Publications:
Metal clusters in the global carbon and nitrogen cycles
Mankad, N. P. Triazenide-supported [Cu4S] structural mimics of CuZ that mediate N2O disproportionation rather than reduction. Chemical Science2024, 15, 1820-1828. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05451A
Alayoglu, P.; Chang, T.; Lorenzo Ocampo, M. V.; Murray, L. J.; Chen, Y.-S.; Mankad, N. P. Metal Site-Specific Electrostatic Field Effects on a Tricopper(I) Cluster Probed by Resonant Diffraction Anomalous Fine Structure (DAFS). Inorganic Chemistry2023, 62, 15267-15276. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02472 (First appeared as a preprint on ChemRxiv, https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-h1dxg)
Basu, D.; Subasinghe, S. M. S.; Mankad, N. P. Reactivity of a Dithiocarbamate-Ligated [WVI≡S] Complex with Hydride Donors: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of Formate Dehydrogenase. Inorganic Chemistry2023, 62, 6332-6338. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00086
Rathnayaka, S. C.; Mankad, N. P. Coordination chemistry of the CuZ site in nitrous oxide reductase and its synthetic mimics. Coordination Chemistry Reviews2021, 429, 213718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2020.213718
Mankad, N. P. Learning from Nature: Bio-inspired Heterobinuclear Electrocatalysts for Selective CO2 Reduction. Trends in Chemistry 2021, 3, 159-160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2020.12.002
Ghosh, D.; Sinhababu, S.; Santarsiero, B. D.; Mankad, N. P. A W/Cu synthetic model for the Mo/Cu cofactor of aerobic CODH indicates that biochemical CO oxidation requires a frustrated Lewis acid/base pair. Journal of the American Chemical Society2020, 142, 12635-12642. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c03343
* Highlight in JACS Spotlights
Rathnayaka, S. C.; Hsu, C.-W.; Johnson, B. J.; Iniguez, S. J.; Mankad, N. P. Impact of Electronic and Steric Changes of Ligands on the Assembly, Stability, and Redox Activity of Cu4(μ4-S) Model Compounds of the CuZActive Site of Nitrous Oxide Reductase (N2OR). Inorganic Chemistry2020, 59, 6496-6507. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00564
Rathnayaka, S. C.; Islam, S. M.; DiMucci, I. M.; MacMillan, S. N.; Lancaster, K. M.*; Mankad, N. P.* Probing the Electronic and Mechanistic Roles of the µ4-Sulfur Atom in a Synthetic CuZ Model System. Chemical Science2020, 11, 3441-3447. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SC06251C
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* ChemSci HOT Article
Hsu, C.-W.; Rathnayaka, S. C.; Islam, S. M.; MacMillan, S. N.; Mankad, N. P. N2O Reductase Activity of a [Cu4S] Cluster in the 4CuI Redox State Modulated by Hydrogen Bond Donors and Proton Relays in the Secondary Coordination Sphere. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition2020, 59, 627-631. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201906327
Rathnayaka, S. C.; Lindeman, S. V.; Mankad, N. P. Multinuclear Cu(I) Clusters Featuring a New Triply Bridging Coordination Mode of Phosphaamidinate Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry2018, 57, 9439-94454. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01422
Bagherzadeh, S.; Mankad, N. P. Oxidation of a [Cu2S] Complex by N2O and CO2: Insights into a Role of Tetranuclearity in the CuZSite of Nitrous Oxide Reductase. Chemical Communications2018, 54, 1097-1100. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC09067F
Johnson, B. J.; Antholine, W. E.; Lindeman, S. V.; Graham, M. J.; Mankad, N. P. A 1-hole Cu4S cluster with N2O reductase activity: a structural and functional model for CuZ*. Journal of the American Chemical Society2016, 138, 13107–13110. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b05480
Johnson, B. J.; Antholine, W. E.; Lindeman, S. V.; Mankad, N. P. A Cu4S Model for the Nitrous Oxide Reductase Active Sites Supported Only by Nitrogen Ligands. Chemical Communications2015, 51, 11860–11863. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC04675K
Johnson, B. J.; Lindeman, S. V.; Mankad, N. P. Assembly, Structure, and Reactivity of Cu4S and Cu3S Models for the Nitrous Oxide Reductase Active Site, CuZ*. Inorganic Chemistry2014, 53, 10611–10619. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic501720h
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