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Selected Publications

Collins, T. J. Green Chemistry, Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Volume 2, Simon and Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1997, 691-697 [pdf]
  1. Warner, G.R.; Somasundar, Y.; Jansen, K.C.; Kaaret, E.Z.; Weng, C.; Burton, A.E.; Mills, M.R.; Shen, L.Q.; Ryabov, A.D.; Pros, G.; Pintauer, T.; Biswas, S.; Hendrich, M.P.; Taylor, J.A.; Vom Saal, F.S.; Collins, T.J. Bioinspired, multidisciplinary, iterative catalyst design creates the highest performance peroxidase mimics and the field of Sustainable Ultradilute Oxidation Catalysis, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 723–727, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01409
  2. T. T. Schug, R. Abagyan, B. Blumberg, T. J. Collins, D. Crews, P. L. DeFur, S. M. Dickerson, T. M. Edwards, A. C. Gore, L. J. Guillette, T. Hayes, J. J. Heindel, A. Moores, H. B. Patisaul, T. L. Tal, K. A. Thayer, L. N. Vandenberg, J. C. Warner, C. S. Watson, F. S. vom Saal, R. T. Zoeller, K. P. O’Brien, and J. P. Myers, Designing endocrine disruption out of the next generation of chemicals, Green Chem., 2013,15, 181-19, DOI: 10.1039/c2gc35055
  3. Thaddeus T. Schug, Anne F. Johnson, Linda S. Birnbaum, Theo Colborn, Louis J. Guillette, Jr David, Crews, Terry Collins, Ana M. Soto,
Frederick S. vom Saal, John A. McLachlan, Carlos Sonnenschein, and Jerrold J. Heindel, Minireview: Endocrine Disruptors: Past Lessons and Future Directions. Molecular Endocrinology 2016, DOI: 10.1210/me.2016-1096
  1. Yusuf Onundi, Bethany A. Drake, Ryan T. Malecky, Matthew A. DeNardo, Matthew R. Mills, Soumen Kundu, Alexander D. Ryabov, Evan S. Beach, Colin P. Horwitz, Michael T. Simonich, Lisa Truong, Robert L. Tanguay, L. James Wright, Naresh Singhal and Terrence J. Collins, A multidisciplinary investigation of the technical and environmental performances of TAML/peroxide elimination of Bisphenol A compounds from water. Green Chemistry 2017, 19, 4234–4262, DOI: 10.1039/c7gc01415e
  2. Within twelve days after the 8/2/17 publication, the paper had achieved an Altimetric Attention Score of 103, placing it in the top 1% of >8M research outputs: https://rsc.altmetric.com/details/23377530#score
  3. M. R. Mills, K. Arias-Salazar, Alice Baynes, L. Q. Shen, J. Churchley, N. Beresford, C. Gayathri, R. G. Gil, R. Kanda, S. Jobling, T. J. Collins, Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/ peroxide water treatment. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 10511: doi: 10.1038/srep10511
  4. Soumen Kundu, Arani Chanda, Sushil K. Khetan, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, TAML Activator/Peroxide Catalyzed Facile Oxidative Degradation of the Persistent Explosives Trinitrotoluene and Trinitrobenzene in Micellar Solutions Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47 (10), 5319–5326, DOI: 10.1021/es4000627
  5. Longzhu Q. Shen, Evan S. Beach, Yan Xiang, Dwight J. Tshudy, Natalya Khanina, Colin P. Horwitz, Mark E. Bier, and Terrence J. Collins, Rapid, Biomimetic Degradation of Sertraline in Water by TAML Catalytic Activation of Hydrogen Peroxide, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2011, 45 (18), 7882–7887, DOI: 10.1021/es201392k
  6. Gupta, S. S., M. Stadler, C. A. Noser, A. Ghosh, B. Steinhoff, D. Lenoir, C. P. Horwitz, K.-W. Schramm, T. J. Collins. Rapid total destruction of chlorophenol pollutants by activated hydrogen peroxide. Science 2002, 296, 326–328.
  7. J. L. Chen; S. Ravindran; S. Swift; L. J. Wright; N. Singhal, Catalytic oxidative degradation of 17α-ethinylestradiol by Fe(III)-TAML/H2O2: Estrogenicities of the products of partial, and extensive oxidation. Water research 2012, 46(19), 6309-18.
