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150) Madeline H. Hicks, Nicholas B. Watkins, Sebastian Castro, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters. "Cation Competition Experiments during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction As a Probe of the Film-Modified Copper Microenvironment" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 38158-38168. link

149) Matthew R. Espinosa, Fernando Guerrero, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak, Paul H. Oyala, Alexandria Hong, Ryan G. Hadt, and Theodor Agapie. "Slow Electron Spin Relaxation at Ambient Temperatures with Copper Coordinated by a Rigid Macrocyclic Ligand." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 14036-14042. link

148) Maxim Zhelyabovskiy, Hyuk-Joon Jung, Paula L. Diaconescu, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "Plastic from CO2, Water, and Electricity: Tandem Electrochemical CO2 and Thermochemical Ethylene-CO Copolymerization." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202503003. link

147) Linh N. V. Le, Tianyi He, Justin P. Joyce, Paul H. Oyala, Serena DeBeer, and Theodor Agapie. "Molybdenum-Iron-Sulfur Cluster with a Bridging Carbide Ligand as a Partial FeMoco Model: CO Activation, EPR Studies, and Bonding Insight." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 11216-11226. link

146) Magel P. Su, Aisulu Aitbekova, Matthew Salazar, Xueqian Li, Shuoyan Xiong, Matthew Espinosa, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and Harry A. Atwater. "A Photothermocatalytic Reactor and Selective Solar Absorber for Sustainable Fuel Synthesis" Device 2025, 3, 100604. link

145) Tianyi He, Meaghan Bruening, Matthew Espinosa, and Theodor Agapie. "Novel Silicate Platform as Weakly-Coordinating Anions for Diverse Organometallic and Electrochemical Applications" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202417136. link

144) Jin Xiong, Christopher Reed, Barbara Lavina, Michael Y. Hu, Jiyong Zhao, Esen E. Alp, Theodor Agapie, and Yisong Guo. "57Fe nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopic studies of tetranuclear iron clusters bearing terminal iron(III)-oxido/hydroxido moieties" Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 16222-16233. link

143) Madeline H. Hicks, Weixuan Nie, Annette E. Boehme, Harry A. Atwater, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters. "Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Acidic Electrolytes: Spectroscopic Evidence for Local pH Gradients" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 25282-25289. link

142) Kyra M. K. Yap, Aisulu Aitbekova, Matthew Salazar, Tobias A. Kistler, Melanie Rodriguez Pabon, Magel P. Su, Nicholas B. Watkins, Sang-Won Lee, Peter Agbo, Adam Z. Weber, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, Adam C. Nielander, Harry A. Atwater, Thomas F. Jaramillo, and Alexis T. Bell. "CO2 Conversion to Butene via a Tandem Photovoltaic-Electrochemical/Photothermocatalytic Process: A Co-design Approach to Coupled Microenvironments" ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9, 4369-4377. link

141) Priyabrata Ghana, Shuoyan Xiong, Adjeoda Tekpor, Brad C. Bailey, Heather A. Spinney, Briana S. Henderson, and Theodor Agapie. "Catalyst Editing via Post-Synthetic Functionalization by Phosphonium Generation and Anion Exchange for Nickel-Catalyzed Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymerization." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18797-18803. link

140) Gavin P. Heim, Masanari Hirahara, Vidhya M. Dev, and Theodor Agapie. "Synthesis and electronic properties of nitrogen-rich nanographene." Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 7343-7346. link

139) Gavin P. Heim, Meaghan A. Bruening, Charles B. Musgrave III, William A. Goddard III, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "Potassium ion modulation of the Cu electrode-electrode interface with ionomers enhances CO2 reduction to C2+ products." Joule 2024, 8, 1-10. link

138) Shuoyan Xiong, Heather A. Spinney, Brad C. Bailey, Briana S. Henderson, Adjeoda A. Tekpor, Matthew R. Espinosa, Paramita Saha, and Theodor Agapie. "Switchable Synthesis of Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymers by a Dinickel Catalyst: Evidence for Chain Growth on Both Nickel Centers and Concepts of Cation Exchange Polymerization." ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 5260-5268. link

137) Nicholas B. Watkins, Yungchieh Lai, Zachary J. Schiffer, Virginia M. Canestraight, Harry A. Atwater, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and John M. Gregoire. "Electrode Surface Heating with Organic Films Improves CO2 Reduction Kinetics on Copper." ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9, 1440-1445. link

136) Aisulu Aitbekova, Nicholas Watkins, Matthias H. Richter, Phillip Jahelka, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and Harry A. Atwater. "Molecular Additives Improve the Selectivity of CO2 Photoelectrochemical Reduction over Gold Nanoparticles on Gallium Nitride." Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 1090-1095. link

135) Linh N.V. Le, Justin P. Joyce, Paul H. Oyala, Serena DeBeer, and Theodor Agapie. "Highly Activated Terminal Carbon Monoxide Ligand in an Iron-Sulfur Cluster Model of FeMco with Intermediate Local Spin State at Fe." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 5045-5050. link

134) Davide Lionetti, Sandy Suseno, Angela A. Shiau, Graham de Ruiter, and Theodor Agapie. "Redox Processes Involving Oxygen: The Surprising Influence of Redox-Inactive Lewis Acids." JACS Au. 2024, 4, 344-368. link

133) Shuoyan Xiong, Alexandria Hong, Priyabrata Ghana, Brad C. Bailey, Heather A. Spinney, Hannah Bailey, Briana S. Henderson, Steve marshall, and Theodor Agapie. "Acrylate-Induced β-H Elimination in Coordination Insertion Copolymerization Catalyzed by Nickel." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26463-26471. link

