Journal of the American Chemical Society Table of Contents: 2014, vol. 136, No. 29


Spotlights

Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications
ACS Contributing Correspondents
10173-10173

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Perspectives

Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Nano-objects via RAFT Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization
Nicholas J. Warren and Steven P. Armes
10174-10185

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Communications

Mixing, Diffusion, and Percolation in Binary Supported Membranes Containing Mixtures of Lipids and Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
Douglas L. Gettel, Jeremy Sanborn, Mira A. Patel, Hans-Peter de Hoog, Bo Liedberg, Madhavan Nallani, and Atul N. Parikh
10186-10189

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Elucidation of the Cryptic Epimerase Activity of Redox-Inactive Ketoreductase Domains from Modular Polyketide Synthases by Tandem Equilibrium Isotope Exchange
Ashish Garg, Xinqiang Xie, Adrian Keatinge-Clay, Chaitan Khosla, and David E. Cane
10190-10193

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Small Circular DNA Molecules Act as Rigid Motifs To Build DNA Nanotubes
Hongning Zheng, Minyu Xiao, Qin Yan, Yinzhou Ma, and Shou-Jun Xiao
10194-10197

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Water Oxidation by a Nickel-Glycine Catalyst
Dong Wang, Giovanna Ghirlanda, and James P. Allen
10198-10201

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Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Trifluoromethylarylation of Alkenes: Mutual Activation of Arylboronic Acid and CF3+ Reagent
Fei Wang, Dinghai Wang, Xin Mu, Pinhong Chen, and Guosheng Liu
10202-10205

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Synthesis of Structurally Ordered Pt3Ti and Pt3V Nanoparticles as Methanol Oxidation Catalysts
Zhiming Cui, Hao Chen, Mengtian Zhao, Daniel Marshall, Yingchao Yu, Héctor Abruña, and Francis J DiSalvo
10206-10209

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Synthesis of the Rosette-Inducing Factor RIF-1 and Analogs
Christine Beemelmanns, Arielle Woznica, Rosanna A. Alegado, Alexandra M. Cantley, Nicole King, and Jon Clardy
10210-10213

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Polycondensation of Polymer Brushes via DNA Hybridization
Xueguang Lu, Eleanor Watts, Fei Jia, Xuyu Tan, and Ke Zhang
10214-10217

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New Chemistry from an Old Reagent: Mono- and Dinuclear Macrocyclic Uranium(III) Complexes from [U(BH4)3(THF)2]
Polly L. Arnold, Charlotte J. Stevens, Joy H. Farnaby, Michael G. Gardiner, Gary S. Nichol, and Jason B. Love
10218-10221

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Shape-Dependent Hydrogen-Storage Properties in Pd Nanocrystals: Which Does Hydrogen Prefer, Octahedron (111) or Cube (100)?
Guangqin Li, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Shun Dekura, Ryuichi Ikeda, Yoshiki Kubota, Kenichi Kato, Masaki Takata, Tomokazu Yamamoto, Syo Matsumura, and Hiroshi Kitagawa
10222-10225

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A Multi-iron System Capable of Rapid N2 Formation and N2 Cleavage
K. Cory MacLeod, David J. Vinyard, and Patrick L. Holland
10226-10229

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NO2 Activation and Reduction to NO by a Nonheme Fe(NO2)2 Complex
Brian C. Sanders, Sayed M. Hassan, and Todd C. Harrop
10230-10233

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Lewis Acid-Assisted Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Using a Pincer-Supported Iron Catalyst
Elizabeth A. Bielinski, Paraskevi O. Lagaditis, Yuanyuan Zhang, Brandon Q. Mercado, Christian Würtele, Wesley H. Bernskoetter, Nilay Hazari, and Sven Schneider
10234-10237

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Transition-Metal-Free Controlled Polymerization of 2-Perfluoroaryl-5-trimethylsilylthiophenes
Takanobu Sanji and Tomokazu Iyoda
10238-10241

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Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Ultrathin Metal Telluride Nanowires
Haoran Yang, Scott W. Finefrock, Jonatan D. Albarracin Caballero, and Yue Wu
10242-10245

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Photorelaxation Induced by Water–Chromophore Electron Transfer
Mario Barbatti
10246-10249