  1. Structural, Mechanistic, and Ultradilute Catalysis Portrayal of Substrate Inhibition in the TAML−Hydrogen Peroxide Catalytic Oxidation of the Persistent Drug and Micropollutant, Propranolol, Yogesh Somasundar, Longzhu Q. Shen, Alexis G. Hoane, Liang L. Tang, Matthew R. Mills, Abigail E. Burton, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12280-12289
  2. Nicola Beresford, Alice Baynes, Rakesh Kanda, Matthew R. Mills, Karla Arias-Salazar, Terrence J. Collins, Susan Jobling, Use of a Battery of Chemical and Ecotoxicological Methods for the Assessment of the Efficacy of Wastewater Treatment Processes to Remove Estrogenic Potency. JOVE, September 2016, 115, e54243, 1–16: http://www.jove.com/video/54243; doi:10.3791/54243
  3. Collins TJ, DeNardo, MA, Warner GR, Gordon-Wylie SW, Ellis WC, Far Superior Oxidation Catalysts Based on Macrocyclic Compounds. US Patent Filing September 25, 2016. PCT Filing at same time. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017053564A1/en
  4. Lisa Truong, Matthew A. DeNardo, Soumen Kundu, Terrence J. Collins, and Robert L. Tanguay, Zebrafish Assays as Developmental Toxicity Indicators in the Green Design of TAML Oxidation Catalysts. Green Chem. 2013, 15, 2339–2343, DOI:10.1039/C3GC40376A
  5. W. Chadwick Ellis, Camly T. Tran, Riddhi Roy, Marte Rusten, Andreas Fischer, Alexander D. Ryabov, Bruce Blumberg, and Terrence J. Collins, Designing green oxidation catalysts for purifying environmental waters. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 9774-81 DOI: 10.1021/ja102524v
  1. Terrence J. Collins and Alexander D. Ryabov, Targeting of High-Valent Iron TAML Activators at Hydrocarbons and Beyond. Chemical Reviews 2017, 117 (13), pp 9140–9162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00034
  2. Matthew A. DeNardo, Matthew R. Mills, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, Unifying Evaluation of the Technical Performances of Iron-Tetra-amido Macrocyclic Ligand Oxidation Catalysts. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (9), 2933–2936, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13087
  3. Chang W-C, Li J, Lee JL, Cronican AA, Guo Y, Mechanistic Investigation of a Non-Heme Iron Enzyme Catalyzed Epoxidation in (-)-4’-Methoxycyclopenin Biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138: 10390-10393
  4. Ren Q, Guo Y, Mills MR, Ryabov AD, Collins TJ, On the Iron(V) Reactivity of an Aggressive Tail-Fluorinated TAML Activator. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 1445–1452
  5. Soumen Kundu, Jasper Van Kirk Thompson, Longzhu Q. Shen, Matthew R. Mills, Emile L. Bominaar, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, Activation Parameters as Mechanistic Probes in the TAML Iron(V)– Oxo Oxidations of Hydrocarbons. Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21(4), 1803-10, doi: 10.1002/chem.201405024.
  6. Maria Emelianenko, Diego Torrejon, Matthew A. DeNardo, Annika K. Socolofsky, Alexander D. Ryabov · Terrence J. Collins, Estimation of rate constants in nonlinear reactions involving chemical inactivation of oxidation catalysts. J Math Chem 2014, 52, 1460–1476, doi:10.1007/s10910-014-0322-4
  7. A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, Mechanistic Considerations on the Reactivity of Green FeIII-TAML Activators of Peroxides. Adv. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 61, 471–521
  1. Mauter, M.S., Zucker, I., Perreault, F., Werber, J.R., Kim, J.H. and Elimelech, M., The role of nanotechnology in tackling global water challenges. Nature Sustainability 2018, 1(4), 166.
  2. Gingerich, D.B., Sun, X., Behrer, A.P., Azevedo, I.L. and Mauter, M.S. Spatially resolved air-water emissions tradeoffs improve regulatory impact analyses for electricity generation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018, 114(8), 1862-1867.
  3. Churchley, J., Collins, T. & Jobling, S. Catalytic oxidation of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater effluents. UKWIR Report 13/WW/17/14 (2013) (ISBN: 1 84057 689 8). UKWIR London. Available online at: https://www.ukwir.org/web/ukwirlibrary/96711
  4. Khetan, S. K., T. J. Collins, Human Pharmaceuticals in the Aquatic Environment: A Challenge to Green Chemistry, Chem. Rev., 2007, 107, 2319–2364.
