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  Publications  

Prior to Michigan

XV. Aristidis Vasilopoulos,# Joshua A. Buss,# Dung L. Golden,  and  Shannon S. Stahl "Cu/NFSI-Catalyzed C–H Fluorination/Functionization as a Strategy for Benzylic C–H Cross Coupling with Diverse Nucleophiles" manuscript in preparation.

          (# denotes equal author contribution)

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XIV. Ruomeng Wan, Joshua A. Buss, Kyle T. Horak, and Theodor Agapie. "A Hemilabile Diphosphine Pyridine Pincer Ligand: σ- and π-Binding in Molybdenum Coordination Complexes" Polyhedron 2020under revision. 

Special issue in honor of John Bercaw's 75th birthday: Thank you, EQG, for your mentorship, friendship, and support!

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XIII. Huayou Hu,# Si-Jie Chen,# Mukunda Mandal, Saied, Md Pratik, Joshua A. Buss, Shane W. Krska, Christopher J. Cramer, and Shannon S. Stahl. "Copper-Catalyzed Benzylic C-H Coupling with Alcohols via Radical Relay Enabled by Redox Buffering" Nat. Catal. 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41929-020-0425-1.

          (# denotes equal author contribution)

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XII. Joshua A. Buss, Gwendolyn A. Bailey, Jules Oppenheimer, David G. VanderVelde, William A. Goddard III, and Theodor Agapie, “CO Coupling Chemistry of a Terminal Mo Carbide: Sequential Addition of Proton, Hydride, and CO Releases Ethenone” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 15664.

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XI. Joshua A. Buss, Masanari Hirahara, Yohei Ueda, and Theodor Agapie, “Molecular Mimics of Heterogeneous Metal Phosphides: Thermochemistry, Hydride-Proton Isomerism, and HER Reactivity” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 16329.

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X. Joshua A. Buss, David VanderVelde, and Theodor Agapie, “Lewis Acid Enhancement of Proton Induced CO  Cleavage: Bond Weakening and Ligand Residence-Time Effects” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10121.

Highlighted in the Inorganic Chemistry virtual issue: “Inorganic Young Investigators: A Celebration of our Rising Stars” Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 10607.

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IX. Joshua A. Buss, Christine Cheng, and Theodor Agapie, “A Low-Valent Molybdenum Nitride Complex: Reduction Promotes Carbonylation Chemistry” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 130, 9818.

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VIII. Naoki Shida, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie, “Electrochemical Synthesis of Metal Phosphides Under Mild Conditions: Mechanistic Insights and Application for Proton Reduction” Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 767.

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VII. Joshua A. Buss, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie, “Terminal Molybdenum Phosphides with d-Electrons: Radical Character Promotes Coupling Chemistry” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14502.

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VI. Alejo M. Lifschitz, Nathanael A. Hirscher, Heui Beom Lee, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie, “Ethylene Tetramerization Catalysis: Effects of Aluminum-Induced Isomerization of PNP to PPN Ligands” Organometallics, 2017, 36, 1640.

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V. Joshua A. Buss and Theodor Agapie, “Mechanism of Molybdenum Mediated Carbon Monoxide Deoxygenation and Coupling: Mono- and Dicarbyne Complexes Precede C–O Bond Cleavage and C–C Bond Formation” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 16466.

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IV. Joshua A. Buss and Theodor Agapie, “Four-Electron Deoxygenative Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide at a Single Metal Site” Nature, 2016, 529, 72.

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III. Joshua A. Buss, Guy A. Edouard, Christine Cheng, Jade Shi, and Theodor Agapie, “Molybdenum Catalyzed Ammonia Borane Dehydrogenation: Oxidation State Specific Mechanisms” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 11272.

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II. Sharday Grant-Overton, Joshua A. Buss, Eva H. Smith, Elisa G. Gutierrez, Eric J. Moorhead, Vivian S. Lin, and Anna G. Wenzel, “Efficient Microwave Method for the Oxidative Coupling of Phenols” Synth. Commun. 2014, 45, 331.

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I. Anna M. Wagner, Claire E. Knezevic, Jessica L. Wall, Victoria L. Sun, Joshua A. Buss, LeeAnn T. Allen, and Anna G. Wenzel, “A Copper(II)-Catalyzed, Sequential Michael-Aldol Reaction for the Preparation of 1,2-Dihydroquinolines” Tetrahedron Lett. 2012, 53, 833.

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