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Remote Control of Axial Chirality: Aminocatalytic Desymmetrization of N-Arylmaleimides via Vinylogous Michael Addition
Nicola Di Iorio, Paolo Righi, Andrea Mazzanti, Michele Mancinelli, Alessia Ciogli, and Giorgio Bencivenni
10250-10253

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Arm-Cleavable Microgel Star Polymers: A Versatile Strategy for Direct Core Analysis and Functionalization
Takaya Terashima, Saki Nishioka, Yuta Koda, Mikihito Takenaka, and Mitsuo Sawamoto
10254-10257

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Branch-Selective, Iridium-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Monosubstituted Alkenes via a Cooperative Destabilization Strategy
Giacomo E. M. Crisenza, Niall G. McCreanor, and John F. Bower
10258-10261

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Cooperative Transition Metal/Lewis Acid Bond-Activation Reactions by a Bidentate (Boryl)iminomethane Complex: A Significant Metal–Borane Interaction Promoted by a Small Bite-Angle LZ Chelate
Brandon R. Barnett, Curtis E. Moore, Arnold L. Rheingold, and Joshua S. Figueroa
10262-10265

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Mild Aminoacylation of Indoles and Pyrroles through a Three-Component Reaction with Ynol Ethers and Sulfonyl Azides
Joshua S. Alford and Huw M. L. Davies
10266-10269

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Synthesis of (−)-Pseudotabersonine, (−)-Pseudovincadifformine, and (+)-Coronaridine Enabled by Photoredox Catalysis in Flow
Joel W. Beatty and Corey R. J. Stephenson
10270-10273

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Total Synthesis of (−)-Crinipellin A
Taek Kang, Seog Boem Song, Won-Yeob Kim, Byung Gyu Kim, and Hee-Yoon Lee
10274-10276

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Articles

Specific and Nonspecific Interactions in Ultraweak Protein–Protein Associations Revealed by Solvent Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancements
Helle Johansson, Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen, Henrik Gesmar, Sebastian Meier, Joachim M. Vinther, Camille Keeler, Michael E. Hodsdon, and Jens J. Led
10277-10286

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First-Principles Study of Phenol Hydrogenation on Pt and Ni Catalysts in Aqueous Phase
Yeohoon Yoon, Roger Rousseau, Robert S. Weber, Donghai Mei, and Johannes A. Lercher
10287-10298

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Effects of Atomic Geometry and Electronic Structure of Platinum Surfaces on Molecular Adsorbates Studied by Gap-Mode SERS
Jian Hu, Masahiro Tanabe, Jun Sato, Kohei Uosaki, and Katsuyoshi Ikeda
10299-10307

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Photodissociation of Conformer-Selected Ubiquitin Ions Reveals Site-Specific Cis/Trans Isomerization of Proline Peptide Bonds
Stephan Warnke, Carsten Baldauf, Michael T. Bowers, Kevin Pagel, and Gert von Helden
10308-10314

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Thermodynamic Mechanism for the Evasion of Antibody Neutralization in Flaviviruses
Rodrigo A. Maillard, Tong Liu, David W. C. Beasley, Alan D. T. Barrett, Vincent J. Hilser, and J. Ching Lee
10315-10324

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Differential Control of Heme Reactivity in Alpha and Beta Subunits of Hemoglobin: A Combined Raman Spectroscopic and Computational Study
Eric M. Jones, Emanuele Monza, Gurusamy Balakrishnan, George C. Blouin, Piotr J. Mak, Qianhong Zhu, James R. Kincaid, Victor Guallar, and Thomas G. Spiro
10325-10339

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A Multi-State, Allosterically-Regulated Molecular Receptor With Switchable Selectivity
Jose Mendez-Arroyo, Joaquín Barroso-Flores, Alejo M. Lifschitz, Amy A. Sarjeant, Charlotte L. Stern, and Chad A. Mirkin
10340-10348

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Probing the Electrostatics of Active Site Microenvironments along the Catalytic Cycle for Escherichia coli Dihydrofolate Reductase
C. Tony Liu, Joshua P. Layfield, Robert J. Stewart, III, Jarrod B. French, Philip Hanoian, John B. Asbury, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Stephen J. Benkovic
10349-10360

