1. Beyond Nature’s Blueprint: Macrocyclic Peptides Containing Unnatural Amino Acids in Drug Discovery

  2. Sharma, K. K.; Sharma, K.; Sharma, A.; Rao, K.; Jain, R. VanVeller, B.
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition   2026, Accepted    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202523959
              ● Printable poster of FDA approved, macrocyclic drugs featuring UAAs available in supporting information

  3. A novel anaerobic cholinergic signaling compound, β-alanine betaine, and nAChRs in Ascaris

  4. Williams, P. D. E.; Borts, D. J.; Liu, D.; Byerly-Duke, J.; VanVeller, B.; Martin, R.
    PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases   2026, 20, e0014518    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0014518

  5. Amidine Isosteric Modification Tunes Proteolytic Stability and Activity

  6. Byerly-Duke, J.; Bernhard, S. M.; Ibrahim, R.; Das, S.; Sharma, K. K.; Panda, C.; Venditti, V.; Che, T.; VanVeller, B.
    RSC Chemical Biology   2026, 7, 1777–1783    DOI: 10.1039/d6cb00138f
              ● Highlighted by the American Peptide Society
              ● Special issue "Peptide chemistry and biology: emerging technologies and translational applications"

  7. Thioimidate Protection Enables Amide, Thioamide, and Amidine Installation at Aspartic Acid Residues

  8. Iqbal, A.; Byerly-Duke, J.; Gardner, R. S.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2026, 91, 8466–8471    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6c00793
              ● Published as part of special issue "Chemistry and Biology of Peptides"

  9. Thioamides on Radical-Chain Growth Monomers: Post-polymerization Transformation for Tailored Functional Polymers

  10. Kinali-Demirci, S.; Demirci, S.; VanVeller, B.
    Polymer Chemistry   2026 17, 2437–2443    DOI: 10.1039/d6py00344c

  11. A Versatile Strategy for Head-to-Tail Macrocyclization and Traceless Backbone Editing of Short Peptides

  12. Wall, B. J.; Chaudhury, U.; Sharma, K. K.; Venditti, V., VanVeller, B.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society   2026, 148, 16482–16492   DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c04085
              ● Highlighted by the American Peptide Society

  13. Radical Reactivity of Thioimidates for Diversified Polymeric Amidines with Tunable Properties

  14. Kinali-Demirci, S.; Demirci, S.; Byerly-Duke, J.; VanVeller, B.
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition   2025, 64, e202509727    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202509727

  15. A Practical Start-Up Guide for Synthetic Chemists to Implement Design of Experiments (DoE)

  16. Wall, B. J.; Koeritz, M. T.; Stanley, L. M.; VanVeller, B.
    ACS Catalysis   2025, 15, 8885–8893    DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c01626

  17. The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of Amidines in Folded β-Sheet Structure and Fibril Disaggregation

  18. O'Brien, A. E.; Abbasi, M.; Purslow, J. A.; VanVeller, B.
    Chemical Science   2025, 16, 16970–16978    DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05902J

  19. Hydrogen-Bonding Behavior of Amidines in Helical Structure

  20. O'Brien, A. E.; Purslow, J. A.; Wall B. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Chemical Science   2024, 15, 18992–18999    DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06108J

  21. Unnatural Amino Acids: Strategies, Designs and Applications in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery

  22. Sharma, K. K.; Sharma, K.; Rao, K.; Sharma, A.; Rathod, G. K.; Aaghaz, A.; Sehra, N.; Parmar, R.; VanVeller, B.; Jain, R.
    Journal of Medicinal Chemistry   2024, 67, 19932−19965    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00110
              ● Printable poster of FDA approved drugs featuring UAAs available in supporting information

  23. Facile, mechanochemical functionalization of hydrophobic substrates for single walled carbon nanotube based optical reporters of hydrolase activity