  5. Benotti M, Trenholm RA, Vanderford BJ, Holady JC, Stanford BD, Snyder SA (2009) Pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting compounds in U.S. drinking waters. Environ Sci Technol 43: 597-603
  6. Snyder SA, Adham S, Redding AM, Cannon FS, DeCarolis J, Oppenheimer J, Wert EC, Yoon Y (2006) Role of membranes and activated carbon in the removal of endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals. Desalination 202: 156-181
  1. Fernando S, Renaguli A, Milligan MS, Pagano JJ, Hopke PK, Holsen TM, Crimmins BS, Comprehensive Analysis of the Great Lakes Top Predator Fish for Novel Halogenated Organic Contaminants by GCxGC-HR-ToF. Environmental Science and Technology 2018, 52, 2909-2917.
  2. Fakouri Baygi S, Crimmins BS, Hopke PK, Holsen, TM, Comprehensive Emerging Chemical Discovery: Perfluorinated and Polyfluorinated Compounds in Lake Michigan Trout. Environmental Science and Technology 2016, 50:9460-9468.
  3. Gorkowski, K. J., Donahue, N., and Sullivan, R. C. Determination of biphasic core–shell droplet properties using aerosol optical tweezers. Environ. Sci. Process. Impacts 2018, In Press.
  1. Nicola Beresford, Alice Baynes, Rakesh Kanda, Matthew R. Mills, Karla Arias-Salazar, Terrence J. Collins, Susan Jobling, Use of a Battery of Chemical and Ecotoxicological Methods for the Assessment of the Efficacy of Wastewater Treatment Processes to Remove Estrogenic Potency. JOVE 2016, 115, 1–16:  http://www.jove.com/video/54243; doi:10.3791/54243
  2. Janesick AS, Dimastrogiovanni G, Vanek L, Boulos C, Chamorro-García R, Tang W, Blumberg B., On the utility of ToxCastTM and ToxPi as methods for identifying new obesogens. Environ Health Perspect 2016, 124, 1214–1226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510352
  3. M. R. Mills, K. Arias-Salazar, Alice Baynes, L. Q. Shen, J. Churchley, N. Beresford, C. Gayathri, R. G. Gil, R. Kanda, S. Jobling, T. J. Collins, Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/ peroxide water treatment. Sci. Rep. 2015, 5, 10511, doi: 10.1038/srep10511
  4. McRobb FM, Kufareva I, Abagyan R., In silico identification and pharmacological evaluation of novel endocrine disrupting chemicals that act via the ligand-binding domain of the estrogen receptor α. Toxicol Sci. 2014, 141 (1), 188-97.
  5. McRobb FM, Sahagún V, Kufareva I, Abagyan R, In silico analysis of the conservation of human toxicity and endocrine disruption targets in aquatic species. Environ Sci Technol. 2014, 48(3), 1964-72, doi: 10.1021/es404568a.
  6. Christopher D. Kassotis, Luke R. Iwanowicz, Denise M. Akob, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Adam C. Mumford, William H. Orem, Susan C. Nagel, Endocrine disrupting activities of surface water associated with a West Virginia oil and gas industry wastewater disposal site. Sci Total Environ 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.113
  7. Truong L, Reif DM., St. Mary L, Geier M, Truong HD, Tanguay, RL, Multi-dimensional in vivo hazard assessment using zebrafish. Toxicol. Sci. 2014, 137 (1), 212-233, doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kft235
  8. Noyes PD, Haggard DE, Gonnerman GD, Tanguay RL, Advanced Morphological — Behavioral Test Platform Reveals Neurodevelopmental Defects in Embryonic Zebrafish Exposed to Comprehensive Suite of Halogenated and Organophosphate Flame Retardants. Toxicol. Sci. 2015, 145(1), 177–195, doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfv044
  9. Myers JP, Antoniou MN, Blumberg B, Carroll L, Colborn T, Everett LG, Hansen M, Landrigan PJ, Lanphear BP, Mesnage R et al., Concerns over use of glyphosate-based herbicides and risks associated with exposures: A consensus statement. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2016, 15(1)
  10. Richard Owen and Susan Jobling, Environmental science: The hidden costs of flexible fertility. Nature 2012, 485, 441, doi:10.1038/485441a.
