Recent publications
Book
Maguire, O & O'Donoghue, AMC 2015, Chapter 3: Homogeneous Acid Catalysis in Nonasymmetric Synthesis. Sustainable Catalysis, vol. 2, RSC Publishing.
Article
Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA, Oosterom, BG, Zheliezniak, A & Huck, WTS 2024, 'A Prebiotic Precursor to Life’s Phosphate Transfer System with an ATP Analog and Histidyl Peptide Organocatalysts', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 11, pp. 7839-7849. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c01156
Maguire, OR 2024, 'The Many-Chemicals Problem of Systems Chemistry', ChemSystemsChem, vol. 6, no. 5, e202400027. https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202400027
ter Harmsel, M, Maguire, OR, Runikhina, SA, Wong, ASY, Huck, WTS & Harutyunyan, SR 2023, 'A catalytically active oscillator made from small organic molecules', Nature, vol. 621, pp. 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06310-2
Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA & Huck, WTS 2021, 'A physicochemical orthophosphate cycle via a kinetically stable thermodynamically activated intermediate enables mild prebiotic phosphorylations', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 5517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25555-x
Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Baltussen, MG, van Duppen, P, Pogodaev, AA & Huck, WTS 2020, 'Dynamic Environments as a Tool to Preserve Desired Output in a Chemical Reaction Network', Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1676-1682. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904725
Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Westerdiep, JH & Huck, WTS 2020, 'Early warning signals in chemical reaction networks', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 26, pp. 3725-3728. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc01010c
Maguire, OR, Zhu, J, Brittain, WDG, Hudson, AS, Cobb, SL & O’Donoghue, AMC 2020, 'N-Terminal speciation for native chemical ligation', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 45, pp. 6114-6117. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc01604g
Maguire, OR, Taylor, B, Higgins, EM, Rees, M, Cobb, SL, Simpkins, NS, Hayes, CJ & O'Donoghue, AMC 2020, 'Unusually high α-proton acidity of prolyl residues in cyclic peptides', Chemical Science, vol. 11, no. 29, pp. 7722-7729. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02508a
Collett, CJ, Massey, RS, Taylor, JE, Maguire, OR, O'Donoghue, AMC & Smith, AD 2015, 'Rate and equilibrium constants for the addition of N-heterocyclic carbenes into benzaldehydes: A remarkable 2-substituent effect', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 54, no. 23, pp. 6887-6892. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201501840
Collett, CJ, Massey, RS, Maguire, OR, Batsanov, AS, O’donoghue, AMC & Smith, AD 2013, 'Mechanistic insights into the triazolylidene-catalysed Stetter and benzoin reactions: Role of the N-aryl substituent', Chemical Science, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1514-1522. https://doi.org/10.1039/c2sc22137c
Lindsay, S, Lo, SK, Maguire, OR, Bill, E, Probert, MR, Sproules, S & Hess, CR 2013, 'Syntheses and electronic structure of bimetallic complexes containing a flexible redox-active bridging ligand', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 898-909. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic302087f
Review article
Maguire, OR & Huck, WTS 2019, 'On the importance of reaction networks for synthetic living systems', Emerging topics in life sciences, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 517-527. https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20190016
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