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  1. Cu(II) complexes with mixed pyridine-benzimidazole donors: LPMO-type activity and Copper-Oxygen Intermediates

    Article • June 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  2. Sulfur‐Rich μ‐O Diiron Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, January 2026, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  3. Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction with calix[8]arene/base metal platforms

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, April 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  4. A non-innocent, π-extended N-heterobicyclic carbene–thiolate ligand

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  5. Coupling causality and interpretable machine learning to reveal the reaction coordinate of C–N coupling with a supramolecular Cu-calix[8]arene catalyst

    Article • Digital Discovery, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  6. Electrocatalytic water oxidation with bioinspired cubane-type Co II complexes

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  7. Hemilabile Thio– and Selenoethers in Bis(benzimidazolyl)Amine Copper Complexes Relevant to the Active Sites of Copper‐Dependent Monooxygenases

    Article • ChemCatChem, October 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  8. Cover Feature: Monocopper model of CuB site of pMMO in N4‐environment oxidizes C−H bonds (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 16/2024)

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, April 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  9. Monocopper model of CuB site of pMMO in N4‐environment oxidizes C−H bonds

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, February 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  10. Effects of the tetravanadate [V4O12]4− anion on the structural, magnetic, and biological properties of copper/phenanthroline complexes

    Article • JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  11. LPMO‐like Activity of Bioinspired Copper Complexes: From Model Substrate to Extended Polysaccharides

    Article • ChemCatChem, November 2023, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  12. Calix[8]arene‐Based Manganese Complexes for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

    Article • Israel Journal of Chemistry, September 2023, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  13. Front Cover: Conformational Effects of Regioisomeric Substitution on the Catalytic Activity of Copper/Calix[8]arene C−S Coupling (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 6/2023)

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, January 2023, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  14. Conformational Effects of Regioisomeric Substitution on the Catalytic Activity of Copper/Calix[8]arene C−S Coupling

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  15. Latin American Contributions to Inorganic Chemistry

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, October 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  16. Cover Feature: Encapsulation Enhances the Catalytic Activity of C‐N Coupling: Reaction Mechanism of a Cu(I)/Calix[8]arene Supramolecular Catalyst (ChemCatChem 20/2022)

    Article • ChemCatChem, October 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  17. Encapsulation Enhances the Catalytic Activity of C‐N Coupling: Reaction Mechanism of a Cu(I)/Calix[8]arene Supramolecular Catalyst

    Article • ChemCatChem, September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  18. Front Cover: Thioether‐Containing Copper Complexes as PHM, DβM, and TβM Model Systems (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 1/2022)

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  19. Cover Feature: Cellulose Depolymerization with LPMO‐inspired Cu Complexes (ChemCatChem 22/2021)

    Article • ChemCatChem, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  20. Thioether‐Containing Copper Complexes as PHM, DβM, and TβM Model Systems

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  21. Cellulose Depolymerization with LPMO‐inspired Cu Complexes

    Article • ChemCatChem, September 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  22. Planar or Bent? Redox Modulation of Hydrogenase Bimetallic Models by the [Ni2(μ‐SAr)2] Core Conformation

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  23. Inorganic Chemistry in Latin America

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  24. Self-assembled nickel cubanes as oxygen evolution catalysts

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  25. Phytochemical Analysis and Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Capacity of the Extracts of Fruits of the Sechium Hybrid

    Article • Molecules, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  26. Synthesis, structure, and biological activity of bis(benzimidazole)amino thio- and selenoether nickel complexes

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, October 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  27. Oxygen Transfer from Trimethylamine N‐Oxide to CuI Complexes Supported by Pentanitrogen Ligands

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, July 2020, Wiley

    Erick Ramírez, Professor Ivan Castillo

  28. Calix[8]arene-based Ni(II) complexes for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  29. Conformational Effects of [Ni 2 (μ‐ArS) 2 ] Cores on Their Electrocatalytic Activity

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  30. Oxidative Cleavage of Cellobiose by Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenase (LPMO)-Inspired Copper Complexes

    Article • ACS Omega, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  31. Di- and Tetrairon(III) μ-Oxido Complexes of an N3S-Donor Ligand: Catalyst Precursors for Alkene Oxidations

    Article • Frontiers in Chemistry, March 2019, Frontiers

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  32. Outstanding reversible H2S capture by an Al(iii)-based MOF

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  33. Ascorbyl and hydroxyl radical generation mediated by a copper complex adsorbed on gold

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Eduardo Henrique Silva Sousa, Professor Ivan Castillo

  34. Intramolecular hydroxylation of a tetrabenzimidazole-based dicopper complex

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo, Erick Ramírez

  35. Transformations in Chemically Responsive Copper-Calixarene Architectures

    Article • Chemistry - An Asian Journal, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  36. In vitro effects of benzimidazole/thioether-copper complexes with antitumor activity on human erythrocytes

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  37. Easily reduced bis-pincer (NS2)2molybdenum(iv) to (NHS2)2Mo(ii) by alcohols vs. redox-inert (NS2)(NHS2)iron(iii) compl...