  1. Chamorro-Garcia, R., Diaz-Castillo, C., Shoucri, B.M., Käch, H., Leavitt, R., Shioda, T., and Blumberg, B. Ancestral perinatal obesogen exposure results in a transgenerational thrifty phenotype in mice. Nature Communications 2017, 8(1), 2012.
  2. A. Akintonwa, O. Awodele, A. T. Olofinnade, C. Anyakora, G. O. Afolayan, H. A. B. Coker. Assessment of the Mutagenicity of Some Pharmaceutical Effluents. American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology 2009, 4, 144-150, doi: 10.3844/ajptsp.2009.144.150
  3. Ifegwu, OC, Anyakora, C. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Part II, Urine Markers, Adv Clin Chem. 2016, 75, 159-83, doi:10.1016/bs.acc.2016.03.001.
  4. Kassotis CD, Klemp KC, Vu DC, Lin C-H, Meng C-X, Besch-Williford CL, Pinatti L, Zoeller RT, Drobnis EZ, Balise VD, Isiguzo CJ, Williams MA, Tillitt DE, Nagel SC, Endocrine-Disrupting Activity of Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals and Adverse Health Outcomes After Prenatal Exposure in Male Mice. Endocrinology 2015, 156, 4458–4473.
  5. Baldwin, KR, Horman, B, Phillips, AL, McRitchie, SL, Watson, S, Deese-Spruill, J, Stapleton, HM, Jima, D, Sumner, S, Patisaul, HB, EDC Impact: Molecular Effects of Developmental FM 550 Exposure in Wistar Rat Placenta and Fetal Forebrain. Endocrine Connections 2018. [Invited Contribution; NIEHS extramural paper of the month]
  6. Sullivan, AW, Elsworth, CB, Stetzik, LA, Perry, A, D’Addezio, AS, Cushing, BS, Patisaul, HB, A novel model for neuroendocrine toxicology: Neurobehavioral effects of BPA. Endocrinology 2014. 155(10), 3867-3881. [cover article]
  7. Angle BM, Do RP, Ponzi D, Stahlhut RW, Drury BE, Nagel SC, Welshons WV, Besch-Williford CL, Palanza P, Parmigiani S, vom Saal FS, Taylor JA, Metabolic disruption in male mice due to fetal exposure to low but not high doses of bisphenol A (BPA): Evidence for effects on body weight, food intake, adipocytes, leptin, adiponectin, insulin and glucose regulation. Reproductive Toxicology 2013, 42, 256–268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reprotox.2013.07.017
  8. Taylor JA, vom Saal FS, Welshons WV, Drury B, Rottinghaus G, Hunt PA, Toutain P-L, Laffont CM, VandeVoort CA, Similarity of Bisphenol A Pharmacokinetics in Rhesus Monkeys and Mice: Relevance for Human Exposure. Environ Health Perspect 2011, 119:422–430, doi:10.1289/ehp.1002514
  9. Palanza P, Nagel SC, Parmigiani S, vom Saal FS, Perinatal exposure to endocrine disruptors: Sex, timing and behavioral endpoints. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2016, 7, 69-75.
  10. Wadzinski TL, Geromini K, McKinley Brewer J, Bansal R, Abdelouahab N, Langlois MF, Takser L, Zoeller RT. Endocrine disruption in human placenta: expression of the dioxin-inducible enzyme, CYP1A1, is correlated with that of thyroid hormone-regulated genes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2014, 99( 12), E2735-2743. http://press.endocrine.org/doi/pdf/10.1210/jc.2014-2629
  11. Gauger KJ, Giera S, Sharlin DS, Bansal R, Iannacone E, Zoeller RT. Polychlorinated biphenyls 105 and 118 form thyroid hormone receptor agonists after cytochrome P4501A1 activation in rat pituitary GH3 cells. Environ Health Perspect. 2007, 115(11), 1623-1630. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072832/pdf/ehp0115-001623.pdf
  1. Ahern, A. T., Goldberger, L., Jahl, L., Thornton, J. and Sullivan, R. C., Production of N2O5 and ClNO2 through nocturnal processing of biomass-burning aerosol. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52(2), 550–559, doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b04386.
  2. Gorkowski, K., Donahue, N. M. and Sullivan, R. C., Emulsified and Liquid–Liquid Phase-Separated States of α-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol Determined Using Aerosol Optical Tweezers. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2017, 51(21), 12154–12163, doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b03250.
