneous aqueous CO2 reduction by tricarbonyl rhenium(I) complexes with high activity at alkaline pH” Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 7078-7083. DOI 10.1039/D0DT01300E
42. Sinha, S.; Sonea, A.; Shen, W.; Hanson, S. S.; Warren, J. J. “Heterogeneous aqueous CO2 reduction using N-alkylated rhenium(I) quinolylbenzimidazole complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 10454-10461. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01060
41. Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. “The interaction between methionine and two aromatic amino acids is an abundant and multifunctional motif in proteins” Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 2019, 672, 108053. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.07.018
40. Yuan, Z.; Yang, H; Nodwell, M.; Čolović, M.; Weber, D. S.; Wilson D.; Bénard, F.; Martin, R.; Warren, J. J.; Schaffer, P.; Britton, R. Electrostatic Effects Accelerate Decatungstate-Catalyzed C–H Fluorination Using [18F]- and [19F]-NFSI in Small Molecules and Peptide Mimics.” ACS Catal. 2019, 8276–8284.
39. Sinha, S; Ghosh, M.; Warren J. J. “O2 Reduction Catalysis with One Ligand Heteroatom” ACS Catal., 2019 57, 2685–2691.
38. Mu, C; Prosser, K. E.; MacNeil, G. A.; Panchmatia, R.; Thompson, J. R.; Sinha, S.; Warren, J. J.; Walsby, C. J. “Activation by Oxidation: Ferrocene Functionalized Ru(II) Arene Complexes with Anticancer, Antibacterial, and Antioxidant Properties” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57 15247–15261.
37. Miller, J. J., Orvain, C; Jozi, S.; Clarke, R. M.; Gaiddon, C.; Warren, J. J.; Storr, T. “Bifunctional Metal-Binding Scaffolds for Activation of the p53 Y220C Mutant in Cancer” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17734–17742.
36. Sinha, S., Warren J. J. “Unexpected Solvent Effect in Electrocatalytic CO2 to CO Conversion Revealed Using Asymmetric Metalloporphyrins” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 12650–12656. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01814 Free Pre-Print here
35. Bains, R. K.; Miller, J. M.; van der Roest, H. K.; Qu, S.; Lute, B.; Warren, J. J. “Light-activated electron transfer and turnover in Ru-modified aldehyde deformylating oxygenases” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 8211-8217.
34. Kretchmer, J. S.; Boekelheide, N.; Warren, J. J.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.; Miller, III, T. F. “Fluctuating hydrogen-bond networks govern anomalous electron transfer kinetics in azurin” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018, 115, 6129-6134.
33. Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. “A Survey of Methionine-Aromatic Interaction Geometries in the Oxidoreductase Class of Enzymes: What Could Met-Aromatic Interactions be Doing Near Metal Sites?” J. Inorg. Biochem. 2018, 186, 34-41.
32. Hanson, S., Warren J. J. “Syntheses, Characterization, and Electrochemical Behavior of Alkylated 2-(2'-quinolylbenzimidazole) Complexes of Rhenium(I)” Can. J. Chem.. 2018, 96, 119-123.
31. Field, M. J.; Bains, R. K.; Warren, J. J. “An engineered electron transfer “wire” in cytochrome c peroxidase enhances oxidation of aromatic substrates” Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 11078 – 11083.
30. Stott, L. Prosser, K. E.; Berdichevsky, E. K.; Walsby, C. J.; Warren J. J. “Lowering water oxidation overpotentials using the ionisable imidazole of copper(2-(2´-pyridyl)imidazole)” Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 651-654.
29. Sinha, S.; Berdichevsky, E. K.; Warren, J. J. “Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction using rhenium(I) complexes with modified 2-(2′-pyridyl)imidazole ligands” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2017, 460, 63-68.
28. Field, M. J.; Sinha, S.; Warren, J. J. “Photochemical proton-coupled C-H activation: an example using aliphatic fluorination” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 30907-30911.
27. Chang, S. W.; Lewis, A. R.; Prosser, K. E.; Thompson, J. R.; Gladkikh, M.; Bally, M.; Warren, J. J.; Walsby C. J. “CF3 derivatives of the anticancer Ru(III) complexes KP1019, NKP-1339, and their imidazole and pyridine analogues show enhanced lipophilicity, albumin interactions, and cytotoxicity” Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 4850-4863.
