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Professor Aidan Mcdonald

Professor In (Chemistry)
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE
      
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Professor Aidan Mcdonald

Professor In (Chemistry)
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE

 aidan.mcdonald@tcd.ie

 3531896 4546


Career: Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Dublin, 2024 - date Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Dublin, 2017 - 2024 Assistant Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, The University of Dublin, 2012 - 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinorganic Chemistry, The University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2012 Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry, Utrecht University, 2003 - 2008 B.A. (Hons) Chemistry, gold medalist, The University of Dublin, 1998 - 2002 Honours/Awards: Irish Research Council Laureate Award. 2022 Awarded EUROBIC Medal by Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 2020 Elected to Fellowship of the University of Dublin. 2020 Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship, 2017 Elected member of the Young Academy of Europe, 2017 Royal Society/SFI University Research Fellowship, 2016 EU/Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant, 2015 EU/FP7 Marie-Curie Fellowship, 2013 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2009
  Bioinorganic Chemistry   Catalysis/Kinetics   Homogeneous catalysis   Inorganic Chemistry   IRON   Mechanisms of reactions   Organometallic chemistry
Das, Agnideep and Twamley, Brendan and Kelly, Oscar R. and Panda, Chakadola and Richardson, Paul and McDonald, Aidan R., High-Valent Cobalt-Difluoride in Oxidative Fluorination of Saturated Hydrocarbons, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Biswas, Sachidulal and Kelly, Oscar Reid and Twamley, Brendan and McDonald, Aidan R., A Structural and Functional Mimic of P680+, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 64, (3), 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Sullivan, Patrick and Previtali, Viola and Twamley, Brendan and Marmion, Celine J. and McDonald, Aidan R. and Rozas, Isabel, Platinum(II) complexes of aryl guanidine-like derivatives as potential anticancer agents: between coordination and cyclometallation, RSC Advances, 15, (5), 2025, p3427 â€" 3438 , Notes: [Cited by: 0; All Open Access, Gold Open Access], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Squarcina, Andrea and Lovisari, Marta and Pirovano, Paolo and McDonald, Aidan R. and Bonchio, Marcella, Rivalling Self-Oxidation and Aldehyde Deformylation by a Dinuclear Copper(II)-Superoxide Complex, ChemCatChem, 2025, Notes: [Cited by: 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Agnideep Das, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, Probing Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and Fluorine Atom Transfer in CoII"Catalyzed Oxidative Hydrocarbon Fluorination, Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Oscar Reid Kelly, Brendan Twamley, Marcel Swart, Aidan R. McDonald, Electrostatic Fields Induce Accelerated Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Rates in Chlorophyll Model Compounds, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Ciaran McGlynn, Aleksandra M. Krajewska, Xin Chen, Aidan R. McDonald, Two-dimensional hetero-structures: on the reaction between MoS2 and graphene, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Philipp Heim, Sachidulal Biswas, Hugo Lopez, Robert Gericke, Brendan Twamley, Aidan R. McDonald, A CoII-Hydroxide Complex That Converts Directly to a CoII-Acetamide during Catalytic Nitrile Hydration, Inorganic Chemistry, 63, (17), 2024, p7896-7902 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Lorna Doyle, Adriana Magherusan, Shuangning Xu, Kayleigh Murphy, Erik R. Farquhar, Florian Molton, Carole Duboc, Lawrence Que, Jr., Aidan R. McDonald, Class Ib Ribonucleotide Reductases: Activation of a Peroxido-MnIIMnIII to Generate a Reactive Oxo-MnIIIMnIV Oxidant, Inorganic Chemistry, 63, (4), 2024, p2194-2203 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Doyle, L.M. and Bienenmann, R.L.M. and Gericke, R. and Xu, S. and Farquhar, E.R. and Que, L. and McDonald, A.R., Preparation and characterization of MnIIMnIII complexes with relevance to class Ib ribonucleotide reductases, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 257, (112583), 2024, Notes: [cited By 0], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
  

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