  3. Sullivan, R. C., Moore, M. J. K., Petters, M. D., Kreidenweis, S. M., Roberts, G. C. and Prather, K. A., Timescale for hygroscopic conversion of calcite mineral particles through heterogeneous reaction with nitric acid. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009, 11(36), 7826, doi:10.1039/b904217b.
  1. Holt, B. D.; Arnold, A. M.; Sydlik, S. A., In It for the Long Haul: The Cytocompatibility of Aged Graphene Oxide and Its Degradation Products. Adv. Health. Mater. 2016, 5, 3056- 3066.
  2. Sydlik, S. A.; Swager, T. M. Functional Graphenic Materials via a Claisen Rearrangement. Adv. Func. Mater. 2013, 23, 1873- 1882.
  3. Qiu, Y.; Worch, J. W.; Fortney, A.; Gayathri, C.; Gil, R. R.; Noonan, K. J. T. Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Polycondensation for Controlled Synthesis of Ester-Functionalized Conjugated Polymers. Macromolecules 2016, 49, 4757-4762.
  4. Tsai, C.-H.; Fortney, A.; Qiu, Y.; Gil, R. R.; Yaron, D. Kowalewski, T.; Noonan, K. J. T. Conjugated Polymers with Repeated Sequences of Group 16 Heterocycles Synthesized through Catalyst-​Transfer Polycondensation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138, 6798-6804.
  5. PCT on Smart Catalytic Membranes (135 pages): L. J. Wright, 32557 Oxidation Membrane, PCT/NZ2016/050066
  1. Efficient NewTAML/peroxide deep oxidative destruction of the persistent neonicotinoid insecticide Imidocloprid via a mechanism that challenges traditional ideas of catalysis. Genoa R. Warner, Yogesh Somasundar, Cindy Weng, Mete H. Akin, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, submitted.
  2. Warner, G.R.; Somasundar, Y.; Jansen, K.C.; Kaaret, E.Z.; Weng, C.; Burton, A.E.; Mills, M.R.; Shen, L.Q.; Ryabov, A.D.; Pros, G.; Pintauer, T.; Biswas, S.; Hendrich, M.P.; Taylor, J.A.; Vom Saal, F.S.; Collins, T.J. Bioinspired, multidisciplinary, iterative catalyst design creates the highest performance peroxidase mimics and the field of Sustainable Ultradilute Oxidation Catalysis, ACS Catalysis, 2019, 9, 723–727, DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01409
  3. Andrew C. Weitz, Matthew R. Mills, Alexander D. Ryabov, Terrence J. Collins, Yisong Guo, Emile L. Bominaar, and Michael P. Hendrich, A Synthetically Generated LFeIVOHn Complex, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58 (3), pp 2099–2108. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03200
  4. Philip J. Landrigan, Terrence J. Collins, John Peterson Myers, Controlling Toxic Exposures, In Planetary Health,(A textbook) Chapter 12, Eds. Howard Frumkin and Samuel Myers. 2019 (accepted for publication).
  5. Structural, Mechanistic, and Ultradilute Catalysis Portrayal of Substrate Inhibition in the TAML−Hydrogen Peroxide Catalytic Oxidation of the Persistent Drug and Micropollutant, Propranolol, Yogesh Somasundar, Longzhu Q. Shen, Alexis G. Hoane, Liang L. Tang, Matthew R. Mills, Abigail E. Burton, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12280-12289
  6. W. Chadwick Ellis, Alexander D. Ryabov, Andreas Fischer, Joshua A. Hayden, Longzhu Q. Shen, Emile L. Bominaar, Michael P. Hendrich & Terrence J. Collins (2018) Bis phenylene flattened 13-membered tetraamide macrocyclic ligand (TAML) for square planar cobalt(III), Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2018 DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2018.1487060
  7. Longzhu Shen, Soumen Kundu, Terrence J. Collins and Emile L. Bominaar, Analysis of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction from Ethylbenzene by an Fe(V)O(TAML) Complex,  Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56 (8), pp 4347–4356, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02796
  8. M. R. Mills, L. Q. Shen, D. Z. Zhang, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins “Iron(III) Ejection from a 'Beheaded' TAML Activator: Catalytically Relevant Mechanistic Insight into the Deceleration of Electrophilic Processes by Electron Donors”, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56(17), 10226-10234.
