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27. Seoyeon Kim, Xiaofan Jia, Nilay Hazari,* Devi Oniani, and Justin C. Wedal “Synthesis of Tetrakis(amino)ethylene-Derived Organic Reductants via Thermal Decomposition of Tris(amino)methanes” Org. Lett. 2026, 28, 3880–3884.

26. Justin C. Wedal,† Kyler B. Virtue,† Wesley H. Bernskoetter,* Nilay Hazari,* Brandon Q. Mercado, and Nicole Piekut “Improving Productivity and Stability for CO2 Hydrogenation by using Pincer-Ligated Mn Complexes with Hemilabile Ligands” Chem 2026, 12, 102833.

25. Julia B. Curley, Clayton Hert, Wesley H. Bernskoetter,* Nilay Hazari,* Brandon Q. Mercado, and Justin C. Wedal “Ir Complexes with a PhN(CH2CH2PiPr2)2 Pincer Ligand for Reversible CO2 Hydrogenation” Organometallics 2025, 44, 1358–1361.

24. Devi Oniani, Xiaofan Jia, Emily L. Mane, David J. Charboneau, Jasmine L. Chow, Nilay Hazari,* Haotian Huang, Maizie Lee, Brandon Q. Mercado, Mycah R. Uehling,* and Justin C. Wedal “Ni/Ti Dual Catalyzed Cross-Electrophile Coupling Between Unactivated Alkyl Chlorides and Aryl Halides” ACS Catal. 2025, 15, 11726–11738.

23. Young Hyun Hong,† Xiaofan Jia,† Eleanor Stewart-Jones,† Abhishek Kumar, Justin C. Wedal, Jose L. Alvarez-Hernandez, Carrie L. Donley, Albert Gang, Noah J. Gibson, Nilay Hazari,* Madison Houck, Sungho Jeon, Jongbeom Kim, Hyeongjun Koh, James M. Mayer,* Brandon Q. Mercado, Hannah S. Nedzbala, Nicole Piekut, Christine Quist, Eric Stach, and Yihui Zhang “Photoelectrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Formate using Immobilized Molecular Manganese Catalysts on Oxidized Porous Silicon” Chem 2025, 11, 102462.

22. Justin C. Wedal, Kyler B. Virtue, Wesley H. Bernskoetter,* Nilay Hazari,* and Brandon Q. Mercado “Iron Catalysts Supported by a PNP Ligand with an Additional Hemi-Labile Donor for CO2 Hydrogenation” ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 13903–13914.

21. Lauren M. Anderson-Sanchez,† Ahmadreza Rajabi,† Justin C. Wedal,† Filipp Furche,* and William J. Evans* “Surprising Syntheses of Reduced-Arene Inverse Sandwich Complexes of Thorium: [Cp″2Th]2(μ-η6:η6-C6H5R) [R = H, Me; Cp″ = C5H3(SiMe3)2]” Organometallics 2024, 43, 2027–2035.

20. Joseph Q. Nguyen, Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche,* and William J. Evans* “Investigating Steric and Electronic Effects in the Synthesis of Square Planar 6d1 Th(III) Complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 6217–6230.

19. Justin C. Wedal, William N. G. Moore, Wayne W. Lukens,* and William J. Evans* “Perplexing EPR Signals from 5f36d1 U(II) Compounds” Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 2945–2953.

18. Justin C. Wedal,† Lauren M. Anderson-Sanchez,† Colin Gould, Megan T. Dumas, María J. Beltrán-Leiva, Cristian Celis-Barros, Dayán Páez-Hernández, Joseph W. Ziller, Jeffrey R. Long,* and William J. Evans* “Synthesis and Crystallographic Characterization of a Reduced Bimetallic Ansa-Metallocene Hydride Complex, [K(crypt)][(µ–CpAn)Y(μ–H)]2 (CpAn = Me2Si[C5H3(SiMe3)-3]2), with a 3.4 Å Yttrium–Yttrium Distance” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 10730–10742.

17. Justin C. Wedal,† Jesse Murillo,† Joseph W. Ziller, Brian L. Scott, Andrew J. Gaunt,* and William J. Evans* “Synthesis of Trimethyltriazacyclohexane (Me3tach) Sandwich Complexes of Uranium, Neptunium, and Plutonium Triiodides: (Me3tach)2AnI3” Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 5897–5905.

16. Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans* “Trimethyltriazacyclohexane Coordination Chemistry of Simple Rare-Earth Metal Salts” Dalton Trans. 2023, 52, 4787–4795.