26. Husband, J.; Aaron, M. S.; Bains R. K.; Warren, J. J. “Catalytic Reduction of Dioxygen with Modified Thermus thermophilus cytochrome c552” J. Inorg. Biochem. 2016, 157, 8-14.
25. Warren, J. J.; Shafaat, O. S.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B. “Proton-Coupled Electron Hopping in Ru-Modified P. aeruginosa azurin” J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 21, 113-119.
24. Bains, R. K.; Warren, J. J. “A single protein redox ruler.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2016, 113, 248-250.
23. Mu, C.; Chang, S. W.; Prosser, K.E.; Leung, A. W. Y.; Santacruz, S.; Jang, T.; Thompson, J. R.; Yapp, D. T. T.; Warren, J. J.; Bally, M. B.; Beischlag, T. V.; Walsby C. J. “Induction of Cytotoxicity in Pyridine Analogues of the Antimetastatic Ru(III) Complex NAMI-A by Ferrocene Functionalization” Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 177-190.
51. Gibbs, C. A.; Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. Clustering of Aromatic Amino Acid Residues around Methionine in Proteins. Biomolecules 2022, 12 (1), 1-6. DOI: 10.3390/biom12010006.
49. Agarwal, R. G.; Coste, S. C.; Groff, B. D.; Heuer, A. M.; Noh, H.; Parada, G. A.; Wise, C. F.; Nichols, E. M.; Warren, J. J.; Mayer, J. M. “Free Energies of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and Their Applications” Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 1-49. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00521
50. Agarwal, R. G.; Wise, C. F.; Warren, J. J.; Mayer, J. M. “Correction to Thermochemistry of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reagents and its Implications” 2021 Chem. Rev. 1482. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00791
48. Zhang, R.; Zhou, W.; Warren J. J. “Photo-initiated oxidation of C–H bonds by diimine complexes of vanadium(V)” Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4007-4010. DOI: 10.1039/D1CC00649E
47. Shumayrikh, N.; Warren, J. J.; Bennet, A. J.; Sen, D. “Rapid kinetics investigation of the active intermediate formed in a catalytic hemin-DNA G-quadruplex complex (heme•DNAzyme)” Nucleic Acids Res. 2021, 49, 1803–1815. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab007
46. Zhang, R; Warren J. J. “Recent developments in metalloporphyrin electrocatalysts for reduction of small molecules: strategies for managing electron and proton transfer reactions” ChemSusChem, 2021, 14, 293-302 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001914
45. Sinha, S.; Zhang, R.; Warren, J. J. “Low Overpotential CO2 Activation by a Graphite-Adsorbed Cobalt Porphyrin” ACS Catal. 2020 10, 12284–12291. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c01367
44. Zhang R.; Warren, J. J. “Controlling the oxygen reduction selectivity of asymmetric cobalt porphyrins by using local electrostatic interactions” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13426-13434. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03861
43. Sinha, S.; Sonea, A. Gibbs, C. G.; Warren, J. J. “Heterogeneous aqueous CO2 reduction by tricarbonyl rhenium(I) complexes with high activity at alkaline pH” Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 7078-7083. DOI 10.1039/D0DT01300E
42. Sinha, S.; Sonea, A.; Shen, W.; Hanson, S. S.; Warren, J. J. “Heterogeneous aqueous CO2 reduction using N-alkylated rhenium(I) quinolylbenzimidazole complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 10454-10461. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01060
41. Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. “The interaction between methionine and two aromatic amino acids is an abundant and multifunctional motif in proteins” Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 2019, 672, 108053. DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.07.018
40. Yuan, Z.; Yang, H; Nodwell, M.; Čolović, M.; Weber, D. S.; Wilson D.; Bénard, F.; Martin, R.; Warren, J. J.; Schaffer, P.; Britton, R. Electrostatic Effects Accelerate Decatungstate-Catalyzed C–H Fluorination Using [18F]- and [19F]-NFSI in Small Molecules and Peptide Mimics.” ACS Catal. 2019, 8276–8284.
39. Sinha, S; Ghosh, M.; Warren J. J. “O2 Reduction Catalysis with One Ligand Heteroatom” ACS Catal., 2019 57, 2685–2691.
