Publications

22. Autumn I. Giger*, Jaiden C. Voldrich**, Brian W. Michel "An Amplificative Detection Approach for Autocatalytic Sensing of Ethylene" J. Am. Chem. Soc. Accepted 2025 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c00854 .

"Autocatalytic-Amplificative Detection of Ethylene" ChemRxiv 2024, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-110m5.

21. Nicholas J. Dacon*, Nathan B. Wu, Brian W. Michel "Red-Shifted Activity-Based Sensors for Ethylene via Direct Conjugation of Fluorophore to Metal Carbene" RSC Chemical Biology, 2023, https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1039/D3CB00079F. Part of Collection - 2023 RSC Chemical Biology Emerging Investigators.

20. Katrina H. Jensen, Brian W. Michel. "Steric Modulation of CAACs Controls Orientation and ethenolysis Performance." Chem Catalysis, 2023, 3, 100764. doi.org/10.1016/j.checat.2023.100764\

19. Katrina H. Jensen, Brian W. Michel "Detection of Ethylene with Defined Metal Complexes: Strategies and Recent Advances" Analysis & Sensing. 2023, 3, e202200058. doi.org/10.1002/anse.202200058 - Part of Metal-Based Sensing special collection.

18. Brandon L. Coles-Taylor*, Mitchell L. Ellinwood**, Maximillian S. McCallum**, Sara L. McCormack**, Meredith H. Jones*, Andrés G. Muñoz*, Brian W. Michel. "Access to Substituted Indenol Ethers via a Regioselective Intermolecular Carbopalladation Cascade" J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 16517-16525. https://pubs-acs-org.du.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.2c02213 . Originally posted on ChemRxiv. 10.26434/chemrxiv.11362373.

17. Ryan R. Walvoord, Morgan R. Schneider*, Brian W. Michel "Fluorescent Probes for Intracellular Carbon Monoxide Detection" in “Carbon Monoxide in Drug Discovery” Edited by Wang, B. and Otterbein, L. E. 2022, 319-343. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi-org.du.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/9781119783435.ch18

16. Johannes Morstein, Denis Hofler, Kohei Ueno, Jonah W. Jurss, Ryan R. Walvoord, Kevin J. Bruemmer, Samir P. Rezgui**, Thomas F. Brewer, Minoru Saitoe, Brian W. Michel, Christopher J. Chang "Ligand-Directed Approach to Activity-Based Sensing: Developing Palladacycle Fluorescent Probes That Enable Endogenous Carbon Monoxide Detection" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c06405. Originally posted on chemrxiv.

15. Kohei Ueno, Johannes Morstein, Kyoko Ofusa, Shintaro Naganos, Ema Suzuki-Sawano, Saika Minegishi, Samir P. Rezgui**, Hiroaki Kitagishi, Brian W. Michel, Christopher J. Chang, Junjiro Horiuchi and Minoru Saitoe "Carbon Monoxide, a Retrograde Messenger Generated in Postsynaptic Mushroom Body Neurons, Evokes Noncanonical Dopamine Release" J. Neurosci. 2020, 40, 3533-3548.

14. Brandon L. Coles-Taylor*, Maximillian S. McCallum**, J. Scott Lee, Brian W. Michel. "Accessing 4-oxy-substituted isoquinolinones via C–H activation and regioselective migratory insertion with electronically biased ynol ethers" Org. Biomol. Chem. 2018, 16, 8369-8646.

13. Toussaint, S. N. W.;* Calkins, R. T.;** Lee, S.; Michel, B. W. "Olefin Metathesis-Based Fluorescent Probes for the Selective Detection of Ethylene in Live Cells" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13151-13155.

Highlighted on "In the Pipline" http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/23/seeing-ethylene

12. Lojek, L. J.; Farrand, A. J.; Wisecaver, J. H.; Blaby-Haas, C. E.; Michel, B. W.; Merchant, S. S.; Rokas, A.; Skaar, E. P. “Chlamydomonas reinhardtii LFO1: An IsdG Heme Oxygenase” mSphere. 2017, 2, e00176-17.

At University of Denver

*DU Graduate Student **DU Undergraduate Student

Pre-DU

11. Carroll, V.;† Michel, B. W.;† Blecha, J.; VanBrocklin, H.; Keshari, K.; Wilson, D.; Chang, C. J. "A Boronate-Caged [18F]FLT Probe for Hydrogen Peroxide Detection Using Positron Emission Tomography" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 14742-14745. †co-first author.

10. Wilson, J. L.; Kobeissi, S. F.; Oudir, S.; Haas, B.; Michel, B. Randé, J-L, D.; Ollivier, A.; Martens, T.; Rivard, M.; Motterlini, R. Foresti, R. "Design and Synthesis of New Hybrid Molecules That Activate the Transcription Factor Nrf2 and Simultaneously Release Carbon Monoxide" Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 14698-14704.

9. Michel, B. W.; Stephens, L. D.; Sigman, M. S. “The Wacker Oxidation” Organic Reactions 2014, 84, 75-413. See Also: http://organicreactions.org/index.php/Wacker_oxidation

8. Deluca, R. J.; Edwards, J. L.; Steffens, L. D.; Michel, B. W.; Qiao, X.; Zhu, C.; Cook, S. P.; Sigman, M. S. "Wacker-Type Oxidatino of Internal Alkenes using Pd(Quinox) and TBHP" J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 1682-1686.

7. Michel, B. W.; Lippert, A. R.; Chang, C. J. “A Reaction-Based Fluorescent Probe for Selective Imaging of Carbon Monoxide in Living Cells Using a Palladium-Mediated Carbonylation” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 15668-15671; Science and Technology Concentrate in Chem. and Eng. News 2012, 90, 53.

6. Michel, B. W.; Sigman, M. S.; “Peroxide-Mediated Wacker Oxidations for Organic Synthesis” Aldrichimica Acta 2011, 44, 55-62.

5. Michel, B. W.; Steffens, L. D.; Sigman, M. S. “On the Mechanism of the Palladium-Catalyzed tert-Butylhydroperoxide Mediated Wacker-Type Oxidation of Alkenes Using Quinoline-2-Oxazoline Ligands” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8317-8325.

4. McCombs, J. R.; Michel, B. W.; Sigman, M. S. “Catalyst-Controlled Wacker-Type Oxidaiton of Homoallylic Alcohols in the Absence of Protecting Groups” J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 3609-3613.

2. Michel, B. W.; McCombs, J. R.; Winkler, A.; Sigman, M. S. “Catalyst Controlled Wacker-Type Oxidation of Protected Allylic Amines” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 7312-7315.

1. Michel, B. W.; Camelio, A. M.; Cornell, C. N.; Sigman, M. S. “A General and Efficient Catalyst System for a Wacker-Type Oxidation Using TBHP as the Terminal Oxidant: Application to Classically Challenging Substrates” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6076-6077. Highlighted in Synfacts 2009, 8, 0872 and in Organic Chemistry Portal 2010.