Ultra papers

Below is a full list of Ultra facility publications since 2008.

2026


Femtosecond-to-Second Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Brings Unparalleled Insight Into the Life Cycle of the Versatile Manganese Photocatalyst [Mn2(CO)10]
Jonathan B. Eastwood, Conor D. Rankine, Thomas J. Burden, Abigail Frith, L. Anders Hammarback, Barbara Procacci, Daniel J. Shaw, Benjamin R. O’Donoghue, Ian P. Clark, Gabriel Karras, Partha Malakar, Gregory M. Greetham, Michael Towrie, Neil T. Hunt, Gerard P. McGlacken, Ian J. S. Fairlamb, Jason M. Lynam
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2026, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c16761

Photoactivation of [FeFe] Hydrogenase Studied by Multiscale Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
Elizaveta Kobeleva, Malin Khalil, Manon T. Lachmann, Partha Malakar, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Gregory M. Greetham, Patricia Rodriguez-Maciá, James A. Birrell, Marius Horch
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2026​​, 17, 14, 4214–4220​
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6c00408​

Picosecond time-resolved infra-redspectroscopic study of a water-solublecationic copper-porphyrin with nucleic acids
Pa´raic M. Keane, Daniel Graczyk, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Susan J. Quinn and John M. Kelly
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2026
DOI: 10.1039/d5cp04939c​

Evidence for Photoinduced Polaron Generation in a High Persistence Length Low Bandgap Conjugated Polymer in Solution
Mohammed Azzouzi, Elham Rezasoltani, Matthe​w J. Bird, Jack F. Coker, Jarvist M. Frost, Garrett S. LeCroy, Anthony W. Parker, Igor V. Sazanovich, Gregory M. Greetham, Michael Towrie, Alise Virbule, Michelle S. Vezie, Despoina Heracleous, Hugo Bronstein, Alberto Salleo, Jenny Nelson, Sophia C. Hayes
J. Phys. Chem. B 2026, 130, 6, 1991–2004​
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.5c07501

Unravelling the role of additives in the structure of non-aqueous media at the electrode surface under potential control​
Nathaniel James Dallison Hill,   Ciarán O’Brien,   Paul M Donaldson,   Hansaem Jang,   Bhavin Siritanaratkul,   Gilberto Teobaldi,   Alexander Cowan  and  Adrian Gardner  ​
Faraday Discuss., 2026
DOI: 10.1039/D5FD00118H

2025

Quantifying Additive Manufacturing Vapor Plumes Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Synchrotron X-Ray Radiography and Simulations
Adv. Sci. 2025, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX

DOI: 10.1002/advs.202513652​

Steady-State an​d Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Study of [Ru(phen)2(dpqa)]2+ Showing Enantiomer-Dependent DNA Light-Switch Behavior in Solution and in Live Cells​​

Simon N. Smith, Hend Shayoub, Karen A. O’Donoghue, Caitriona Creely, Igor V. Sazanovich, Paul E. Kruger, Jeremy C. Simpson, John M. Kelly and Susan J. Quinn​
Inorg. Chem. 2025, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04859


Emma Campbell, James Mattock, Monik Panchal, Peixi Cong, Stefa​n Kucharski, Christopher S. Blackman,Michael J. Watson, Paul Cox, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Ines Lezcano-Gonzalez and Andrew M. Beale
Cell Rep.Phys.Sci.​, 2025, 0, 0, 102858
DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102858​​

Rhea Kumar, Sufiyan Khan, Deborin Ghosh, Gabriel Karras, Ian P. Clark, Gregory M. Greetham, Thomas A. A. Oliver, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing and Helen H. Fieldin

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 35, 32064–32076​

DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c10445​

Mark Stitch, Martin Pižl, Niamh Lehane, Gregory M. Greetham, František HartlMichael Towrie and Susan J. Quinn

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 33, 29801–29814

DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c05736

Direct observation of two-channel photodissociation of carbon monoxide from the hemoglobin subunits​

Serget V. Lepeshkevich, Igor V. Sazanovich, Marina V. Parkhats, Syargey N. Gilevich, Aliaksei V. Yantsevich, Julia A. Weinstein, Michael Towrie and Boris M. Dzhagrov

Nat. Commun., 2025, 16, 7746 
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63092-z​


Probing Mn Precatalyst Activation through Time-Resolved Spectroscopy: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Effects of CO and PPh3 as Coligands on Ultrafast Dynamics and C–C Bond Formation​

Benjamin R. O’Donoghue, Stefan Flesch, Eimear Courtney, Shweta Choudhary, Jonathan B. Eastwood, Katrina Mackey, Leticia M. Pardo, Ian P. Clark, Partha Malakar, Gregory M. Greetham, Adrian C. Whitwood, Richard J. Gammons, Gerard P. McGlacken, Ian J. S. Fairlamb and Jason M. Lynam

Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 33, 16768–16780
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c01443


Eyes on the Prize: Tracking Electron Transfer in G-Rich Duplex and Quadruplex DNA Using Enantiopure Ruthenium Polypyridyl Infrared Redox Probes​
Mark Stitch, Martin Pižl, Niamh Lehane, Gregory M. Greetham, František Hartl, Michael Towrie and Susan J. Quinn

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 33, 29801–29814

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05736


Long-Range Allosteric Modulation of DNA Duplex Dynamics Induced by Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamide Binding 

Sophie E. T. Kendall-Price, Ryan J. O. Nichol, Andrea Taladriz-Sender, Ryan Phelps, Partha Malakar, Gregory M. Greetham, Glenn A. Burley and Neil T. Hunt 

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2025, 16, XXX, 7875–7882
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01542


How a toxic pollutant avoids photodegradation–relaxation pathways of UV-excited 2, 4-dinitrophenol in aqueous solution 

​​​Hallam J. M. Greene, Deborin Ghosh, Igor V. Sazanovich, Ryan A. Phelps, Bembe Mackintosh, Basile F. E. Curchod and Andrew J. Orr-Ewing 


Intensity-driven resurgence of reverse saturable absorption and vibrational modes in hexagonal silver nanoplates​​ 

Amit Kumar Pradhan, Ayon Jyoti Karmakar, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Suman Kumar, Marco Gandolfi, Tara Singha, Amiya Priyam and Prasanta Kumar Datta 

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2025, 13, 12013-12023 

DOI:10.1039/D5TC00212E 


Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic analysis of the ubiquitous precatalyst [Mn2(CO)10] in different solvents  

Amy L. Farmer, Barbara Procacci, Daniel J. Shaw, Sabina Gurung, Ian JS Fairlamb, Jason M. Lynam, and Neil T. Hunt.
Chem. Phys., 2025, 162, 174302

DOI: 10.1063/5.0254482 


Machine-learning based classification of 2D-IR liquid biopsies enables stratification of melanoma relapse risk
Kelly Brown, Amy Farmer, Sabina Gurung, Matthew J. Baker, Ruth Board, and Neil T. Hunt.
Chem. Sci., 2025,16, 8394-840​​4
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC01526J


Distinctive signatures and ultrafast dynamics of Brønsted sites, silanol nests and adsorbed water in zeolites revealed by 2D-IR spectroscopy 

Paul M. Donaldson, Alexander P. Hawkins and  Russell F. Howe 

Chem. Sci. , 2025, 16, 6688 – 6704 

DOI: 10.1039/D4SC08093​A​ 


Probing the Signal ​Transduction Mechanism of the Light-Activated Adenylate Cyclase OaPAC Using Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis​ 

Samruddhi S. Jewlikar, Jinnette Tolentino Collado, Madeeha I. Ali, Aya Sabbah, YongLe He, James N. Iuliano, Christopher R. Hall,KatrinAdamczyk, Gregory M. Greetham, Andras Lukacs, Stephen R. Meech and Peter J. Tonge 

ACS Chem. Biol., 2025, 20, 2, 369–377 

DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00627​


Anion Localization on Termini of a Non-Fullerene Acceptor Aids Charge Transport​ 

Junjun Guo, Martin V. Appleby, Kui Ding, Tong Shan, James Shipp, Igor V. Sazanovich, Dimitri Chekulaev, Zhuoran Qiao, Ricardo J. Fernández-Terán, Rachel Crespo Otero, Nicola Gasparini, Hongliang Zhong, Julia A. Weinstein and Tracey M. Clarke 

Advanced Energy Material, 2025, 2404926 

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202404926


2024 


Enhancing Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Blue Light Using FAD Photoreceptor AppABLUF​​ 

YongLe He, Agnieszka A. Gil, Sergey P. Laptenok, Anam Fatima, Jinnette Tolentino Collado, James N. Iuliano, Helena A. Woroniecka, Richard Brust, Aya Sabbah, Michael Towrie, Gregory M. Greetham, Igor V. Sazanovich, Jarrod B. French, Andras Lukacs, Stephen R. Meechand Peter J. Tonge 

Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 1, 39–44
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c11817


Nile Red Fluorescence: Where’s the Twist? 

Gajo, D. Shchepanovska . F. Jones, G. Karras, P. Malakar , G. M. Greetham , O. A. Hawkins, C. J. Jordan, B. F. Curchod, and T. A. Oliver.

Phys. Chem. B 2024, 128, 47, 11768–11775

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c06048​​ 


Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy Resolves the Vibrational Landscape in Donor–Bridge–Acceptor Complexes with Site-Specific Isotopic Labeling 

James D. Shipp, Ricardo J. Fernández-Terán, Alexander J. Auty, Heather Carson, Andrew J. Sadler, Michael Towrie, Igor V. Sazanovich, Paul M. Donaldson, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, Julia A. Weinstein. 

ACS Phys. Chem Au 2024, 4, 6, 761–772 

DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.4c00073 


 

Unravelling the ultrafast photochemical dynamics of nitrobenzene in aqueous solution
Nicholas A. Lau, Deborin Ghosh, Susannah Bourne-Worster, Rhea Kumar, William A. Whitaker, Jonas Heitland, Julia A. Davies, Gabriel Karras, Ian Clark, Gregory M. Gre​​etham, Graham A. Worth, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing, and Helen H. Fielding. 

Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 15, 10407–10417

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c13826 


Efficient Ground-State Recovery of UV-Photoexcited p-Nitrophenol in Aqueous Solution by Direct and Multistep Pathways 

Deborin Ghosh, K. Eryn Spinlove, Hallam J. M. Greene, Nicholas Lau, Sandra Gómez, Min-Hsien Kao, William Whitaker, Ian P. Clark, Partha Malakar, Graham A. Worth, Thomas A. A. Oliver, Helen H. Fielding and Andrew J. Orr-Ewing. 

Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 44, 30443–30454

​​DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c10965 


Contrasting Photosensitized Processes of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Structural Isomers Containing Linear and Hooked Intercalating Ligands Bound to Guanine-Rich DNA 

Mark Stitch, Rosie Sanders, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Stanley W. Botchway, Susan J. Quinn 

Phys. Chem. B, 2024, 128, 32, 7803-781

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c04129 


Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopic study of molecular nanoaggregate photocatalysts 

Chao Lia, Tao Liub, Owen Thwaitesc, Adrian M. Gardnera, Igor V. Sazanovichd, Haofan Yange, Xiaobo Lie, Andrew I. Cooperb and Alexander J. Cowan 

Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 16133-16141
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC03825H 


Competing Nonadiabatic Relaxation Pathways for Near-UV Excited ortho-Nitrophenol in Aqueous Solution 

Hallam J. M. Greene, Deborin Ghosh, Igor V. Sazanovich, Ryan Phelps, Basile F. E. Curchod, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 36, 9153–9159

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c02154


Contrasting Photosensitized Processes of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Structural Isomers Containing Linear and Hooked Intercalating Ligands Bound to Guanine-Rich DNA 

Mark Stitch, Rosie Sanders, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Stanley W. Botchway, Susan J. Quinn 

Phys. Chem. B, 2024, 128, 32, 7803-781

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c04129 


Ultrafast Spectroscopy at the Central Laser Facility.Applications to the study of commercially relevant materials​​ 

Paul M. Donaldson, Igor V. Sazanovich, Partha Malakar, Sourav Maiti, Mike Towrie, Gregory M. Greetham
Johnson Matthey Technol. Rev.; 2024, 503 – 520
DOI: 10.1595/205651324X17092043851525 


Methanol-to-Olefins Studied by UV Raman Spectroscopy as Compared to Visible Wavelength: Capitalization on Resonance Enhancement 

Emma Campbell, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Michael J. Watson, Ines Lezcano-Gonzalez, Andrew M. Beale 

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 26, 6826–6834
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00865


