Boulatov group

Chemistry of stressed polymers

Publications

  1. 1. Akbulatov, S.; Tian, Y.; Boulatov, R. Force-reactivity property of a single monomer is sufficient to predict the micromechanical behavior of its polymer J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012 (in press, text).
  2. Tian, Y.; Boulatov, R. Quantum-chemical validation of the local assumption of chemomechanics for a unimolecular reaction. ChemPhysChem 2012 (in press, text).
  3. Hermes, M.; Boulatov, R. The entropic and enthalpic contributions to force-dependent dissociation kinetics of the pyrophosphate bond. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 20044-20047 (text).
  4. Kucharski, T.; Tian, Y.; Akbulatov, S.; Boulatov, R. Chemical solutions for the closed-cycle storage of solar energy. Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4 (text).
  5. Kucharski, T.; Boulatov, R. The physical chemistry of mechanoresponsive polymers. J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 8237-8255 (text).
  6. Kucharski, T.; Boulatov, R. Fundamentals of molecular photoactuation (invited book chapter). Optical Nano and Micro Actuator Technology. CRC Press, 2011 (accepted)
  7. Huang, Z., Boulatov, R. Chemomechanics: chemical kinetics of multiscale processes (invited review). Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011, 40, 2359-2384 (text). Journal cover.
  8. Boulatov, R. Reaction dynamics in the formidable gap. Pure Appl. Chem. 2011, 83, 25-41 (text).
  9. Kucharski, T. J.; Yang, Q.-Z.; Tian, Y.; Boulatov, R. Strain-Dependent Acceleration of a Paradigmatic SN2 Reaction Accurately Predicted by the Force Formalism. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 2820-2825 (text).
  10. Huang, Z.; Boulatov, R. Chemomechanics with molecular force probes (invited review). Pure App. Chem. 2010, 82, 931-951 (text).
  11. Yang, Q.-Z.;# Huang, Z.;# Kucharski, T. J.;# Khvostichenko, D.;# Chen, J.; Boulatov, R. A molecular force probe. Nature Nanotech. 2009, 4, 302-306 (text). Journal cover, Editorial, Commentary. Highlights: Nature 2009, 458, 552 (text); MarketWatch.com, March 29, 2009 (text); Chemistry World, March 2009 (text)
  12. Kucharski, T. J.; Huang, Z.; Yang, Q.-Z.; Tian, Y. C.; Rubin, N. C.; Concepcion, C. D.; Boulatov, R. Kinetics of thiol/disulfide exchange correlates weakly with the restoring force of the disulfide moiety. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 7040-7043 (VIP article) (text); Journal cover. Highlights: Chemical and Engineering News August 24, 2009, p. 10 (text); ScienceDaily June 28, 2009 (text); Inside Illinois July 16, 2009, p. 8 (text).
  13. Huang, Z.; Yang, Q.-Z.; Khvostichenko, D.; Kucharski, T. J.; Chen, J.; Boulatov, R. Method to derive restoring forces of strained molecules from kinetic measurements. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1407-1409 (text).
  14. Huang, Z.;# Yang, Q.-Z.;# Kucharski, T. J.; Khvostichenko, D.; Wakeman, S. M.; Boulatov, R. Macrocyclic disulfides for studies of sensitized photolysis of the S-S bond. Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 5212-5214 (text).
  15. Boulatov, R. Metalloporphyrin catalysts for oxygen reduction (invited review). In Fuel Cell Catalysis. Koper, M.; Wieckowski, A., Eds.; Wiley: New York, 2009; Ch. 18, pp. 637-694.
  16. Yang, Q.-Z.; Khvostichenko, D.; Atkinson J.; Boulatov, R. Simple dimer containing dissociatively-stable mono-imidazole ligated ferrohemes. Chem. Commun. 2008, 963-965 (text).
  17. Khvostichenko, D.; Choi, A.; Boulatov, R. DFT calculations of the lowest-energy quintet and triplet states of model hemes: Effects of functional, basis set and zero-point energy corrections. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2008, 112, 3700-3711 (text).
  18. Khvostichenko, D.;# Yang, Q.-Z.;# Boulatov, R. Simple heme dimers with strongly cooperative ligand binding. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 8368-8370 (text).
  19. Boulatov, R. Billion year old oxygen cathode that actually works: Biological and biomimetic oxygen reduction as an energy source (invited review). In N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes. Zagal, J. H., Dodelet, J.-P. Eds; Kluwer: Amsterdam, 2006, Ch. 1, pp. 1-36.

    20. # Equal contribution.

 

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