Publications

KEY:

✪ = undergraduate researcher

✤ = equal contribution

🗝 = open access

7.	Preprint: Matseketsa, P.; Gadzikwa, T. "Systematic Pore Hydrophobization to Enhance the Efficiency of an Amine-Based MOF Catalyst" Beilstein Arch. 2025, 20252. DOI: 10.3762/bxiv.2025.2.v1🗝
6.	*Frontier Article: Gadzikwa, T.; Matseketsa, P. “The covalent post-synthesis modification of MOFs for catalysis” Dalton. Trans.* 2024, 53, 7659–7668. DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00514G
5.	Matseketsa, P.; Mafukidze, D.; Pothupitiya, L.; Otuonye, U. P.; Mutlu, Y, Ç.; Averkiev, B. B.; Gadzikwa, T. “Unexpected reversal of reactivity in organic functionalities when immobilized together in a metal-organic framework (MOF)” Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2024, 9, 445–448. DOI: 10.1039/D3ME00185G ChemRxiv 2022. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-3w4jg 🗝
4.	News & Views: Gadzikwa, T. “Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks” Nat. Chem. 2023, 15, 1324–1326. DOI: 10.1038/s41557-023-01335-6
3.	Yazdanparast M.; Day, V. W.; Gadzikwa, T. “Hydrogen-Bonding Linkers Yield a Large-Pore, Non-Catenated, Metal-Organic Framework with pcu Topology” Molecules 2020, 25, 697. DOI: 10.3390/molecules25030697 🗝 Special Issue “Metal Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Application”
2.	Samarakoon, K. P.; Yazdanparast M.; Day, V. W.; Gadzikwa, T. “Uniform and Simultaneous Orthogonal Functionalization of a Metal-Organic Framework Material” Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2020, 5, 804–808. DOI: 10.1039/C9ME00182D ChemRxiv 2020, DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv.11482893.v2 🗝
1.	Samarakoon, K. P.^✤; Satterfield, S. C.^✤; McCoy, M. C.^✪; Pivaral-Urbina, D. A.^✪; Islamoglu, T; Day, V. W.; Gadzikwa, T. “Uniform, binary functionalization of a metal-organic framework material,” Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 8906–8909. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00838

@University of Alberta

Osman, E. A.; Gadzikwa, T.; Gibbs, J. M. “Quick Click: The DNA-Templated Ligation of 3′-O-Propargyl and 5′-Azide Modified Strands Is As Rapid and More Selective Than Ligase” ChemBioChem 2018, 19, 2081–2087. DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800305 (Cover/VIP paper)

Kausar, A.; Osman, E. A.; Gadzikwa, T.; Gibbs-Davis, J. M. “The presence of a 5′-abasic lesion enhances discrimination of single nucleotide polymorphisms while inducing an isothermal ligase chain reaction,” Analyst 2016, 14, 4272–4277. DOI: 10.1039/C6AN00614K

Lam, M. K.; Gadzikwa, T.; Nguyen, T.^✪; Kausar, A.; Alladin-Mustan, B. S.; Sikder, M. D.; Gibbs-Davis, J. M. “Tuning Toeholds and Temperature to Achieve Rapid, Colorimetric Detection of DNA from the Disassembly of DNA-Gold Nanoparticle Aggregates,” Langmuir 2016, 32, 1585–1590. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03777

@University of Amsterdam

Gadzikwa, T.; Bellini R.; Dekker, H. L.; Reek, J. N. H. “Self-assembly of a confined rhodium catalyst for asymmetric hydroformylation of unfunctionalized internal alkenes,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 2860–2863. DOI: 10.1021/ja211455j

Dydio, P. F.; Rubay, C.; Gadzikwa, T.; Lutz, M.; Reek, J. N. H. “‘Cofactor’-Controlled Enantioselective Catalysis,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 17176–17179. DOI: 10.1021/ja208589c

@Northwestern University

Gadzikwa, T.; Farha, O. K.; Malliakas, C. D.; Kanatzidis, M. G.; Hupp, J. T.; Nguyen, S. T. “Selective bifunctional modification of a non-catenated metal-organic framework material via “click” chemistry,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 13613–13615. DOI: 10.1021/ja904189d

Gadzikwa, T.; Farha, O. K.; Mulfort, K. L.; Hupp, J. T.; Nguyen, S. T. “A Zn-based, pillared paddlewheel MOF containing free carboxylic acids via covalent post-synthesis elaboration,” Chem. Commun. 2009, 3720–3722. DOI: 10.1039/B823392F

Gadzikwa, T.; Lu, G.; Stern, C. L.; Wilson, S. R.; Hupp, J. T.; Nguyen, S. T. “Covalent surface modification of a metal-organic framework: Selective surface engineering via CuI-catalyzed Huisgen cycloaddition.” Chem. Commun. 2008, 5493–5495. DOI: 10.1039/B805101A

Gadzikwa, T.; Zeng, B.^✪; Hupp, J. T.; Nguyen, S. T. “Ligand-elaboration as a strategy for engendering structural diversity in porous metal-organic framework compounds.” Chem. Commun. 2008,3672–3674. DOI: 10.1039/B714160B

Pentzer, E; Gadzikwa, T.; Nguyen, S. T. “Substrate Encapsulation: An Efficient Strategy for the RCM Synthesis of Unsaturated ε-Lactones.” Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 5613–5615. DOI: 10.1021/ol8022227

Cho, S. H.; Gadzikwa, T.; Afshari, M.^✪; Nguyen, S. T.; Hupp, J. T. “[Bis(catechol)salen]Mn III coordination polymers as support-free heterogeneous asymmetric catalysts for epoxidation.” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2007, 2007, 4863–4867. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200700302

@Macalester College

Mio, M. J.; Kopel, L. C.^✪; Braun, J. B.^✪; Gadzikwa, T. L.^✪; Hull, K. L.^✪; Brisbois, R. G.; Markworth, C. J.; Grieco, Paul A. “One-pot synthesis of symmetrical and unsymmetrical bisarylethynes by a modification of the Sonogashira coupling reaction.” Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 3199–3202. DOI: 10.1021/ol026266n