2026
Semicrystalline Polyesters Made by Stereoselective Polymerization of a Biobased Bicyclic Lactone
Dumas, D.M.; Lui, K.H.; Zhang, H.; Kanan, M.W.; Waymouth, R.M. ChemRxiv, 2026. PDF
Electrochemical Synthesis of Slaked Lime Utilizing a Diaphragm Flow Cell
Wright, J.G.; Misleh, J.W.; Alghoraibi, N.M.; Kanan, M. ChemRxiv, 2026. PDF
Li-ion Battery Recycling by Energy-Efficient, High Throughput Li2SO4 Salt Splitting in a Diaphragm Flow Cell
Misleh, J.W.; Wright, J.G.; Charnay, B.P.; Kanan, M. Watt, 2026. PDF
2025
Membrane-free electrochemical production of acid and base solutions capable of processing ultramafic rocks
Charnay, B.P.; Chen, Y.; Misleh, J.W.; Wright, J. G.; Agarwal, R.G.; Sauve, E.R.; Toh, W.L.; Yogesh, S.; Kanan, M. W. Nature Communications, 2025. PDF
Electrochemical Production of >1 M Acid and Base from Neutral Salt at High Current Density and Low Energy Demand
Wright, J. G.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Energy Letters, 2025. PDF
Intermediate-Temperature Reverse Water-Gas Shift Under Process Relevant Conditions Catalyzed by Dispersed Alkali Carbonates
Tamakuwala, K. N.; Kennedy, R. P.; Li, C. S.; Mutz, B.; Boller, P.; Bare, S. R.; Kanan, M. W. JACS Au, 2025. PDF
Thermal Ca2+/Mg2+ Exchange Reactions to Sythesize CO2 Removal Materials
Chen, Y.; Kanan, M. W. Nature, 2025. PDF
Toughening Poly(lactic acid) without Compromise – Statistical Copolymerization with a Bioderived Bicyclic Lactone
Sanchez, L. A. H.; Woroch, C. P.; Dumas, D. M.; Waymouth, R. M.; Kanan, M. W. JACS, 2025. PDF
2024
Accurate and Efficient Structure Elucidation from Routine One-Dimensional NMR Spectra Using Multitask Machine Learning
Hu, F.; Chen, M. S.; Rotskoff, G. M.; Kanan, M. W.; Markland, T. E. ACS Cent, Sci., 2024. PDF
Electrified thermochemical reaction systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors
Lin, C. H.; Wan, C.; Ru, Z.; Cremers, C.; Mohapatra, P.; Mantle, D. L.; Tamakuwala, K.; Höfelmann, A. B.; Kanan, M. W.; Rivas-Davila, J.; Fan, J. A. Joule, 2024. PDF
A Continuum Model for Optimizing CO Reduction Gas Diffusion Electrodes
Disselkoen, K.; Rabinowitz, J. A.; Mani, A.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2024. PDF
Finding a Path to CO2 Utilization on a Scale that Matters
Kanan, M. W. Chemistry Challenges of the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 100th Anniversary of International Solvay Conferences on Chemistry, 2024 PDF
2023
Rapid prototyping of lab-scale electrolysis cells using stereolithography and electroless plating
Wright, G. J.; Charnay, B. P.; Rabinowitz, J. A.; Mariano, R. G.; Kanan, M. W. Device, 2023 PDF
Improving Carbonate-Promoted C–H Carboxylation Using Mesoporous Carbon Supports
Chant, E. D.; Li, C. S.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Sus. Chem. Eng., 2023 PDF
2022
A Semicrystalline Furanic Polyamide Made from Renewable Feedstocks
Woroch, C. P.; Cox, I. W.; Kanan, M. W. JACS, 2022 PDF
Operando nanoscale imaging of electrochemically induced strain in a locally polarized Pt grain
Sheyfer, D.; Mariano, R. G.; Kawaguchi, T.; Cha, W.; Harder, R. J.; Kanan, M. W.; Hruszkewycz, S. O.; You, H.; Highland, M. J. Nano Lett., 2022 PDF
Improving the Energy Efficiency of CO Electrolysis by Controlling Cu Domain Size in Gas Diffusion Electrodes
Rabinowitz, J. A.; Ripatti; D. S., Mariano, R. G.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Energy Lett., 2022 PDF
Hypophosphite Addition to Alkenes Under Solvent-Free and Non-Acidic Aqueous Conditions
Huang, Z.; Chen, Y.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Commun., 2022 PDF
2021
A framework for automated structure elucidation from routine NMR spectra
Huang, Z.; Chen, M. S.; Woroch, C. P.; Markland, T. E.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Sci., 2021 PDF
Carbonate-Catalyzed Reverse Water-Gas Shift to Produce Gas Fermentation Feedstocks for Renewable Liquid Fuel Synthesis
Li, C.; Frankhouser, A. D.; Kanan, M. W. Cell Reports Physical Science, 2022 PDF
A High-Tg Polyamide Derived from Lignocellulose and CO2