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  38. Silver Complex of an N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand with Bulky Thiocarbamate Groups

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, January 2018, Sociedade Brasileira de Quimica (SBQ)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  39. Synthesis and characterization of a 13-member macrocycle functionalized by tyramine arms: Complexation with Cu 2+ and antioxidant capacity

    Article • Polyhedron, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Rogerio R. Sotelo-Mundo, Professor Ivan Castillo

  40. Structural and functional effects of benzimidazole/thioether–copper complexes with antitumor activity on cell membranes and molecular models

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  41. Calix[8]arene nanoreactor for Cu(i)-catalysed C–S coupling

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  42. Redox flexibility of iron complexes supported by sulfur-based tris(o-methylenethiophenolato)amine relative to its tripodal oxygen-based congener

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  43. Side-on cupric–superoxo triplet complexes as competent agents for H-abstraction relevant to the active site of PHM

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  44. Supramolecular fluorescence enhancement via coordination-driven self-assembly in bis-picolylcalixarene blue-emitting M2L2Xn macrocycles

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  45. Synthesis, spectroscopic, and structural characterization of mixed thioether–benzimidazole copper complexes

    Article • Polyhedron, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  46. Electrocatalytic Proton Reduction by Dimeric Nickel Complex of a Sterically Demanding Pincer-type NS2 Aminobis(thiophenolate) Ligand

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  47. Bis(benzimidazolyl)amine copper complexes with a synthetic ‘histidine brace’ structural motif relevant to polysaccharide monooxygenases

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  48. Copper(II) complexes of piperazine-derived tetradentate ligands and their chiral diazabicyclic analogues for catalytic phenol oxidative C–C coupling

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry Communications, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  49. Directed ortho-metalation versus reductive amination in the preparation of polytopic, highly substituted, and sterically congested amine-S-arylthiocarbamates as thiophenol precursors

    Article • Tetrahedron, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  50. Benzimidazole-derived calix[4]arenes with polymerizable styrene groups and their Cu(II) complexes

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, October 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  51. Solution and solid-state conformations of 1,5-pyridine and 1,5-phenanthroline-bridged p-tert-butylcalix[8]arene derivatives

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  52. Copper Versus Thioether-Centered Oxidation: Mechanistic Insights into the Non-Innocent Redox Behavior of Tripodal Benzimidazolylaminothioether Ligands

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  53. Effects of an antimalarial quinazoline derivative on human erythrocytes and on cell membrane molecular models

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  54. Structural, spectroscopic, and electrochemical properties of tri- and tetradentate N3 and N3S copper complexes with mixed benzimidazole/thioether donors

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  55. Diversity in the supramolecular interactions of 5,6-dichloro-2-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-benzimidazole with modified cyclodextrins: Implications for physicochemical properties and antiparasitic activity

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr LUVIA E. SANCHEZ-TORRES, Professor Ivan Castillo

  56. Bis(2-methylbenzimidazolyl)amine-Derived Copper Complexes and Their Antineoplastic Activity

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, July 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  57. Dicopper(II) complexes of chiral C2-symmetric diamino-bis(2-methylpyridyl) and diamino-bis(2-methylbenzimidazolyl) ligands

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry Communications, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  58. Studies on 6-chloro-5-(1-naphthyloxy)-2-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-benzimidazole/2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin association: Characterization, molecular modeling studies, and in vivo anthelminthic activity

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  59. Electrochemical and Structural Characterization of Tri- and Dithioether Copper Complexes

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2010, Wiley

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  60. Tris(2,4-dimethylbenzenethiolato)phenyltin(IV)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, October 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  61. Chemoenzymatic synthesis and cannabinoid activity of a new diazabicyclic amide of phenylacetylricinoleic acid

    Article • Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  62. Monomeric, oligomeric, and polymeric copper(II) complexes of calix[4]arene-derived ligands

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, April 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  63. 2,4-Bis(fluorocarbon)-substituted phenols for high yield Newman–Kwart rearrangement reactions

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  64. Synthesis of N-Boc-Protected Bis(2-benzimidazolylmethyl)amines

    Article • Synlett, December 2009, Thieme Publishing Group

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  65. Construction of acetate-bridged dicopper(II) hybrid organic–inorganic networks with calix[4]arene-derived nitrogenous ligands

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  66. Synthesis of 1,5-(2,6-dimethylpyridyl)-calix[8]arene: solid-state structure of its dicesium complex

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, May 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  67. S-2-(Adamant-1-yl)-4-methylphenylN,N-dimethylthiocarbamate

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, December 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  68. Conformational Preferences of Bispicolyl-p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene Anions: Synthesis of Cone and Partial-cone Conformers of Bispicolyl-bis-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)methoxy-p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  69. Electrochemical Behavior of an Aminotrithioether Ligand:  Copper(II)-Mediated Oxidative C−C Bond Formation

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, November 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  70. Self-assembly of a hybrid organic–inorganic dicopper(II) coordination polymer with a calix[4]arene-derived nitrogenous ligand

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry Communications, November 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  71. 1,4-Bis(8-tert-butyl-6-methyl-4H-1,3-benzoxazin-3-yl)benzene

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, June 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  72. Calix[8]arene anions: solid state structure of an inclusion compound with a tetrabutylammonium cation

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, December 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  73. Hexakis(dimethyl sufoxide-κO)iron(III) tribromide

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, September 2005, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  74. Synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted thiophenols and solid state structures of thiocarbamate precursors

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, June 2005, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  75. O-(2-tert-Butyl-6-dimethylthiocarbamoyl-4-methylphenyl)N,N-dimethylthiocarbamate dichloromethane solvate

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, September 2003, International Union of Crystallography

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  76. Synthesis and solid state structures of copper(II) complexes of Schiff bases derived from cyclopropyl and cyclobutylamine

    Article • Journal of Molecular Structure, September 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  77. Hafnium imido complexes containing silyl ligands

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  78. Organolutetium Complexes in σ-Bond Metathesis Reactions Involving Silicon. Catalysts for the Hydrogenolysis of Si−C Bonds

    Article • Organometallics, December 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo

  79. Mechanistic Aspects of Samarium-Mediated σ-Bond Activations of Arene C−H and Arylsilane Si−C Bonds

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Ivan Castillo