132) Anna G. Scott, Diogo Alves Galico, Isabel Bogacz, Paul H. Oyala, Junko Yano, Elizaveta A. Suturina, Muralee Murugesu, and Theodor Agapie. "High-Spin and Reactive Fe13 Cluster with Exposed Metal Sites" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202313880. link

131) Shuoyan Xiong, Manar M. Shoshani, Alex J. Nett, Heather A. Spinney, Briana S. Henderson, and Theodor Agapie. "Nickel-Based Heterometallic Catalysts for Ethylene-Acrylate Copolymerization: Interrogating Effects of Secondary Metal Additives." Organometallics 2023, 42, 2849-2855. link

130) Angela A. Shiau, Heui Beom Lee, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Coordination Number in High-Spin—Low-Spin Equilibrium in Cluster Models of the S2 State of the Oxygen Evolving Complex." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 14592-14598. link

129) Meaghan A. Bruening, Shuoyan Xiong, and Theodor Agapie. "α, ω-Diene Generation from Ethylene and Butadiene by Copolymer Upcycling." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 2023, 11, 9918-9923. link

128) Shuoyan Xiong, Priyabrata Ghana, Brad C. Bailey, Heather A. Spinney, Briana S. Henderson, Matthew R. Espinosa, and Theodor Agapie. "Impact of Labile Ligands on Catalyst Initiation and Chain Propagation in Ni-Catalyzed Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymerization." ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 5000-5006. link

127) Nicholas B. Watkins, Zachary J. Schiffer, Yungchieh Lai, Charles B. Musgrave III, Harry A. Atwater, William A. Goddard III, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and John M. Gregoire. "Hydrodynamics Change Tafel Slopes in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper." ACS Energy Letters. 2023, 8, 2185-2192. link

126) Weixuan Nie, Gavin P. Heim, Nicholas B. Watkins, Theodor Agapie, and Jonas C. Peters. "Organic Additive-derived Films on Cu Electrodes Promote Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to C2+ Products Under Strongly Acidic Conditions." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202216102. link

125) Anna G. Scott and Theodor Agapie. "Synthesis of a Fe3-Carbyne Motif by Oxidation of an Alkyl Ligated Iron-Sulfur (WFe3S3) Cluster." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2-6. link

124) Nicholas B. Watkins, Yueshen Wu, Weixuan Nie, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "In situ Deposited Polyaromatic Layer Generates Robust Copper Catalyst for Selective Electrochemical CO2 Reduction at Variable pH." ACS Energy Letters. 2023, 8, 189-195. link

123) Manar M. Shoshani, Shuoyan Xiong, James J. Lawniczak, Xinglong Zhang, Thomas F. Miller III, and Theodor Agapie. "Phosphine-Phenoxide Nickel Catalysts for Ethylene/Acrylate Copolymerization: Olefin Coordination and Complex Isomerization Studies Relevant to the Mechanism of Catalysis." Organometallics. 2022, 41, 2119-2131. link

122) Angela A. Shiau, Heui Beom Lee, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "MnIV4O4 Model of the S3 Intermediate of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex: Effect of the Dianionic Disiloxide Ligand." Inorg. Chem. 2022, 62, 1791-1796. link

121) Shuoyan Xiong, Alexandria Hong, Brad C. Bailey, Heather A. Spinney, Todd D. Senecal, Hannah Bailey, and Theodor Agapie. "Highly Active and Thermally Robust Nickel Enolate Catalysts for the Synthesis of Ethylene-Acrylate Copolymers."Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 134, e202206637. link

120) Choon Heng Low, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie. "Molybdenum-Mediated Coupling of Carbon Monoxide to a C3 Product on a Single Metal Site." Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 7710-7714. link

119) Yungchieh Lai, Nicholas B. Watkins, Christopher Muzzillo, Matthias Richter, Kevin Kan, Lan Zhou, Joel A. Haber, Andriy Zakutayev, Jonas C. Peters, Theodor Agapie, and John M. Gregoire. "Molecular Coatings Improve the Selectivity and Durability of CO2 Reduction Chalcogenide Photocathodes." ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 1195-1201. link

118) Luciano Barluzzi, Nadir Jori, Tianyi He, Thayalan Rajeshkumar, Rosario Scopelliti, Laurent Maron, Paul Oyala, Theodor Agapie, and Marinella Mazzanti. "Heterometallic uranium/molybdenum nitride synthesis via partial N-atom transfer." Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4655-4658. link

117) Charles H. Arnett, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie "Probing Redox Non-Innocence in Iron-Carbene Complexes {Fe=C(H)Ar}10-11 by 1,2H and 13C Pulse Electron Paramagnetic Resonance" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 27220. link

116) Joshua A. Buss, Naoki Shida, Tianyi He, and Theodor Agapie. "Carbon Dioxide Reduction with Dihydrogen and Silanes at Low-Valent Molybdenum Terphenyl Diphosphine Complexes: Reductant Identity Dictates Mechanism" ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 13294-13302. link

115) Yungchieh Lai, Nicholas B. Watkins, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Gavin P. Heim, Lan Zhou, Yueshen Wu, Jonas C. Peters, John M. Gregoire, and Theodor Agapie. "Breaking Scaling Relationships in CO2 Reduction on Copper Alloys with Organic Additives" ACS Cent. Sci., 2021, 7, 1756-1762. link

114) Linh N. V. Le, Gwendolyn A. Bailey, Anna G. Scott, and Theodor Agapie. "Partial Synthetic Models of FeMoco with Sulfide and Carbyne Ligands: Effect of Interstitial Atom in Nitrogenase Active Site" PNAS, 2021, 118, e2109241118. link