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Electronic States of the Quasilinear Molecule Propargylene (HCCCH) from Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy
David L. Osborn, Kristen M. Vogelhuber, Scott W. Wren, Elisa M. Miller, Yu-Ju Lu, Amanda S. Case, Leonid Sheps, Robert J. McMahon, John F. Stanton, Lawrence B. Harding, Branko Ruscic, and W. Carl Lineberger
10361-10372

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Mechanisms of syn-Insertion of Alkynes and Allenes into Gold–Silicon Bonds: A Comprehensive Experimental/Theoretical Study
Maximilian Joost, Laura Estevez, Sonia Mallet-Ladeira, Karinne Miqueu, Abderrahmane Amgoune, and Didier Bourissou
10373-10382

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DNA-Controlled Partition of Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Aqueous Two-Phase Systems
Geyou Ao, Constantine Y. Khripin, and Ming Zheng
10383-10392

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Half-Unit-Cell α-Fe2O3 Semiconductor Nanosheets with Intrinsic and Robust Ferromagnetism
Weiren Cheng, Jingfu He, Tao Yao, Zhihu Sun, Yong Jiang, Qinghua Liu, Shan Jiang, Fengchun Hu, Zhi Xie, Bo He, Wensheng Yan, and Shiqiang Wei
10393-10398

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Water–Polysaccharide Interactions in the Primary Cell Wall of Arabidopsis thaliana from Polarization Transfer Solid-State NMR
Paul B. White, Tuo Wang, Yong Bum Park, Daniel J. Cosgrove, and Mei Hong
10399-10409

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Ion-Regulated Allosteric Binding of Fullerenes (C60 and C70) by Tetrathiafulvalene-Calix[4]pyrroles
Christina M. Davis, Jong Min Lim, Karina R. Larsen, Dong Sub Kim, Young Mo Sung, Dani M. Lyons, Vincent M. Lynch, Kent A. Nielsen, Jan O. Jeppesen, Dongho Kim, Jung Su Park, and Jonathan L. Sessler
10410-10417

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The Trifluoromethyl Group as a Conformational Stabilizer and Probe: Conformational Analysis of Cinchona Alkaloid Scaffolds
G. K. Surya Prakash, Fang Wang, Martin Rahm, Zhe Zhang, Chuanfa Ni, Jingguo Shen, and George A. Olah
10418-10431

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Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Characterization of an Iridium-Based Molecular Catalyst for Water Splitting: Turnover Frequencies, Stability, and Electrolyte Effects
Oscar Diaz-Morales, Thomas J. P. Hersbach, Dennis G. H. Hetterscheid, Joost N. H. Reek, and Marc T. M. Koper
10432-10439

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Hydration of Gaseous m-Aminobenzoic Acid: Ionic vs Neutral Hydrogen Bonding and Water Bridges
Terrence M. Chang, Satrajit Chakrabarty, and Evan R. Williams
10440-10449

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Mechanistic Studies on the Substrate-Tolerant Lanthipeptide Synthetase ProcM
Subha Mukherjee and Wilfred A. van der Donk
10450-10459

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Very Large Cooperative Effects in Heterobimetallic Titanium-Chromium Catalysts for Ethylene Polymerization/Copolymerization
Shaofeng Liu, Alessandro Motta, Aidan R. Mouat, Massimiliano Delferro, and Tobin J. Marks
10460-10469

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Unusual Reaction of [NiFe]-Hydrogenases with Cyanide
Suzannah V. Hexter, Min-Wen Chung, Kylie A. Vincent, and Fraser A. Armstrong
10470-10477

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In Situ Hybridization of Superparamagnetic Iron-Biomolecule Nanoparticles
Nafiseh Moghimi, Apraku David Donkor, Mamata Mohapatra, Joseph Palathinkal Thomas, Zhengding Su, Xiaowu (Shirley) Tang, and Kam Tong Leung
10478-10485

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Length-Dependent Conductance of Oligothiophenes
Brian Capozzi, Emma J. Dell, Timothy C. Berkelbach, David R. Reichman, Latha Venkataraman, and Luis M. Campos
10486-10492

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Mechanochemistry with Metallosupramolecular Polymers
Diederik W. R. Balkenende, Souleymane Coulibaly, Sandor Balog, Yoan C. Simon, Gina L. Fiore, and Christoph Weder
10493-10498

