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- Advancing Macromolecular Hoop Construction: Recent Developments in Synthetic Cyclic Polymer Chemistry
Teng-Wei Wang and Matthew R. Golder* Polym. Chem. 2021, 12, 958.


- Organic Chemistry: A Retrosynthetic Approach to a Diverse Field
Laura K. G. Ackerman-Biegasiewicz, Daniela M. Arias-Rotondo, Kyle Biegasiewicz, Elizabeth Elacqua*, Matthew R. Golder, Laure V. Kayser, Jessica R. Lamb, Christine M. Le, Nathan A. Romero, Sidney M. Wilkerson-Hill, and Dwight A. Williams ACS Central Sci. 2020, 6, 1845.
- Design of BET Inhibitor Prodrugs with Superior Efficacy and Devoid of Systemic Toxicities
Vohidov, F.‡; Andersen, J. N.‡; Economides, K. D.; Shipitsin, M. V.; Burenkova, O.; Ackley, J. C.; Vangamudi, B.; Gallagher, N. M.; Shieh, P.; Golder, M. R.; Liu, J.; Dahlberg, W. K.; Nguyen, H. V-T.; Ehrlich, D. J. C.; Kim, J.; Huh, S. J.; Neenan, A. M.; Baddour, J.; Paramasivan, S.; de Stanchina, E.; Gaaurab, K. C.; Turnquist, D. J.; Saucier-Sawyer, J. K.; Kopesky, P. W.; Brady, S. W.; Jessel, M. J.; Reiter, L. A.; Chickering, D. E.; Johnson, J. A.; Blume-Jensen, P. ChemRxiv 2020. (‡ equal contribution)
- Brush-First and ROMP-out with Functional (Macro)monomers: Method Development, Structural Investigation, and Applications of an Expanded Brush-Arm Star Polymer Platform
Golder, M. R.; Nguyen, H. V.-T.; Oldenhuis, N. J.; Grundler, J.; Park, E. J.; Johnson, J. A. Macromolecules 2018, 51, 9861.
- Brush-Arm Star Polymers with High Nitroxide Density Enable Metal-Free Millimetric Tumor Detection by MRI
Nguyen, H. V.-T.‡; Detappe, A.‡; Gallagher, N.; Zhang, H.; Harvey, P.; Yan, C.; Mathieu, C.; Golder, M. R.; Jiang, Y.; Ottaviani, M. F.; Jasanoff, A.; Rajca, A.; Ghobrial, I. M.; Ghoroghchian, P. P.; Johnson, J. A. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 11343. (‡ equal contribution)
- Reduction of Liver Fibrosis by Rationally Designed Macromolecular Prodrugs
Golder, M. R.‡; Liu, J.‡; Andersen, J. N.; Shipitsin, M.; Vohidov, F.; Nguyen, H. V.-T.; Ehrlich, D. C.; Huh, S. J.; Vangamudi, B.; Economides, K. D.; Neenan, A.; Ackley, J.; Baddour, J.; Saucier-Sawyer, J. K.; Kopesky, P. W.; Chickering, D.; Blume-Jensen, P.; Johnson, J. A. Nat. Biomed. Eng. 2018, 2, 822. (‡ equal contribution)
- Stereochemical Sequence Dictates Unimolecular Diblock Copolymer Assembly
Golder, M. R.‡; Jiang, Y.‡; Teichen, P; Nguyen, H. V.-T.; Wang, W.; Milos, N.; Freedman, S. A.; Willard, A. P.; Johnson, J. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 1596. (‡ equal contribution)
- Stereochemical Implications towards the Total Synthesis of Aromatic Belts
Golder, M. R.*; Zakharov, L. N.; Jasti, R. Pure Appl. Chem. 2017, 89, 1603. (* corresponding author)
- Iterative Exponential Growth Synthesis and Assembly of Uniform Diblock Copolymers
Jiang, Y.; Golder, M. R.; Nguyen, H. V.-T.; Wang, Y, Zhong, M, Barnes, J. C.; Ehrlich, D. C.; Johnson, J. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9369.
- An Iterative Ring-Closing Metathesis/Reductive Aromatization Strategy Towards Strained Aromatic Belts
Golder, M. R.; Colwell, C. E.; Wong, B. M.; Zakharov, L. N.; Zhen, J.; Jasti, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6577.
- Synthesis and Characterization of the Smallest Carbon Nanohoops
Golder, M. R.; Jasti, R. Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 557.
- Raman-active Modes of Even-numbered Cycloparaphenylenes: Comparisons between Experiments and DFT Calculations with Group Theory Arguments
Chen, H.; Golder, M. R.; Wang, F.; Doorn, S.; Jasti, R.; Tretiak, S.; Swan, A. K. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 2879.
- Self-Trapping of Excitons, Violation of Condon Approximation, and Efficient Fluorescence in Conjugated Cycloparaphenylenes
Adamska, L.; Nayyar, I.; Chen, H.; Swan, A. K.; Oldani, N.; Fernandex-Alberti, S.; Golder, M. R.; Jasti, R.; Doorn, S. K.; Tretiak, S. Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 6539.
- Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanohoops
Chen, H.; Golder, M. R.; Wang, F.; Jasti, R.; Swan, A. K. Carbon 2014, 67, 203.
- Photophysical and Theoretical Investigations of the [8]Cycloparaphenylene Radical Cation and its Charge-Resonance Dimer
Golder, M. R.; Wong, B. M.; Jasti, R. “ Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 4285.
- Mechanism of Catalytic Nitrene Transfer Using Iron(I)-Isocyanide Complexes
Cowley, R. E.; Golder, M. R.; Eckert, N. A.; Al-Afyouni, M. H.; Holland, P. L. Organometallics 2013, 32, 5289.
- Synthesis, Characterization, and Computational Studies of Cycloparaphenylene Dimers
Xia, J.; Golder, M. R.; Foster, M, E.; Wong, B, M.; Jasti, R. J. Am. Chem Soc. 2012, 134, 19709.
- Selective Synthesis of Strained [7]Cycloparaphenylene: An Orange-Emitting Fluorophore
Sisto, T. J.; Golder, M. R.; Hirst, E. S.; Jasti, R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 15800.