Gating-out emission for fluorescence-free Raman spectra for the study of electrode interfaces 

Alex R. Neale, Igor V. Sazanovich, Laurence J. Hardwick 

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, Volume 45, 101480; 2024 

DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2024.101480 


Structural dynamics around a hydrogen bond: Investigating the effect of hydrogen bond strengths on the excited state dynamics of carboxylic acid dimers 

  1. Plackett, C. Robertson, A. De Matos Loja, H. McGhee, G. Karras, I. V. Sazanovich, R. A. Ingle, M. J. Paterson, R. S. Minns
    J. Chem. Phys. 160, 124311; 2024
    DOI: 10.1063/5.0192407 

The use of NADH anisotropy to investigate mitochondrial cristae alignment 

Holly. E. Smith, Alasdair M. Mackenzie, Chloe Seddon, Rhys Mould, Ifi Kalampouka, Partha Malakar, Sarah R. Needham, Konstantinos Beis, Jimmy D. Bell, Alistair Nunn & Stanley W. Botchway 

Scientific Reports, volume 14; 2024
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55780-5 


Unraveling the Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics of Nitrobenzene in Aqueous Solution 

Nicholas A. Lau, Deborin Ghosh, Susannah Bourne-Worster, Rhea Kumar, William A. Whitaker, Jonas Heitl, Julia A. Davies, Gabriel Karras, Ian P. Clark, Gregory M. Greetham, Graham A. Worth, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing, Helen H. Fielding
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 15, 10407–10417
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c13826 


The 2D-IR spectrum of hydrogen-bonded silanol groups in pyrogenic silica 

Paul M. Donaldson
J. Chem. Phys. 160, 104204; 2024
DOI: 10.1063/5.0193551 


Potential Dependent Reorientation Controlling Activity of a Molecular Electrocatalyst 

Adrian M. Gardner, Gaia Neri, Bhavin Siritanaratkul, Hansaem Jang, Khezar H. Saeed, Paul M. Donaldson, and Alexander J. Cowan 

  1. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 11, 7130–7134
    DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c13076

 Unveiling Mechanistic Complexity in Manganese-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization Using IR Spectroscopy Over 16 Orders of Magnitude in Time 

Ian J. S. Fairlamb and Jason M. Lynam
Acc. Chem. Res. 2024, 57, 6, 919–932 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00774 


Elucidating the Signal Transduction Mechanism of the Blue-Light-Regulated Photoreceptor YtvA: From Photoactivation to Downstream Regulation 

YongLe He, Jinnette Tolentino Collado, James N. Iuliano, Helena A. Woroniecka, Christopher R. Hall, Agnieszka A. Gil, Sergey P. Laptenok, Gregory M. Greetham, Boris Illarionov, Adelbert Bacher, Markus Fischer, Jarrod B. French, Andras Lukacs, Stephen R. Meech, and Peter J. Tonge 

ACS Chem. Biol. 2024, 19, 3, 696–706
DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.3c00722 


Laser induced temperature-jump time resolved IR spectroscopy of zeolites 

Alexander P. Hawkins, Amy E. Edmeades, Christopher D. M. Hutchison, Michael Towrie, Russell F. Howe, Gregory M. Greetham, Paul M. Donaldson
Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 3453-3465 

DOI: 10.1039/D3SC0612K 


Simultaneous Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering with a Kerr Gate for Fluorescence Suppression 

Gema Cabello, Igor V. Sazanovich, Ioannis Siachos, Matthew Bilton, Beata L. Mehdi, Alex R. Neale, and Laurence J. Hardwick 

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15​​

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02926 


Biomolecular infrared spectroscopy: making time for dynamics 

Neil T. Hunt 

Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 414-430
DOI: 10.1039/D3SC05223K


2023 


Characterization of the Reversible Intersystem Crossing Dynamics of Organic Photocatalysts Using Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy 

 William Whitaker, Igor V. Sazanovich, Yonghwan Kwon, Woojin Jeon, Min Sang Kwon, and Andrew J. Orr-Ewing 

Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c04780


Developments and Challenges Involving Triplet Transfer across Organic/Inorganic Heterojunctions for Singlet Fission and Photon Upconversion 

Sourav Maiti, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles 

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03013


 Unraveling Excited State Dynamics of a Single-Stranded DNA-Assembled Conjugated Polyelectrolyte 

Eliana Nicolaidou, Anthony W. Parker, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, and Sophia C. Hayes

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01803


A versatile high-average-power ultrafast infrared driver tailored for high-harmonic generation and vibrational spectroscopy 

Nicolas Thiré, Gourab Chatterjee, Yoann Pertot, Olivier Albert, Gabriel Karras, Yu Zhang, Adam S. Wyatt, Michael Towrie, Emma Sprigate, Gregory M. Greetham & Nicolas Forget 

Sci Rep 13, 18874 (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46325-3 


Optical Screening and Classification of Drug Binding to Proteins in Human Blood Serum 

Samantha H. Rutherford, Christopher D. M. Hutchison, Gregory M. Greetham, Anthony W. Parker, Alison Nordon, Matthew J. Baker, and Neil T. Hunt 

Anal. Chem. 2023, 95 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03713 


Good Vibrations Report on the DNA Quadruplex Binding of an Excited State Amplified Ruthenium Polypyridyl IR Probe
 

Mark Stitch, Davide Avagliano, Daniel Graczyk, Ian P. Clark, Leticia González, Michael Towrie, and Susan J Quinn 

  1. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 39, 21344–21360

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06099 


Breaking Barriers in Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Imaging Using 100 kHz Amplified Yb-Laser Systems 

Paul M. Donaldson, Greg M. Greetham, Chris T. Middleton, Brad M. Luther, Martin T. Zanni, Peter Hamm, and Amber T. Krummel
Acc. Chem. Res. 2023, 56, 15, 2062–2071 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00152 


Ultrafast Spectroscopy at Artemis 

Richard T Chapman, Adam S Wyatt; Yu Zhang, James O. F. Thompson, Charlotte E Sanders, Greg M. Greetham, Emma Springate
IEEE 2023, Published in 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) 

DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC57999.2023.10232132 


Photoredox-HAT Catalysis for Primary Amine α-C–H Alkylation: Mechanistic Insight with Transient Absorption Spectroscopy 

Mahima Sneha, Georgia L. Thornton, Luke Lewis-Borrell, Alison S. H. Ryder, Samuel G. Espley, Ian P. Clark, Alexander J. Cresswell, Matthew N. Grayson, and Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 12, 8004–8013
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.3c01474 


Nanophase-Photocatalysis: Loading, Storing, and Release of H2O2 using Graphitic Carbon Nitride 

Akalya Karunakaran, Katie J. Francis, Chris R. Bowen, Richard J. Ball, Yuanzhu Zhao, Lina Wang, Neil B. McKeown, Mariolino Carta, Philip J. Fletcher, Remi Castaing, Mark A. Isaacs, Laurence J. Hardwick , Gema Cabello, Igor V. Sazanovich, Frank Marken 
Chem. Commun., 2023,59, 7423-7426
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC01442H 


Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy Combined with Wide Area Illumination and Sample Rotation for Wood Species Classification 

Kay Sowoidnich, Michael Towrie and Pavel Matousek 

Applied Spectroscopy. 2023, 77(6), 666-681 

DOI: 10.1177/00037028231168405


Temperature-Induced Effects on the Structure of Gramicidin S 

Ngaatendwe B. C. Pfukwa, Marina Rautenbach, Neil T. Hunt, Olufemi O. Olaoye, Vikas Kumar, Anthony W. Parker, Lucy Minnes, and Pieter H. Neethling 

Phys. Chem. B 2023, 127, 17, 3774–3786
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06115

 

Understanding Precatalyst Activation and Speciation in Manganese-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization Reactions 

Jonathan B. Eastwood, L. Anders Hammarback, Thomas J. Burden, Ian P. Clark, Michael Towrie, Alan Robinson, Ian J. S. Fairlamb, and Jason M. Lynam 

Organometallics 2023, 42, 14, 1766–1773 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.3c00004 


Photoinduced Electron Transfer from a 1,4,5,6-Tetrahydro Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (Phosphate) Analogue to Oxidized Flavin in an Ene-Reductase Flavoenzyme 

Magnus Speirs, Samantha J. O. Hardman, Andreea I. Iorgu, Linus O. Johannissen, Derren J. Heyes, Nigel S. Scrutton, Igor V. Sazanovich, and Sam Hay 

Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 13, 3236–3242
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00176


Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of intensely optically scattering pelleted solid catalysts 

Paul M. Donaldson,  Russell F. Howe,  Alexander P. Hawkins, Mike Towrie, and  Gregory M. Greetham
J. Chem. Phys., 2023 158, 114201 

DOI: 10.1063/5.0139103 


Sequence-Dependent Melting and Refolding Dynamics of RNA UNCG Tetraloops Using Temperature-Jump/Drop Infrared Spectroscopy 

P. Howe, G. M. Greetham, B. Procacci, A. W. Parker, and N. T. Hunt

Phys. Chem. B, 2023, 127, 7, 1586–1597
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08709


Coumarin C–H Functionalization by Mn(I) Carbonyls: Mechanistic Insight by Ultra-Fast IR Spectroscopic Analysis 

Thomas J Burden, Kathryn P. R. Fernandez, Mary Kagoro, Jonathan Eastwood, Theo F N Tanner, Adrian C Whitwood, Ian P Clark, Michael Towrie, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Jason Martin Lynam, Ian James Stewart Fairlamb 

Chem. Eur. J., 2023, 29, 25 

DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203038 


2022 


Spectrophotometric Concentration Analysis Without Molar Absorption Coefficients by Two-Dimensional-Infrared and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy 

Paul M. Donaldson, ACS Publications,Analytical Chemistry 2022 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c04287 


 G-Quadruplex Binding of a NIR Emitting Osmium Polypyridyl Probe Revealed by Solution NMR and Time-Resolved Infrared Studies 

Kateřina Peterková, Mark Stitch, Rayhaan Z Boota, Paul Scattergood, Paul Elliott, Michael Towrie, Peter Podbevsek, Janez Plavec, Susan Jane Quinn 

Chem. Eur. J.2022
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202203250 


 Measuring Proteins in H2O using 2D-IR Spectroscopy; Pre-Processing Steps and Applications towards a Protein Library  

Samantha H Rutherford, Gregory M Greetham, Anthony Parker, Alison Nordon, Matthew J. Baker, and  Neil T Hunt
J. Chem. Phys. (in press) 2022
DOI: 10.1063/5.0127680 


Time-resolved infra-red studies of photo-excited porphyrins in the presence of nucleic acids and in HeLa tumour cells: insights into binding site and electron transfer dynamics 

Pa´raic M. Keane, Clara Zehe, Fergus E. Poynton, Sandra A. Bright, Sandra Estayalo-Adria´n, Stephen J. Devereux, Paul M. Donaldson, Igor V. Sazanovich, Michael Towrie, Stanley W. Botchway, Christine J. Cardin, D. Clive Williams, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Conor Long, John M. Kelly and Susan J. Quinn
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.  2022 

DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04604k 


 Nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics of ReCl(CO)3(bpy) in two different solvents 

 Adam Šrut, Sebastian Mai, Igor V. Sazanovich, Jan Heyda, Antonín Vlček, Leticia González and Stanislav Záliš
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022
DOI: 10.1039/D2CP02981B 


Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of [NiFe] hydrogenase from E. coli reveals the role of the protein scaffold in controlling the active site environment 

Solomon L. D. Wrathall, Barbara Procacci, Marius Horch, Emily Saxton, Chris Furlan, Julia Walton, Yvonne Rippers, James N. Blaza, Gregory M. Greetham, Michael Towrie, Anthony W. Parker, Jason Lynam, Alison Parkin and Neil T. Hunt 

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022 

DOI: 10.1039/D2CP04188J 


Measuring RNA UNCG Tetraloop Refolding Dynamics Using Temperature-Jump/Drop Infrared Spectroscopy 

  1. P. Howe, G. M. Greetham, B. Procacci, A. W. Parker, and N. T. Hunt

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022 13 (39), 9171-9176
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02338 


Reversible Glutamate Coordination to High-Valent Nickel Protects the Active Site of a [NiFe] Hydrogenase from Oxygen 