113) Hossein Yadegari, Adnan Ozden, Tartela Alkayyali, Vikram Soni, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "Glycerol Oxidation Pairs with Carbon Monoxide Reduction for Low-Voltage Generation of C2 and C3 Product Streams" ACS Energy Lett., 2021, 6, 3538-3544. link

112) Gwendolyn A. Bailey and Theodor Agapie. "Terminal, Mo Carbide and Carbyne Reactivity: H2 Cleavage, B-C Bond Activation, and C-C Coupling" Organometallics., 2021 40, 2881-2887. link

111) Gwendolyn A. Bailey, Joshua A. Buss, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Terminal, Open-Shell Mo Carbide and Carbyne Complexes: Spin Delocalization and Ligand Non-innocence" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021 143, 13091-13102. link

110) Jessica Sampson, Meaghan Bruening, Muhammed Naseem Akhtar, E. A. Jaseer, Rajesh Theravalappil, Nestor Garcia, and Theodor Agapie. "Copolymerization of Ethylene and Long-Chain Functional α-Olefins by Dinuclear Zirconium Catalysts" Organometallics, 2021 40, 1854-1858. link

109) Heui Beom Lee, Angela A. Shiau, David A. Marchiori, Paul H. Oyala, Byung-Kuk Yoo, Jens T. Kaiser, Douglas C. Rees, R. David Britt, and Theodor Agapie. "CaMn3IVO4 Cubane Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex: Spin Ground States S < 9/2 and the Effect of Oxo Protonation" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 17671-17679. link

108) Shuoyan Xiong, Manar M. Shoshani, Xinglong Zhang, Heather A. Spinney, Alex J. Nett, Briana S. Henderson, Thomas F. Miller III, Theodor Agapie. "Efficient Copolymerization of Acrylate and Ethylene with Neutral P, O-Chelated Nickel Catalysts: Mechanistic Investigations of Monomer Insertion and Chelate Formation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 6516-6527. link

107) Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Alex M. Fontani Herreros, Theodor Agapie, and Jonas C. Peters. "Dramatic HER Suppression on Ag Electrodes via Molecular Films for Highly Selective CO2 to CO Reduction" ACS Catalysis. 2021, 11, 4530-4537. link

106) Adnan Ozden, Yuhang Wang, Fengwang Li, Mingchuan Luo, Jared Sisler, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Thomas Burdyny, Yanwei Lum, Hossein Yadegari, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "Cascade CO2 Electroreduction Enables Efficient Carbonate-free Production of Ethylene" Joule. 2021, 5, 706-719. link

105) Nathanael A. Hirscher, Charles H. Arnett, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Characterization of Cr-Hydrocarbyl Species via Pulse EPR in the Study of Ethylene Tetramerization Catalysis" Organometallics 2020, 39, 4420-4429. link

104) Ryan D. Ribson, Gyeongshin Choi, Ryan G. Hadt, and Theodor Agapie. "Controlling Singlet Fission with Coordination Chemistry-Induced Assembly of Dipyridyl Pyrrole Bipentacenes" ACS Cent. Sci. 2020, 6, 2088-2096. link

103) Charles H. Arnett, Isabel Bogacz, Ruchira Chatterjee, Junko Yano, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Mixed-Valent Diiron μ-Carbyne, μ-Hydride Complexes: Implications for Nitrogenase" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 44, 18795-18813. link

102) Adnan Ozden, Fengwang Li, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Yuhang Wang, Sung-Fu Hung, Xue Wang, Bin Chen, Jun Li, Joshua Wicks, Mingchuan Luo, Ziyun Wang, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Edward H. Sargent, and David Sinton. "High-Rate and Efficient Ethylene Electrosynthesis Using a Catalyst/Promoter/Transport Layer" ACS Energy Lett., 2020, 5, 2811-2818. link

101) Manar M. Shoshani and Theodor Agapie. "Ligand Architecture for Triangular Metal Complexes: A High Oxidation State Ni3 Cluster with Proximal Metal Arrangement" Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 11279-1282. link

100) Ruomeng Wan, Joshua A. Buss, Kyle T. Horak, and Theodor Agapie. "A Hemilabile Diphosphine Pyridine Pincer Ligand: σ- and π-Binding in Molybdenum Coordination Complexes" Polyhedron, 2020, 187, 114631. link (Special issue celebrating John Bercaw's 75th birthday)

99) Charles H. Arnett and Theodor Agapie. "Activation of an Open Shell, Carbyne-Bridged Diiron Complex Toward Binding of Dinitrogen" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 10059-10068. link

98) Dae-Hyun Nam, Phil De Luna, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Arnaud Thevenon, Fengwang Li, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, Osama Shekhah, Mohamed Eddaoudi, and Edward H. Sargent. "Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction" Nature Materials, 2020, 19, 266-276. link

97) Heui Beom Lee, David A. Marchiori, Ruchira Chatterjee, Paul H. Oyala, Junko Yano, R. David Britt, and Theodor Agapie. "S = 3 Ground State for a Tetranuclear MnIV4O4 Complex Mimicking the S3 State of the Oxygen Evolving Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 3753-3761. link

96) Fengwang Li, Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Ziyun Wang, Yilin Li, Christine M. Gabardo, Adnan Ozden, Cao Thang Dinh, Jun Li, Yuhang Wang, Jonathan P. Edwards, Yi Xu, Christopher McCallum, Lizhi Tao, Zhi-Qin Liang, Mingchuan Luo, Xue Wang, Huihui Li, Colin P. O'Brien, Chih-Shan Tan, Dae-Hyun Nam, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Tao-Tao Zhuang, Yuguang C. Li, Zhiji Han, R. David Britt, David Sinton, Theodor Agapie, Jonas C. Peters, and Edward H. Sargent. "Molecular Tuning of CO2-to-Ethylene Conversion" Nature, 2020, 577, 509-513. link (commentaries in Chemical & Engineering News, Science Daily, and Caltech News)

