Selected Publications
Allen, J. E.; Zybin, S. V.; Morozov, S. I.; O’Sullivan, O. T.; Kawamura, C.; Waxler, D. E.; Hooper, J. P.; Goddard III, W. A.; Zdilla, M. J. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 4500–4507.
Sonnenberg, L. A.; Paul, S. C.; Wunder, S. L.; Zdilla, M. J. The High-Temperature Polymorph of LiBF4. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 782–784.
Vaddypally, S.; Byrne, A. N.; Goldsmith, C. F.; Zdilla, M. J.; Kiselev, V. G. Metal-Free Reversible Double Cyclization of Cyanuric Diazide to an Asymmetric Bitetrazolate via Cleavage of the Six-Membered Aromatic Ring. Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 2322–2326.
Bacon, A. M.; Tomlinson, W.; Hooper, J. P.; Zdilla, M. J. Titanium(II) as a Fuel Atom in Energetic Materials. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 9285–9290.
Prakash, P; Fall, B.; Aguirre, J.; Sonnenberg, L. A.; Chinnam, P. R.; Chereddy, S.; Dikin, D. A.; Venkatnathan, A.; Wunder, S. L.; Zdilla, M. J. A soft co-crystalline solid electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries.Nature Mater. 2023. 22, 627–635.
Prakash, P.; Shylendran, A.; Fall, B.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wunder, S. L.; Venkatnathan, A. Mechanism of Ion Conduction and Dynamics in Tris(N,N-dimethylformamide) Perchloratosodium Solid Electrolytes. J. Phys. Chem. C. 2022, 126, 4744–4750.
Koellner, C. A.; Gau, M. R.; Polyak, A.; Bayana, M.; Zdilla, M. J. Hemicubane topological analogs of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II mediating water-assisted propylene carbonate oxidation. Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 2532-2535.
Bigness, A.; Vaddypally, S.; Zdilla, M. J.; Mendoza-Cortés, J. L. “Ubiquity of cubanes in bioinorganic relevant compounds. Corrd. Chem. Rev. 2022, 450, 214168.
Ding, R.; Yasini, P.; Peng, H.; Perdew, J. P.; Borguet, E.; Zdilla, M. J. Reimagining the eg1 Electronic State in Oxygen Evolution Catalysis: Oxidation-State-Modulated Superlattices as a New Type of Heterostructure for Maximizing Catalysis. Adv. Energ. Mater. 2021, 11, 2101636.
Zybin, S. V.; Morozov, S. I.; Prakash, P.; Zdilla, M. J.; Goddard, W. A. Reaction Mechanism and Energetics of Decomposition of Tetrakis(1,3-dimethyltetrazol-5-imidoperchloratomanganese(II)) from Quantum-Mechanics-based Reactive Dynamics. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 16960-16975.
Prakash, P. Ardhra, S Fall, B; Zdilla, M.J.; Wunder, S. L.; Venkatnathan, A. Solvate sponge crystals of (DMF)3NaClO4: reversible pressure/temperature controlled juicing in a melt/press-castable sodium-ion conductor. Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 5574-5581.
Bhullar, R. K.; Zdilla, M. J.; Klein, M. K.; Remsing, R. C. Effect of water frustration on water oxidation catalysis in the nanoconfined interlayers of layered manganese oxides birnessite and buserite. J. Mat. Chem. A. 2021, 9, 6924-6932.
Gau, M. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Multinuclear Clusters of Manganese and Lithium with Silsesquioxane-Derived Ligands: Synthesis and Ligand Rearrangement by Dioxygen- and Base-Mediated Si–O Bond Cleavage.” Inorg. Chem. 2021. 5, 2866–2871.
Vaddypally, S.; Kiselev, V. G.; Byrne, A. N.; Goldsmith, F. C.; Zdilla, M. J. Transition-metal-mediated reduction and reversible double-cyclization of cyanuric triazide to an asymmetric bitetrazolate involving cleavage of the six-membered aromatic ring. Chem. Sci. 2021. 12, 2268-2275.
O’Sullivan, O. T.; Zdilla, M. J. Properties and Promise of Catenated Nitrogen Systems as High-Energy-Density Materials. Chem. Rev. 2020. 120, 5682–5744.
Fall, B.; Prakash, P.; Gau, M. R.; Wunder, S. L.; Venkatnathan, A.; Zdilla, M. J. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Ion Conduction Mechanism of Tris (adiponitrile) perchloratosodium, a Self-Binding, Melt-Castable Crystalline Sodium Electrolyte. Chem. Mater. 2019. 31, 8850-8863.