Catharina J. Kulka-Peschke, Anne-Christine Schulz, Christian Lorent, Yvonne Rippers, Stefan Wahlefeld, Janina Preissler, Claudia Schulz, Charlotte Wiemann, Cornelius C. M. Bernitzky, Chara Karafoulidi-Retsou, Solomon L. D. Wrathall, Barbara Procacci, Hiroaki Matsuura, Gregory M. Greetham, Christian Teutloff, Lars Lauterbach, Yoshiki Higuchi, Masaharu Ishii, Neil T. Hunt, Oliver Lenz, Ingo Zebger, and Marius Horch; ACS 

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c06400 


Unraveling the Photoactivation Mechanism of a Light-Activated Adenylyl Cyclase Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy Coupled with Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis 

Jinnette Tolentino Collado, James N. Iuliano, Katalin Pirisi, Samruddhi Jewlikar, Katrin Adamczyk, Gregory M. Greetham, Michael Towrie, Jeremy R. H. Tame, Stephen R. Meech, Peter J. Tonge, and Andras Lukacs; ACS Chem. Biol. 2022
https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.2c00575 


A comprehensive understanding of carbon–carbon bond formation by alkyne migratory insertion into manganacycles 

  1. Anders Hammarback, Jonathan B. Eastwood, Thomas J. Burden, Callum J. Pearce,  Ian P. Clark, Michael Towrie, Alan Robinson,  Ian J. S. Fairlamb and  Jason M. Lynam; Chemical Science 2022

DOI: 10.1039/D2SC02562K
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Lithium Insertion into Graphitic Carbon Observed via Operando Kerr-Gated Raman Spectroscopy Enables High State of Charge Diagnostics 

Alex R. Neale, David C. Milan, Filipe Braga, Igor V. Sazanovich, and Laurence J. Hardwick; ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01120​​ 


Detection of paracetamol binding to albumin in blood serum using 2D-IR spectroscopy 

Samantha H Rutherford, Gregory M Greetham, Michael Towrie, Anthony W Parker, Soheila Kharratian, Thomas F Krauss, Alison Nordon, Matthew J Baker, Neil T Hunt; Analyst. 2022 Jul 14
DOI: 10.1039/d2an00978a 


pH-jumps in a Protic Ionic Liquid Proceed by Vehicular Proton Transport 

Sourav Maiti, Sunayana Mitra, Clinton A. Johnson, Kai C. Gronborg, Sean Garrett-Roe, Paul M. Donaldson; ACS Publications, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 34, 8104–8110​​ 

 DOI: ​​​10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01457 


Temperature-Jump Time Resolved 2D-IR Spectroscopy of DNA Hairpin Unfolding 

C.P. Howe, G.M. Greetham, B. Procacci, D. J. Shaw, M. Towrie, A.W. Parker, N.T. Hunt.  

Research Gate​​ 2022 


Energy Relaxation of Porphycene in Atomic and Molecular Cryogenic Matrices 

Jacek Dobkowski,Igor V. Sazanovich, Aleksander Gorski and Jacek Waluk; Photochem 2022, 2(2) 

DOI: 10.3390/photochem2020021 


Solving the Puzzle of Unusual Excited-State Proton Transfer in 2,5-Bis(6-methyl-2-benzoxazolyl)phenol 

Jacek Dobkowski, Michał Kijak, Sylwester Gawinkowski, Elena Karpiuk, Mariusz Pietrzak, Igor V. Sazanovich, and Jacek Waluk; J. Phys. Chem. A 2022, 126 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10030 


Structural Information about the trans-to-cis Isomerization Mechanism of the Photoswitchable Fluorescent Protein rsEGFP2 Revealed by Multiscale Infrared Transient Absorption 

Lucas M. Uriarte*, Raffaele Vitale, Stanisław Niziński, Kyprianos Hadjidemetriou, Ninon Zala, Andras Lukacs, Gregory M. Greetham, Igor V. Sazanovich, Martin Weik, Cyril Ruckebusch, Stephen R. Meech, and Michel Sliwa, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c02920 


Manganese-Mediated C–H Bond Activation of Fluorinated Aromatics and the ortho-Fluorine Effect: Kinetic Analysis by In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis and Time-Resolved Methods 

  1. Anders Hammarback, Amy L. Bishop, Christina Jordan, Gayathri Athavan, Jonathan B. Eastwood, Thomas J. Burden, Joshua T. W. Bray, Francis Clarke, Alan Robinson, Jean-Philippe Krieger, Adrian Whitwood, Ian P. Clark, Michael Towrie, Jason M. Lynam, and Ian J. S. Fairlamb, ACS Catal.

DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c05477


2021​​


Detection of Glycine as a Model Protein in Blood Serum Using 2D-IR Spectroscopy
Samantha H. Rutherford; Gregory M. Greetham; Paul M. Donaldson; Michael Towrie; Anthony W. Parker; Matthew J. Baker; Neil T. Hunt, Analytical Chemistry 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03567 


Excitation-wavelength-dependent photophysics of d8d8 di-isocyanide complexes 

M Pižl, BM Hunter, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, HB Gray, S Záliš, and A Vlček, Inorg. Chem. 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02645 


Solvent-dependent excited-state evolution of Prodan dyes 

P Pospíšil, L Cwiklik, J Sýkora, M Hof, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and A Vlček, J. Phys. Chem. B 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c09030 


Direct observation of reactive intermediates by time-resolved spectroscopy unravels the mechanism of a radical-induced 1,2-metalate rearrangement 

L Lewis-Borrell, M Sneha, IP Clark, V Fasano, A Noble, VK Aggarwal, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c07964 


Adenine radical cation formation by a ligand-centered excited state of an intercalated chromium polypyridyl complex leads to enhanced DNA photo-oxidation 

FA Baptista, D Krizsan, M Stitch, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark, M Towrie, C Long, L Martinez-Fernandez, R Improta, NAP Kane-Maguire, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06658 


Nanosecond heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in a multiheme cytochrome nanowire reported by a spectrally unique His/Met-ligated heme 

JH van Wonderen, K Adamczyk, X Wu, X Jiang, SEH Piper, CR Hall, MJ Edwards, TA Clarke, H Zhang, LJC Jeuken, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, J Blumberger, SR Meech, and JN Butt, PNAS 

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2107939118 


Sensing of bacterial spores with 2D-IR spectroscopy 

B Procacci, SH Rutherford, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, CV Robinson, CR Howle, and NT. Hunt, Proc. SPIE 11749 

DOI: 10.1117/12.2585894 


Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy of polaron formation in a polymer photocatalyst 

VL Piercy, KH Saeed, AW Prentice, G Neri, C Li, AM Gardner, Y Bai, RS Sprick, IV Sazanovich, AI Cooper, MJ Rosseinsky, MA Zwijnenburg and AJ Cowan, J. Phys. Chem. B 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03073 


Organic cage inclusion crystals exhibiting guest-enhanced multiphoton harvesting​​​ 

G-H Ning, P Cui, IV Sazanovich, JT Pegg, Q Zhu, Z Pang, R-J Wei, M Towrie, KE Jelfs, MA Little and AI Cooper, Chem 

DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2021.09.016 


Structure-Dependent Electron Transfer Rates for Dihydrophenazine, Phenoxazine, and Phenothiazine Photoredox Catalysts Employed in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization 

M Sneha, A Bhattacherjee, L Lewis-Borrell, IP Clark, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05069 


Towards understanding non-equivalence of α and β subunits within human hemoglobin in conformational relaxation and molecular oxygen rebinding 

SV Lepeshkevich, IV Sazanovich, MV Parkhats, SN Gilevich, and BM Dzhagarov, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/D1SC00712B 


An ultrafast vibrational study of dynamical heterogeneity in the protic ionic liquid ethyl-ammonium nitrate. I. Room temperature dynamics 

CA Johnson, AW Parker, PM Donaldson, and S Garrett-Roe, J. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1063/5.0044822 


Singlet and Triplet Contributions to the Excited-State Activities of Dihydrophenazine, Phenoxazine, and Phenothiazine Organocatalysts Used in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization 

A Bhattacherjee, M Sneha, L Lewis-Borrell, G Amoruso, TAA Oliver, J Tyler, IP Clark, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c00279 


Identification of the vibrational marker of tyrosine cation radical using ultrafast transient infrared spectroscopy of flavoprotein systems
K Pirisi, L Nag, Z Fekete, JN Iuliano, J Tolentino Collado, IP Clark, Ildiko Pecsi, P Sournia, U Liebl, GM Greetham, PJ Tonge, SR Meech, MH Vos, and A Lukacs, Photobiol. Sci.
DOI: 10.1007/s43630-021-00024-y 


Exploiting a Neutral BODIPY Copolymer as an Effective Agent for Photodynamic Antimicrobial Inactivation
AA Cullen, A Rajagopal, K Heintz, A Heise, R Murphy, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, M Towrie, C Long, D Fitzgerald-Hughes and MT Pryce, J. Phys. Chem. B 

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c09634 


Direct Observation of the Microscopic Reverse of the Ubiquitous Concerted Metalation Deprotonation Step in C–H Bond Activation Catalysis
LA Hammarback, BJ Aucott, JTW Bray, IP Clark, M Towrie, A Robinson, IJS Fairlamb and JM Lynam, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10409 


Differentiation of bacterial spores via 2D-IR spectroscopy
B Procacci, SH Rutherford, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, CV Robinson, CR Howle and NT Hunt, Spectrochim. Acta A
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119319 


2020 


Tuning Photoinduced Electron Transfer in POM-Bodipy Hybrids by Controlling the Environment: Experiment and Theory
G Toupalas, J Karlsson, FA Black, A Masip-Sanchez, X Lopez, YB M’Barek, S Blanchard, A Proust, S Alves, P Chabera, IP Clark, T Pollerits, JM Poblet, EA Gobson and G Izzet, Angew. Chem.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014677 


Light- and Manganese-Initiated Borylation of Aryl Diazonium Salts: Mechanistic Insight on the Ultrafast Time-Scale Revealed by Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Analysis
I Fairlamb, JD Firth, LA Hammarback, TJ Burden, JB Eastwood, JR Donald, CS Horbaczewskyj, MT McRobie, A Tramaseur, IP Clark, M Towrie, A Robinson, J-P Krieger and JM Lynam, Chem. Eur. J.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202004568 


Insight into the effects of confined hydrocarbon species on the lifetime of methanol conversion catalysts
I Lezcano-Gonzalez, E Campbell, AEJ Hoffman, M Bocus, IV Sazonovich, M Towrie, M Agote-Aran, EK Gibson, A Greenaway, K De Wispelaere, V Van Speybroeck and AM Beale, Nat. Mater.
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0800-y 


Radical Formation in the Photoactivated Adenylate Cyclase OaPAC Revealed by Ultrafast Spectroscopy
A Lukacs, J Tolentino, J Iuliano, K Pirisi, PJ Tonge, G Greetham, M Towrie, SR Meech, Biophys. J.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.3285 


Charge-shifting optical lock-in detection with shifted excitation Raman difference spectroscopy for the analysis of fluorescent heterogeneous samples
K Sowoidnich, M Maiwald, B Sumpf, M Towrie and P Matousek, SPIE BiOS, 2020, San Francisco, California, United States
DOI: 10.1117/12.2544752 


 Time-resolved infra-red spectroscopy reveals competitive water and dinitrogen coordination to a manganese(I) carbonyl complex
JB Eastwood, LA Hammarback, MT McRobie, IP Clark, M Towrie, IJS Fairlamb and JM Lynam, Dalton T.
DOI: 10.1039/C9DT04878B 


 Photon echoes and two dimensional spectra of the amide I band of proteins measured by femtosecond IR – Raman spectroscopy
PM Donaldson, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC02978E 


 Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy: an emerging analytical tool?
R Fritzsch, S Hume, L Minnes, MJ Baker, GA Burley and NT Hunt, Analyst
DOI: 10.1039/C9AN02035G 


 Understanding the factors controlling the photo-oxidation of natural DNA by enantiomerically pure intercalating ruthenium polypyridyl complexes through TA/TRIR studies with polydeoxynucleotides and mixed sequence oligodeoxynucleotides
PM Keane, K O’Sullivan, FE Poynton, BC Poulsen, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, CJ Cardin, XZ Sun, MW George, T Gunnlaugsson, SJ Quinn and JM Kelly, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/D0SC02413A 


Photocycle of Cyanobacteriochrome TePixJ
SJO Hardman, DJ Heyes, I Sazanovich and NS Scrutton, Biochemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00382 


 A 2-step synthesis of Combretastatin A-4 and derivatives as potent tubulin assembly inhibitors
NG Barnesa, AW Parker, AA Ahmed Mal Ullaha, PA Ragazzona and JA Hadfield, Bioorg. Med. Chem.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2020.115684 


