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(Undergraduate co-authors in red)

45) Devdass, A.; Watson, J.; Zeller, M.; Delcamp, J. H.; Jurss, J. W. Copper-based Redox Shuttles Supported by Pentadentate Ligands for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with High Efficiencies Under Low-Light Conditions. Under review.

44) Sahil, S. T.; McCardle, K. M.; Le Magueres, P.; Panetier, J. A.; Jurss, J. W. Investigations of a Copper(II) Bipyridyl-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Macrocycle for CO2 Reduction. Under review.

43) Laber, C. H.; Scircle, A. R.; Mouton, Z. P.; Thornell, T. L.; Antony, A.; Jurss, J. W.; Glasscott, M. W. Tunable High Entropy Lanthanide Oxide Microspheres via Confined Electroprecipitation in Emulsion Droplet Scaffolds. ACS Materials Au 2024, 4, 179-184.

42) Chen, L.; Su, X.; Jurss, J. W. Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from Water at Low Overpotentials with Cobalt Complexes Supported by Redox-Active Bipyridyl-NHC Donors. Chinese J. Catal. 2022, 43, 3187-3194.

41) Nugegoda, D.; Bhattacharya, S.; Hunt, L. A.; Schwartz, S. J.; Turner, Z. H.; Hammer, N. I.; Jurss, J. W.; Delcamp, J. H. Designing Self-Assembled Dye-Redox Shuttle Systems via Interfacial π-Stacking in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells for Enhanced Low Light Power Conversion. Energy & Fuels 2022, 36, 7075-7086.

40) Devdass, A.; Watson, J.; Firestone, E.; Hamann, T. W.; Delcamp, J. H.; Jurss, J. W. An Efficient Copper-based Redox Shuttle Bearing a Hexadentate Polypyridyl Ligand for DSCs Under Low-Light Conditions. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 5964–5973.

39) Mitra, S.; Talukdar, K.; Prasad, P.; Misra, S. K.; Khan, S.; Sharp, J. S.; Jurss, J. W.; Chakraborty, S. A Rationally Designed Cu Chelator that Mitigates Cu-Induced ROS Production by Amyloid Beta. ChemBioChem 2022, 23, e202100485.

38) Nugegoda, D.; Hunt, L. A.; Devdass, A.; Cheema, H.; Jurss, J. W.; Hammer, N. I.; Delcamp, J. H. Lewis Acid-Lewis Base Interactions Promote Fast Interfacial Electron Transfers with a Pyridine-Based Donor Dye in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 1516–1527.

37) Sinha Roy, S.; Talukdar, K.; Sahil, S. T.; Jurss, J. W. Electrochemical and Light-driven CO2 Reduction by Amine-Functionalized Rhenium Catalysts: A Comparison Between Primary and Tertiary Amine Substitutions. Polyhedron 2022, 224, 115976.

36) Devdass, A.;# Talukdar, K.;# Zeller, M.; Fortenberry, R. C.; Jurss, J. W. Exploring Different Equatorial Donors in a Series of Five-Coordinate Cu(II) Complexes Supported by Rigid Tetradentate Ligands. Polyhedron 2022, 212, 115558. (# co-first authors)

35) Curiac, C.; Rodrigues, R. R.; Watson, J.; Hunt, L. A.; Devdass, A.; Jurss, J. W.; Hammer, N. I.; Fortenberry, R. C.; Delcamp, J. H. Iron Redox Shuttles with Wide Optical Gap Dyes for High Voltage Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ChemSusChem 2021, 14, 3084-3096.

34) Saha, S.; Sahil, S. T.; Mazumder, M. M. R.; Stephens, A. M.; Cronin, B.; Duin, E. C.; Jurss, J. W.; Farnum, B. H. Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrocatalytic Activity of Bis(pyridylimino)Isoindoline Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes. Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 926-935.

33) Sinha Roy, S.;# Talukdar, K.;# Jurss, J. W. Electro- and Photochemical Reduction of CO2 by Molecular Manganese Catalysts: Exploring the Positional Effect of Second Sphere Hydrogen-Bond Donors. ChemSusChem 2021, 14, 662-670. (# co-first authors)

32) Morstein, J.; Höfler, D.; Ueno, K.; Jurss, J. W.; Walvoord, R. R.; Bruemmer, K. J.; Rezgui, S. P.; Brewer, T. F.; Saitoe, M.; Michel, B. W.; Chang, C. J. A Ligand-Directed Approach to Activity-Based Sensing: Developing Palladacycle Fluorescent Probes that Enable Endogenous Carbon Monoxide Detection. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 15917-15930.