Woroch, C. P; Lankenau, A. W.; Kanan, M. W. Macromolecules, 2021 PDF
Microstructural Origin of Locally Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction Activity on Gold
Mariano, R. M.; Kang, M.; Wahab, O. J.; McPherson, I. J.; Rabinowitz, J. A.; Unwin, P. R.; Kanan, M. W. Nat. Mater, 2021 PDF
2020
The future of low-temperature carbon dioxide electrolysis depends on solving one basic problem
Rabinowitz, J. A.; Kanan, M. W. Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 5231. PDF
Carbonate-promoted C–H carboxylation of electron-rich heteroarenes
Porter, T. M.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Sci., 2020, 11 (43), 11936-11944. PDF
Phase Behavior that Enables Solvent-Free Carbonate-Promoted Furoate Carboxylation
Frankhouser, A. D.; Kanan, M. W. JPC Lett., 2020, 11 (18), 7544-7551. PDF
Point-of-care analysis of blood ammonia with a gas-phase sensor
Veltman, T; Tsai, C. J.; Gomez-Ospina, N; Kanan, M. W.; Chu, G. ACS Sens, 2020, 5 (8), 2415-2421. PDF
Comparing Scanning Electron Microscope and Transmission Electron Microscope Grain Mapping Techniques Applied to Well-Defined and Highly Irregular Nanoparticles
Mariano, R. G.; Yau, A.; McKeown, J. T.; Kumar, M.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Omega, 2020, 5 (6), 2791-2799. PDF
Polyamide Monomers Via Carbonate-Promoted C–H Carboxylation of Furfurylamine
Lankenau, A. W.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 248-252. PDF
2019
A Closed Cycle for Esterifying Aromatic Hydrocarbons with CO2 and Alcohol
Xiao, D. J.; Chant, E. D.; Frankhouser, A. D.; Chen, Y.; Yau, A.; Washton, N.; Kanan, M. W. Nat. Chem, 2019, 11, 940-947. PDF
Carbon Monoxide Gas Diffusion Electrolysis that Produces Concentrated C2 Products with High Single-Pass Conversion
Ripatti, D. S.; Veltman, T. R.; Kanan, M. W. Joule, 2019, 3, 240-256. PDF
2018
Carbonate-Promoted Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Multicarbon Carboxylates
Banerjee, A.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4, 606-613. PDF
2017
Selective Increase in CO2 Electroreduction Activity at Grain Boundary Surface Terminations
Mariano, R.G.; McKelvey, K.; White, H. S.; Kanan, M. W. Science, 2017, 358, 1187-1192. PDF
Imaging the Hydrogen Absorption Dynamics of Individual Grains in Polycrystalline Palladium Thin Films in 3D
Yau, A.; Harder, R.; Kanan, M. W.; Ulvestad, A. ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 10945-10954. PDF
Bragg Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Single-Grain Defect Dynamics in Polycrystalline Films
Yau, A.; Cha, W.; Kanan, M. W.; Stephenson, G.B.; Ulvestad, A. Science, 2017, 356, 739-742. PDF
A Scalable Carboxylation Route to Furan-2,5-dicarboxylic Acid
Dick, G. R.; Frankhouser, A. D.; Banerjee, A; Kanan, M. W. Green Chem., 2017, 19, 2966-2972. PDF
Electrostatic Control of Regioselectivity in Au(I)-catalyzed Hydroarylation
Lau, V. M.; Pfalzgraff, W. C.; Markland, T. E.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 4035-4041. PDF
Molecular Catalysis at Polarized Interfaces Created by Ferroelectric BaTiO3
Beh, E. S.; Basun, S. A.; Feng, X.; Idehenre, U. I.; Evans, D. R.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 2790-2794. PDF
2016
A Direct Grain-Boundary-Activity Correlation for CO Electroreduction on Cu Nanoparticles
Feng, X.; Jiang, K.; Fan, S.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Cent. Sci., 2016, 2, 169-174. PDF
Carbon Dioxide Utilization via Carbonate-promoted C–H Carboxylation
Banerjee, A; Dick, G. R.; Yoshino, T.; Kanan, M. W. Nature, 2016, 531, 215-219. PDF
2015
Probing The Active Surface Sites For CO Reduction on Oxide-Derived Copper Electrocatalysts
Verdaguer-Casadevall, A.; Li, C. W.; Johansson, T. P.; Scott, S. B.; McKeown J. T.; Kumar, M.; Stephens, I. E. L.; Kanan; M. W.; Chorkendorff, Ib.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 9808-9811. PDF
Grain Boundary–Dependent CO2 Electroreduction Activity
Feng, X.; Jiang, K.; Fan, S.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 4606–4609. PDF