Vaddypally, S.; Tomlinson, W.; O'Sullivan, O. T.; Ding, R.; Van Vliet, M; Wayland, B. B.; Hooper, J. P.; Zdilla, M. J. Activation of CH, NH, and OH bonds via proton-coupled electron transfer to a Mn (III) complex of redox-noninnocent octaazacyclotetradecadiene, a catenated-nitrogen macrocyclic ligand. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 5699-5709.)
Dey, S.; Wayland, B. B.; Zdilla, M. J. Solution and Solid State Properties for Low-Spin Cobalt (II) Dibenzotetramethyltetraaza [14] annulene [(tmtaa) CoII] and the Monopyridine Complex. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 1224-1233.
Ho, D. M.; Zdilla, M. J. “The solid-state conformation of the topical antifungal agent O-naphthalen-
2-yl N-methyl-N-(3-methylphenyl)carbamothioate.”
Acta Cryst. C. 2018, 74, 1495-1501.
Dey, S.; Dewey, J. R.; Wayland, B. B.; Zdilla, M. J. “Synthesis of a tethered dibenzotetramethyl- Q1
tetraaza[14]annulene macrocycle and the di-nickel(II) derivative.” New. J. Chem. 2018, 42, 19369-19376.
McKendry, I. G.; Mohamad, L. J.; Thenuwara, A. C.; Marshall, T.; Borguet, E.; Strongin, D. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Synergistic In-layer Cobalt Doping and Interlayer Iron Intercalation Into Layered MnO2 Produces an Efficient Water Oxidation Electrocatalyst. ” ACS Energ. Lett. 2018, 3, 2280-2285.)
Noss, M. E.; Wieder, N. L.; Carroll, P. J.; Zdilla, M. J.; Berry, D. H. “Magnetism and EPR Studies of Binuclear Ruthenium Hydride Binuclear Species Bearing Redox-Active Ligands.” Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 7063-7043.
Prakash, P.; Aguirre, J.; Van Vliet, M. M.; Chinnam. P. R.; Dikin, D. A.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wunder, S. L.; Venkatnathan, A. “Unravelling the structural and dynamical complexity of the equilibrium liquid grain-binding layer in highly conductive organic crystalline electrolytes.” J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 6, 4394-4404.
McKendry, I. G.; Thenuwara, A. C.; Shumlas, S. L.; Peng, H.; Aulin, Y. V.; Chinnam, P. R.; Borguet, E.; Strongin, D. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Systematic Doping of Cobalt into Layered Manganese Oxide Sheets Substantially Enhances Water Oxidation Catalysis.” Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 557-564.
Lundell, C. E.; O’Sullivan, O. T.; Gau, M. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Syntheis of Two Lead Complexes of Propellant Stabilizer Compounds: In Pursuit of Novel Propellant Additives.” ChemistrySelect 2017, 2, 11673 –11676.
O’Sullivan, O. T.; Zdilla, M. J. “Manganese-mediated linkage of perchlorate to aminotetrazoles gives twice the energy density of the unmetallated salt.” Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 14138-14142.
Peng, H.; McKendry, I. G.; Ding, R.;, Thenuwarab, A. C.; Kang, Q.; Shumlas, S. L.; Strongin, D. R.; Zdilla, M. J.; Perdew, J. P. “Redox properties of birnessite from a defect perspective. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2017, 114, 9523-9528.
Fall, B; Jalil, A; Gau, M.; Chereddy, S.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wunder, S. L.; Chinnam, P. R. “Crystal structure and ionic conductivity of the soft solid crystal: isoquinoline •(LiCl).” Ionics. 2017, 24, 343-349.
Vaddypally, S.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Karki, S.; Van Vliet, M. M.; Levis, R. J.; Zdilla, M. J. “Reactive Pendant Mn═O in a Synthetic Structural Model of a Proposed S4 State in the Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolving Complex” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4675-4681.
Vaddypally, S.; Jovinelli, D. J.; McKendry, I. G.; Zdilla, M. J. “Covalent Metal–Metal-Bonded Mn4 Tetrahedron Inscribed within a Four-Coordinate Manganese Cubane Cluster, As Evidenced by Unexpected Temperature-Independent Diamagnetism” Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 3733–3737.
