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Dr Jed Burns

Honorary Fellow
School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
j.burns2@uq.edu.au

Publications

Journal Articles (19)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Xing, Hui, McGregor, Sarah K. M., Batista, Bruna D., Whitefield, Cassidy, Stone, Isobella S. J., Murray, Cody-Ellen, Hurst, Rebecca M., Liu, Yizhou, Chow, Sharon, Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Zhao, Qi, Houston, Sevan D., Hu, Shu-Hong, Lonhienne, Thierry, Nouwens, Amanda, Burns, Jed M., Savage, G. Paul, Walter, Gimme H., Guddat, Luke W., Rafter, Michelle A. and Williams, Craig M. (2025). In search of herbistasis: COT-metsulfuron methyl displays rare herbistatic properties. Chemical Science, 16 (2), 649-658. doi: 10.1039/d4sc06923d
Kong, Dehui, Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Kuo, Andy, Simmons, Jacinta L., Tan, Lendl, Burns, Jed M., Pierens, Gregory K., Li, Rui, West, Nicholas P., Boyle, Glen M., Smith, Maree T., Savage, G. Paul and Williams, Craig M. (2023). seco-1-Azacubane-2-carboxylic acid: derivative scope and comparative biological evaluation. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 89 (1), 798-803. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c02333
Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Marshall, David L., Burns, Jed M., Pierens, Gregory K., Van Meurs, Derek P., Kong, Dehui, Bernhardt, Paul V., Blanksby, Stephen J., Savage, G. Paul, Eaton, Philip E. and Williams, Craig M. (2023). 9-Azahomocubane. Chemistry: A European Journal, 30 (3) e202303133, e202303133. doi: 10.1002/chem.202303133
Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Kong, Dehui, Burns, Jed M., Pierens, Gregory K., Bernhardt, Paul V., Savage, G. Paul and Williams, Craig M. (2023). seco-1-Azacubane-2-carboxylic acid–Amide Bond Comparison to Proline. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 88 (18), 12867-12871. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c01264
Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Marshall, David L., Burns, Jed. M., Pierens, Gregory K., Hormann, Robert E., Fisher, Allison M., Bernhardt, Paul V., Blanksby, Stephen J., Savage, G. Paul, Eaton, Philip E. and Williams, Craig M. (2023). 1-azahomocubane. Chemical Science, 14 (11), 2821-2825. doi: 10.1039/d3sc00001j
Vujcic, Biljana, Wyllie, Jessica, Tania,, Burns, Jed, White, Keith F., Cromwell, Simon, Lupton, David W., Dutton, Jason L., Soares da Costa, Tatiana P. and Houston, Sevan D. (2023). Cage hydrocarbons as linkers in dimeric drug design: case studies with trimethoprim and tedizolid. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 80 129086, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.129086
Burns, Jed M., Clark, Timothy and Williams, Craig M. (2021). Comprehensive computational investigation of the Barton–Kellogg reaction for both alkyl and aryl systems. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86 (11) acs.joc.1c00506, 1-14. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00506
Boittier, Eric D., Burns, Jed M., Gandhi, Neha S. and Ferro, Vito (2020). GlycoTorch Vina: docking designed and tested for glycosaminoglycans. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 60 (12), 6328-6343. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00373
Arachchige, Kasun S. Athukorala, Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Burns, Jed M., AL-Fayaad, Hydar A., Behera, Jogendra N., Rao, C. N. R., Clegg, Jack K. and Williams, Craig M. (2019). 1,4-Diazacubane crystal structure rectified as piperazinium. Chemical Communications, 55 (78), 11751-11753. doi: 10.1039/c9cc06272f
Houston, Sevan D., Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Xing, Hui, Chalmers, Benjamin A., Sykes, Melissa L., Stok, Jeanette E., Farfan Soto, Clementina, Burns, Jed M., Bernhardt, Paul V., De Voss, James J., Boyle, Glen M., Smith, Maree T., Tsanaktsidis, John, Savage, G. Paul, Avery, Vicky M. and Williams, Craig M. (2019). The cubane paradigm in bioactive molecule discovery: further scope, limitations and the cyclooctatetraene complement. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 17 (28), 6790-6798. doi: 10.1039/c9ob01238a
Burns, Jed M. and Boittier, Eric D. (2019). Pathway bifurcation in the (4 + 3)/(5 + 2)-cycloaddition of butadiene and oxidopyrylium ylides: the significance of molecular orbital isosymmetry. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84 (10) acs.joc.8b03236, 5997-6005. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b03236
Xing, Hui, Houston, Sevan D., Chen, Xuejie, Ghassabian, Sussan, Fahrenhorst-Jones, Tyler, Kuo, Andy, Murray, Cody-Ellen P., Conn, Kyna-Anne, Jaeschke, Kara N., Jin, Da-Yun, Pasay, Cielo, Bernhardt, Paul V., Burns, Jed M., Tsanaktsidis, John, Savage, G. Paul, Boyle, Glen M., De Voss, James J., McCarthy, James, Walter, Gimme H., Burne, Thomas H. J., Smith, Maree T., Tie, Jian-Ke and Williams, Craig M. (2019). Cyclooctatetraene: a bioactive cubane paradigm complement. Chemistry: A European Journal, 25 (11), 2729-2734. doi: 10.1002/chem.201806277
Pinkerton, David M., Chow, Sharon, Eisa, Nada H., Kainth, Kashish, Vanden Berg, Timothy J., Burns, Jed M., Guddat, Luke W., Savage, G. Paul, Chadli, Ahmed and Williams, Craig M. (2019). Synthesis of the seco-limonoid BCD ring system identifies a Hsp90 chaperon machinery (p23) inhibitor. Chemistry - A European Journal, 25 (6), 1451-1455. doi: 10.1002/chem.201805420
Moore, Peter W., Zerk, Timothy J., Burns, Jed M., Bernhardt, Paul V. and Williams, Craig M. (2019). Hydrogen-bonding interactions in the Ley-Griffith oxidation: practical considerations for the synthetic chemist. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 (2-3), 303-308. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201800860
Moore, Peter W., Zerk, Timothy J., Burns, Jed M., Bernhardt, Paul V. and Williams, Craig M. (2018). Cover Feature: Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions in the Ley-Griffith Oxidation: Practical Considerations for the Synthetic Chemist (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2-3/2019). European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 (2-3), 230-230. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201801822
Burns, Jed M., Krenske, Elizabeth H. and Mcgeary, Ross P. (2018). Claisen rearrangements of benzyl vinyl ethers and heterobenzyl vinyl ethers. Synthesis, 50 (9) ss-2017-e0731-r, 1750-1772. doi: 10.1055/s-0036-1589529
Burns, Jed M. (2018). Computational evidence for a reaction pathway bifurcation in Sasaki-type (4 + 3)-cycloadditions. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 16 (11), 1828-1836. doi: 10.1039/c8ob00075a
Krenske, Elizabeth H., Burns, Jed M. and McGeary, Ross P. (2017). Claisen rearrangements of benzyl vinyl ethers: theoretical investigation of mechanism, substituent effects, and regioselectivity. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15 (37), 7887-7893. doi: 10.1039/c7ob01666b
Burns, Jed M., Krenske, Elizabeth H. and McGeary, Ross P. (2017). Aromatic claisen rearrangements of benzyl ketene acetals: conversion of benzylic alcohols to (ortho-tolyl)acetates. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017 (2), 252-256. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201601354

Thesis

Burns, Jed (2016). Experimental and Computational Investigations into the Benzyl-Claisen Rearrangement. PhD Thesis, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.456
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