The Institute for Green Science

Green Science & Education

• Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/ peroxide water treatment
  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, Sci. Rep., 2015, Sci. Rep. 5, 10511: doi: 10.1038/srep10511.
• Activation of Dioxygen by a TAML Activator in Reverse Micelles: Characterization of an Fe^IIIFe^IV Dimer and Associated Catalytic Chemistry. L. L. Tang, W. A. Gunderson, A. C. Weitz, M. P. Hendrich, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, in press.
• 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). D. Banerjee, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins J. Coord. Chem., 2015.
• Iron(IV) or iron(V)? Heterolytic or free-radical? Oxidation pathways of a TAML activator in acetonitrile at -40 °C. M. R. Mills, A. E. Burton, D. I. Mori, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins J. Coord. Chem., 2015.
• 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. G. R. Warner, M. R. Mills, C. Enslin, S. Pattanayak, C. Panda, T. K. Panda, S. Sen Gupta, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21(16), 6226-6233. (invited for cover art as a top rank article).
• Rapid Degradation of Oxidation Resistant Nitrophenols by TAML Activator and H₂O₂
  S. Kundu, A. Chanda, J. V. K. Thompson, G. Diabes, S. K. Khetan, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, “” Catal. Sci. Technol., 2015, 5, 1775-1782.
• On the Iron(V) Reactivity of an Aggressive Tail-Fluorinated TAML Activator.
  Q. Ren, Y. Guo, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2015 (8), 1445-1452.
• Formation of a Room Temperature Stable FeV(O) Complex: Reactivity Toward Unactivated C-H Bonds, M. Ghosh, K. K. Singh, C. Panda, A. Weitz, M. P. Hendrich, T. J. Collins, B. B. Dhar, and S. Sen Gupta, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136(27), 9524-9527, DOI:10.1021/ja412537m.
• Estimation of rate constants in nonlinear reactions involving chemical inactivation of oxidation catalysts, M. Emelianenko, D. Torrejon, M. A. DeNardo, A. K. Socolofsky, A. D. Ryabov, T. J. Collins, J. Math. Chem., 2014, 52, 1460–1476 DOI 10.1007/s10910-014-0322-4.
• Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution with an Immobilized TAML Activator,
  E. Demeter, S. Hilburg; N. Washburn, T. J. Collins, J. Kitchin, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (15), pp 5603–5606 DOI: 10.1021/ja5015986.
• Collins T. J. Persuasive communication about matters of great urgency: endocrine disruption, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2008, 42(20), 7555–7558.
• Collins, T. J.; Walter, C. Little green molecules. Sci. Am. 2006, 294, (3), 83-88, 90 (download pdf) (download pdf of German translation).

• Ghosh, A.; Gupta, S. S.; Bartos, M. J.; Hangun, Y.; Vuocolo, L. D.; Steinhoff, B. A.; Noser, C. A.; Horner, D. A.; Mayer, S.; Inderhees, K.; Horwitz, C. P.; Spatz, J.; Ryabov, A. D.; Mondale, S.; Collins, T. J. Green chemistry. Sustaining a high-technology civilization, Pure Appl. Chem. 2001, 73, 113–118.
• Collins, T. J. Towards sustainable chemistry, Science, 2001, 291, 48 (full text).
• Collins, T. J. Papermaking: Green chemistry through the mill. Nature 2001, 414(6860), 161, 163.
• Collins, T. J. Essays on science and society: Toward sustainable chemistry. Science 2001, 291(5501), 48-49.
• Collins, T. J.; Gordon-Wylie, S. W.; Bartos, M. J.; Horwitz, C. P.; Woomer, C. G.; Williams, S. A.; Patterson, R. E.; Vuocolo, L. D.; Paterno, S. A.; Strazisar, S. A.; Peraino, D. K.; Dudash, C. A. The design of green oxidants. In: Green Chemistry, Anastas, P. T.; Williamson, T. C. (eds.),Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, pp. 46-71.
• Collins, T. J. Green chemistry, Macmillan encyclopedia of chemistry, Vo. 2, Simon and Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1997, pp. 691–697 (download pdf).
• Collins, T. J. Introducing green chemistry in teaching and research. J. Chem. Educ. 1995, 72(11), 965-966.