  24. Elhambakhsh, A.; Abbasi, M.; Dutter, C.; McDaniel, M.; VanVeller, B.; Hillier, A.; Reuel, N.
    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces   2024, 16, 62547–62556    DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c13800

  25. Thermal Rearrangement of the S–N Bond of Thiooxime Esters

  26. Wall, B. J.; Byerly-Duke, J.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2024, 89, 15312–15316    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c01571

  27. Complimentary Strategies for Installation of Thioimidates into Peptide Backbones

  28. Byerly-Duke, J.; Donovan A.; O'Brien E. A.; Sharma, K. K.; Ibrahim, R.; Stanley, L. M.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2024, 89, 14755–14761    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.4c01386

  29. Thioimidates Provide General Access to Thioamide, Amidine, and Imidazolone Peptide-Bond Isosteres

  30. Byerly-Duke, J.; O'Brien, A. E.; Wall B. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Methods in Enzymology   2024, 698, 27–55    DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2024.04.012

  31. General Installation of (4H)-Imidazolone cis-Amide Bioisosteres Along the Peptide Backbone

  32. Wall B. J.; Sharma, K. K.; O'Brien, A. E.; Donovan, A.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society   2024, 146, 11648–11656    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c13825
              ● Highlighted by the American Peptide Society
              ● Highlighted in Synfacts

  33. Thioimidate Solutions to Thioamide Problems during Thionopeptide Deprotection

  34. Byerley-Duke, J.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic Letters   2024, 5, 1452–1457    DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.4c00035

  35. An Anomeric Answer to Sulfenamide Stability and α-Nucleophilicity

  36. Wall, B. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2023, 88, 15067–15072    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c01520

  37. Protein Conformational Dynamics Underlay Selective Recognition of Thermophilic over Mesophilic Enzyme I by a Substrate Analogue

  38. Singh, A.; Burns, D.; Sedinkin, S.; VanVeller, B.; Potoyan, D.; Venditti, V.
    Biomolecules   2023, 13, 160–174   DOI: 10.3390/biom13010160

  39. A General Strategy to Install Amidine Functional Groups Along the Peptide Backbone

  40. O'Brien, E. A.; Sharma, K. K.; Byerly-Duke, J.; Camacho III, L. A.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society   2022, 144, 22397–22402    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09085
              ● Highlighted by Organic Process Research & Development.

  41. Attached Nitrogen Test by 13C–14N Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy for the Structure Determination of Heterocyclic Isomers

  42. Dorn, R. W.; Wall, B. J.; Ference, S. B.; Norris, S. R.; Lubach, J. W.; Rossini, A. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic Letters   2022, 24, 5635–5640    DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c01576
              ● Invited Front Cover
              ● Original TOC graphic rejected by journal shown below

  43. Hydrogen Bond and Geometry Effects of Thioamide Backbone Modifications

  44. Lampkin, B. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2021, 86, 18287–18291    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c02373

  45. Investigation of a Series of 2-(2’-Hydroxyaryl)benzazole Derivatives: Photophysical Properties, Excited-State Intramolecular Proton-Transfer Reactions and Observation of Long-Lived Triplet Excited States

  46. Li, Y.; Bai, X.; Liang, R.; Zhang, X.; Nguyen, Y. H.; VanVeller, B.; Du, L.; Phillips, D. L.
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B   2021, 47, 12981–12989    DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05798
              ● JCP special issue to honor George Schatz

  47. Molecular Conformation in Charge Tunneling across Large-Area Junctions

  48. Du, C.; Norris, S. R.; Thakur, A.; Chen, J.; VanVeller, B.; Thuo, M.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society   2021, 143, 13878–13886    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06622

  49. Magnetic shielding paints an accurate and easy-to-visualize portrait of aromaticity

  50. Karadakov, P. B.; VanVeller, B.
    Chemical Communications   2021, 57, 9504–9513    DOI: 10.1039/D1CC03701C

  51. Determination of Diffusion Kinetics of Ketamine in Brain Tissue: Implications for in vitro Mechanistic Studies of Drug Actions