95) Zachary Mathe, Dimitrios A. Pantazis, Heui Beom Lee, Richard Gnewkow, Benjamin E. Van Kuiken, Theodor Agapie, and Serena DeBeer. "Calcium Valence-to-Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: A Sensitive Probe of Oxo Protonation in Structural Models of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex" Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 16292-16301. link

94) Charles H. Arnett, Jens T. Kaiser, and Theodor Agapie. "Remote Ligand Modifications Tune Electronic Distribution and Reactivity in Site-Differentiated, High-Spin Iron Clusters: Flipping Scaling Relationships" Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 15971-15982. link

93) Arnaud Thevenon, Alonso Rosas-Hernández, Jonas Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "In-situ Nanostructuring and Stabilization of Polycrystalline Copper by an Organic Salt Additive Promotes Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Ethylene" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 16952-16958. link

92) Jessica Sampson, Gyeongshin Choi, Muhammad Naseem Akhtar, E.A. Jaseer, Rajesh Theravalappil, Nestor Garcia, and Theodor Agapie. "Early Metal Di(pyridyl) Pyrrolide Complexes with Second Coordination Sphere Arene-π Interactions: Ligand Binding and Ethylene Polymerization" ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 15879-15892. link

91) Joshua A. Buss, Gwendolyn A. Bailey, Julius Oppenheim, David G. VanderVelde, William A. Goddard III, and Theodor Agapie. "CO Coupling Chemistry of a Terminal Mo Carbide: Sequential Addition of Proton, Hydride, and CO Releases Ethenone" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 15664-15674. link

90) Christopher Reed and Theodor Agapie. "A Terminal FeIII-Oxo in a Tetranuclear Cluster: Effects of Distal Metal Centers on Structure and Reactivity" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 9479-9484. link

89) Heui Beom Lee and Theodor Agapie. "Redox Tuning via Ligand-Induced Geometric Distortions at a YMn3O4 Cubane Model of the Biological Oxygen Evolving Complex" Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 14998-15003. link

88) Heui Beom Lee, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Spectroscopy of Multinuclear Mn Complexes Relevant to the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II; in Oxygen Production and Reduction in Artificial and Natural Systems; James Barber, Alexander V. Ruban, and Peter J. Dixon, Ed.; World Scientific: Singapore, 2019; pp. 259-283. link

87) Nathanael A. Hirscher, Danny Perez Sierra, and Theodor Agapie. "Robust Chromium Precursors for Catalysis: Isolation and Structure of a Single-Component Ethylene Tetramerization Precatalyst" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 6022-6029. link

86) Davide Lionetti, Sandy Suseno, Emily Y. Tsui, Luo Lu, Troy A. Stich, Kurtis M. Carsch, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard, III, R. David Britt, and Theodor Agapie. "Effects of Lewis Acidic Metal Ions (M) on Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Heterometallic Mn3MO4 Cubane and Fe3MO(OH) and Mn3MO(OH) Clusters" Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 2336-2345. link

85) Nathanael A. Hirscher, Jay A. Labinger, and Theodor Agapie. "Isotopic Labelling in Ethylene Oligomerization: Addressing the Issue of 1-Octene vs. 1-Hexene Selectivity" Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 40-44. link

84) Heui Beom Lee, Angela A. Shiau, Paul H. Oyala, David A. Marchiori, Sheraz Gul, Ruchira Chatterjee, Junko Yano, R. David Britt, and Theodor Agapie. "Tetranuclear [MnIIIMn3IVO4] Complexes as Spectroscopic Models of the S2 State of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 17175-17187. link

83) Joshua A. Buss, Masanari Hirahara, Yohei Ueda, and Theodor Agapie. "Molecular Mimics of Heterogeneous Metal Phosphides: Thermochemistry, Hydride-Proton Isomerism, and HER Reactivity" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 16329-16333. link

82) Choon Heng Low, Jeffrey N. Rosenberg, Marco A. Lopez, and Theodor Agapie. "Oxidative Coupling with Zr(IV) Supported by a Non-Innocent Anthracene-Based Ligand: Application to the Catalytic Cotrimerization of Alkynes and Nitriles to Pyrimidines" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 11906-11910. link

81) Christopher J. Reed and Theodor Agapie. "Thermodynamics of Proton and Electron Transfer in Tetranuclear Clusters with Mn-OH2/OH Motifs Relevant to H2O Activation by the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 10900-10908. link

80) Joshua A. Buss, David G. VanderVelde, and Theodor Agapie. "Lewis Acid Enhancement of Proton Induced CO2 Cleavage: Bond Weakening and Ligand Residence Time Effects" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 10121-10125. link

79) Joshua A. Buss, Christine Cheng, and Theodor Agapie. "A Low-Valent Molybdenum Nitride: Reduction Promotes Carbonylation Chemistry" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9670-9674. link

78) Charles H. Arnett, Matthew J. Chalkley, and Theodor Agapie. "A Thermodynamic Model for Redox-Dependent Binding of Carbon Monoxide at Site-Differentiated, High Spin Iron Clusters" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 5569-5578. link

77) Naoki Shida, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie. "Mild electrochemical synthesis of metal phosphides with dibenzo-7-phosphanorbornadiene derivatives: mechanistic insights and application to proton reduction in water" Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 767-770. link

76) Nathanael A. Hirscher and Theodor Agapie. "Stoichiometrically Activated Catalysts for Ethylene Tetramerization using Diphosphinoamine-Ligated Cr Tris(hydrocarbyl) Complexes" Organometallics 2017, 36, 4107-4110. link

