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Kayla Green

Kayla Green, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of Research

817-257-6220

Program Affiliations

Davis CollegeChemistry & Biochemistry

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry Texas A&M University, 2007
Postdoctoral Research UT Southwest Medical Center, 2009
BS, Chemistry Tarleton State University, 2002

Areas of Focus

  • Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other diseases derived from oxidative stress
  • Synthesis of new Tetra-aza macrocyclic pyridinophane ligands
  • Development and studies of earth abundant metal-derived catalysts

http://personal.tcu.edu/kaylagreen/

  1. Afroz, T.; Freire, D. M.; Hubin, T. J., Green, K. N. Direct Arylation of Unactivated Arenes Using Earth-Abundant Iron/Tetra-Aza Macrocyclic Complexes, Inorganic Chemistry 2026, 65(5), 2812-2820. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04793
  2. Del Bosque, N.; Elam, G.T.; Freire, D. M.; Hubin, T. J.; Green. K.N. Fundamental kinetic and selectivity properties of the anti-aging, antioxidant-active ingredient EUK-134. Dalton Transactions, 2026, 55(6), 2657-2664. DOI: 10.1039/D5DT02480C 
  3. Smith, K. J.; Schwartz, T. M.; Johnston, H. M.; Freire, D. M.; Pota, K.; Green, K. N. Effect of 4-position pyridine ring substitution on Zn(II) complexes of 4-substituted Py2N2 pyridinophane macrocycles. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2025, 78(1-30), 225. (Invited contribution to honor the retirement of Editor Jim Atwood)
  4. Harvey, T. K., Pota, K., Mekhail, M. M., Freire, D. M., Agbaglo, A., Janesko, B. G., Green, K. N. Predicting pKa of flexible polybasic tetra-aza macrocycles. RSC Advances, 2025, 15, 10663-10670.
  5. Smith, K. J., Schwartz, T. M., Freire, D. M., Bowers, C. J., Dunn, S. K., Bonnell, J. F., Mekhail, M. A., Akkaraju, G., Green, K. N. Rings of Power: Controlling SOD Mimic Activity by the Addition of Pyridine Rings within the Pyridinophane Scaffold. Inorganic Chemistry, 2024, 63(50), 23544-23553. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c02776
  6. Pota, K.; Nilewar, S.; Mantsorov, C.; Zumwalt, L.; Nguyen, N.; Bowers, C.; Freire, D. M.; Benafield, R. B.; Akkaraju, G. R.; Green, K. N. Impact of Indole Addition to 12-membered pyridinophanes: pKa, Metal Binding, Permeability and Antioxidant Activity. ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2024, 15(20), 3776–3790. DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.4c00530.

Last Updated: June 23, 2026

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