  52. Geiger, Z.; VanVeller, B.; Lopez, Z.; Harrata, A. K.; Battani, K.; Points, L. J.; Yuan, L. L.
    Frontiers in Neuroscience   2021,    DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.678978

  53. A Decision Tree for Retrosynthetic Analysis

  54. VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Chemical Education   2021, 98, 2726–2729   DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00447

  55. Surface-grafted and covalently cross-Linked polymeric ionic liquids with tunable morphology via in/ex-situ methods

  56. Demirci, S.; Demirci, S. K.; VanVeller, B.
    ACS Macro Letters   2020, 9, 1806–1811   DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00632

  57. Detailed visualization of aromaticity using isotropic magnetic shielding

  58. Lampkin, B. J.; Karadakov, P. B.; VanVeller, B.
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition   2020, 59, 19275–19281   DOI: 10.1002/anie.202008362
              ● News highlight in Chemistry World Magazine

  59. Fast Acquisition of Proton Detected HETCOR Solid-State NMR Spectra of Quadrupolar Nuclei and Rapid Measurement of NH Bond Lengths by Frequency Selective HMQC and RESPDOR Pulse Sequences

  60. Wijesekara, A. V.; Venkatesh, A.; Lampkin, B. J.; VanVeller, B.; Lubach, J. W.; Nagapudi, K.; Hung, I.; Gor’kov, P. L.; Gan, Z.; Rossini, A. J.
    Chemistry – A European Journal   2020, 26, 7881–7888   DOI: 10.1002/chem.202000390

  61. The Malleable Excited States of Benzothiadiazole Dyes and Investigation of their Potential for Photochemical Control

  62. Warner, C. C.; Thooft, A. M.; Norris, S. R.; Lampkin, B. J.; Demirci, S. K.; VanVeller, B.
    ChemistrySelect   2020, 5, 7016–7020   DOI: 10.1002/slct.202001980

  63. Visible-light photocleavable protecting groups based on benzothiadiazole scaffolds

  64. Norris, S.; Warner, C. C.; Thooft, A. M.; Demirci, S. K.; Lampkin, B. J.; Miner, K.; Ellern A.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic Letters   2020, 22, 270–273   DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b04268

  65. Controlled supramolecular complexation of cyclodextrin-functionalized polymeric ionic liquid brushes

  66. Demirci, S.; Demirci, S. K.; VanVeller, B.
    ACS Applied Polymer Materials   2020, 2, 751–757   DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.9b01058

  67. Selective staining and quantification of intracellular lipid droplets with CBD-Fluor, a more sensitive push-pull fluorophore

  68. Suarez, S. I.; Warner, C. C.; Brown-Harding, H.; Thooft, A. M. VanVeller, B.; Lukesh, J. C. III
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry   2020, 18, 495-499   DOI: 10.1039/c9ob02486g
              ● High citation distinction

  69. Deprotection strategies for thioimidates during Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis: A safe route to thioamides

  70. Camacho III, L. A.; Nguyen, Y. H.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2019, 84, 15309-15314   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b02317

  71. A bottom-up approach to preserve thioamide residue stereochemistry during Fmoc solid-phase peptide synthesis

  72. Camacho III, L. A.; Lampkin, B. J.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic Letters   2019, 21, 7015-7018   DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b02598
              ● Original TOC graphic rejected by journal shown below

  73. Demonstration of Baird's rule complementarity in the singlet state and implications for excited-state intramolecular proton transfer

  74. Lampkin, B. J.; Nguyen, Y. H.; Karadakov, P.; VanVeller, B.
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   2019, 21, 11608-11614   DOI: 10.1039/C9CP02050K
              ● Hot Article Distinction

  75. Synthesis and spectral properties of push-pull dyes based on isobenzofuran scaffolds

  76. Norris, S. R.; Warner, C. C.; Lampkin, B. J.; Bouc, P. M.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic Letters  2019, 21, 3817-3821   DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b01260