 The influence of loops on the binding of the [Ru(phen)2dppz]2+ light-switch compound to i-motif DNA structures revealed by time-resolved spectroscopy
FR Baptista, SJ Devereux, SP Gurung, JP Hall, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, CJ Cardin, JA Brazier, JM Kelly and SJ Quinn, Chem. Commun.
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC03702H 


Caught in the Loop: Binding of the [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ Light-Switch Compound to Quadruplex DNA in Solution informed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
S Devereux, F Poynton, F Baptista, T Gunnlaugsson, C Cardin, I Sazanovich, M Towrie, JM Kelly and SJ Quinn, Chem. Eur. J.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202002165 


Ultrafast Vibrational Energy Transfer between Protein and Cofactor in a Flavoenzyme
SJO Hardman, AI Iorgu, DJ Hayes, NS Scrutton, IV Sazanovich and S Hay, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04929 


Evaluation of a Health Literacy Instrument Designed for the Mining Industry
HA Shannon and AW Parker, HLRP
DOI: 10.3928/24748307-20200316-01 


Unraveling the Mechanism of a LOV Domain Optogenetic Sensor: A Glutamine Lever Induces Unfolding of the Jα Helix
JN Iuliano, J Tolentino Collado, AA Gil, PT Ravindran, A Lukacs, SY Shin, HA Woroniecka, K Adamczyk, JM Aramini, UR Edupuganti, CR Hall, GM Greetham, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark, T Daryaee, JE Toettcher, JB French, KH Gardner, CL Simmerling, SR Meech and PJ Tonge, bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.29.925040 


Detection of Age-Related Changes in Tendon Molecular Composition by Raman Spectroscopy—Potential for Rapid, Non-Invasive Assessment of Susceptibility to Injury
NH Yin, AW Parker, P Matousek and HL Birch, Int. J. Mol. Sci.
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21062150 


Time-Resolved Temperature-Jump Infrared Spectroscopy at a High Repetition Rate
G Greetham, IP Clark, B Young, R Fritsch, L Minnes, NT Hunt and M Towrie, Appl. Spectrosc.
DOI: 10.1177/0003702820913636 


Functional dynamics of a single tryptophan residue in a BLUF protein revealed by fluorescence spectroscopy
K Karadi, SM Kapetanaki, K Raics, I Pecsi, R Kapronczai, Z Fekete, JN Iuliano, J Tolentino Collado, AA Gil, J Orban, M Nyitrai, GM Greetham, MH Vos, PJ Tonge, SR Meech & A Lukacs, Sci. Rep.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59073-5 


2D-IR Spectroscopy of Proteins in Water: Using the Solvent Thermal Response as an Internal Standard
S Hume, GM Greetham, PM Donaldson, M Towrie, AW Parker, MJ Baker and NT Hunt, Anal. Chem.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05601 


Mechanisms of IR amplification in radical cation polarons
WJ Kendrick, M Jirasek, MD Peeks, GM Greetham, IV Sazanovich, PM Donaldson, M Towrie, AW Parker and HL Anderson, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC05717J 


2019 

Understanding the structure and dynamics of hydrogenases by ultrafast and two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
M Horch, J Schoknecht, SLD Wrathall, GM Greetham, O Lenz and NT Hunt, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12819 

 

Implications of the Molybdenum Coordination Environment in MFI Zeolites on Methane Dehydroaromatisation Performance
M Agote-Aran, RE Fletcher, M Briceno, AB Kroner, IV Sazanovich, B Slater, ME Rivas, AWJ Smith, P Collier, I Lezcano-Gonzalez and AM Beale, ChemCatChem
DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201901166 

 

A Compact Micro-Bolometer Array for Mid-Infrared Laser Beam Alignment, Diagnostics and Spot-Size Measurement
IP Clark and M Towrie, Preprints
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201912.0085.v1 

 

Adaptive band target entropy minimization: Optimization for the decomposition of spatially offset Raman spectra of bone
JH Churchwell, K Sowoidnich, O Chan, AE Goodship, AW Parker and P Matousek, J. Raman Spectrosc.
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5749 

 

Picosecond to millisecond tracking of a photocatalytic decarboxylation reaction provides direct mechanistic insights
A Bhattacherjee, M Sneha, L Lewis-Borrell, O Tau, IP Clark and AJ Orr-Ewing, Nat. Commun.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13154-w 

 

Insight into the mechanism of CO-release from trypto-CORM using ultra-fast spectroscopy and computational chemistry
BJ Aucott, JB Eastwood, LA Hammarback, IP Clark, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, IJS Fairlamb and JM Lynam, Dalton Trans.
DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03343B 

 

Site-Specific Protein Dynamics Probed by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy of a Noncanonical Amino Acid
CR Hall, J Tolentino Collado, JN Iuliano, AA Gil, K Adamczyk, A Lukacs, GM Greetham, I Sazanovich, PJ Tonge, SR Meech, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b09425 

 

An Ultrafast Vibrational Study of Dynamical Heterogeneity in the Protic Ionic Liquid Ethyl-Ammonium Nitrate
C Johnson, AW Parker, PM Donaldson and S Garrett-Roe, ChemRxiv
DOI: PDF 

 

Kerr gated Raman spectroscopy of LiPF6 salt and LiPF6-based organic carbonate electrolyte for Li-ion batteries
L Cabo-Fernandeza, AR Neale, F Bragaa, IV Sazanovich, R Kosteckic and LJ Hardwick, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP02430A 

 

Photochemical or electrochemical bond breaking – exploring the chemistry of (μ2-alkyne)Co2(CO)6 complexes using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, spectro-electrochemical and density functional methods
JC Manton, FJR Cerpentier, EC Harvey, IP Clark, GM Greetham, C Long and MT Pryce, Dalton Trans.
DOI: 10.1039/C9DT03006A 

 

Ultrafast Light-Driven Electron Transfer in a Ru(II)tris(bipyridine)-Labeled Multiheme Cytochrome
JH van Wonderen, CR Hall, X Jiang, K Adamczyk, A Carof, I Heisler, SEH Piper, TA Clarke, NJ Watmough, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, SR Meech, J Blumberger and JN Butt, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b06858 

 

Monitoring the Formation and Reactivity of Organometallic Alkane and Fluoroalkane Complexes with Silanes and Xe Using Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy
SA Bartlett, NA Besley, AJ Dent, S Diaz-Moreno, J Evans, ML Hamilton, MWD Hanson-Heine, R Horvath, V Manici, Xue-Zhong Sun, M Towrie, L Wu, X Zhang and MW George, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13848 

 

Assembly, charge-transfer and solar cell performance with porphyrin-C60 on NiO for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells
E Benazzi, GH Summers, FA Black, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark and EA Gibson, Philos. T. R. Soc. A
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0338 

 

Monitoring Base Specific Dynamics during Melting of DNA-Ligand Complexes Using Temperature-Jump Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
R Fritzsch, GM Greetham, IP Clark, L Minnes, M Towrie, AW Parker and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b04354 

 

In situ study of the low overpotential “dimer pathway” for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction by manganese carbonyl complexes
G Neri, PM Donaldson and AJ Cowan, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C9CP00504H 

 

Measuring proteins in H2O with 2D-IR spectroscopy
S Hume, G Hithell,a GM Greetham, PM Donaldson, M Towrie, AW Parker, MJ Baker and NT Hunt, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C9SC01590F 

 

Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy with Charge-Shifting CCD Lock-In Detection
K Sowoidnich, M Towrie, M Maiwald, B Sumpf, and P Matousek, Appl. Spectrosc.
DOI: 10.1177/0003702819859352 

 

The importance of microstructure in determining polaron generation yield in poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene)
NJ Cheetham, M Ortiz, A Perevedentsev, L-I Dion-Bertrand, GM Greetham, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, AW Parker, J Nelson, C Silva, DDC Bradley, SC Hayes and PN Stavrinou, Chem. Mater.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01256 

 

Lock-in detection in Raman spectroscopy with charge-shifting CCD for suppression of fast varying backgrounds
K Sowoidnich, M Towrie, and P Matousek, J. Raman Spectrosc
DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5597 

 

Spectro-electrochemical Studies on [Ru(TAP)(2)(dppz)](2+)-Insights into the Mechanism of its Photosensitized Oxidation of Oligonucleotides
PM Keane, J Tory, M Towrie, IV Sazanovich, CJ Cardin, SJ Quinn, F Hartl, JM Kelly, and C Long, Inorg. Chem.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02859 

 

Two Tryptophans Are Better Than One in Accelerating Electron Flow through a Protein
K Takematsu, HR Williamson, P Nikolovski, JT Kaiser, Y Sheng, P Pospisil, M Towrie, J Heyda, D Hollas, S Zalis, HB Gray, A Vlcek, and JR Winkler, ACS Central Science
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00882 

 

Photoelectrocatalytic H2 evolution from integrated photocatalysts adsorbed on NiO
N Poldme, L O’Reilly, I Fletcher, J Portoles, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, C Long, JG Vos, MT Price, EA Gibson, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/c8sc02575d 

 

2018 

Detection of catalytic intermediates at an electrode surface during carbon dioxide reduction by an earth-abundant catalyst
G Neri, JJ Walsh, G Teobaldi, PM Donaldson, and AJ Cowan, Nat. Catal.
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0169-3 

 

Mapping out the key carbon-carbon bond-forming steps in Mn-catalysed C-H functionalization
LA Hammarback, IP Clark, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, A Robinson, F Clarke, S Meyer, IJS Fairlamb, and JM Lynam, Nat. Catal.
DOI: 10.1038/s41929-018-0145-y 

 

Spironaphthoxazine switchable dyes for biological imaging
Y Xiong, A Vargas Jentzsch, JWM Osterrieth, E Sezgin, IV Sazanovich, K Reglinski, S Galiani, AW Parker, C Eggeling, and HL Anderson, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC00130H 

 

Influence of charge transfer on the isomerisation of stilbene derivatives for application in cancer therapy
N Holzmann, L Bernasconi, RH Bisby, and AW Parker, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05375h 

 

Rapid photoinduced charge injection into covalent polyoxometalate-bodipy conjugates
FA Black, A Jacquart, G Toupalas, S Alves, A Proust, IP Clark, EA Gibson, and G Izzet, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC00862K 

 

Infrared spectroscopy reveals multi-step multi-timescale photoactivation in the photoconvertible protein archetype dronpa
SP Laptenok, AA Gil, CR Hall, A Lukacs, JN Iuliano, GA Jones, GM Greetham, P Donaldson, A Miyawaki, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, Nat. Chem.
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0073-0 

 

Vibrational Relaxation and Redistribution Dynamics in Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl-Based Charge-Transfer Excited States: A Combined Ultrafast Electronic and Infrared Absorption Study
AM Brown, CE McCusker, MC Carey, AM Blanco-Rodriguez, M Towrie, IP Clark, A Vlcek, and JK McCusker, J. Phys. Chem. A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b06197 

 

Photophysical and electrochemical properties of [Re(CO)3Cl(NN)] (NN = dppp3, dppp2, dppp2Br) complexes functionalised with pendant pyridyl ligands
PA Summers, BS Adams, N Ibrahim, KEA Reynolds, KL Fow, ES Davies, M Towrie, and MW George, Vib. Spectrosc.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vibspec.2018.08.011 

 

Transient absorption and time-resolved vibrational studies of photophysical and photochemical processes in DNA-intercalating polypyridyl metal complexes or cationic porphyrins
PM Keane and JM Kelly, Coordin. Chem. Rev.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.02.018 

 

Laser-matter interactions in additive manufacturing of SS316L and 13-93 bioactive glass revealed by in situ X-ray imaging
CLA Leung, S Marussi, M Towrie, J del Val Garcia, RC Atwood, AJ Bodey, JR Jones, PJ Withers, and PD Lee, Addit. Manuf.
DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2018.08.025 

 

Front Cover: Photochemical Mechanism of an Atypical Algal Phytochrome
U Choudry, DJ Heyes, SJO Hardman, M Sakuma, IV Sazanovich, J Woodhouse, E De La Mora, MN Pedersen, M Wulff, M Weik, G Schiro, and NS Scrutton, ChemBioChem
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800204 

 

A combined time-resolved infrared and density functional theory study of the lowest excited states of 9-fluorenone and 2-naphthaldehyde
MWD Hanson-Heine, JA Calladine, J Yang, M Towrie, R Horvath, NA Besley, and MW George, Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.04.014 

 

In situ X-ray imaging of defect and molten pool dynamics in laser additive manufacturing
CLA Leung, S Marussi, RC Atwood, M Towrie, PJ Withers, and PD Lee, Nat. Commun.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03734-7 