75) Christopher J. Reed and Theodor Agapie. "Tetranuclear Fe Clusters with a Varied Interstitial Ligand: Effects on the Structure, Redox Properties, and Nitric Oxide Activation" Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 13360-13367. link

74) Joshua A. Buss, Paul H. Oyala, and Theodor Agapie. "Terminal Molybdenum Phosphides with d-Electrons: Radical Character Promotes Coupling Chemistry" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14502-14506. link

73) Markus Kubin, Jan Kern, Sheraz Gul, Thomas Kroll, Ruchira Chatterjee, Heike Löchel, Franklin D. Fuller, Raymond G. Sierra, Wilson Quevedo, Christian Weniger, Jens Rehanek, Anatoly Firsov, Hartawan Laksmono, Clemens Weninger, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Dennis L. Nordlund, Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser, James M. Glownia, Jacek Krzywinski, Stefan Moeller, Joshua J. Turner, Michael P. Minitti, Georgi L. Dakovski, Sergey Koroidov, Anurag Kawde, Jacob S. Kanady, Emily Y. Tsui, Sandy Suseno, Zhiji Han, Ethan Hill, Taketo Taguchi, Andrew S. Borovik, Theodor Agapie, Johannes Messinger, Alexei Erko, Alexander Föhlisch, Uwe Bergmann, Rolf Mitzner, Vittal K. Yachandra, Junko Yano, and Philippe Wernet. "Soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy of metalloproteins and high-valent metal-complexes at room temperature using free-electron lasers" Structural Dynamics 2017, 4, 054307. link

72) Graham de Ruiter, Kurtis M. Carsch, Michael K. Takase, and Theodor Agapie. "Selectivity of C-H versus C-F Bond Oxygenation by Homo- and Heterometallic Fe4, Fe3Mn, and Mn4 Clusters" Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 10744-10749. link

71) Zhiji Han, Ruud Kortlever, Hsiang-Yun Chen, Jonas C. Peters, and Theodor Agapie. "CO2 Reduction Selective for C≥2 Products on Polycrystalline Copper with N-Substituted Pyridinium Additives" ACS Central Science 2017 3, 853-859. link

70) Kurtis M. Carsch, Graham de Ruiter, and Theodor Agapie. "Intramolecular C-H and C-F Bond Oxygenation by Site-Differentiated Tetranuclear Manganese Models of the OEC" Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 9044-9054. link

69) Zhiji Han, Kyle T. Horak, Heui Beom Lee, and Theodor Agapie. "Tetranuclear Manganese Models of the OEC Displaying Hydrogen Bonding Interactions: Application to Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation to Hydrogen Peroxide" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 9108-9111. link

68) Jessica Sampson, Gyeongshin Choi, Muhammed Naseem Akhtar, E. A. Jaseer, Rajesh Theravalappil, Hassan Ali Al-Muallem, and Theodor Agapie. "Olefin Polymerization by Dinuclear Zirconium Catalysts Based on Rigid Teraryl Frameworks: Effects on Tacticity and Copolymerization Behavior" Organometallics 2017, 36, 1915-1928. link

67) Heui Beom Lee, Emily Y. Tsui, and Theodor Agapie. "CaMn4O2 model of the biological oxygen evolving complex: synthesis by cluster expansion on low symmetry ligand" Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 6832-6835. link

66) Alejo M. Lifschitz, Nathanael A. Hirscher, Heui Beom Lee, Joshua A. Buss, and Theodor Agapie. "Ethylene Tetramerization Catalysis: Effects of Aluminum-Induced Isomerization of PNP to PPN Ligands" Organometallics 2017, 36, 1640-1648. link

65) Graham de Ruiter, Kurtis M. Carsch, Sheraz Gul, Ruchira Chatterjee, Niklas B. Thompson, Michael K. Takase, Junko Yano, and Theodor Agapie. "Accelerated Oxygen Atom Transfer and C-H Bond Oxygenation by Remote Redox Changes in Fe3Mn-Iodosobenzene Adducts" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 129, 4850-4854. link

64) Suho Jung, Ruud Kortlever, Ryan J. R. Jones, Michael F. Lichterman, Theodor Agapie, Charles C. L. McCrory, and Jonas Peters. "Gastight Hydrodynamic Electrochemistry: Design for a Sealed Rotating Disk Electrode Cell" Anal. Chem. 2017, 89, 581-585. link

63) Joshua A. Buss and Theodor Agapie "Mechanism of Molybdenum Mediated Carbon Monoxide Deoxygenation and Coupling: Mono- and Dicarbyne Complexes Precede C-O Bond Cleavage and C-C Bond Formation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 16466-16477. link

62) Paul Kelley, Guy A. Edouard, Sibo Lin, and Theodor Agapie "Lewis Acid Accelerated Aryl Ether Bond Cleavage with Ni: Orders of Magnitude Rate Enhancement by AlMe3" Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 17173-17176. link

61) Po-Heng Lin, Emily Y. Tsui, Fatemah Habib, Muralee Murugesu, and Theodor Agapie "Effect of the Mn Oxidation State on Single-Molecule-Magnet Properties: MnIII vs MnIV in Biologically Inspired DyMn3O4 Cubanes" Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 6095-6099. link

60) Justin T. Henthorn and Theodor Agapie "Modulation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer through Molybdenum-Quinonoid Interactions" Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 5337-5342. link

59) Davide Lionetti, Graham de Ruiter, and Theodor Agapie "A Trans-Hyponitrite Intermediate in the Reductive Coupling and Deoxygenation of Nitric Oxide by a Tricopper-Lewis Acid Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 5008-5011. link

58) Kyle T. Horak and Theodor Agapie "Dioxygen Reduction by a Pd(0)-Hydroquinone Diphosphine Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3443-3452. link

57) Graham de Ruiter, Niklas B. Thompson, Michael K. Takase, and Theodor Agapie "Intramolecular C-H and C-F Bond Oxygenation Mediated by a Putative Terminal Oxo Species in Tetranuclear Iron Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1486-1489. link

56) Joshua A. Buss and Theodor Agapie "Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site" Nature, 2016, 529, 72-75. link

55) Jacob S. Kanady, Jose Mendoza-Cortes, William A. Goddard III, and Theodor Agapie. "Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: Insights from Computation and Synthetic Models" in Metalloproteins: Structure, Functions, and Interactions; Art E. Cho and William A. Goddard III, Ed.; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2015; pp. 165-204.