  77. Tuning electrochemical redox potentials with boronic acid derivatives

  78. Robole, Z.; Rahn, K.; Lampkin, B. J.; Anand, R. K.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry  2019, 84, 2346-2350   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b03087

  79. Proton Detected 1H-17O Double Resonance Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

  80. Carnahan, S.; Lampkin, B. J.; Pranjali, N.; Hanrahan, M.; Slowing, I.; VanVeller, B.; Gang, W.; Rossini, A.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society   2019, 141, 441-450   DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10878

  81. A designed protein binding-pocket to control excited-state intramolecular proton transfer fluorescence

  82. Lampkin, B. J.; Monteiro, C.; Powers, E. T.; Bouc, P.; Kelly, J. W.; VanVeller, B.
    Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry   2019, 17, 1076-1080   DOI: 10.1039/c8ob02673d
              ● Cover Article

  83. Open resonance assisted hydrogen bonds and competing quasiaromaticity

  84. Nguyen, Y.; Lampkin, B.; Venkatesh, A.; Ellern, A.; Rossini, A.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2018, 83, 9850-9857.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b01331

  85. Understanding interface (odd-even) effects in charge tunneling using polished EGaIn electrode

  86. Chen, J.; Giroux, T.; Nguyen, Y.; Kadoma, A.; Chang, B.; VanVeller, B.; Thuo, M.
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics   2018, 20, 4864-4878  DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07531f

  87. A small push-pull fluorophore for turn-on fluorescence

  88. Thooft, A. M.; Cassaidy, K.; VanVeller, B.
    Journal of Organic Chemistry   2017, 82, 8842-8847.  DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b00939

  89. S-5-Ethynyl-anabasine, a novel compound, is a more potent agonist than other nicotine alkaloids on the nematode Asu-ACR-16 receptor

  90. Zheng, F.; Du, X.; Robertson, A. P.; Yu, E. W.; VanVeller, B.; Martin, R. J.
    International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance  2016, 7, 12-22.  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2016.12.001

BEFORE ISU    

  1. Target selection by natural and redesigned PUF proteins

  2. Porter, D. F.; Koh, Y. Y.; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.; Wickens, M.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.  2015, 112, 15868-15873.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508501112

  3. Convenient synthesis of collagen-related tripeptides for segment condensation

  4. Ellison, A. J.; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.
    Biopolymers  2015, 104, 674-681.  DOI: 10.1002/bip.22700

  5. Thioamides in the collagen triple helix

  6. Newberry, R. W.; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.
    Chemical Communications  2015, 51, 9624-9627.  DOI: 10.1039/c5cc02685g

  7. Signatures of n→π* interactions in proteins

  8. Newberry, R. W.; Bartlett, G. J.; VanVeller, B.; Woolfson, D. N.; Raines, R. T.
    Protein Science  2014, 23, 284-288.  DOI: 10.1002/pro.2413

  9. Interplay of hydrogen bonds and n→π* interactions in proteins

  10. Bartlett, G. J.; Newberry, R. W.; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.; Woolfson, D. N.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society  2013, 135, 18682-18688.  DOI: 10.1021/ja4106122

  11. Thiols and selenols as relay catalysts for disulfide-bond reduction

  12. Lukesh, J. C. III; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.
    Angewendte Chemie International Edition  2013, 52, 12901-12904.  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307481
              - Cover Article, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201309405
              - Hot Paper Distinction

  13. A divalent protecting group for benzoxaboroles

  14. VanVeller, B.; Aronoff, M. A.; Raines, R. T.
    RSC Advances  2013, 3, 21331-21334.  DOI: 10.1039/c3ra44385j

  15. A Selective detection of boronic acids through ESIPT fluorescence

  16. Aronoff, M. A.; VanVeller, B.; Raines, R. T.
    Organic Letters  2013, 15, 5382-5385.  DOI: 10.1021/ol402714k

  17. n→π* Interactions of amides and thioamides: implications for protein stability