38. Mu, C; Prosser, K. E.; MacNeil, G. A.; Panchmatia, R.; Thompson, J. R.; Sinha, S.; Warren, J. J.; Walsby, C. J. “Activation by Oxidation: Ferrocene Functionalized Ru(II) Arene Complexes with Anticancer, Antibacterial, and Antioxidant Properties” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57 15247–15261.
37. Miller, J. J., Orvain, C; Jozi, S.; Clarke, R. M.; Gaiddon, C.; Warren, J. J.; Storr, T. “Bifunctional Metal-Binding Scaffolds for Activation of the p53 Y220C Mutant in Cancer” Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 17734–17742.
36. Sinha, S., Warren J. J. “Unexpected Solvent Effect in Electrocatalytic CO2 to CO Conversion Revealed Using Asymmetric Metalloporphyrins” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 12650–12656. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01814 Free Pre-Print here
35. Bains, R. K.; Miller, J. M.; van der Roest, H. K.; Qu, S.; Lute, B.; Warren, J. J. “Light-activated electron transfer and turnover in Ru-modified aldehyde deformylating oxygenases” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 8211-8217.
34. Kretchmer, J. S.; Boekelheide, N.; Warren, J. J.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.; Miller, III, T. F. “Fluctuating hydrogen-bond networks govern anomalous electron transfer kinetics in azurin” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018, 115, 6129-6134.
33. Weber, D. S.; Warren, J. J. “A Survey of Methionine-Aromatic Interaction Geometries in the Oxidoreductase Class of Enzymes: What Could Met-Aromatic Interactions be Doing Near Metal Sites?” J. Inorg. Biochem. 2018, 186, 34-41.
32. Hanson, S., Warren J. J. “Syntheses, Characterization, and Electrochemical Behavior of Alkylated 2-(2'-quinolylbenzimidazole) Complexes of Rhenium(I)” Can. J. Chem.. 2018, 96, 119-123.
31. Field, M. J.; Bains, R. K.; Warren, J. J. “An engineered electron transfer “wire” in cytochrome c peroxidase enhances oxidation of aromatic substrates” Dalton Trans. 2017, 46, 11078 – 11083.
30. Stott, L. Prosser, K. E.; Berdichevsky, E. K.; Walsby, C. J.; Warren J. J. “Lowering water oxidation overpotentials using the ionisable imidazole of copper(2-(2´-pyridyl)imidazole)” Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 651-654.
29. Sinha, S.; Berdichevsky, E. K.; Warren, J. J. “Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction using rhenium(I) complexes with modified 2-(2′-pyridyl)imidazole ligands” Inorg. Chim. Acta 2017, 460, 63-68.
28. Field, M. J.; Sinha, S.; Warren, J. J. “Photochemical proton-coupled C-H activation: an example using aliphatic fluorination” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 30907-30911.
27. Chang, S. W.; Lewis, A. R.; Prosser, K. E.; Thompson, J. R.; Gladkikh, M.; Bally, M.; Warren, J. J.; Walsby C. J. “CF3 derivatives of the anticancer Ru(III) complexes KP1019, NKP-1339, and their imidazole and pyridine analogues show enhanced lipophilicity, albumin interactions, and cytotoxicity” Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 4850-4863.
26. Husband, J.; Aaron, M. S.; Bains R. K.; Warren, J. J. “Catalytic Reduction of Dioxygen with Modified Thermus thermophilus cytochrome c552” J. Inorg. Biochem. 2016, 157, 8-14.
25. Warren, J. J.; Shafaat, O. S.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B. “Proton-Coupled Electron Hopping in Ru-Modified P. aeruginosa azurin” J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 21, 113-119.
24. Bains, R. K.; Warren, J. J. “A single protein redox ruler.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2016, 113, 248-250.
23. Mu, C.; Chang, S. W.; Prosser, K.E.; Leung, A. W. Y.; Santacruz, S.; Jang, T.; Thompson, J. R.; Yapp, D. T. T.; Warren, J. J.; Bally, M. B.; Beischlag, T. V.; Walsby C. J. “Induction of Cytotoxicity in Pyridine Analogues of the Antimetastatic Ru(III) Complex NAMI-A by Ferrocene Functionalization” Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 177-190.