15. William N. G. Moore, Jessica R. K. White, Justin C. Wedal, Filipp Furche,* and William J. Evans* “Reduction of Rare-Earth Metal Complexes Induced by γ Irradiation” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 17713–17718.

14. Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans* “Identification of the U(V) Complex (C5Me5)2UVI(=NSiMe3) in the Reaction of (C5Me5)2UIIII(THF) with N3SiMe3” Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 12804–12807.

13. Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans* “Expanding Bismuth Trihalide Coordination Chemistry with Trimethyltriazacyclohexane and Trimethyltriazacyclononane” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 11766–11774.

12. Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche, and William J. Evans* “Synthesis and Reduction of Heteroleptic Bis(cyclopentadienyl) Uranium(III) Complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 7365–7376.

11. Justin C. Wedal, Nathalia Cajiao, Michael L. Neidig,* and William J. Evans* “Anion-Included Disproportionation of Th(III) Complexes to Form Th(II) and Th(IV) Products” Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 5289–5291.

10. Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans* “Exploring the Use of Pentaphenylcyclopentadienyl Ligand in Reductive f-Block Chemistry. The Crystal Structure of (C5Ph5)UI2(THF)2” Aust. J. Chem. 2022, 79, 581–586.

9. Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Jing Su, Lauren M. Stevens, Frankie D. White, Nickolas H. Anderson, John D. Auxier II, Thomas E. Albrecht-Schönzart, Enrique R. Batista,* Sasha F. Briscoe, Justin N. Cross, William J. Evans,* Alyssa N. Gaiser, Andrew J. Gaunt,* Michael R. James, Michael T. Janicke, Tener F. Jenkins, Zachary R. Jones, Stosh A. Kozimor,* Brian L. Scott, Joseph. M. Sperling, Justin C. Wedal, Cory J. Windorff, Ping Yang,* and Joseph W. Ziller “Isolation and Characterization of a Californium Metallocene” Nature 2021, 599, 421–424.

8. Justin C. Wedal and William J. Evans* “A Rare-Earth Metal Retrospective to Stimulate All Fields” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 18354–18367.

7. Justin C. Wedal, Filipp Furche,* and William J. Evans* “DFT Analysis of the Importance of Coordination Geometry for 5f36d1 vs 5f4 Electron Configurations in U(II) Complexes” Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 16316–16325.

6. Michael T. Trinh, Justin C. Wedal, and William J. Evans* “Evaluating Electrochemical Accessibility of 4fn5d1 and 4fn+1 Ln(II) Ions in (C5H4SiMe3)3Ln and (C5Me4H)3Ln Complexes” Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 14384–14389.

5. Justin C. Wedal, Jeffrey M. Barlow, Joseph W. Ziller, Jenny Y. Yang,* and William J. Evans* “Electrochemistry of Tris(cyclopentadienyl) Actinide Complexes in the +2, +3, and +4 Oxidation State” Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 8501–8511.

4. Megan T. Dumas, Tener F. Jenkins, Justin C. Wedal, Joseph W. Ziller, Fillip Furche,* and William J. Evans* “Synthesis of a 2-Isocyanophenolate Ligand, [2-CNC6H4O]1−, by Ring-Opening of Benzoxazole with Rare-Earth Metal Complexes” Organometallics 2021, 40, 735–741.

3. Justin C. Wedal, Cory J. Windorff, Daniel N. Huh, Austin J. Ryan, Joseph W. Ziller, and William J. Evans* “Structural Variations in Cyclopentadienyl Uranium(III) Iodide Complexes” J. Coord. Chem. 2020, 74, 74–91.

2. Justin C. Wedal, Samuel Bekoe, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche,* and William J. Evans* “C–H Bond Activation via U(II) in the Reduction of Heteroleptic Bis(trimethylsilyl)amide Uranium Complexes” Organometallics 2020, 39, 3425–3432.

1. Justin C. Wedal, Samuel Bekoe, Joseph W. Ziller, Filipp Furche, and William J. Evans* “In Search of Tris(trimethylsilyl)cyclopentadienyl Thorium” Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 16633–16640.

Patents

1. Nilay Hazari, Wesley Bernskoetter, and Justin Wedal “Improved Productivity and Stability for CO2 Hydrogenation Using Pincer Ligated Mn Complexes with Hemilabile Ligands” U.S. Provisional Patent Application #63/934,550.