 

Investigating the role of the organic cation in formamidinium lead iodide perovskite using ultrafast spectroscopy
V Taylor, D Tiwari, M Duchi, PM Donaldson, IP Clark, DJ Fermin, and TAA Oliver, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03296 

 

Rapid screening of DNA-ligand complexes via 2D-IR spectroscopy and ANOVA-PCA
R Fritzsch, PM Donaldson, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, MJ Baker, and NT Hunt, Anal. Chem.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04727 

 

Probing the carbon-hydrogen activation of alkanes following photolysis of Tp’Rh(CNR)(carbodiimide): A computational and time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study
J Guan, A Wriglesworth, XZ Sun, EN Brothers, SD Zaric, ME Evans, WD Jones, M Towrie, MB Hall, and MW George, J. Am. Chem. Soc
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12152 

 

Charge transfer in trans-combretastatins
N Holzmann, L Bernasconi, KM Callaghan, RH Bisby, and AW Parker, Chem. Phys. Lett.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.12.028 

 

Variation in LOV photoreceptor activation dynamics probed by time resolved infrared spectroscopy
JN Iuliano, AA Gil, SP Laptenok, CR Hall, J Tolentino Collado, A Lukacs, SA Hag Ahmed, J Abyad, T Daryaee, GM Greetham, IV Sazanovich, B Illarionov, A Bacher, M Fischer, M Towrie, JB French, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, Biochemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01040 

 

A 100 kHz pulse shaping 2D-IR spectrometer based on dual Yb:KGW amplifiers
PM Donaldson, GM Greetham, DJ Shaw, AW Parker, and M Towrie, J. Phys. Chem. A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b10259 

 

Anion mediated photophysical behavior in a C60 fullerene [3]rotaxane shuttle
TA Barendt, I Rasovic, MA Lebedeva, GA Farrow, A Auty, D Chekulaev, IV Sazanovich, JA Weinstein, K Porfyrakis, and PD Beer, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12819 

 

Effect of oligomer length on vibrational coupling and energy relaxation in double-stranded DNA
G Hithell, PM Donaldson, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, GA Burley, and NT Hunt, Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2017.12.010 

 

Ultrafast Wiggling and Jiggling: Ir2(1,8-diisocyanomenthane)42+
M Pižl, BM Hunter, GM Greetham, M Towrie, S Záliš, HB. Gray, and A Vlcek, J. Phys. Chem. A
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b10215 

 

2017 

Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy for photon migration studies in bones with different mineralization levels
K Sowoidnich, JH Churchwell, K Buckley, AE Goodship, AW Parker, and P Matousek, Analyst
DOI: 10.1039/C7AN00408G 

 

Examining the role of protein structural dynamics in drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
DJ Shaw, RE Hill, N Simpson, FS Husseini, K Robb, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, D Robinson, JD Hirst, PA Hoskisson, and NT Hunt, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC03336B 

 

Exploring the Dynamics of the Photoinduced Ring-Opening of Heterocyclic Molecules
MNR Ashfold, M Bain, CS Hansen, RA Ingle, TNV Karsili, B Marchetti, and D Murdock, J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01219 

 

Taking the plunge: chemical reaction dynamics in liquids
AJ Orr-Ewing, Chem. Soc. Rev.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00331E 

 

Engineering proximal vs. distal heme-NO coordination via dinitrosyl dynamics: implications for NO sensor design
D Kekilli, CA Petersen, DA Pixton, DD Ghafoor, GH Abdullah, FSN Dworkowski, MT Wilson, DJ Heyes, SJO Hardman, LM Murphy, RW Strange, NS Scrutton, CR Andrew, and MA Hough, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04190F 

 

Photochemically active DNA-intercalating ruthenium and related complexes – insights by combining crystallography and transient spectroscopy
CJ Cardin, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/C7SC01070B 

 

Directing the path of light-induced electron transfer at a molecular fork using vibrational excitation
M Delor, SA Archer, T Keane, AJHM Meijer, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Nat. Chem.
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2793 

 

Electronic Delocalization in the Radical Cations of Porphyrin Oligomer Molecular Wires
MD Peeks, CE Tait, P Neuhaus, GM Fischer, M Hoffmann, R Haver, A Cnossen, JR Harmer, CR Timmel, and HL Anderson, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05386 

 

The Role of Electrode-Catalyst Interactions in Enabling Efficient CO2 Reduction with Mo(bpy)(CO)4 As Revealed by Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy
G Neri, PM Donaldson, and AJ Cowan, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06898 

 

Femtosecond to microsecond observation of the photochemical reaction of 1,2-di(quinolin-2-yl)disulfide with methyl methacrylate
D Koyama, PM Donaldson, and AJ Orr-Ewing, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01784G 

 

Directly Coupled vs. Spectator Linkers on Diimine Pt(II) Acetylides – Change the Structure, Keep the Function?
S Archer, T Keane, M Delor, E Bevon, A Auty, D Chekulaev, I Sazanovich, M Towrie, A Meijer, and J Weinstein, Chem. – A Eur. J.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201703989 

 

Quantifying Secondary Structure Changes in Calmodulin Using 2D-IR Spectroscopy
L Minnes, DJ Shaw, BP Cossins, PM Donaldson, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, MJ Baker, AJ Henry, RJ Taylor, and NT Hunt, Anal. Chem.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02610 

 

Inosine Can Increase DNA’s Susceptibility to Photo-oxidation by a Ru II Complex due to Structural Change in the Minor Groove
PM Keane, JP Hall, FE Poynton, BC Poulsen, SP Gurung, IP Clark, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, T Gunnlaugsson, SJ Quinn, CJ Cardin, and JM Kelly, Chem. – A Eur. J.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701447 

 

Photoactivation of the BLUF protein PixD Probed by the Site-Specific Incorporation of Fluorotyrosine Residues
AA Gil, SP Laptenok, JN Iuliano, A Lukacs, A Verma, CR Hall, E Yoon, R Brust, GM Greetham, M Towrie, JB French, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07849 

 

Photoaquation Mechanism of Hexacyanoferrate(II) Ions: Ultrafast 2D UV and Transient Visible and IR Spectroscopies
M Reinhard, G Aubock, NA Besley, IP Clark, GM Greetham, MWD Hanson-Heine, R Horvath, TS Murphy, TJ Penfold, M Towrie, MW George, and M Chergui, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02769 

 

Ultrafast 2D-IR and optical Kerr effect spectroscopy reveal the impact of duplex melting on the structural dynamics of DNA
G Hithell, M Gonzalez-Jimenez, GM Greetham, PM Donaldson, M Towrie, AW Parker, GA Burley, K Wynne, and NT Hunt, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP00054E 

 

Oxygen Mapping of Melanoma Spheroids using Small Molecule Platinum Probe and Phosphorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
A Raza, HE Colley, E Baggaley, IV Sazanovich, NH Green, JA Weinstein, SW Botchway, S MacNeil, and JW Haycock, Sci. Rep.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11153-9 

 

Increasing p-type dye sensitised solar cell photovoltages using polyoxometalates
H El Moll, FA Black, CJ Wood, A Al-Yasari, A Reddy Marri, IV Sazanovich, EA Gibson, and J Fielden, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C7CP01558E 

 

Integrating Optical Tweezers, DNA Tightropes, and Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging
J Wang, JT Barnett, MR Pollard, and NM Kad, Methods Enzymol.
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.08.003 

 

Investigating interfacial electron transfer in dye-sensitized NiO using vibrational spectroscopy
FA Black, CA Clark, GH Summers, IP Clark, M Towrie, T Penfold, MW George, and EA Gibson, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP05712H 

 

Probing the use of long lived intra-ligand π–π* excited states for photocatalytic systems: A study of the photophysics and photochemistry of [ReCl(CO)3(dppz-(CH3)2)]
PA Summers, JA Calladine, N Ibrahim, KP Kusumo, CA Clark, X-Z Sun, ML Hamilton, M Towrie, J McMaster, M Schroder, and MW George, Polyhedron
DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2016.11.005 

 

2D-IR Spectroscopy Shows that Optimized DNA Minor Groove Binding of Hoechst33258 Follows an Induced Fit Model
LAI Ramakers, G Hithell, JJ May, GM Greetham, PM Donaldson, M Towrie, AW Parker, GA Burley, and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00345 

 

Excited-State Properties of Protochlorophyllide Analogues and Implications for Light-Driven Synthesis of Chlorophyll
DJ Heyes, SJO Hardman, D Mansell, A Ni Cheallaigh, JM Gardiner, LO Johannissen, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and NS Scrutton, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00528 

 

Charge-transfer dynamics at the dye-semiconductor interface of photocathodes for solar energy applications
FA Black, CJ Wood, S Ngwerume, GH Summers, IP Clark, M Towrie, JE Camp, and EA Gibson, Faraday Discuss.
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00228E 

 

Femtosecond to Millisecond Dynamics of Light Induced Allostery in the Avena sativa LOV Domain
AA Gil, SP Laptenok, JB French, JN Iuliano, A Lukacs, CR Hall, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, A Bacher, B Illarionov, M Fischer, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, J. Phys. Chem. B
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00088 

 

Frontispiece: Metal Complexes for Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy: A Cyclometallated Iridium Complex Induces Two-Photon Photosensitization of Cancer Cells under Near-IR Light
LK McKenzie, IV Sazanovich, E Baggaley, M Bonneau, V Guerchais, JAG Williams, JA Weinstein, and HE Bryant, Chem. – A Eur. J.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201780262 

 

2016 

Stabilising the lowest energy charge-separated state in a {metal chromophore – fullerene} assembly: a tuneable panchromatic absorbing donor-acceptor triad
MA Lebedeva, TW Chamberlain, PA Scattergood, M Delor, IV Sazanovich, ES Davies, M Suyetin, E Besley, M Schröder, JA Weinstein, and AN Khlobystov, Chem. Sci.
DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04271b 

 

Computing infrared spectra of proteins using the exciton model
FS Husseini, D Robinson, NT Hunt, AW Parker, and JD Hirst, J. Comput. Chem.
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24674 

 

Photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer from a photoactive coordination cage to bound guests
JR Piper, L Cletheroe, CGP Taylor, A Metherell, J Weinstein, IV Sazanovich, and MD Ward, Chem. Commun., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 408-411
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC09298E 

 

Photochemistry of framework-supported M(diimine)(CO)3X complexes in three-dimensional lithium carboxylate metal-organic frameworks: monitoring the effect of framework cations
TJ Reade, TS Murphy, JA Calladine, R Horvath, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, W Lewis, MW George, and NR Champness, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A, vol. 375, no. 2084, pp. 20160033
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0033 

 

Probing photochemically and thermally induced isomerization reactions in α-pyrone
D Murdock, IP Clark, and MNR Ashfold, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 120, pp. 7249-7254
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b06396 

 

Long-range vibrational dynamics are directed by Watson-Crick base pairing in duplex DNA
G Hithell, DJ Shaw, PM Donaldson, GM Greetham, M Towrie, GA Burley, AW Parker, and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 120. no. 17, pp. 4009-4018
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02112 

 

Can aliphatic anchoring groups be utilised with dyes for p-type dye sensitized solar cells?
Y Hao, CJ Wood, C Clark, J Calladine, R Horvath, M Hanson-Heine, X-Z Sun, IP Clark, M Towrie, MW George, X Yang, L Sun, and E Gibson, Dalt. Trans., vol. 45, no. 18, pp. 7708-7719
DOI: 10.1039/C6DT00146G 

 

Photodynamic killing of cancer cells by a Platinum(II) complex with cyclometallating ligand
RE Doherty, IV Sazanovich, LK McKenzie, AS Stasheuski, R Coyle, E Baggaley, S Bottomley, JA Weinstein, and HE Bryant, Sci. Rep., vol. 6, p. 22668
DOI: 10.1038/srep22668 

 

A 100 kHz time-resolved multiple-probe femtosecond to second infrared absorption spectrometer
GM Greetham, PM Donaldson, C Nation, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark, DJ Shaw, AW Parker, and M Towrie, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 645-653
DOI: 10.1177/0003702816631302 

 

Long-lived excited state dynamics of i-motif structures probed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
PM Keane, SP Gurung, FR Baptista, SJ Devereux, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, JA Braizer, CC Cardin, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, ChemPhysChem, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1281-1287
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201501183 

 