Jalil, A.; Clymer, R. N.; Hamilton, C. R.; Vaddypally, S.; Gau, M. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Structure of salts of
lithium chloride and lithium hexafluorophosphate as solvates with pyridine and vinylpyridine and structural comparisons: (C5H5N)LiPF6, [p-(CH2 CH)C5H5N]LiPF6, [(C5H5N)LiCl]n, and [p-(CH2 CH)C5H5N]2-Li(μ-Cl)2Li[p-(CH2 CH)C5H5N]2” Acta Cryst. C. 2017, 73, 264-269.
Hamilton, C. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Structure of a pentamanganese(II)–phenoxide cluster with a central five-
coordinate oxide: MnII5(μ-OPh)6(μ3-OPh)2(μ5-O)(Py)6·Py (Py is pyridine) [Mn5(C6H5O)8O(C5H5N)6]·C5H5N.” Acta Cryst. C. 2017, 73, 270-275.
Peters, G. M.; Winegrad, J. B.; Gau, M. R.; Imler, G. H.; Xu, B.; Ren, S.; Wayland, B. B.; Zdilla, M. J. “Synthesis and Structure of 2,5-Bis[N-(2,6-mesityl)iminomethyl]pyrrolylcobalt(II): Evidence for One-Electron-Oxidized, Redox Noninnocent Ligand Behavior”. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56 3377–3385.
Kang, Q.; Vernisse, L.; Remsing, R. C.; Thenuwara, A. C.; Shumlas, S. L.; McKendry, I. G.; Klein, M. L.; Borguet, E.; Zdilla, M. J.; Daniel R. Strongin, D. R. “Effect of Interlayer Spacing on the Activity of Layered Manganese Oxide Bilayer Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 1863−1870.
Chinnam, P. R.; Fall, B.; Dikin, D. A.; Jalil, A.; Hamilton, C. R.; Wunder, S. L.; Zdilla, M. J. “A Self-Binding, Melt-Castable, Crystalline Organic Electrolyte for Sodium Ion Conduction.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 15254-15257.
Thenuwara, A. C.; Shumlas, S. L.; Attanayake, N. H.; Aulin, Y. V.; McKendry, I. G.; Qiao, Q.; Zhu, Y.; Borguet, E.; Zdilla, M. J.; Strongin, D. R. “Intercalation of Cobalt into the Interlayer of Birnessite Improves Oxygen Evolution Catalysis.” ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 7739-7743.
McKendry, I. G.; Thenuwara, A. C.; Sun, J.; Peng, H.; Perdew, J. P.; Strongin, D. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Water Oxidation Catalyzed by Cobalt Oxide Supported on the Mattagamite Phase of CoTe2.” ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 7393−7397.
Michael R. Gau and Michael J. Zdilla. “A Protocol for Safe Lithiation Reactions Using Organolithium Reagents.” Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2016, e54705-e54705.
Vaddypally, S.; McKendry, I. G.; Tomlinson, W.; Hooper, J. P.; Zdilla, M. J. “Electronic structure of manganese complexes of the redox-non-innocent tetrazene ligand and evidence for the metal-azide/imido cycloaddition intermediate.” Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22,10548 –10557
Thenuwara, A. C. Cerkez, E. B.; Shumlas, S. L.; Attanayake, N. H.; McKendry, I. G.; Frazer, L; Borguet, E; Kang, Q.; Remsing, R. C.; Klein, M. L.; Zdilla, M. J.; Strongin, D. R. “Nickel Confined in the Interlayer Region of Birnessite: an Active Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation.”Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1 – 6.
Remsing, R. C.; McKendry, I. G.; Strongin, D. R.; Klein, M. L.; Zdilla, M. J. “Frustrated Solvation Structures Can Enhance Electron Transfer Rates.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 4804.
Thenuwara, A. C.; Shumlas, S. L.; Attanayake, N. H.; Cerkez, E. B.; McKendry, I. G.; Frazer, L.; Borguet, E.; Kang, Q.; Zdilla, M. J.; Sun, J.; Strongin, D. R. “Copper-Intercalated Birnessite as a Water Oxidation Catalyst.” Langmuir, 2015, 31, 12807.
