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Inorganic Structure, Reactions & Mechanisms
A. Heskia, T. Maris, P.M. Aguiar, J.D. Wuest "Building Large Structures with Curved Aromatic Surfaces by Complexing Metals with Phosphangulene". Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019, 141(47), 18740-18753 doi
V. Thangavadivale, P.M. Aguiar, N.A. Jasim, S. Pike, D. Smith, A.C. Whitwood, L. Brammer, R.N. Perutz "Self-complimentary nickel halides enable multifaceted comparisons of intermolecular halogen bonds: fluoride ligands vs other halides". Chemical Science, 2018, 9, 3767-3781 doi
M.N. Wenzel, P.K. Owens, J.T.W. Bray, J.M. Lynam, P.M. Aguiar, C. Reed, J.D. Lee, J.F. Hamilton, A.C. Whitwood, I.J.S. Fairlamb. "Redox Couple Involving NOx in Aerobic Pd-Catalyzed Oxidation of sp3-C–H Bonds: Direct Evidence for Pd–NO3–/NO2– Interactions Involved in Oxidation and Reductive Elimination". Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139(3), 1177-1190 doi
B. Procacci, P.M. Aguiar, M.E. Halse, R.N. Perutz, S.B. Duckett. "Photochemical pump and NMR probe to monitor the formation and kinetics of hyperpolarized metal dihydrides". Chemical Science, 2016, 7, 7087-7093 doi
C.A. Klug, S. Kroeker, P.M. Aguiar, M. Zhou, D.F. Stec, I.E. Wachs. “Insights into Oxygen Exchange Between Gaseous O2 and SupportedVanadium Oxide Catalysts via 17O NMR”. Chemistry of Materials, 21(18), 2009, 4127-4134 doi
Biological Systems
M.-F. Langelier, L. Zandarashvili, P.M. Aguiar, B.E. Black, J.M. Pascal "NAD+ analog reveals PARP-1 substrate-blocking mechanism and allosteric communication from catalytic center to DNA-binding domains". Nature Communications, 9, 2018, 844 do
A. Heyam, C.E. Coupland, C. Dégut, R.A. Haley, N.J. Baxter, L. Jakob, P.M. Aguiar, G. Meisner, M.P. Williamson, D. Lagos, M.J. Plevin. "Conserved asymmetry underpins homodimerization of Dicer-associated double-stranded RNA-binding proteins". Nucleic Acids Research, 2017,45(21) 12577-12584 doi
S.J. Greive, H.K.H. Fung, M. Chechik, H.T. Jenkins, S.E. Weitzel, P.M. Aguiar, A.S. Brentnall, M. Glousieau, G.V. Gladyshev, J.R. Potts, A.A. Antson. "DNA recognition for virus assembly through multiple sequence-independent interactions with a helix-turn-helix motif". Nucleic Acids Research, 2016,44(2) 776-789 doi
A. Wong, C. Boutine, P.M. Aguiar. “1H High Resolution Magic-Angle Coil Spinning (HR-MACS) MicroNMR Metabolic Profiling of Whole Saccharomyces cervisiae Cells: A Demonstrative Study." Frontiers in Chemistry, 2014, 2, 38 doi
NMR Development
P.M. Aguiar, R. Hornby, C. McGarry, S. O'Keefe, A. Sebald. "Discrete and Continuous Systems of Logic in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance". International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2016, 12(2-3), 109-132 doi arxiv
A. Wong, P.M. Aguiar, T. Charpentier, D. Sakellariou. “A Low Cost Strategy for 43Ca Solid State NMR Spectroscopy”. Chemical Science, 2(3), 2011, 815-818 doi
P.M. Aguiar, J-F. Jacquinot, D. Sakellariou. “A Convenient, High-Sensitvity Approach to Multiple-Resonance NMR at Nanolitre Volume with Inductively-Coupled Micro-Coils”. Chemical Communications, 47, 2011, 2119-2121doi
C. Hugon, P.M. Aguiar, G. Aubert, D. Sakellariou. “Design, Fabrication and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Homogeneous Portable Permanent Magnet for NMR and MRI”. Comptes Rendus Chimie, 13, 2010, 388-393 doi