Direct observation by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of the bright and the dark excited states of the [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ light-switch compound in solution and when bound to DNA
FE Poynton, JP Hall, PM Keane, C Schwarz, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, T Gunnlaugsson, CJ Cardin, DJ Cardin, SJ Quinn, C Long, and JM Kelly, Chem. Sci., vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 3075-3018
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04514B 

 

Broadband near-field infrared spectromicroscopy using photothermal probes and synchrotron radiation
PM Donaldson, CS Kelley, MD Frogley, J Filik, K Wehbe, and G Cinque, Opt. Express, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 1852
DOI: 10.1364/OE.24.001852 

 

Contrasting ring-opening propensities in UV-excited α-pyrone and coumarin
D Murdock, RA Ingle, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark, Y Harabuchi, T Taketsugu, S Maeda, AJ Orr-Ewing, and MNR Ashfold, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2629-2638
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP06597F 

 

Mechanism of the AppABLUF photocycle probed by site-specific incorporation of fluorotyrosine residues: Effect of the Y21 pKa on the forward and reverse ground-state reactions
AA Gil, A Haigney, SP Laptenok, R Brust, A Lukacs, JN Iuliano, J Jeng, EH Melief, R Zhao, E Yoon, IP Clark, M Towrie, GM Greetham, A Ng, JJ Truglio, JB French, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 926-935
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b11115 

 

Synthesis and photophysical study of a [NiFe] hydrogenase biomimetic compound covalently linked to a Re-diimine photosensitizer
PA Summers, JA Calladine, F Ghiotto, J Dawson, X-Z Sun, ML Hamilton, M Towrie, ES Davies, J McMaster, MW George, and M Schroder, Inorg. Chem., vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 527-536
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01744 

 

2015 

UV-induced isomerization dynamics of N-methyl-2-pyridone in solution
D Murdock, SJ Harris, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AJ Orr-Ewing, and MNR Ashfold, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 119, no. 1, pp. 88-94
DOI: 10.1021/jp511818k 

 

Excited-state charge separation in the photochemical mechanism of the light-driven enzyme protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase
DJ Heyes, SJO Hardman, TM Hedison, R Hoeven, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and NS Scrutton, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1512-1515
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409881 

 

Vibrational excitation of both products of the reaction of CN radicals with acetone in solution
GT Dunning, TJ Preston, SJ Greaves, GM Greetham, IP Clark, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 119, no. 50, pp. 12090-12101
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b05624 

 

Solvent response to fluorine-atom reaction dynamics in liquid acetonitrile
GT Dunning, D Murdock, GM Greetham, IP Clark, and AJ Orr-Ewing, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 17, no. 14, pp. 9465-9470
DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00774G 

 

Electronic excited states of tungsten(0) arylisocyanides
H Kvapilova, W Sattler, A Sattler, IV Sazanovich, IP Clark, M Towrie, HB Gray, S Zalis, and A Vlcek, Inorg. Chem., vol. 54, no. 17, pp. 8518-8528
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01203 

 

Calculating singlet excited states: Comparison with fast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of coumarins
MWD Hanson-Heine, A Wriglesworth, M Uroos, JA Calladine, TS Murphy, M Hamilton, IP Clark, M Towrie, J Dowden, NA Besley, and MW George, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 142, no. 15, p. 154119
DOI: 10.1063/1.4917311 

 

On the mechanism of vibrational control of light-induced charge transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor assemblies
M Delor, T Keane, PA Scattergood, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AJHM Meijer, and JA Weinstein, Nat. Chem., vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 689-695
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2327 

 

Enantiomeric conformation controls rate and yield of photoinduced electron transfer in DNA sensitized by Ru(II) dipyridophenazinecomplexes
PM Keane, FE Poynton, JP Hall, IP Clark, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, T Gunnlaugsson, SJ Quinn, CJ Cardin, and JM Kelly, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 734-738
DOI: 10.1021/jz502743q 

 

The effect on structural and solvent water molecules of substrate binding to ferric horseradish peroxidase
N Simpson, K Adamczyk, G Hithell, DJ Shaw, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, and NT Hunt, Faraday Discuss., vol. 177, pp. 163-179
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00161C 

 

Vibrational relaxation and microsolvation of DF after F-atom reactions in polar solvents
GT Dunning, DR Glowacki, TJ Preston, SJ Greaves, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, JN Harvey, and AJ Orr-Ewing, Science (80-. )., vol. 347, no. 6221, pp. 530-533
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0103 

 

Exploring excited states of Pt(II) diimine catecholates for photoinduced charge separation
PA Scattergood, P Jesus, H Adams, M Delor, IV Sazanovich, HD Burrows, C Serpa, and JA Weinstein, Dalt. Trans., vol. 44, no. 26, pp. 11705-11716
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT03466J 

 

Electron transfer quenching in light adapted and mutant forms of the AppABLUF domain
SP Laptenok, A Lukacs, R Brust, A Haigney, A Gil, M Towrie, GM Greetham, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, Faraday Discuss., vol. 177, pp. 293-311
DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00189C 

 

Slow-motion camera for chemical reactions
J Abbasi, Sci. Am., vol. 313, no. 6, p. 39
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican1215-39a 

 

Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy reveals water-mediated coherent dynamics in an enzyme active site
K Adamczyk, N Simpson, GM Greetham, A Gumiero, MA Walsh, M Towrie, AW Parker, and NT Hunt, Chem. Sci., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 505-516
DOI: 10.1039/C4SC02752C 

 

Recombination, solvation and reaction of CN radicals following ultraviolet photolysis of ICN in organic solvents
P Coulter, MP Grubb, D Koyama, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 119, no. 52, pp. 12911-12923
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10716 

 

Reaction dynamics of CN radicals in acetonitrile solutions
D Koyama, P Coulter, MP Grubb, GM Greetham, IP Clark, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 119, no. 52, pp. 12924-12934
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10720 

 

Reversal of a single base-pair step controls guanine photo-oxidation by an intercalating ruthenium(II) dipyridophenazine complex
PM Keane, FE Poynton, JP Hall, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, T Gunnlaugsson, SJ Quinn, CJ Cardin, and JM Kelly, Angew. Chemie, vol. 127, no. 29, pp. 8484-8488
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201502608 

 

Multidimensional infrared spectroscopy reveals the vibrational and solvation dynamics of isoniazid
DJ Shaw, K Adamczyk, PWJM Frederix, N Simpson, K Robb, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, PA Hoskisson, and NT Hunt, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 142, no. 21, p. 212401
DOI: 10.1063/1.4914097 

 

Monitoring one-electron photo-oxidation of guanine in DNA crystals using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy
JP Hall, FE Poynton, PM Keane, SP Gurung, JA Brazier, DJ Cardin, G Winter, T Gunnlaugsson, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, CJ Cardin, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Nat. Chem., vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 961-967
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2369 

 

Probing and exploiting the interplay between nuclear and electronic motion in charge-transfer processes
M Delor, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Acc. Chem. Res., vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1131-1139
DOI: 10.1021/ar500420c 

 

Complete proton transfer cycle in GFP and its T203V and S205V mutants
SP Laptenok, A Lukacs, A Gil, R Brust, IV Sazanovich, GM Greetham, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, Angew. Chemie, vol. 127, no. 32, pp. 9435-9439
DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503672 

 

Vibrational energy transfer dynamics in ruthenium polypyridine transition metal complexes
M Fedoseeva, M Delor, SC Parker, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, AW Parker, and JA Weinstein, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1688-1696
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP04166F 

 

Solvent-controlled excited state relaxation path of 4-acetyl-4′-(dimethylamino)biphenyl
J Dobkowski, M Kijak, IV Sazanovich, and J Waluk, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 119, no. 24, pp. 7294-7307
DOI: 10.1021/jp510856u 

 

Monitoring guanine photo-oxidation by enantiomerically resolved Ru(II) dipyridophenazine complexes using inosine-substituted oligonucleotides
PM Keane, FE Poynton, JP Hall, IP Clark, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, T Gunnlaugsson, SJ Quinn, CJ Cardin, and JM Kelly, Faraday Discuss., vol. 185, pp. 455-469
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00085H 

 

Ultrafast charge-transfer dynamics in supramolecular Pt(II) donor-bridge-acceptor assemblies: the effect of vibronic coupling
PA Scattergood, M Delor, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Faraday Discuss., vol. 185, pp. 69-86
DOI: 10.1039/C5FD00103J 

 

Directly interrogating single quantum dot labelled UvrA2 molecules on DNA tightropes using an optically trapped nanoprobe
M Simons, MR Pollard, CD Hughes, AD Ward, B Van Houten, M Towrie, SW Botchway, AW Parker, and NM Kad, Sci. Rep., vol. 5, p. 18486
DOI: 10.1038/srep18486 

 

Electron-transfer acceleration investigated by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
A Vlcek, H Kvapilova, M Towrie, and S Zalis, Acc. Chem. Res., vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 868-876
DOI: 10.1021/ar5004048 

 

Dynamics of bimolecular reactions in solution
AJ Orr-Ewing, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 119-141
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121654 

 

2014 

BLUF domain function does not require a metastable radical intermediate state
A Lukacs, R Brust, A Haigney, SP Laptenok, K Addison, A Gil, M Towrie, GM Greetham, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 136, no. 12, pp. 4605-4615
DOI: 10.1021/ja4121082 

 

Comprehensive analysis of the green-to-blue photoconversion of full-length cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924
SJO Hardman, AFE Hauck, IP Clark, DJ Heyes, and NS Scrutton, Biophys. J., vol. 107, no. 9, pp. 2195-2203
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.09.020 

 

Controlled CO release using photochemical, thermal and electrochemical approaches from the amino carbene complex [(CO)5CrC(NC4H8)CH3]
S McMahon, J Rochford, Y Halpin, JC Manton, EC Harvey, GM Greetham, IP Clark, AD Rooney, C Long, and MT Pryce, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 16, no. 39, pp. 21230-21233
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP03758H 

 

Direct observation of ultrafast long-range charge separation at polymer-fullerene heterojunctions
F Provencher, N Berube, AW Parker, GM Greetham, M Towrie, C Hellmann, M Cote, N Stingelin, C Silva, and SC Hayes, Nat. Commun., vol. 5, p. 4288
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5288 

 

Dual charge-transfer in rhenium(I) thioether substituted hexaazanaphthalene complexes
H van der Salm, MG Fraser, R Horvath, JO Turner, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, NT Lucas, MW George, and KC Gordon, Inorg. Chem., vol. 53, no. 24, pp. 13049-13060
DOI: 10.1021/ic502179f 

 

Dynamics of ground and excited state vibrational relaxation and energy transfer in transition metal carbonyls
M Delor, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, SJ Spall, T Keane, AJ Blake, C Wilson, AJHM Meijer, and JA Weinstein, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 118, no. 40, pp. 11781-11791
DOI: 10.1021/jp506326u 

 

Dynamics of photodissociation of XeF2 in organic solvents
GT Dunning, TJ Preston, AJ Orr-Ewing, SJ Greaves, GM Greetham, IP Clark, and M Towrie, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 16, no. 30, pp. 16095-16102
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP01854K 

 

Electrochemistry, chemical reactivity, and time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of donor-acceptor systems [(Qx)Pt(papy)] (Q = substituted o-quinone or o-iminoquinone; pap = phenylazopyridine)
N Deibel, D Schweinfurth, S Hohloch, M Delor, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, JA Weinstein, and B Sarkar, Inorg. Chem., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 1021-1031
DOI: 10.1021/ic4024713 

 

Electron transfer dynamics and excited state branching in a charge-transfer platinum(II) donor-bridge-acceptor assembly
PA Scattergood, M Delor, IV Sazanovich, OV Bouganov, SA Tikhomirov, AS Stasheuski, AW Parker, GM Greetham, M Towrie, ES Davies, AJHM Meijer, and JA Weinstein, Dalt. Trans., vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 17677-17693
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT01682C 

 

Excited state evolution towards ligand loss and ligand chelation at group 6 metal carbonyl centres
JC Manton, S Amirjalayer, AC Coleman, S Mcmahon, EC Harvey, GM Greetham, IP Clark, WJ Buma, S Woutersen, T Pryce, and C Long, Dalt. Trans., vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 17797-17805
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt01544d 

 

Long-lived excited states in i-motif DNA studied by picosecond time-resolved IR spectroscopy
PM Keane, M Wojdyla, GW Doorley, JM Kelly, AW Parker, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, LM Magno, and SJ Quinn, Chem. Commun., vol. 50, no. 23, pp. 2990-2992
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46594B 

 

Perspective: Bimolecular chemical reaction dynamics in liquids
AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 140, no. 9, p. 090901
DOI: 10.1063/1.48667 