54) Guy A. Edouard, Paul Kelley, David E. Herbert, and Theodor Agapie "Aryl Ether Cleavage by Group 9 and 10 Transition Metals: Stoichiometric Studies of Selectivity and Mechanism" Organometallics 2015, 34, 5254-5277. link

53) Graham de Ruiter, Niklas B. Thompson, Davide Lionetti, and Theodor Agapie "Nitric Oxide Activation by Distal Redox Modulation in Tetranuclear Iron Nitrosyl Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 14094-14106. link

52) Kyle T. Horak, Sibo Lin, Jonathan Rittle, and Theodor Agapie "Heterometallic Effects in Trinuclear Complexes Supported by p-Terphenyl Diphosphine Ligands" Organometallics 2015, 34, 4429-4432. link

51) Kyle T. Horak, David G. VanderVelde, and Theodor Agapie "Tuning of Metal Complex Electronics and Reactivity by Remote Lewis Acid Binding to a π-Coordinating Pyridine Diphosphine Ligands" Organometallics 2015, 34, 4753-4765. link

50) Sandy Suseno, Charles C. L. McCrory, Rosalie Tran, Sheraz Gul, Junko Yano, and Theodor Agapie "Molecular Mixed-Metal Manganese Oxido Cubanes as Precursors to Heterogeneous Oxygen Evolution Catalysts" Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 13420-13430. link

49) Justin T. Henthorn, Sibo Lin, and Theodor Agapie "Combination of Redox-Active Ligand and Lewis Acid for Dioxygen Reduction with π-Bound Molybdenum Quinoid Complexes" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 1458-1464. link

48) Po-Heng Lin, Michael K. Takase, and Theodor Agapie "Investigations of the Effect of the Non-Manganese Metal in Heterometallic-Oxido Cluster Models of the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II: Lanthanides as Substitutes for Calcium" Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 59-64. link

47) Vlad Martin-Diaconescu, Marcello Gennari, Bertrand Gerey, Emily Tsui, Jacob Kanady, Rosalie Tran, Jacques Pécaut, Dimitrios Maganas, Vera Krewald, Eric Gouré, Carole Duboc, Junko Yano, Theodor Agapie, Marie-Noelle Collomb, and Serena DeBeer "Ca K-Edge XAS as a Probe of Calcium Centers in Complex Systems" Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 1283-1292. link

46) Davide Lionetti and Theodor Agapie "Inorganic Chemistry: How Calcium Affects Oxygen Formation" Nature 2014, 513, 495-496. link

45) Justin T. Henthorn and Theodor Agapie "Dioxygen Reactivity with a Ferrocene-Lewis Acid Pairing: Reduction to a Boron Peroxide in the Presence of Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 12893-12896. link

44) Jacob S. Kanady, Po-Heng Lin, Kurtis M. Carsch, Robert J. Nielsen, Michael K. Takase, William A. Goddard III, and Theodor Agapie "Towards Models for the Full Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II by Ligand Coordination to Lower the Symmetry of the Mn3CaO4 Cubane: Demonstration that Electronic Effects Facilitate Binding of a Fifth Metal" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 14373-14376. link

43) Joshua A. Buss, Guy A. Edouard, Christine Cheng, Jade Shi, and Theodor Agapie "Molybdenum Catalyzed Ammonia Borane Dehydrogenation: Oxidation State Specific Mechanisms" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 11272-11275. link

42) Emily Y. Tsui and Theodor Agapie "Carbon Dioxide Cleavage by a Ni2 Complex Supported by a Binucleating Bis(N-Heterocyclic Carbene) Framework" Polyhedron 2014, 8, 103-110. link (Special issue celebrating John Bercaw's 70th birthday)

41) Madalyn R. Radlauer and Theodor Agapie "Bimetallic Zirconium Amine Bis(phenolate) Polymerization Catalysts: Enhanced Activity and Tacticity Control for Polyolefin Synthesis" Organometallics 2014, 33, 3247-3250. link

40) Kyle T. Horak, Alexandra Velian, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Arene Non-Innocence in Dinuclear Complexes of Fe, Co, and Ni Supported by a para-Terphenyl Diphosphine" Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 4427-4429. link

39) David E. Herbert, Davide Lionetti, Jonathan Rittle, and Theodor Agapie "Heterometallic Triiron-Oxo/Hydroxo Clusters: Effect of Redox-Inactive Metals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 19075-19078. link

38) Emily Y. Tsui, Jacob S. Kanady, and Theodor Agapie "Synthetic Cluster Models of Biological and Heterogeneous Manganese Catalysts for O2 Evolution" Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 13833-13848. link (Award Paper also featured on the cover)

37) Sandy Suseno, Kyle T. Horak, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Trinuclear Nickel Complexes with Metal–Arene Interactions Supported by Tris- and Bis(phosphinoaryl)benzene Frameworks" Organometallics 2013, 32, 6883-6886. link

36) Sibo Lin, David E. Herbert, Alexandra Velian, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Dipalladium(II) Terphenyl Diphosphine Complexes as Models for Two-Site Adsorption and Activation of Organic Molecules" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 15830-15840. link

