Oana Luca is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (BS ’08) and Yale University (MS ’10, PhD ’13) where she worked with Professor Robert H. Crabtree.
Her postgraduate work in inorganic and physical organic chemistry at Caltech in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and the Scripps Research Institute addresses applications of electrochemical methods for the synthesis and interconversion of chemical species in organic reactions. This work has direct applications to battery, fuel cell and solar device designs as well as electrosynthetic methods for functionalization of organic compounds.
Her scientific interests span a wide range of research fields from the engineering of devices for energy production and storage, to molecular orbital interactions in surface science, to electrochemical applications in organic synthesis, polymer recycling and in operando assessments of product distributions.
Publications (not exhaustive)
Haley A. Petersen, Emmet N. Miller, Phuc H. Pham, Kajal, Jaclyn L. Katsirubas, Hunter J. Koltunski, Oana R. Luca On the Temperature Sensitivity of Electrochemical Reaction Thermodynamics, ACS Physical Chemistry Au
Gerard M. Carroll, Matthew A. Gebbie, Shannon Stahl, Mathew R. Johnson, Oana R. Luca, Haley A. Petersen, Yannick Bomble, Nathan R. Neale and Randy Cortright Alternative Energy Carriers: Unique Interfaces for Electrochemical Hydrogenic Transformations Advanced Energy Materials
Abdulaziz W. Alherz, Haley A. Petersen, Nicholas R. Singstock, Sohan N Sur, Charles B. Musgrave and Oana R. Luca Predictive energetic tuning of quinoid O-nucleophiles for the electrochemical capture of carbon dioxide, Energy Advances, 2022, 1, 900-907
Haley A. Petersen, Abdulaziz Alherz, Taylor A. Stinson, Chloe G. Huntzinger, Charles B. Musgrave, Oana R. Luca* Predictive Energetic Tuning of C-Nucleophiles for the Electrochemical Capture of Carbon Dioxide, iScience, 2022, 25, 4 103997
Phuc H. Pham, Haley A. Petersen, Jaclyn L. Katsirubas, Oana R. Luca* Recent synthetic methods involving carbon radicals generated by electrochemical catalysis, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2022, 20, 5907-5932.
Haley A. Petersen, Tessa H. T. Myren, Shea J. O’Sullivan, Oana R. Luca* Electrochemical Methods in Materials Recycling, 2021, 2 (4), 1113-1138,
Zachary Mast, Tessa H. T. Myren, Chloe G. Huntzinger, Taylor A. Stinson, Rami M. Kharbouch, Emilse M. Almanza, Samantha E. Zygmont, John R. Miecznikowski, Oana R. Luca* CuI SNS Triazole and Imidazole Pincers as Electrocatalyst Precursors for Solar Fuel Production Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers 2020, 7, 1012-1015
Tessa H.T. Myren, Taylor A. Stinson, Zachary J. Mast, Chloe G. Huntzinger, Oana R. Luca* Chemical and Electrochemical Recycling of End-Use Poly(ethylene Terephthalate)(PET) Plastics in Batch, Microwave and Electrochemical Reactors Molecules 2020, 25, 12, 2742-2751. Special 25th Anniversary Issue, Green Chemistry.
Haley A. Petersen, Tessa H.T. Myren, Oana R. Luca* Redox-Active Manganese Pincers for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction, 2020, 8, 11, 62-75
Tessa H. T. Myren, Abdulaziz Alherz, Jonathan R. Thurston, Taylor A. Stinson, Chloe G. Huntzinger, Charles B. Musgrave, Oana R. Luca* Mn-based Molecular Electrocatalysts for the Catalytic Disproportionation of CO2 into CO and CO32- ACS Catalysis 2020, 10, 3, 1961-1968.
Tessa H.T. Myren, Alyssia M. Lilio, Chloe C. Huntzinger, J. William Horstman, Taylor A. Stinson, Trevor B. Donadt, Curtis Moore, Bimala Lama, Hans H. Funke, Bimala Lama, and Oana R. Luca,* Manganese N-heterocyclic carbene pincers for the electrocatalytic synthesis of solar fuels from carbon dioxide 2019, 38(6), 1248-1253 invited paper for the Special Issue “Organometallic Electrochemistry – Going Redox-Catalysis the Smart Way”.
Trevor B. Donadt, Alyssia M. Lilio, Taylor A. Stinson, Bimala Lama, and Oana R. Luca,* DOSY NMR and Normal Pulse Voltammetry for the Expeditious Determination of Number of Electrons Exchanged in Redox Events ChemistrySelect, 2018, 3, 7410-7415.
Tessa H. T. Myren, Abdulaziz Alherz, Taylor A. Stinson, Chloe G. Huntzinger, Bimala Lama, Charles Musgrave, Oana R. Luca* Metalloradical intermediates in electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO: Mn versus Re bis-N-heterocyclic carbene pincers, Dalton Transactions 2020, 49, 2053-2057.