  9. Yusuf Onundi, Bethany A. Drake, Ryan T. Malecky, Matthew A. DeNardo, Matthew R. Mills, Soumen Kundu, Alexander D. Ryabov, Evan S. Beach, Colin P. Horwitz, Michael T. Simonich, Lisa Truong, Robert L. Tanguay, L. James Wright, Naresh Singhal and Terrence J. Collins, A multidisciplinary investigation of the technical and environmental performances of TAML/peroxide elimination of Bisphenol A compounds from water, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 4234–4262, Published as open-access; DOI: 10.1039/c7gc01415e Within twelve days after the 8/2/17 publication, the paper had achieved an Altimetric Attention Score of 103, placing it in the top 1% of >8M research outputs:https://rsc.altmetric.com/details/23377530#score
  10. Terrence J. Collins and Alexander D. Ryabov, Targeting of High-Valent Iron TAML Activators at Hydrocarbons and Beyond, Chemical Reviews, 2017, 117(13), pp 9140–9162: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00034 
  11. Tang, Liang; DeNardo, Matthew; Schuler, C.; Mills, Matthew; Gayathri, Chakicherla; Gil, Roberto; Kanda, Rakesh; Collins, Terrence. Homogeneous Catalysis Under Ultra-Dilute Conditions: TAML/NaClO Oxidation of Persistent Metaldehyde J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139(2), pp 879–887: DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b11145
  12. Mills, Matthew; Weitz, Andrew; Zhang, David; Hendrich, Michael; Ryabov, Alexander; Collins, Terrence A “Beheaded” TAML Activator: A Compromised Catalyst that Emphasizes the Linearity between Catalytic Activity and pKa­, Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55 (23), pp 12263–12269, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01988
  13. Mills, Matthew; Weitz, Andrew; Hendrich, Michael; Ryabov, Alexander; Collins, Terrence, NaClO-Generated Iron(IV)oxo and Iron(V)oxo TAMLs in Pure Water,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (42), pp 13866–13869, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b09572
  14. Nicola Beresford, Alice Baynes, Rakesh Kanda, Matthew R. Mills, Karla Arias-Salazar, Terrence J. Collins, Susan Jobling, Use of a Battery of Chemical and Ecotoxicological Methods for the Assessment of the Efficacy of Wastewater Treatment Processes to Remove Estrogenic Potency, JOVE, September 2016, 115, e54243, 1–16:  http://www.jove.com/video/54243; doi:10.3791/54243
  15. Göran Broman, Karl-Henrik Robèrt; Terrence Collins; George Basile; Rupert Baumgartner; Tobias Larsson; Donald Huisingh, Science in Support of Systematic Leadership towards Sustainability, J. Cleaner Production, 2016, 140, pp 1–9, doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.085
  16. Genoa R. Warner and Terrence J. Collins, Sustainable Chemistry: Addressing the challenges of low dose adverse effects by everyday-everywhere chemicals through remediation of contaminants and design of safe products, In Integrative Environmental Medicine, 2016, Frederick Vom Saal (Ed), Oxford University Press, Oxford: pp. 305–337.
  17. Thaddeus T. Schug, Anne F. Johnson, Linda S. Birnbaum, Theo Colborn, Louis J. Guillette, Jr David, Crews, Terry Collins, Ana M. Soto,
Frederick S. vom Saal, John A. McLachlan, Carlos Sonnenschein, and Jerrold J. Heindel Minireview: Endocrine Disruptors: Past Lessons and Future Directions, Molecular Endocrinology · Mol Endocrinol (2016) 30 (8): 833-847, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1210/me.2016-1096
  18. Liang L. Tang, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, Kinetic Evidence for Reactive Dimeric TAML Iron Species in the Catalytic Oxidation of NADH and a Dye by O2 in AOT Reverse Micelles, ACS Catal. 2016, 6, pp 3713–3718; DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b00787
  19. L. Tang, Matthew A. DeNardo, Chakicherla Gayathri, Roberto R. Gil, Rakesh Kanda, and Terrence J. Collins, TAML/H2O2 Oxidative Degradation of Metaldehyde: Pursuing Better Water Treatment for the Most Persistent Pollutants, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, 50, 5261−5268; DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05518
  20. Matthew A. DeNardo, Matthew R. Mills, Alexander D. Ryabov,* and Terrence J. Collins* Unifying Evaluation of the Technical Performances of Iron-Tetra-amido Macrocyclic Ligand Oxidation Catalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (9), pp 2933–2936 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13087
  21. T. J. Collins, Review of the Twenty-two Year Evolution of the First University Course in Green Chemistry: teaching future leaders how to create sustainable human societies. J. Cleaner Production, 2015, 1–18: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.136 — Compiled with other articles in a Special Volume of the JCLP in mid-2016 entitled “Systematic Leadership towards Sustainability”: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615008690
  22. M. R. Mills, K. Arias-Salazar, Alice Baynes, L. Q. Shen, J. Churchley, N. Beresford, C. Gayathri, R. G. Gil, R. Kanda, S. Jobling, T. J. Collins, Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/ peroxide water treatment. 2015, Sci. Rep. 5, 10511: doi: 10.1038/srep10511
  23. L. L. Tang, W. A. Gunderson, A. C. Weitz, M. P. Hendrich, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, Activation of Dioxygen by a TAML Activator in Reverse Micelles: Characterization of an FeIIIFeIV Dimer and Associated Catalytic Chemistry. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137 (30), pp 9704–9715.