  18. Newberry, R. W.; VanVeller, B.; Guzei, I. A.; Raines, R. T.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society  2013, 135, 7843-7846.  DOI: 10.1021/ja4033583
              - JACS Spotlight J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 8431.  DOI: 10.1021/ja405586p
              - Chemical & Engineering News  2012, 90 (36), 68-71.  Link: Tweeks Boost Protein Stability

  19. Synthesis and properties of triptycene-containing polyetherolefins via acyclic diene metathesis polymerization

  20. Sydlik, S. A.; Delgado, P. A.; Inomata, S.; VanVeller, B.; Yang, Y.; Swager, T. M.; Wagener, K. B.
    Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry.  2013, 51, 1695-1706.  DOI: 10.1002/pola.26557

  21. Polycyclic aromatic triptycenes: oxygen substitution cyclization strategies

  22. VanVeller, B.; Schipper, D. J.; Swager, T. M.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society  2012, 134, 7282-7285.  DOI: 10.1021/ja3018253

  23. Fluorescent amphiphiles: a novel tool for designing mild topical conference

  24. Seto, J.; Polat, B.; VanVeller, B.; Lopez, R.; Langer, R.; Blankschtein, D.
    Journal of Controlled Release  2012, 158, 85-92.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2011.10.018

  25. Triptycene diols: a strategy for synthesizing planar π-systems

  26. VanVeller, B.; Robinson, D.; Swager, T. M.
    Angewendte Chemie International Edition  2012, 51, 1182-1186.  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201106985

  27. Absolute rate constants for 5-deazariboflavin triplet excited state in one-electron transfer processes

  28. Barra, M.; VanVeller, B.; Verberne, C.
    Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry  2011, 225, 113-116.  DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2011.10.007

  29. An experimental and molecular dynamics investigation into the amphiphilic nature of sulforhodamine B

  30. Polat, B. E.; Lin, S.; Mendenhall, J. D.; VanVeller, B.; Langer, R.; Blankschtein, D.
    Journal of Physical Chemistry B  2011, 115, 1394-1402.  DOI: 10.1021/jp109866q
              - Cover Article, link

  31. Synthesis of azaperylene-9,10-dicarboximides

  32. Andrew, T. L.; VanVeller, B.; Swager, T. M.
    Synlett  2010, 3045-3048.  DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259060

  33. Biocompatible post-polymerization functionalization of a water soluble poly(p-phenylene ethynylene)

  34. VanVeller, B.; Swager, T. M.
    Chemical Communications  2010, 5761–5763.  DOI: 10.1039/c0cc01456g

  35. Poly(aryleneethynylene)s

  36. VanVeller, B.; Swager, T. M.
    Design and Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers, Leclerc, M.; Morin, J., Eds. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2010; Chapter 5
    DOI: 10.1002/9783527629787

  37. Rigid hydrophilic structures for improved properties of conjugated polymers and nitrotyrosine sensing in water

  38. VanVeller, B.; Miki, K.; Swager, T. M.
    Organic Letters  2010, 12, 1292–1295.  DOI: 10.1021/ol1001768

PATENTS    

  1. Formation of amidines and intramolecular reaction thereof

  2. VanVeller, B.; O’Brien, E.; Sharma, K. K.; Byerley-Duke, J.; Wall, B. J.; Ibrahim, R.
    U.S. 2024/0409577 A1, Dec 12, 2024

  3. (S)-5-Ethynyl-anabasine, derivatives thereof, and related compositions and methods of making and using

  4. Zheng, F.; Du, X.; Robertson, A. P.; Yu, E. W.; VanVeller, B.; Martin, R. J.
    U.S. Patent No. 1452293 B2, Sep 27, 2022

  5. Protecting groups for boronic acids

  6. Raines, R. T.; VanVeller, B.; Aronoff, M. A.
    U.S. Patent No. 9085590 B2, Jul 21, 2015