Quantum Mechanical Calculations Suggest That Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases Employ a Copper-Oxyl, Oxygen-Rebound Mechanism

Kim, S.; Sandgren, M.; Paton, R. S.; Beckham, G. T. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 2014, 111, 149–154

A Mechanistic Investigation of Acid-Catalyzed Cleavage of Aryl-Ether Linkages: Implications For Lignin Depolymerization In Acidic Environments

Sturgeon, M. R.; Kim, S.; Lawrence, K.; Paton, R. S.; Chmely, S. C.; Nimlos, M. R.; Foust, T. D.; Beckham, G. T. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2014, 2, 472–485

Computational Organic Chemistry

Jackson, K.; Jaffar, S.; Paton, R. S. Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. B, 2013, 109, 235–255

Mechanistic Study of a Ru-Xantphos Catalyst For Tandem Alcohol Dehydrogenation and Reductive Aryl-Ether Cleavage

Chmely, S. C.; Kim, S. C.; Ciesielski, P. N.; Jiménez-Osés, G.; Paton, R. S.; Beckham, G. T. ACS Catal. 2013, 3, 963–974

C-Alkylation of Chiral Tropane- and Homotropane-Derived Enamines

Hodgson, D. M.; Charlton, A.; Paton, R. S.; Thompson, A. S. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 8, 1508–1518

Diels-Alder Reactivities of Strained and Unstrained Cycloalkenes With Normal and Inverse-Electron-Demand Dienes: Activation Barriers and Distortion/Interaction Analysis

Liu, F.; Paton, R. S.; Kim, S.; Liang, Y.; Houk, K. N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 15642–15649