35) David E. Herbert, Nadia C. Lara, Theodor Agapie "Arene C-H Amination at Nickel Terphenyl-Diphosphine Complexes with Labile Metal-Arene Interactions" Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 16453-16460. link

34) Jacob S. Kanady, Rosalie Tran, Jamie A. Stull, Luo Lu, Troy A. Stich, Michael W. Day, Junko Yano, David R. Britt, and Theodor Agapie "Role of Oxido Incorporation and Ligand Lability in Exapanding Redox Accessibility of Structurally Related Mn4 Clusters" Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 3986-3996. link

33) Sandy Suseno and Theodor Agapie "Intramolecular Arene C-H to C-P Functionalization by Nickel(II) and Palladium(II)" Organometallics 2013, 32, 3161-3164. link

32) Paul Kelley, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Hydrogen Evolution Catalyzed by Aluminum-Bridged Cobalt Diglyoximate Complexes" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 3840-3845. link (special issue on small-molecule activation by reactive metal complexes; article featured on the cover with cover profile)

31) Emily Y. Tsui and Theodor Agapie "Reduction Potentials of Heterometallic Manganese-Oxido Cubane Complexes Modulated by Redox-Inactive Metals" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2013, 110, 10084-10088. link

30) Madalyn R. Radlauer, Aya K. Buckley, Lawrence M. Henling, and Theodor Agapie "Bimetallic Coordination Insertion Polymerization of Unprotected Polar Monomers: Copolymerization of Amino Olefins and Ethylene by Dinickel Bisphenoxyiminato Catalysts" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 3784-3787. link

29) Emily Y. Tsui, Rosalie Tran, Junko Yano, and Theodor Agapie "Redox-inactive metals modulate the reduction potential in heterometallic manganese—oxido clusters" Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 293-299. link (commentaries in Nature Chemistry and Caltech News)

28) Jacob S. Kanady, Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes, Emily Y. Tsui, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard, III, and Theodor Agapie "Oxygen Atom Transfer and Oxidative Water Incorporation in Cuboidal Mn3MOn Complexes Based on Synthetic, Isotopic Labeling, and Computational Studies" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 1073-1082. link

27) Davide Lionetti, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Metal-Templated Ligand Architectures for Trinuclear Chemistry: Tricopper Complexes and Their O2 Reactivity" Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 785-790. link

26) Paul Kelley, Madalyn R. Radlauer, Abraham J. Yanez, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Metallomacrocycles as ligands: synthesis and characterisation of aluminium-bridged bisglyoximato complexes of palladium and iron" Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 8086-8092. (Young Talent Issue) link

25) Paul Kelley, Sibo Lin, Guy Edouard, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Nickel-Mediated Hydrogenolysis of C—O Bonds of Aryl Ethers: What Is the Source of the Hydrogen?" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 5480-5483. link

24) Madalyn R. Radlauer, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Dinickel Bisphenoxyiminato Complexes for the Polymerization of Ethylene and α-Olefins" Organometallics, 2012, 31, 2231-2243. link

23) Madalyn R. Radlauer, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Bimetallic Effects on Ethylene Polymerization in the Presence of Amines: Inhibition of the Deactivation by Lewis Bases" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 1478-1481. link

22) Charlotte A. Whited, Jeffrey J. Warren, Katherine D. Lavoie, Emily E. Weiner, Theodor Agapie, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray "Gating NO Release from Nitric Oxide Synthase" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 27-30. link

21) Jacob S. Kanady, Emily Y. Tsui, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "A Synthetic Model of the Mn3Ca Subsite of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II" Science 2011, 333, 733-736. link (commentaries in Chemical & Engineering News, Chemistry World, and Education in Chemistry)

20) Steven T. Chao, Nadia C. Lara, Sibo Lin, Michael W. Day and Theodor Agapie "Reversible Halide-Modulated Nickel–Nickel Bond Cleavage: Metal–Metal Bonds as Design Elements for Molecular Devices" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 7529–7532. link

19) Emily Y. Tsui, Jacob S. Kanady, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Trinuclear First Row Transition Metal Complexes of a Hexapyridyl, Trialkoxy 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene Ligand" Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 4189-4191 link

18) Sibo Lin, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Nickel Hydrides Supported by a Non-Innocent Diphosphine Arene Pincer: Mechanistic Studies of Nickel−Arene H-Migration and Partial Arene Hydrogenation" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3828-3831. link

17) Emily Y. Tsui, Michael W. Day, and Theodor Agapie "Trinucleating Copper: Synthesis and Magnetostructural Characterization of Complexes Supported by a Hexapyridyl 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene Ligand" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 1668-1672 link

16) Theodor Agapie "Selective Ethylene Oligomerization: Recent Advances in Chromium Catalysis and Mechanistic Investigations" Coord. Chem. Rev. 2011, 255, 861-880. link

15) Sibo Lin and Theodor Agapie "Cross-Coupling Chemistry at Mononuclear and Dinuclear Nickel Complexes" Synlett 2011, 1, 1-5. link

14) Alexandra Velian, Sibo Lin, Alexander J. M. Miller, Michael W. Day and Theodor Agapie "Synthesis and C–C Coupling Reactivity of a Dinuclear NiI–NiI Complex Supported by a Terphenyl Diphosphine" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (18), 6296-6297. link

Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral Work

13) Ian A. Tonks, Daniel Tofan, Edward C. Weintrob, Theodor Agapie, and John E. Bercaw "Zirconium and Titanium Propylene Polymerization Precatalysts Supported by a Fluxional C2-Symmetric Bis(anilide)pyridine Ligand" Organometallics 2012, 31 1965-1974. link

