Recent publications
Book
Maguire, O & O'Donoghue, AMC 2015, Chapter 3: Homogeneous Acid Catalysis in Nonasymmetric Synthesis. Sustainable Catalysis, vol. 2, RSC Publishing.
Article
Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA, Oosterom, BG, Zheliezniak, A & Huck, WTS 2024, 'A Prebiotic Precursor to Life’s Phosphate Transfer System with an ATP Analog and Histidyl Peptide Organocatalysts', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 146, no. 11, pp. 7839-7849. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c01156
Maguire, OR 2024, 'The Many-Chemicals Problem of Systems Chemistry', ChemSystemsChem, vol. 6, no. 5, e202400027. https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202400027
ter Harmsel, M, Maguire, OR, Runikhina, SA, Wong, ASY, Huck, WTS & Harutyunyan, SR 2023, 'A catalytically active oscillator made from small organic molecules', Nature, vol. 621, pp. 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06310-2
Maguire, OR, Smokers, IBA & Huck, WTS 2021, 'A physicochemical orthophosphate cycle via a kinetically stable thermodynamically activated intermediate enables mild prebiotic phosphorylations', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 5517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25555-x
Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Baltussen, MG, van Duppen, P, Pogodaev, AA & Huck, WTS 2020, 'Dynamic Environments as a Tool to Preserve Desired Output in a Chemical Reaction Network', Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1676-1682. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904725
Maguire, OR, Wong, ASY, Westerdiep, JH & Huck, WTS 2020, 'Early warning signals in chemical reaction networks', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 26, pp. 3725-3728. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc01010c
Maguire, OR, Zhu, J, Brittain, WDG, Hudson, AS, Cobb, SL & O’Donoghue, AMC 2020, 'N-Terminal speciation for native chemical ligation', Chemical Communications, vol. 56, no. 45, pp. 6114-6117. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0cc01604g
Maguire, OR, Taylor, B, Higgins, EM, Rees, M, Cobb, SL, Simpkins, NS, Hayes, CJ & O'Donoghue, AMC 2020, 'Unusually high α-proton acidity of prolyl residues in cyclic peptides', Chemical Science, vol. 11, no. 29, pp. 7722-7729. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02508a
Collett, CJ, Massey, RS, Taylor, JE, Maguire, OR, O'Donoghue, AMC & Smith, AD 2015, 'Rate and equilibrium constants for the addition of N-heterocyclic carbenes into benzaldehydes: A remarkable 2-substituent effect', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, vol. 54, no. 23, pp. 6887-6892. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201501840
Comment/debate
Adams, DJ, Ardoña, HAM, Bianco, S, Conticello, VP, Draper, ER, Edkins, K, Edler, KJ, Edwards, AA, Egelman, EH, Giuri, D, Katrantzi, D, Kotova, O, Krishnan, R, Lau, KHA, Laverty, G, Lloyd, GO, Maguire, O, Marchesan, S, Marshall, L, Nilsson, BL, Özel, M, Piskorz, TK, Pochan, DJ, Ravoo, BJ, Reches, M, Schneider, JP, Squires, AM, Stephen, A, Thomson, AR, Tuttle, T, Wang, H & Yan, X 2025, 'Characterising supramolecular gels: general discussion', Faraday Discussions, vol. 260, pp. 145-178. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fd90029h
Adams, DJ, Andrieux, V, Bianco, S, Conticello, VP, Dastidar, P, Draper, ER, Edler, KJ, Edwards, AA, Giuri, D, Gunnlaugsson, T, Jierry, L, Kotova, O, Krishnan, R, Laverty, G, Lloyd, GO, Maguire, O, Marshall, L, Miller, AF, Nilsson, BL, Piskorz, TK, Pochan, DJ, Rajaram Baskaran, RK, Ravoo, BJ, Thomson, AR, Tuttle, T & Yan, X 2025, 'Design of gelling systems: general discussion', Faraday Discussions, vol. 260, pp. 328-346. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fd90031j
Adams, DJ, Andrieux, V, Bianco, S, Conticello, VP, Draper, ER, Edkins, K, Egelman, EH, Giuri, D, Gunnlaugsson, T, Kotova, O, Krishnan, R, Lloyd, GO, Maguire, O, McCabe, T, Marchesan, S, Marshall, L, Nilsson, BL, Oyarzún Aravena, AM, Pochan, DJ, Ravoo, BJ, Schneider, JP, Seddon, A, Squires, AM, Stephen, A, Thomson, AR, Tuttle, T, Wang, H & Özel, M 2025, 'Multicomponent systems: general discussion', Faraday Discussions, vol. 260, pp. 417-439. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fd90032h
Adams, DJ, Ardona, HAM, Conticello, VP, Edkins, K, Edler, KJ, Edwards, AA, Giuri, D, Gunnlaugsson, T, Kotova, O, Krishnan, R, Lau, KHA, Laverty, G, Lloyd, GO, Maguire, O, Marchesan, S, Marshall, L, Miller, AF, Nilsson, BL, Özel, M, Pochan, DJ, Ravoo, BJ, Reches, M, Schneider, JP, Squires, AM, Thomson, AR, Tuttle, T, Wang, H & Yan, X 2025, 'Using supramolecular gels: general discussion', Faraday Discussions, vol. 260, pp. 235-251. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5fd90030a
Review article
Maguire, OR & Huck, WTS 2019, 'On the importance of reaction networks for synthetic living systems', Emerging topics in life sciences, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 517-527. https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20190016
View all publications in research portal