  24. D. Banerjee, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of the Reactivity of Iron(IV) TAMLs towards Organic Sulfides in Water: Resolving a Fast Catalysis versus Slower Single Turnover Reactivity Dilemma (TAML = TetraAmido Macrocyclic Ligand. J. Coord. Chem. 2015: 17–18, 3032-3045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2015.1065974.
  25. M. R. Mills, A. E. Burton, D. I. Mori, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, Iron(IV) or iron(V)? Heterolytic or free-radical? Oxidation pathways of a TAML activator in acetonitrile at -40 °C.  J. Coord. Chem. 2015: 17–18, 3046-3057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2015.1073270.
  26. G. R. Warner, M. R. Mills, C. Enslin, S. Pattanayak, C. Panda, T. K. Panda, S. Sen Gupta, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, Reactivity and operational stability of N-tailed (‘biuret’) TAMLs in water through kinetic studies of the catalyzed oxidation of Orange II by H2O2. Synthesis and X-ray structure of an N-phenyl biuret TAML Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21(16), 6226-6233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201406061 (invited for cover art as a top rank article).
  27. S. Kundu, A. Chanda, J. V. K. Thompson, G. Diabes, S. K. Khetan, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, Rapid Degradation of Oxidation Resistant Nitrophenols by TAML Activator and H2O2. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2015, 5, 1775-1782.
  28. Soumen Kundu, Jasper Van Kirk Thompson, Longzhu Q. Shen, Matthew R. Mills, Emile L. Bominaar, Alexander D. Ryabov, and Terrence J. Collins, Activation Parameters as Mechanistic Probes in the TAML Iron(V)– Oxo Oxidations of Hydrocarbons Chem. Eur. J. 2015 Jan 19;21(4):1803-10. doi: 10.1002/chem.201405024.
  29. Q. Ren, Y. Guo, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, On the Iron(V) Reactivity of an Aggressive Tail-Fluorinated TAML Activator. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015 (8), 1445-1452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201500001.
  30. Hall, Eleanor; Pollock, Christopher; Bendix, Jesper; Collins, Terrence; Glatzel, Pieter; DeBeer, Serena, Valence-to-Core Detected X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy:  Targeting Ligand Selectivity" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 10076–84.
  31. Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution with an Immobilized TAML Activator, Demeter, Ethan; Hilburg, Shayna; Washburn, Newell; Collins, Terrence; Kitchin, John, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (15), pp 5603–5606 DOI: 10.1021/ja5015986
  32. Estimation of rate constants in nonlinear reactions involving chemical inactivation of oxidation catalysts, Maria Emelianenko, Diego Torrejon, Matthew A. DeNardo, Annika K. Socolofsky, Alexander D. Ryabov · Terrence J. Collins, J Math Chem, 2014, 
52, 1460–1476 DOI 10.1007/s10910-014-0322-4
  33. Munmun Ghosh, Kundan K. Singh, Chakadola Panda, Andrew Weitz, Michael P. Hendrich, Terrence J. Collins, Basab B. Dhar,and Sayam Sen Gupta Formation of a Room Temperature Stable FeV(O) Complex: Reactivity Toward Unactivated C−H Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/ja412537m
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