• Highlight: ACS Select Virtual Issue, "Women in Inorganic Chemistry: Synthetic Chemistry
Addressing Challenges in Energy and the Environment" Inorg. Chem. 2018, Article ASAP
• Highlight: ACS Select Virtual Issue, "The Way Forward in Molecular Electrocatalysis", by
Dey, A. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55(21), pp 10831-10834 Link
• Categorized as a "Highly Cited Paper" by Web of Science™, receiving enough
citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and
publication year.
McKone, J. R.; Marinescu, S. C.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* "Earth-abundant hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts" Chem. Sci.2014, 5, 865-878. Link
• Categorized as a "Highly Cited Paper" by Web of Science™, receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.
Keith, J. A.; Behenna, D. C.; Sherden, N.; Mohr, J. T.; Ma, S.; Marinescu, S. C.; Nielsen, R. J.; Oxgaard, J.; Stoltz, B. M.*; Goddard, W. A., III* "The Reaction Mechanism of the Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation: Inner-Sphere and Outer-Sphere Pathways, Internal Rearrangements, and Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation" J. Am. Chem. Soc.2012, 134, 19050-19060. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Bracher, P. J.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* "Solar Fuels" AIP Conf. Proc.2013, 1519, 64-67. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.* "Molecular Mechanisms of Cobalt Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA2012, 109, 15127-15131. Link
• Featured in Science (Yeston, J. S. "Protons coming and going" Science2012, 338, 17, Link ), C&E News (Jacoby, M. "Pinning down a Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogen Evolution" C&E News2012, 90, 37, 8, Link ) and a Caltech press release entitled "Showing the Way to Improved Water-Splitting Catalysts". Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Ng, V. W. L.; Lichtscheidl, A. G.; Schrock, R. R.*; Müller, P.; Takase, M. K. "Syntheses of Variations of Stereogenic-at-Metal Imido Alkylidene Complexes of Molybdenum" Organometallics2012, 31, 6336-6343. Link
Behenna, D. C.; Mohr, J. T.; Sherden, N. H.; Marinescu, S. C.; Harned, A. M.; Tani, K.; Seto, M.; Ma, S.; Novák, Z.; Krout, M. R.; McFadden, R. M.; Roizen, J. L.; Enquist, J. A., Jr.; White, D. E.; Levine, S. R.; Petrova, K. V.; Iwashita, A.; Virgil, S. C.; Stoltz, B. M.* "Enantioselective Decarboxylative Alkylation Reactions: Catalyst Development, Substrate Scope, and Mechanistic Studies" Chem. Eur. J.2011, 17, 14199-14223. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Levine, D. S.; Zhao, Y.; Schrock, R. R.*; Hoveyda, A. H. "Isolation of Pure Disubstituted E Olefins through Mo-Catalyzed Z-Selective Ethenolysis of Stereoisomeric Mixtures" J. Am. Chem. Soc.2011, 133, 11512-11514. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Schrock, R. R.*; Müller, P.; Takase, M. K.; Hoveyda, A. H. "Room-Temperature Z-Selective Homcoupling of α-Olefins by Tungsten Catalysts" Organometallics2011, 30, 1780-1782. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; King, A. J.; Schrock, R. R.*; Singh, R.; Müller, P.; Takase, M. K. "Simple Molybdenum(IV) Olefin Complexes of the Type Mo(NR)(X)(Y)(olefin)" Organometallics2010, 29, 6816-6828. Link
Schrock, R. R.*; Jiang, A. J.; Marinescu, S. C.; Simpson, J. H.; Müller, P. "Fundamental Studies of Molybdenum and Tungsten Methylidene and Metallacyclobutane Complexes" Organometallics2010, 29, 5241-5251. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Schrock, R. R.*; Müller, P.; Hoveyda, A. H. "Ethenolysis Reactions Catalyzed by Imido Alkylidene Monopyrrolide (MAP) Complexes of Molybdenum" J. Am. Chem. Soc.2009, 131, 10840-10841. Link
Rendon, N.; Berthoud, R.; Blanc, F.; Gajan, D.; Maishal, T.; Basset, J.-M.; Copéret, C.*; Lesage, A.; Emsley, L.; Marinescu, S. C.; Singh, R.; Schrock, R. R.* "Well-Defined Silica-Supported Mo-Alkylidene Catalyst Precursors containing one OR Substituent: Methods of Preparation and Structure-Reactivity Relationship in Alkene Metathesis" Chem. Eur. J.2009, 15, 5083-5089. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Schrock, R. R.*; Li, B.; Hoveyda, A. H. "Inversion of Configuration at the Metal in Diastereomeric Imido Alkylidene Monoaryloxide Monopyrrolide Complexes of Molybdenum" J. Am. Chem. Soc.2009, 131, 58-59. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Singh, R.; Hock, A. S.; Wampler, K. M.; Schrock, R. R.*; Müller, P. "Syntheses and Structures of Molybdenum Imido Alkylidene Pyrrolide and Indolide Complexes" Organometallics2008, 27, 6570-6578. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Toyoki, N.; Mohr, J. T.; Stoltz, B. M.* "Homogeneous Pd-Catalyzed Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation" Org. Lett.2008, 10, 1039-1042. Link
Keith, J. A.; Behenna, D. C.; Mohr, J. T.; Ma, S.; Marinescu, S. C.; Oxgaard, J.; Stoltz, B. M.*; Goddard, W. A., III* "The Inner-Sphere Process in the Enantioselective Tsuji Allylation Reaction with (S)-t-Bu-phosphinooxazoline Ligands" J. Am. Chem. Soc.2007, 129, 11876-11877. Link
Marinescu, S. C.; Agapie, T.; Day, M. W.; Bercaw, J. E.* "Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands - Synthesis and Reactivity" Organometallics2007, 26, 1178-1190. Link
Patents
Marinescu, S. C.; Intrator, J. A.; Velazquez, D. A. "Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate by a Cobalt Phosphino-Thiolate Complex", provisional patent, serial number USC0333PRV; 2022-185-001; filed 06/16/2022.
Marinescu, S. C.; Orchanian, N. M. "Immobilized Molecular Wires on Carbon Cloth Electrodes", provisional patent, serial number 62/894,173; filed 08/30/2019.
Marinescu, S. C.; Orchanian, N. M. "Electrocatalytic Syngas Generation with a Cobalt Phosphinothiolate Complex", provisional patent, serial number 62/874,896; filed 07/16/2019.
Marinescu, S. C.; Downes, C. A. "Bioinspired Metal Selenolate Polymers with Tunable Mechanistic Pathways for Efficient H2 Evolution", provisional patent, USC 0172 PRV; filed 11/17/2016.
Marinescu, S. C.; Chapovetsky, A. "Proton Assisted Reduction of CO2 by Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocycles", provisional patent, USC 0151 PRV; filed 04/01/2016.
Marinescu, S. C.; Downes, C. A.; Clough, A. J. "1D- and 2D-Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution from Water", provisional patent, USC 0136 PRV; filed 10/10/2014.
Marinescu, S. C.; Clough, A. J. "2D Metal-Organic Surfaces (MOS) for Efficient Water Reduction", provisional patent, CIT-6775-P, filed 01/16/2014
Schrock, R. R.; Marinescu, S. C.; Hoveyda, A. H. "Catalysts and Processes for the Formation of Terminal Olefins by Ethenolysis", 2009 U. S. Patent Application M0925.70258WO00. Link