Ian G. McKendry, Sandeep K. Kondaveeti, Samantha L. Shumlas, Daniel R. Strongin, and Michael J. Zdilla. “Decoration of the layered manganese oxide birnessite by Mn(II/III) gives a new water oxidation catalyst with fifty-fold turnover number enhancement.” Dalton Trans. 2015. 44, 12981–12984
Parameswara R. Chinnam, Rebecca N. Clymer, Abdel Aziz Jalil, Stephanie L. Wunder, and Michael J. Zdilla. “Bulk-phase, ion conduction in cocrystalline LiCl·N,N-dimethylformamide: A new paradigm for solid electrolytes based upon the Pearson Hard-Soft Acid-Base concept.” Chem. Mater. 2015. 27, 5479−5482
Imler, G. H.; Peters, G. M.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wayland, B. B. “Heterobimetallic Complexes of Rhodium Dibenzotetramethylaza[14]annulene [(tmtaa)Rh-M]: Formation, Structures, and Bond Dissociation Energetics.” Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 273
Hamilton, C. R.; Gau, M. R.; Baglia, R. A.; McWilliams, S. F.; Zdilla, M. J. Mechanistic elucidation of the stepwise formation of a tetranuclear manganese pinned butterfly cluster via N-N bond cleavage, hydro-gen atom transfer, and cluster rearrangement.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17974.
Chinnam, P. R.; Gau, M. R.; Schwab, J.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wunder, S. L. “The polyoctahedral silsesquioxane (POSS) 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15-octaphenylpentacyclo[9.5.1.13,9.15,15.17,13]octasiloxane (octaphenyl-POSS).” Acta Cryst., 2014, C70, 971
Gau, M. R.; Hamilton, C. R.; Zdilla, M. J. “Preparation of a ‘twisted basket’ Mn4N8 cluster: a two-hydrogen-atom reduced analogue of the Mn4N8 pinned butterfly.” Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7780.
Imler G. H.; Zdilla, M. J.; Wayland, B. B. “Equilibrium Thermodynamics to Form a Rhodium Formyl Complex from Reactions of CO and H2: Metal s Donor Activation of CO. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014. 136, 5856.
Vaddypally, S.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Roudebush, J. H.; Cava, R. J.; Zdilla, M. J. “Formation of the tetranuclear, tetrakis-terminal-imido MnIV4(NtBu)8 cubane cluster by four-electron reductive elimination of tBuN=NtBu. The role of the s-block ion in stabilization of high-oxidation state intermediates.” Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1061.
McCall, J. D.; Vaddypally, S.; Kondaveeti, S. K. Zdilla, M. J. “Easy access to the Wilkinson tris(tert-butylimido)nitridomanganate(VII) complex from commercially available starting materials.” Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2013, 37, 225.
Shivaiah Vaddypally, Chongsong Xu, Senzhi Zhao, Yanfeng Fan, Christian E. Schafmeister, and Michael J. Zdilla. “Architectural Spiroligomers Designed for Binuclear Metal Complex Templating.” Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 6457.
Sandeep K. Kondaveeti, Shivaiah Vaddypally, Carol Lam, Ni Ni, Robert J. Cava, Michael J. Zdilla. “Low-coordinate manganese-oxygen cluster chemistry: An unchelated, 5-coordinate octanuclear manganese cluster with water-derived oxo ligands.” Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 10095.
Imler, G. H.; Lu, Z.; Kistler, K. A.; Carroll, P. J.; Wayland, B. B.; Zdilla, M. J. “Complexes of 2,5-bis(a-pyridyl)pyrrolate with Pd(II) and Pt(II): A mono-anionic iso-p-electron analog of terpyridine.” Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 10122.
Kondaveeti, S. K.; Vaddypally, S.; McCall, J. D.; Zdilla, M. J. “Electronic structure and solution behavior of a tris(N,N′-diphenylhydrazido)manganese(IV) propeller complex.” Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 8093.
Vaddypally, S.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Zdilla, M. J. “Synthesis of a high-valent, four-coordinate manganese cubane cluster with a pendant manganese atom: Photosystem II-inspired manganese-nitrogen clusters.” Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 3950.
Vaddypally, S.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Zdilla, M. J. “An isolable, metastable, geometrically unique manganese(IV) trihydrazide complex poised for reactivity.” Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 9696.
Hamilton, C. R.: Baglia, R. A.; Gordon, A. D.; Zdilla, M. J. “Synthesis of Tetranuclear, Four-Coordinate
Manganese Clusters with “Pinned Butterfly” Geometry Formed by Metal-Mediated N-N Bond Cleavage in Diphenylhydrazine.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 4208.
Ho, D. M.; Zdilla, M. J. “trans-Bis(hinokitiolato)copper(II) trans-bis(hinokitiolato)palladium(II) cocrystals with (5/1) and (3/2) formulations.” Acta Cryst. 2011, C67, m100.