Pd-Catalyzed Electrohydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formate:
High Mass Activity at Low Overpotential and Identification of the Deactivation Pathway
Min, X.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 4701–4708. PDF
Controlling H+ vs CO2 Reduction Selectivity on Pb Electrodes
Lee, C. H.; Kanan, M. W. ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 465–469. PDF
2014
Electrostatic Control of Regioselectivity via Ion Pairing in a Au(I)–Catalyzed Rearrangement
Lau, V. M.; Gorin, C. F.; Kanan, M. W. Chem. Sci. 2014, 5, 4975–4979. PDF
Alkaline O2 Reduction on Oxide-Derived Au: High Activity and 4e– Selectivity without (100) Facets
Min, X.; Chen, Y.; Kanan, M. W. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2014, 16, 13601–13604. PDF
Electroreduction of Carbon Monoxide to Liquid Fuel on Oxide-Derived Nanocrystalline Copper
Li, C. W.; Ciston, J.; Kanan, M. W. Nature 2014, 508, 504–507. PDF
2013
Interfacial Electric Field Effects on a Carbene Reaction Catalyzed by Rh Porphyrins
Gorin, C. F.; Beh, E. S.; Bui, Q. M.; Dick, G. R.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 11257–11265. PDF
2012
Aqueous CO2 Reduction at Very Low Overpotential on Oxide-Derived Au Nanoparticles
Chen, Y.; Li, C. W.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 19969–19972. PDF
CO2 Reduction at Low Overpotential on Cu Electrodes Resulting from the Reduction of Thick Cu2O Films
Li, C. W.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 7231–7234. PDF
Tin Oxide Dependence of the CO2 Reduction Efficiency on Tin Electrodes and Enhanced Activity for Tin/Tin Oxide Thin-Film Catalysts
Chen, Y.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 1986–1989. PDF
An Electric Field–Induced Change in the Selectivity of a Metal Oxide–Catalyzed Epoxide Rearrangement
Gorin, C. F.; Beh, E. S.; Kanan, M. W. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 186–189. PDF
Previous Work
Mechanistic Studies of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by a Cobalt-Phosphate Catalyst at Neutral pH
Surendranath, Y.; Kanan, M. W.; Nocera, D. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 16501–16509. PDF
Structure and Valency of a Cobalt-Phosphate Water Oxidation Catalyst Determined by in Situ X-Ray Spectroscopy
Kanan, M. W.; Yano, J.; Surendranath, Y.; Dinca, M.; Yachandra, V. K.; Nocera, D. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 13692–13701. PDF
Cobalt-Phosphate Oxygen-Evolving Compound
Kanan, M. W.; Surendranath, Y.; Nocera, D. G. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38, 109–114. PDF
In Situ Formation of an Oxygen-Evolving Catalyst in Neutral Water Containing Phosphate and Co2+
Kanan, M. W.; Nocera, D. G. Science 2008, 321, 1072–1075. PDF
Development and Initial Application of a Hybridization-Independent, DNA-Encoded Reaction Discovery System Compatible with Organic Solvents
Rozenman, M. M.; Kanan, M. W.; Liu, D. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 14933–14938. PDF
Synthesis of Acyclic α,β-Unsaturated Ketones via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reaction of Alkynamides and Alkenes
Momiyama, N.; Kanan, M. W.; Liu, D. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 2230–2231. PDF
Reaction Discovery Enabled by DNA-Templated Synthesis and In Vitro Selection
Kanan, M. W.; Rozenman, M. M.; Sakurai, K.; Snyder, T. M.; Liu, D. R. Nature 2004, 431, 545–549. PDF
Multi-Step Small-Molecule Synthesis Programmed by DNA Templates
Gartner, Z. J.; Kanan, M. W.; Liu, D. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 10304–10306. PDF
Expanding the Reaction Scope of DNA-Templated Synthesis
Gartner, Z. J.; Kanan, M. W.; Liu, D. R. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 1796-1800. PDF
Facile Synthesis of a Fluorescent Deoxycytidine Analogue Suitable for Probing the RecA Nucleoprotein Filament
Singleton, S. F.; Shan, F.; Kanan, M. W.; McIntosh, C. M.; Stearman, C. J.; Helm, J. S.; Webb, K. J. Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 3919–3922. PDF
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