31) Talukdar, K.;# Sinha Roy, S.;# Amatya, E.; Sleeper, E. A.; Le Magueres, P.; Jurss, J. W. Enhanced Electrochemical CO2 Reduction by a Series of Molecular Rhenium Catalysts Decorated with Second-Sphere Hydrogen-bond Donors. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 6087-6099. (# co-first authors)

30) Rodrigues, R. R.; Lee, J. M.; Taylor, N. S.; Cheema, H.; Chen, L.; Fortenberry, R. C.; Delcamp, J. H.; Jurss, J. W. Copper-Based Redox Shuttles Supported by Preorganized Tetradentate Ligands for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 343-355.

29) Su, X.; McCardle, K. M.; Chen, L.; Panetier, J. A.; Jurss, J. W. Robust and Selective Cobalt Catalysts Bearing Redox-Active Bipyridyl-NHC Frameworks for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Aqueous Solutions. ACS Catal. 2019, 9, 7398-7408.

28) Talukdar, K.; Issa, A.; Jurss, J. W. Synthesis of a Redox-Active NNP-type Pincer Ligand and its Application to Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with First-Row Transition Metal Complexes. Front. Chem. 2019, 7, 330.

27) Shirley, H.; Su, X.; Sanjanwala, H.; Talukdar, K.; Jurss, J. W.; Delcamp, J. H. Durable Solar Powered Systems with Ni-Catalysts for Conversion of CO2 or CO to CH4. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6617-6622.

26) Liyanage, N. P.; Yang, W.; Guertin, S.; Sinha Roy, S.; Carpenter, C. A.; Adams, R. E.; Schmehl, R. H.; Delcamp, J. H.; Jurss, J. W. Photochemical CO2 Reduction with Mononuclear and Dinuclear Rhenium Catalysts Bearing a Pendant Anthracene Chromophore. Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 993-996.

25) Chen, L.; Su, X.; Jurss, J. W. Selective Alkane C-H Bond Oxidation Catalyzed by a Non-heme Iron Complex Featuring a Robust Tetradentate Ligand. Organometallics 2018, 37, 4535-4539.

24) Chen, L.; Dulaney, H. A.; Wilkins, B. O.; Farmer, S.; Zhang, Y.; Fronczek, F. R.; Jurss, J. W. High-Spin Enforcement in First-row Metal Complexes of a Constrained Polyaromatic Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties. New J. Chem. 2018, 42, 18667-18677.

23) Yang, W.;# Sinha Roy, S.;# Pitts, W. C.; Nelson, R.; Fronczek, F. R.; Jurss, J. W. Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with cis and trans Conformers of a Rigid Dinuclear Rhenium Complex: Comparing the Monometallic and Cooperative Bimetallic Pathways. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 9564-9575. (# co-first authors)

22) Huckaba, A. J.; Shirley, H.; Lamb, R.; Guertin, S.; Autry, S.; Cheema, H.; Talukdar, K.; Jones, T.; Jurss, J. W.; Dass, A.; Hammer, N. I.; Schmehl, R. H.; Webster, C. E.; Delcamp, J. H. A Mononuclear Tungsten Photocatalyst for H2 Production. ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 4838-4847.

21) Su, X.; McCardle, K. M.; Panetier, J. A.; Jurss, J. W. Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Nickel Complexes Supported by Tunable Bipyridyl-N-Heterocyclic Carbene Donors: Understanding Redox-Active Macrocycles. Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 3351-3354.

20) Chen, L.; Khadivi, A.; Singh, M.; Jurss, J. W. Synthesis of a Pentadentate, Polypyrazine Ligand and its Application in Cobalt-Catalyzed Hydrogen Production. Inorg. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 1649-1653.

19) Liyanage, N. P.; Dulaney, H. A.; Huckaba, A. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Delcamp, J. H. Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO with Re-Pyridyl-NHCs: Proton Source Influence on Rates and Product Selectivities. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 6085-6094.

18) Wilson, J.; Williams, J. S. D.; Petkovsek, C.; Reves, P.; Jurss, J. W.; Hammer, N. I.; Tschumper, G.; Watkins, D. L. Synergistic Effects of Halogen Bond and π-π Interactions in Thiophene-based Building Blocks. RSC Adv. 2015, 5, 82544-82548.

17) Jurss, J. W.; Khnayzer, R. S.; Panetier, J. A.; El Roz, K. A.; Nichols, E. M.; Head-Gordon, M.; Long, J. R.; Castellano, F. N.; Chang, C. J. Bioinspired Design of Redox-Active Ligands for Multielectron Catalysis: Effects of Positioning Pyrazine Reservoirs on Cobalt for Electro- and Photocatalytic Generation of Hydrogen from Water. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 4954-4972.