12) Theodor Agapie, Sandy Suseno, Joshua J. Woodward, Stefan Stoll, R. David Britt, and Michael A. Marletta "NO formation by a catalytically self-sufficient bacterial nitric oxide synthase from Sorangium cellulosums" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2009, 106 (38), 16221-16226. link

11) Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, and John E. Bercaw "Synthesis and Reactivity of Tantalum Complexes Supported by Bidentate X2 and Tridentate LX2 Ligands having Two Phenolates Linked to Pyridine, Thiophene, Furan, and Benzene Connectors – Mechanistic Studies of the Formation of a Tantalum Benzylidene and Insertion Chemistry for Tantalum Carbon Bonds" Organometallics 2008, 27 (23), 6123-6142. link

10) Theodor Agapie, Lawrence M. Henling, Antonio G. DiPasquale, Arnold L. Rheingold, and John E. Bercaw "Zirconium and Titanium Complexes Supported by Tridentate LX2 Ligands having Two Phenolates Linked to Furan, Thiophene, and Pyridine Donors: Precatalysts for Propylene Polymerization and Oligomerization" Organometallics 2008, 27 (23), 6245-6256. link

9) Theodor Agapie, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw "Mechanistic Studies of Olefin Trimerization with Chromium Catalysts – Deuterium Labeling and Studies of Regiochemistry Using a Model Cromacyclopentane Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129 (46), 14281-14295. link

8) Theodor Agapie and John E. Bercaw "Cyclometallated Tantalum Diphenolate Pincer Complexes: Intramolecular C-H/M-CH3 σ– Bond Metathesis May Be Faster than O-H/M-CH3 Protonolysis" Organometallics 2007, 26 (12), 2957-2959. link

7) Smaranda C. Marinescu, Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, and John E. Bercaw "Group 3 Dialkyl Complexes with Tetradentate (L, L, N, O; L = N, O, S) Monoanionic Ligands – Synthesis and Reactivity" Organometallics 2007, 26 (5), 1178-1190. link

6) Theodor Agapie, Michael W. Day, Lawrence M. Henling, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw "A Chromium Diphosphine System for Catalytic Ethylene Trimerization: Synthetic and Structural Studies of Chromium Complexes with a Nitrogen-Bridged Diphosphine Ligand with ortho-Methoxyaryl Substituents" Organometallics 2006, 25 (11), 2733-2742. link

5) Theodor Agapie, Susan J. Schofer, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw "Mechanistic Studies of the Ethylene Trimerization Reaction with Chromium – Diphosphine Catalysts: Experimental Evidence for a Mechanism Involving Metallacyclic Intermediates" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126 (5), 1304-1305. link

4) Theodor Agapie, Paula L. Diaconescu, and Christopher C. Cummins "Methine (CH) Transfer via a Chlorine Atom Abstraction/Benzene-Elimination Strategy: Molybdenum Methylidyne Synthesis and Elaboration to a Phosphaisocyanide Complex" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124 (11), 2412-2413. link

3) Theodor Agapie, Paula L. Diaconescu, Daniel J. Mindiola and Christopher C. Cummins "Radical Scission of Symmetrical 1,4-Dicarbonyl Compounds: C-C Bond Cleavage with Titanium(IV) Enolate Formation and Related Reactions" Organometallics 2002, 21 (7), 1329-1340. link

2) Paula L. Diaconescu, Aaron L. Odom, Theodor Agapie and Christopher C. Cummins "Uranium-Group 14 Element Single Bonds: Isolation and Characterization of a Uranium(IV) Silyl Species" Organometallics 2001, 20 (24), 4993-4995. link

1) Theodor Agapie, Aaron L. Odom, Christopher C. Cummins "In Pursuit of the Molybdenum(III) Tris(thiolate) Fragment: Unusual Structure of a Dimolybdenum μ-Nitrido Complex" Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39 (2), 174-179. link

Patents

1) He, T.; Bruening, M. A.; Agapie, T. "Silicate Platform as Weakly-Coordinating Anions for Diverse Organometallic Transformations and Electrochemical Applications" U.S. Patent Application No. 18/934,808.
2) Han, Z.; Kortlever, R.; Chen, H.-Y.; Peters, J. C.; Agapie, T.; Rosas-Hernandez, J. A.; Thevenon, A. A. "Product Selectivity for CO2 Reduction" U.S. Patent 12,091,763.
3) Han, Z.; Kortlever, R.; Chen, H.-Y.; Peters, J. C.; Agapie, T.; Rosas-Hernandez, A.; Thevenon, A. "Product Selectivity for CO2 Reduction" U.S. Patent 11,371,152.
4) Agapie, T.; Rosas-Hernandez, A.; Li, F.; Peters, J. C.; Sargent, E. H.; Thevenon, A. "Stabilization of a Co-Bound Intermediate via Molecular Tuning Promotes CO2-to-Ethylene Conversion" U.S. Patent 11,746,426.
5) Agapie T.; Xiong, S.; Bailey, B. C.; Spinney, H. A.; Nett, A. J.; Wilson, D. R.; Klosin, J. "Bis (Phosphino) – Phenoxy Nickel (II) Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Ethylene and Acrylate Monomers" U.S. Patent Application No. 17/636,048.
6) Radlauer, M.; Wiensch, J. D.; Buckley, A. K.; Agapie, T. "Multimetallic Organometallic Complexes, and Related Polymers, Compositions, Methods and Systems" U.S. Patent 9,233,996.
7) Agapie, T.; Golisz, S. R.; Tofan, D. T; Bercaw, J. E. "Non-Metallocene Organometallic Complexes and Related Methods and Systems" U.S. Patent 7,847,099.