A. Wong, P.M. Aguiar, D. Sakellariou. “Slow Magic-Angle Coil Spinning: A High Sensitivity and High-resolution NMR Strategy for Microscopic Biological Specimens”. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2010, 63, 269-274 doi
P.M. Aguiar, J-F. Jacquinot, D. Sakellariou. “Experimental and Numerical Examination of Eddy (Foucault) Currents in Rotating Micro-coils: Generation of Heat and its Impact on Sample Temperature”. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 200(1), 2009, 6-14 doi
J.A. Tang, L.A. O’Dell, P.M. Aguiar, B.E.G. Lucier, D. Sakellariou, R.W. Schurko. “Application of Static Microcoils and WURST Pulses for Solid-State Ultra-Wideline NMR Spectroscopy of Quadrupolar Nuclei”. Chemical Physics Letters, 466, 2008, 227-234 doi
P.M. Aguiar, S. Kroeker, “Medium-Range Order in Cesium Borate Glasses Probed by Double-Resonance NMR”. Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, 27, 2005, 10-15 doi
Structure of Amorphous/Disordered Systems
S.J. Hibble, A.M. Chippindale, E. Marelli, S. Kroeker, V.K. Michaelis, B.J. Greer, P.M. Aguiar, E.J. Bibble, E.R. Barney, A.C. Hannon. “Local and Average Structure in Zinc Cyanide: Towards an Understanding of the Atomistic Origin of Negative Thermal Expansion". Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(44), 2013, 16478-16489 doi
P.M. Aguiar, V.K. Michaelis, C.M. McKinley, S. Kroeker. “Network Connectivity in Cesium Borosilicate Glasses: 17O Multiple-Quantum MASand Double-Resonance NMR". Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 363(1), 2013, 50-56 doi
P.M. Aguiar, M.J. Katz, D.B. Leznoff, S. Kroeker. “Natural Abundance 13C and 15N Solid State NMR of Paramagnetic Metal Cyanide Framework Materials”. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11, 2009, 6925-6934 doi
V.K. Michaelis, P.M. Aguiar, V.K. Terskihk, S. Kroeker. “Germanium-73 NMR of Amorphous and Crystalline Germanium Oxide Phases”. Chemical Communications, 2009, 4660-4662 doi
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P.M. Aguiar, S. Kroeker. “Cyanide Orientational Ordering and Copper Electric Field Gradients in CuCN·N2H4”. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11, 2009, 834-840 doi
A.J. Lussier, P.M. Aguiar, V.K. Michaelis, S. Kroeker, F.C. Hawthorne. “The Occurrence of Tetrahedrally Coordinated Al and B in Tourmaline: A 11B and 27Al MAS NMR Study”. American Mineralogist, 940, 2009, 785-792 doi
V.K. Michaelis, P.M. Aguiar, S. Kroeker, “Probing Alkali Environments in Alkali Borate Glasses by Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance”. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 353, 2007, 3582-3290 doi
M.J. Katz, P.M. Aguiar, R.J. Batchelor, A.A. Bokov, Z-G Ye, S. Kroeker, D.B. Leznoff. “Structure and Multinuclear Solid-State NMR of a Highly Birefringent Lead-Gold Cyanide Coordination Polymer”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128(11), 2006, 3669–3676 doiB.A. Deore,I. Yu, P.M. Aguiar, C. Recksiedler, S. Kroeker, M.S. Freund. “Highly Cross-Linked, Self-doped Polyaniline Exhibiting Unprecedented Hardness”. Chemistry of Materials, 17(15), 2005, 3803-3805 doi
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