61 

 

)3(1-(2-pyridyl)-imidazo[1,5-α]pyridine)] complexes
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, H Kvapilova, J Sykora, M Towrie, C Nervi, G Volpi, S Zalis, and A Vlcek, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 136, no. 16, pp. 5963-5973
DOI: 10.1021/ja413098m 

 

Photophysics of threaded sp-carbon chains: The polyyne is a sink for singlet and triplet excitation
LD Movsisyan, MD Peeks, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AL Thompson, AW Parker, and HL Anderson, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 136, no. 52, pp. 17996-18008
DOI: 10.1021/ja51 

0663z 

 

Picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of rhodium and iridium azides
P Portius, AJHM Meijer, M Towrie, BF Crozier, and I Schiager, Dalt. Trans., vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 17694-17702
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT02097A 

 

Red-absorbing cationic acceptor dyes for photocathodes in tandem solar cells
CJ Wood, M Cheng, CA Clark, R Horvath, IP Clark, ML Hamilton, M Towrie, MW George, L Sun, X Yang, and EA Gibson, J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 118, no. 30, pp. 16536-16546
DOI: 10.1021/jp4119937 

 

Spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging in live cells of a cyano-substituted combretastatin
KM Scherer, RH Bisby, SW Botchway, and GM Greetham, Biomed. Spectrosc. Imaging, vol. 3, pp. 211-218
DOI: 10.3233/BSI-140067 

 

Steady-state and pseudo-steady-state photocrystallographic studies on linkage isomers of [Ni(Et4dien)(η2-O,ON)(η1-NO2)]: identification of a new linkage isomer.
LE Hatcher, J Christensen, ML Hamilton, J Trincao, DR Allan, MR Warren, IP Clark, M Towrie, S Fuertes, CC Wilson, CH Woodall, and PR Raithby, Chemistry, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 3128-34
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201304172 

 

Study of picosecond processes of an intercalated dipyridophenazine Cr(III) complex bound to defined sequence DNAs using transient absorption and time-resolved infrared methods
SJ Devereux, PM Keane, S Vasudevan, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, Q Cao, X-Z Sun, MW George, CJ Cardin, NAP Kane-Maguire, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Dalt. Trans., vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 17606-17609
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT01989J 

 

The photoinitiated reaction pathway of full-length cyanobacteriochrome Tlr0924 monitored over 12 orders of magnitude
AFE Hauck, SJO Hardman, RJ Kutta, GM Greetham, DJ Heyes, and NS Scrutton, J. Biol. Chem., vol. 289, no. 25, pp. 17747-17757
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.566133 

 

Toward control of electron transfer in donor-acceptor molecules by bond-specific infrared excitation
M Delor, P A Scattergood, IV Sazanovich, AW Parker, GM Greetham, AJHM Meijer, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Science (80-. )., vol. 346, no. 6216, pp. 1492-1495
DOI: 10.1126/science.1259995 

 

Tracking a Paternò-Büchi reaction in real time using transient electronic and vibrational spectroscopies
SJ Harris, D Murdock, MP Grubb, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and MNR Ashfold, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 118, no. 44, pp. 10240-10245
DOI: 10.1021/jp507958y 

 

Transient 2D-IR spectroscopy of inorganic excited states
NT Hunt, Dalt. Trans., vol. 43, no. 47, pp. 17578-17589
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT01410C 

 

Transient electronic and vibrational absorption studies of the photo-Claisen and photo-Fries rearrangements
SJ Harris, D Murdock, MP Grubb, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, and MNR Ashfold, Chem. Sci., vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 707-714
DOI: 10.1039/C3SC52893F 

 

Ultrafast photoinduced charge transport in Pt(II) donor-acceptor assembly bearing naphthalimide electron acceptor and phenothiazine electron donor
IV Sazanovich, J Best, PA Scattergood, M Towrie, SA Tikhomirov, OV Bouganov, AJHM Meijer, and JA Weinstein, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 16, no. 47, pp. 25775-25788
DOI: 10.1039/C4CP03995E 

 

Ultrafast structural dynamics of BlsA, a photoreceptor from the pathogenic bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii
R Brust, A Haigney, A Lukacs, A Gil, S Hossain, K Addison, C Lai, M Towrie, GM Greetham, IP Clark, B Illarionov, A Bacher, R Kim, M Fischer, C Simmerling, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 220-224
DOI: 10.1021/jz4023738 

 

Ultrafast vibrational spectroscopic studies on the photoionization of the α-Tocopherol analogue Trolox C
AW Parker, RH Bisby, GM Greetham, P Kukura, KM Scherer, and M Towrie, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 118, no. 42, pp. 12087-12097
DOI: 10.1021/jp505113k 

 

2013 

Photoisomerization and photoinduced reactions in liquid CCl4 and CHCl3
F Abou-Chahine, TJ Preston, GT Dunning, AJ Orr-Ewing, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, and SA Reid, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 117, no. 50, pp. 13388-13398
DOI: 10.1021/jp406687x 

 

Proteins in action: Femtosecond to millisecond structural dynamics of a photoactive flavoprotein
R Brust, A Lukacs, A Haigney, K Addison, A Gil, M Towrie, IP Clark, GM Greetham, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 135, no. 43, pp. 16168-16174
DOI: 10.1021/ja407265p 

 

Waveguide-enhanced 2D-IR spectroscopy in the gas phase
GM Greetham, IP Clark, D Weidmann, MNR Ashfold, AJ Orr-Ewing, and M Towrie, Opt. Lett., vol. 38, no. 18, p. 3596
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.003596 

 

Material profiling for photocrystallography: Relating single-crystal photophysical and structural properties of luminescent bis-cyclometalated iridium-based complexes
JM Cole, KF Bowes, IP Clark, KS Low, A Zeidler, AW Parker, IR Laskar, and T-M Chen, Cryst. Growth Des., vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1826-1837
DOI: 10.1021/cg301386s 

 

Comparing molecular photofragmentation dynamics in the gas and liquid phases.
SJ Harris, D Murdock, Y Zhang, TAA Oliver, MP Grubb, AJ Orr-Ewing, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, SE Bradforth, and MNR Ashfold, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 15, no. 18, pp. 6567-6582
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp50756d 

 

Efficient quenching of TGA-capped CdTe quantum dot emission by a surface-coordinated europium(III) cyclen complex
S a Gallagher, S Comby, M Wojdyla, T Gunnlaugsson, JM Kelly, YK Gun’ko, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and SJ Quinn, Inorg. Chem., vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 4133-4135
DOI: 10.1021/ic3027623 

 

Tryptophan-accelerated electron flow across a protein-protein interface
K Takematsu, H Williamson, AM Blanco-Rodriguez, L Sokolova, P Nikolovski, JT Kaiser, M Towrie, IP Clark, A Vlcek, JR Winkler, and HB Gray, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 135, no. 41, pp. 15515-25
DOI: 10.1021/ja406830d 

 

Vibrationally resolved dynamics of the reaction of Cl atoms with 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene in chlorinated solvents
F Abou-Chahine, SJ Greaves, GT Dunning, AJ Orr-Ewing, GM Greetham, IP Clark, and M Towrie, Chem. Sci., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 226-237
DOI: 10.1039/C2SC21267F 

 

Infrared spectroscopy of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides in one and two dimensions
N Simpson, DJ Shaw, PWJM Frederix, AH Gillies, K Adamczyk, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, PA Hoskisson, and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 117, no. 51, pp. 16468-16478
DOI: 10.1021/jp411091f 

 

Dinitrogen release from arylpentazole: A picosecond time-resolved infrared, spectroelectrochemical, and DFT computational study
P Portius, M Davis, R Campbell, F Hartl, Q Zeng, AJHM Meijer, and M Towrie, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 117, no. 48, pp. 12759-12769
DOI: 10.1021/jp4077454 

 

Modulation of ligand-heme reactivity by binding pocket residues demonstrated in cytochrome c’ over the femtosecond-second temporal range
HJ Russell, SJO Hardman, DJ Heyes, MA Hough, GM Greetham, M Towrie, S Hay, and NS Scrutton, FEBS J., vol. 280, no. 23, pp. 6070-6082
DOI: 10.1111/febs.12526 

 

A structural and dynamic investigation of the inhibition of catalase by nitric oxide
M Candelaresi, A Gumiero, K Adamczyk, K Robb, C Bellota-Anton, V Sangal, J Munnoch, GM Greetham, M Towrie, PA Hoskisson, AW Parker, NP Tucker, MA Walsh, and NT Hunt, Org. Biomol. Chem., vol. 11, no. 44, p. 7778
DOI: 10.1039/c3ob41977k 

 

Protein photochromism observed by ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
A Lukacs, A Haigney, R Brust, K Addison, M Towrie, GM Greetham, GA Jones, A Miyawaki, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 117, no. 40, pp. 11954-11959
DOI: 10.1021/jp406142g 

 

Photoinduced charge separation in a PtII acetylide donor-acceptor triad based on 2-(1-pyrazole)-pyridine modified with naphthalene mono-imide electron acceptor
IV Sazanovich, MAH Alamiry, AJHM Meijer, M Towrie, ES Davies, RD Bennett, and JA Weinstein, Pure Appl. Chem., vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 1331-1348
DOI: 10.1351/PAC-CON-13-04-02 

 

Tracking DNA excited states by picosecond-time-resolved infrared spectroscopy: Signature band for a charge-transfer excited state in stacked adenine-thymine systems
GW Doorley, M Wojdyla, GW Watson, M Towrie, AW Parker, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., vol. 4, no. 16, pp. 2739-2744
DOI: 10.1021/jz401258n 

 

2012 

Time-resolved multiple probe spectroscopy
GM Greetham, D Sole, IP Clark, AW Parker, MR Pollard, and M Towrie, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 83, no. 10, p. 103107
DOI: 10.1063/1.4758999 

 

Picosecond to millisecond transient absorption spectroscopy of broad-band emitting chiral CdSe quantum dots
M Wojdyla, SA Gallagher, MP Moloney, YK Gun’ko, JM Kelly, LM Magno, SJ Quinn, IP Clark, GM Greetham, and M Towrie, J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 116, no. 30, pp. 16226-16232
DOI: 10.1021/jp3023088 

 

Photochemistry of (η6-anisole)Cr(CO)3 and (η6-thioanisole)Cr(CO)3: Evidence for a photoinduced haptotropic shift of the thioanisoleligand, a picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory investigation
IP Clark, MW George, GM Greetham, EC Harvey, C Long, JC Manton, H McArdle, and MT Pryce, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 116, no. 3, pp. 962-969
DOI: 10.1021/jp211726j 

 

Photofragmentation dynamics in solution probed by transient IR absorption spectroscopy: πσ*-mediated bond cleavage in p-methylthiophenol and p-methylthioanisole
D Murdock, SJ Harris, TN V Karsili, GM Greetham, IP Clark, M Towrie, AJ Orr-Ewing, and MNR Ashfold, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., vol. 3, no. 24, pp. 3715-3720
DOI: 10.1021/jz301755p 

 

Vibrational assignment of the ultrafast infrared spectrum of the photoactivatable flavoprotein AppA
A Haigney, A Lukacs, R Brust, R-K Zhao, M Towrie, GM Greetham, I Clark, B Illarionov, A Bacher, R-R Kim, M Fischer, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 116, no. 35, pp. 10722-10729
DOI: 10.1021/jp305220m 

 

Ultrafast IR spectroscopy of polymeric cytosine nucleic acids reveal the long-lived species is due to a localised state
PM Keane, M Wojdyla, GW Doorley, JM Kelly, IP Clark, AW Parker, GM Greetham, M Towrie, LM Magno, and SJ Quinn, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 14, no. 18, p. 6307
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23774a 

 

Reaction dynamics of CN radicals with tetrahydrofuran in liquid solutions
RA Rose, SJ Greaves, F Abou-Chahine, DR Glowacki, TAA Oliver, MNR Ashfold, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and AJ Orr-Ewing, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 14, no. 30, p. 10424
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40158d 

 

Photophysical studies of CdTe quantum dots in the presence of a zinc cationic porphyrin
PM Keane, S a Gallagher, LM Magno, MJ Leising, IP Clark, GM Greetham, M Towrie, YK Gun’ko, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Dalt. Trans., vol. 41, no. 42, p. 13159
DOI: 10.1039/c2dt30741c 

 

Ultrafast chemical physics: In search of molecular movies
JA Weinstein, and NT Hunt, Nat. Chem., vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 157-158
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1282 

