Selected Publications | Before 2010

Postdoctoral Work

Balskus, Emily P.; Case, Rebecca J.; Walsh, Christopher T. “The Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreen Scytonemin in Microbial Mat Communities.” FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2011, 77, 322–332. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01113.x

Balskus, Emily P.; Walsh, Christopher T. “The Genetic and Molecular Basis for Sunscreen Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria.” Science 2010, 329, 1653–1656.  Highlighted as a Science Express article, in The New Scientist online, and in Chemical & Engineering News 2010, 88, 59. doi:10.1126/science.1193637

Balskus, Emily P.; Walsh, Christopher T. “An Enzymatic Cyclopentyl[b]indole Formation Involved in Scytonemin Biosynthesis.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131, 14648–14649. doi:10.1021/ja906752u

Balskus, Emily P.; Walsh, Christopher T. “Investigating the Initial Steps in the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreen Scytonemin.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, 15260–15261. doi:10.1021/ja807192u

Graduate Work

Groll, Michael; Balskus, Emily P.; Jacobsen, Eric N. Structural Analysis of Spiro β-Lactone Proteasome Inhibitors. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2008, 130, 14981–14983. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja806059t

Balskus, Emily P.; Jacobsen, Eric N. Asymmetric Catalysis of the Transannular Diels-Alder Reaction. Science 2007, 317, 1736–1740. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146939.

Balskus, Emily P.; Jacobsen, Eric N. α,β-Unsaturated β-Silyl Imide Substrates for Catalytic, Enantioselective Conjugate Additions: A Total Synthesis of (+)-Lactacystin and the Discovery of a New Proteasome Inhibitor. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006, 128, 6810–6812. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja061970a

Balskus, Emily P.; Méndez-Andino, Jose; Arbit, Ruslan M.; Paquette, Leo A. Intercalation of multiple carbon atoms between the carbonyls of α-diketones. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 66 (2001), 6695–6704. https://doi.org/10.1021/jo010494y