Texas A&M University; Chemistry Dept.
(Co-Lead, Thrust 3)
Darensbourg is a Distinguished Professor and Davidson Chair in Science at Texas A&M. She was elected to the National Academy of Science in 2017.
Research
Darensbourg has pioneered the synthesis, electrochemical studies, and catalytic evaluation of metal clusters as synthetic analogues of enzyme active sites. As part of reMIND, she elucidates mechanisms for redox-active molecular coordination complexes that emulate neuronal function and makes available a library of coordination complexes with systematic substitutions to enable the development of structure—function relationships.
Publications
- Yang X, Darensbourg MY. The roles of chalcogenides in O2 protection of H2ase active sites. Chem Sci. 2020
Aug 12;11(35):9366-9377. doi: 10.1039/D0SC02584D - Yang X, DeLaney CR, Burns KT, Elrod LC, Mo W, Naumann H, Bhuvanesh N, Hall MB, Darensbourg MY.
Self-Assembled Nickel-4 Supramolecular Squares and Assays for HER Electrocatalysts Derived Therefrom. Inorg
Chem. 2021 May 17;60(10):7051-7061. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03613 - Denny JA, Darensbourg MY. Metallodithiolates as ligands in coordination, bioinorganic, and organometallic
chemistry. Chem Rev. 2015 Jun 10;115(11):5248-73. doi: 10.1021/cr500659u - Hsieh CH, Ding S, Erdem ÖF, Crouthers DJ, Liu T, McCrory CC, Lubitz W, Popescu CV, Reibenspies JH, Hall
MB, Darensbourg MY. Redox active iron nitrosyl units in proton reduction electrocatalysis. Nat Commun. 2014
May 2;5:3684. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4684 - Guerrero-Almaraz P, Quiroz M, Reibenspies JH, Darensbourg MY. Linear and Bent Nitric Oxide Ligand
Binding in an Asymmetric Butterfly Complex: CoMoCo’. Inorg Chem. 2021 Nov 1;60(21):15975-15979. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00987