Publications

Associate Professor Jonathan Sperry has published in a number of journals in both areas of organic chemistry and green chemistry.

2019

Kim, S. H., & Sperry, J. (2019). Synthetic Studies Toward the Flatworm-Derived Alkaloid Pseudocerosine. CHEMISTRYSELECT, 4 (38), 11367-11369.
doi: 10.1002/slct.201903659

Bhusal, R. P., Jiao, W., Kwai, B. X. C., Reynisson, J., Collins, A. J., Sperry, J., … Leung, I. K. H. (2019). Acetyl-CoA-mediated activation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isocitrate lyase 2. Nature communications, 10 (1).
doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12614-7

Thuy, T. P., Lindsay, A. C., Kim, S.-W., Persello, L., Chen, X., Yan, N., & Sperry, J. (2019). Two-Step Preparation of Diverse 3-Amidofurans from Chitin. CHEMISTRYSELECT, 4 (34), 10097-10099. 
doi: 10.1002/slct.201902765

Pham, T. T., Lindsay, A. C., Chen, X., Gözaydin G, Yan, N., & Sperry, J. (2019). Transferring the biorenewable nitrogen present in chitin to several N-Functional groups. Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, 13.
doi: 10.1016/j.scp.2019.100143

Lindsay, A. C., Kudo, S., & Sperry, J. (2019). Cleavage of lignin model compounds and ligninox using aqueous oxalic acid. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 17 (31), 7408-7415.
doi: 10.1039/c9ob01452g

Thuy, T. P., Gozaydin, G., Sohnel, T., Yan, N., & Sperry, J. (2019). Oxidative Ring-Expansion of a Chitin-Derived Platform Enables Access to Unexplored 2-Amino Sugar Chemical Space. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (6), 1355-1360.
doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201801683

2018

Homer, J. A., & Sperry, J. (2018). Biomimetic synthesis of the bisindole framework present in sciodole, an alkaloid from Tricholoma sciodes. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 16 (38), 6882-6885
doi: 10.1039/c8ob02142b