Publications

Publications at Brown University

12. Kolozsvary, T.; Kohl, P.; Li, Y.; Gillespie, D.; McDonald, B.R.* “Precise Synthesis of Ultra-Dense Bottlebrush Polymers Unearths Unique Trends in Lyotropic Ordering” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025 147 (1), 889-897 Link

11. Keane, D.; Kolozsvary, T.; McDonald, B.R.*; Poling-Skutvik, R.* “Bottlebrush Midblocks Promote Colloidal Bridging of Telechelic Polymers” ACS Macro Lett., 2024, 13, 1304. Link *Denotes co-corresponding author

10. Aubrecht, F.**; Saul, S. ^‡; Orme, K. ^‡; Cai, H.; Silberstein, M.; Ranathunge, T.; McDonald, B.R.* “Ion-Specific Interactions Engender Dynamic and Tailorable Properties in Cationic Polyelectrolytes” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2024, e202408673. Link “Hot Paper” **Denotes undergraduate author; ^‡Denotes equal contribution  (Preprint Link)

9. He, Q; Luo, S.X.L.; Jin, T.; Liu, M.; Park, S.; Alexander-Katz, A.; McDonald, B.R.;* Swager, T.M.;* Fornasiero, F.*  Grafting-To and From for Multiplexed Chemical-Warfare-Agent Responsive Polymer Brushes, Chem. Mater. 2023, 35, 1674. Link *Denotes co-corresponding author

Publications Prior to Brown University

* Denotes Equal contribution

8. Ku, K. H.*, McDonald, B. R.*, Vijayamohanan, H., Zentner, C. A., Nagelberg, S., Kolle, M. and Swager, T. M., Dynamic Coloration of Complex Emulsions by Localization of Gold Rings Near the Triphase Junction. Small 2021, 17, 2007507. Link. *Denotes equal contribution

7. Bayly, A. A., McDonald, B. R., Mrksich, M. and Scheidt, K. A., High-throughput photocapture approach for reaction discovery. PNAS 2020, 117, 13261. Link.

6. Li, Y., Chen, C., Meshot, E. R., Buchsbaum, S. F., Herbert, M., Zhu, R., Kulikov, O., McDonald, B. R., Bui, N. T. N., Jue, M. L., Park, S. J., Valdez, C. A., Hok, S., He, Q., Doona, C. J., Wu, K. J., Swager, T. M., and Fornasiero, F., Autonomously Responsive Membranes for Chemical Warfare Protection. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 2000258. Link.

5. Schrieder, V., Evans, E. D., Wu, Y. M., Voll, C. A., McDonald, B. R., Savagatrup, S., and Swager, T. M., Chemiresistive Sensor Array and Machine Learning Classification of Food. ACS Sensors 2019, 4, 2102. Link.

4. Betori, R. C., McDonald, B. R., and Scheidt, K. A., Reductive annulations of arylidene malonates with unsaturated electrophiles using photoredox/Lewis acid cooperative catalysis. Chem. Sci. 2019, 10, 3353. Link.

3. McDonald, B. R., and Scheidt, K. A., Intermolecular Reductive Couplings of Arylidene Malonates via Lewis Acid/Photoredoc Cooperative Catalysis. Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 21, 6877-6881. Link.

2. McDonald, B. R., and Scheidt, K. A., Pyranone Natural Products as Inspirations for Catalytic Reaction Discovery and Development. Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 1172. Link.

1. McDonald, B. R., Nibbs, A. E., and Scheidt, K. A., A Biomimetic Strategy to Access the Silybins: Total Synthesis of (–)-Isosilybin A. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 98. Link.