Prior to the University of Mississippi

16) Khnayzer, R. S.; Thoi, V. S.; Nippe, M.; King, A. E.; Jurss, J. W.; El Roz, K. A.; Long, J. R.; Chang, C. J.; Castellano, F. N. Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Visible-Light Photogeneration of Hydrogen from Water Using Cobalt(II) Polypyridyl Catalysts. Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, 7(4), 1477–1488.

15) Moonshiram, D.; Jurss, J. W.; Concepcion, J. J.; Zakharova, T.; Alperovich, I.; Meyer, T. J.; Pushkar, Y. Structure and Electronic Configurations of the Intermediates of Water Oxidation in Blue Ruthenium Dimer Catalysis. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134(10), 4625–4636.

14) Jurss, J. W.; Concepcion, J. J.; Butler, J. M.; Omberg, K. M.; Baraldo, L. M.; Thompson, D. G.; Lebeau, E. L.; Hornstein, B.; Schoonover, J. R.; Jude, H.; Thompson, J. D.; Dattelbaum, D. M.; Rocha, R. C.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Electronic Structure of the Water Oxidation Catalyst, cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuIIIO-RuIII(OH2)(bpy)2](ClO4)4. The Blue Dimer. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51(3), 1345–1358.

13) Chen, Z.; Vannucci, A. K.; Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Meyer, T. J. Proton Coupled Electron Transfer At Modified Electrodes By Multiple Pathways. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2011, 108(52), E1461–E1469.

12) Alperovich, I.; Smolentsev, G.; Moonshiram, D.; Jurss, J. W.; Concepcion, J. J.; Meyer, T. J.; Soldatov, A.; Pushkar, Y. Understanding the Electronic Structure of 4d Metal Complexes: From Molecular Spinors to L-Edge Spectra of a di-Ru Catalyst. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133(39), 15786–15794.

11) Song, W.; Brennaman, M. K.; Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Hoertz, P. G.; Luo, H.; Chen, C.; Hanson, K. G.; Meyer, T. J. Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics for [Ru(bpy)2((4,4’-PO3H2)2bpy)]2+ Sensitized TiO2 in a Dye Sensitized Photoelectrosynthesis Cell. Factors Influencing Efficiency and Dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115(14), 7081–7091.

10) Brennaman, M. K.; Patrocinio, A. O. T.; Song, W.; Jurss, J. W.; Concepcion, J. J.; Hoertz, P. G.; Traub, M. C.; Iha, N. Y. M.; Meyer, T. J. Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics Following Laser Flash Photolysis of [Ru(bpy)2((4,4’-PO3H2)2bpy)]2+ in TiO2 Nanoparticle Films in Aqueous Environments. ChemSusChem 2011, 4(2), 216–227.

9) Gagliardi, C. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Thorp, H. H.; Meyer, T. J. Surface Activation of Electrocatalysis at Oxide Electrodes. Concerted Electron-Proton Transfer. Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50(6), 2076–2078.

8) Jurss, J. W.; Concepcion, J. J.; Norris, M. R.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Surface Catalysis of Water Oxidation by the Blue Ruthenium Dimer. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49(9), 3980–3982.

7) Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Norris, M. R.; Chen, Z.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Catalytic Water Oxidation by Single-Site Ruthenium Catalysts. Inorg. Chem. 2010, 49(4), 1277–1279.

6) Chen, Z.; Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Meyer, T. J. Single–Site, Catalytic Water Oxidation on Oxide Surfaces. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131(43), 15580–15581.

5) Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Hoertz, P. G.; Meyer, T. J. Catalytic and Surface–Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Redox Mediator–Catalyst Assemblies. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48(50), 9473–9476.

4) Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Brennaman, M. K.; Hoertz, P. G.; Patrocinio, A. O. T.; Iha, N. Y. M.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Making Oxygen with Ruthenium Complexes. Acc. Chem. Res. 2009, 42(12), 1954–1965.

3) Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. One Site is Enough. Catalytic Water Oxidation by [Ru(tpy)(bpm)(OH2)]2+ and [Ru(tpy)(bpz)(OH2)]2+. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130(49), 16462–16463.

2) Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Mediator-assisted water oxidation by the ruthenium ‘‘blue dimer’’ cis,cis-[(bpy)2(H2O)RuORu(OH2)(bpy)2]4+. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2008, 105(46), 17632–17635.

1) Liu, F.; Concepcion, J. J.; Jurss, J. W.; Cardolaccia, T.; Templeton, J. L.; Meyer, T. J. Mechanisms of Water Oxidation from the Blue Dimer to Photosystem II. Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47(6), 1727–1752.