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From Trigonal Bipyramidal to Platonic Solids: Self-Assembly and Self-Sorting Study of Terpyridine-Based 3D Architectures
Ming Wang, Chao Wang, Xin-Qi Hao, Xiaohong Li, Tyler J Vaughn, Yan-Yan Zhang, Yihua Yu, Zhong-Yu Li, Mao-Ping Song, Hai-Bo Yang, and Xiaopeng Li
10499-10507

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Strategies to Enhance Cyclopolymerization using Third-Generation Grubbs Catalyst
Eun-Hye Kang, So Young Yu, In Sun Lee, Seong Eon Park, and Tae-Lim Choi
10508-10514

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Dramatically Different Kinetics and Mechanism at Solid/Liquid and Solid/Gas Interfaces for Catalytic Isopropanol Oxidation over Size-Controlled Platinum Nanoparticles
Hailiang Wang, Andras Sapi, Christopher M. Thompson, Fudong Liu, Danylo Zherebetskyy, James M. Krier, Lindsay M. Carl, Xiaojun Cai, Lin-Wang Wang, and Gabor A. Somorjai
10515-10520

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Uniform Doping of Metal Oxide Nanowires Using Solid State Diffusion
Joaquin Resasco, Neil P. Dasgupta, Josep Roque Rosell, Jinghua Guo, and Peidong Yang
10521-10526

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Clickable Degradable Aliphatic Polyesters via Copolymerization with Alkyne Epoxy Esters: Synthesis and Postfunctionalization with Organic Dyes
Nele S. Teske, Julia Voigt, and V. Prasad Shastri
10527-10533

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Regioselective Benzyl Radical Addition to an Open-Shell Cluster Metallofullerene. Crystallographic Studies of Cocrystallized Sc3C2@Ih-C80 and Its Singly Bonded Derivative
Hongyun Fang, Hailin Cong, Mitsuaki Suzuki, Lipiao Bao, Bing Yu, Yunpeng Xie, Naomi Mizorogi, Marilyn M. Olmstead, Alan L. Balch, Shigeru Nagase, Takeshi Akasaka, and Xing Lu
10534-10540

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Additions and Corrections

Correction to “Baulamycins A and B, Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics Identified as Inhibitors of Siderophore Biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis
Ashootosh Tripathi, Michael M. Schofield, George E. Chlipala, Pamela J. Schultz, Isaiah Yim, Sean A. Newmister, Tyler D. Nusca, Jamie B. Scaglione, Philip C. Hanna, Giselle Tamayo-Castillo, and David H. Sherman
10541-10541

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Correction to “Chiral Arrangement of Achiral Au Nanoparticles by Supramolecular Assembly of Helical Nanofiber Templates”
Sung Ho Jung, Jiwon Jeon, Hyungjun Kim, Justyn Jaworski, and Jong Hwa Jung
10542-10542
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Correction to “Influence of Pyrazolate vs N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands on the Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Homoleptic Trischelate Lanthanide(III) and Uranium(III) Complexes”
Katie R. Meihaus, Stefan G. Minasian, Wayne W. Lukens, Jr., Stosh A. Kozimor, David K. Shuh, Tolek Tyliszczak, and Jeffrey R. Long
10543-10543
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Correction to “Formation of Vinyl-, Vinylhalide- or Acyl-Substituted Quaternary Carbon Stereogenic Centers through NHC–Cu-Catalyzed Enantioselective Conjugate Additions of Si-Containing Vinylaluminums to β-Substituted Cyclic Enones”
Tricia L. May, Jennifer A. Dabrowski, and Amir H. Hoveyda
10544-10544
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Correction to “Dynamic Introduction of Cell Adhesive Factor via Reversible Multicovalent Phenylboronic Acid/cis-Diol Polymeric Complexes”
Guoqing Pan, Bingbing Guo, Yue Ma, Wenguo Cui, Fan He, Bin Li, Huilin Yang, and Kenneth J. Shea
10545-10545
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Correction to “Nonionic Triblock and Star Diblock Copolymer and Oligomeric Surfactant Syntheses of Highly Ordered, Hydrothermally Stable, Mesoporous Silica Structures”
Dongyuan Zhao, Qisheng Huo, Jianglin Feng, Bradley F. Chmelka, and Galen D. Stucky
10546-10546
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