 

Protein motions are coupled to the reaction chemistry in coenzyme B12 -dependent ethanolamine ammonia lyase
HJ Russell, AR Jones, S Hay, GM Greetham, M Towrie, and NS Scrutton, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., vol. 51, no. 37, pp. 9306-9310
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201202502 

 

Measuring protein dynamics with ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
K Adamczyk, M Candelaresi, K Robb, A Gumiero, MA Walsh, AW Parker, PA Hoskisson, NP Tucker, and NT Hunt, Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 23, no. 6, p. 062001
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/23/6/062001 

 

Ultrafast infrared spectral fingerprints of vitamin B12 and related cobalamins
AR Jones, HJ Russell, GM Greetham, M Towrie, S Hay, and NS Scrutton, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 116, no. 23, pp. 5586-5594
DOI: 10.1021/jp304594d 

 

Excited state structure and dynamics of the neutral and anionic flavin radical revealed by ultrafast transient mid-IR to visible spectroscopy
A Lukacs, R-K Zhao, A Haigney, R Brust, GM Greetham, M Towrie, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 116, no. 20, pp. 5810-5818
DOI: 10.1021/jp2116559 

 

The effect of point mutation on the equilibrium structural fluctuations of ferric Myoglobin
K Adamczyk, M Candelaresi, R Kania, K Robb, C Bellota-Anton, GM Greetham, MR Pollard, M Towrie, AW Parker, PA Hoskisson, NP Tucker, and NT Hunt, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 14, no. 20, p. 7411
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23568d 

 

Time-resolved nanosecond fluorescence lifetime imaging and picosecond infrared spectroscopy of combretastatin A-4 in solution and in cellular systems
RH Bisby, SW Botchway, GM Greetham, JA Hadfield, AT McGown, AW Parker, KM Scherer, and M Towrie, Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 23, no. 8, p. 084001
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/23/8/084001 

 

Synthesis and photophysical evaluation of a pyridinium 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide derivative that upon intercalation displays preference for AT-rich double-stranded DNA
S Banerjee, JA Kitchen, T Gunnlaugsson, and JM Kelly, Org. Biomol. Chem., vol. 10, no. 15, p. 3033
DOI: 10.1039/c2ob06898b 

 

Ultrafast intramolecular charge separation in a donor-acceptor assembly comprising bis(η5-cyclopentadienyl)molybdenum coordinated to an ene-1,2-dithiolate-naphthalenetetracarboxylicdiimide ligand
AJ Taylor, ES Davies, JA Weinstein, IV Sazanovich, OV Bouganov, SA Tikhomirov, M Towrie, J McMaster, and CD Garner, Inorg. Chem., vol. 51, no. 24, pp. 13181-13194
DOI: 10.1021/ic301436t 

 

2011 

A comparative picosecond transient infrared study of 1-methylcytosine and 5′-dCMP that sheds further light on the excited states of cytosine derivatives
PM Keane, M Wojdyla, GW Doorley, GW Watson, IP Clark, GM Greetham, AW Parker, M Towrie, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 133, no. 42, pp. 4212-4215
DOI: 10.1021/ja1106089 

 

Vibrationally quantum-state-specific reaction dynamics of H atom abstraction by CN radical in solution
SJ Greaves, RA Rose, TAA Oliver, DR Glowacki, MNR Ashfold, JN Harvey, IP Clark, GM Greetham, AW Parker, M Towrie, and AJ Orr-Ewing, Science (80-. )., vol. 331, no. 6023, pp. 1423-1426
DOI: 10.1126/science.1197796 

 

Vibrationally quantum-state-specific dynamics of the reactions of CN radicals with organic molecules in solution
RA Rose, SJ Greaves, TAA Oliver, IP Clark, GM Greetham, AW Parker, M Towrie, and AJ Orr-Ewing, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 134, no. 24, p. 244503
DOI: 10.1063/1.3603966 

 

Ultrafast excited-state dynamics of rhenium(I) photosensitizers [Re(Cl)(CO)3(N,N)] and [Re(imidazole)(CO)3(N,N)]+ : Diimine effects
A El Nahhas, C Consani, AM Blanco-Rodríguez, KM Lancaster, O Braem, A Cannizzo, M Towrie, IP Clark, S Zalis, M Chergui, and A Vlcek, Inorg. Chem., vol. 50, no. 7, pp. 2932-2943
DOI: 10.1021/ic102324p 

 

Photochemistry of (η6-arene)Cr(CO)3 (arene = methylbenzoate, naphthalene, or phenanthrene) in n-heptane solution: Population of two excited states following 400 nm excitation as detected by picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
IP Clark, MW George, GM Greetham, EC Harvey, C Long, JC Manton, and MT Pryce, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 115, no. 14, pp. 2985-2993
DOI: 10.1021/jp112168u 

 

Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of an isotope-labeled photoactivatable flavoprotein
A Haigney, A Lukacs, R-K Zhao, AL Stelling, R Brust, R-R Kim, M Kondo, I Clark, M Towrie, GM Greetham, B Illarionov, A Bacher, W Romisch-Margl, M Fischer, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, Biochemistry, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 1321-1328
DOI: 10.1021/bi101589a 

 

Charge photoinjection in intercalated and covalently bound [Re(CO)3(dppz)(py)]+ -DNA constructs monitored by time-resolved visible and infrared spectroscopy
ED Olmon, PA Sontz, AM Blanco-Rodriguez, M Towrie, IP Clark, A Vlcek, and JK Barton, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 133, no. 34, pp. 13718-13730
DOI: 10.1021/ja205568r 

 

Phototriggering electron flow through ReI-modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurins
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, AJ Di Bilio, C Shih, AK Museth, IP Clark, M Towrie, A Cannizzo, J Sudhamsu, BR Crane, J Sykora, JR Winkler, HB Gray, S Zalis, and A Vlcek, Chem. – A Eur. J., vol. 17, no. 19, pp. 5350-5361
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002162 

 

Photoexcitation of the blue light using FAD photoreceptor AppA results in ultrafast changes to the protein matrix
A Lukacs, A Haigney, R Brust, R-K Zhao, AL Stelling, IP Clark, M Towrie, GM Greetham, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 133, no. 42, pp. 16893-16900
DOI: 10.1021/ja2060098 

 

Time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy: Exploring reactive intermediates
SK Sahoo, S Umapathy, and AW Parker, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 1087-1115
DOI: 10.1366/11-06406 

 

Ultrafast transient mid IR to visible spectroscopy of fully reduced flavins
R-K Zhao, A Lukacs, A Haigney, R Brust, GM Greetham, M Towrie, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 13, no. 39, p. 17642
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22097g 

 

Relationship between protein structural fluctuations and rebinding dynamics in ferric haem nitrosyls
NT Hunt, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, and NP Tucker, Biochem. J., vol. 433, no. 3, pp. 459-468
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20101496 

 

The role of CN and CO ligands in the vibrational relaxation dynamics of model compounds of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzyme
S Kaziannis, JA Wright, M Candelaresi, R Kania, GM Greetham, AW Parker, CJ Pickett, and NT Hunt, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 13, no. 21, p. 10295
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20589g 

 

Spectroscopic analysis of protein Fe-NO complexes
C Bellota-Anton, J Munnoch, K Robb, K Adamczyk, M Candelaresi, AW Parker, R Dixon, MI Hutchings, NT Hunt, and NP Tucker, Biochem. Soc. Trans., vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 1293-1298
DOI: 10.1042/BST0391293 

 

Photoinduced intramolecular tryptophan oxidation and excited-state behavior of [Re(L-AA)(CO)3 (α-diimine)]+ (L = pyridine or imidazole, AA = tryptophan, tyrosine, phenylalanine)
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, M Towrie, J Sykora, S Zalis, and A Vlcek, Inorg. Chem., vol. 50, no. 13, pp. 6122-6134
DOI: 10.1021/ic200252z 

 

Combined experimental and theoretical investigation into C-H activation of cyclic alkanes by Cp’Rh(CO)2 (Cp’ = η5-C5H5 or η5-C5Me5)
MW George, MB Hall, P Portius, AL Renz, X-Z Sun, M Towrie, and X Yang, Dalt. Trans., vol. 40, no. 8, p. 1751
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00661k 

 

Ultrafast energy flow in the wake of solution-phase bimolecular reactions
DR Glowacki, RA Rose, SJ Greaves, AJ Orr-Ewing, and JN Harvey, Nat. Chem., vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 850-855
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1154 

 

Chemical reaction dynamics in liquid solutions
AJ Orr-Ewing, DR Glowacki, SJ Greaves, and RA Rose, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 1139-1144
DOI: 10.1021/jz2002716 

 

Product energy deposition of CN + alkane H abstraction reactions in gas and solution phases
DR Glowacki, AJ Orr-Ewing, and JN Harvey, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 134, no. 21, p. 214508
DOI: 10.1063/1.3595259 

 

2010 

Excited state dynamics and activation parameters of remarkably slow photoinduced CO loss from (η6-benzene)Cr(CO)3 in n-heptane solution: A DFT and picosecond-time-resolved infrared study
IP Clark, MW George, GM Greetham, EC Harvey, C Long, JC Manton, and MT Pryce, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 114, no. 43, pp. 11425-11431
DOI: 10.1021/jp106290j 

 

ULTRA: A unique instrument for time-resolved spectroscopy
GM Greetham, P Burgos, Q Cao, IP Clark, PS Codd, RC Farrow, MW George, M Kogimtzis, P Matousek, AW Parker, MR Pollard, DA Robinson, Z-J Xin, and M Towrie, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 1311-1319
DOI: 10.1366/000370210793561673 

 

Investigating the vibrational dynamics of a 17e metallocarbonyl intermediate using ultrafast two dimensional infrared spectroscopy
R Kania, AI Stewart, IP Clark, GM Greetham, AW Parker, M Towrie, and NT Hunt, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1051-1063
DOI: 10.1039/B919194A 

 

Temporal and spatial resolution in transmission Raman spectroscopy
N Everall, P Matousek, N MacLeod, KL Ronayne, and IP Clark, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 52-60
DOI: 10.1366/000370210790571963 

 

Femtosecond to microsecond photochemistry of a [FeFe]hydrogenase enzyme model compound
S Kaziannis, S Santabarbara, JA Wright, GM Greetham, M Towrie, AW Parker, CJ Pickett, and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 114, no. 46, pp. 15370-15379
DOI: 10.1021/jp107618n 

 

Determination of the photolysis products of [FeFe]hydrogenase enzyme model systems using ultrafast multidimensional infrared spectroscopy
AI Stewart, JA Wright, GM Greetham, S Kaziannis, S Santabarbara, M Towrie, AW Parker, CJ Pickett, and NT Hunt, Inorg. Chem., vol. 49, no. 20, pp. 9563-9573
DOI: 10.1021/ic101289s 

 

Understanding the factors affecting the activation of alkane by Cp’Rh(CO)2 (Cp’ = Cp or Cp*)
MW George, MB Hall, OS Jina, P Portius, X-Z Sun, M Towrie, H Wu, X Yang, and SD Zaric, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 107, no. 47, pp. 20178-20183
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001249107 

 

Structure and ultrafast dynamics of the charge-transfer excited state and redox activity of the ground state of mono- and binuclear platinum(II) diimine catecholate and bis-catecholate complexes: A transient absorption, TRIR, DFT, and electrochemical study
J Best, IV Sazanovich, H Adams, RD Bennett, ES Davies, AJHM Meijer, M Towrie, SA Tikhomirov, OV Bouganov, MD Ward, and JA Weinstein, Inorg. Chem., vol. 49, no. 21, pp. 10041-10056
DOI: 10.1021/ic101344t 

 

Infrared characterization of the guanine radical cation: Finger printing DNA damage
AW Parker, CY Lin, MW George, M Towrie, and MK Kuimova, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 114, no. 10, pp. 3660-3667
DOI: 10.1021/jp9106958 

 

Optically trapped probes with nanometer-scale tips for femto-Newton force measurement
MR Pollard, SW Botchway, B Chichkov, E Freeman, RNJ Halsall, DWK Jenkins, I Loader, A Ovsianikov, AW Parker, R Stevens, R Turchetta, AD Ward, and M Towrie, New J. Phys., vol. 12, no. 11, p. 113056
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113056 


2009 


Ultrafast excited-state processes in Re(I) carbonyl-diimine complexes: From excitation to photochemistry
A Vlcek, Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, AJ Lees, Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009
DOI: 10.1007/3418_2009_4 

 

Mid-infrared picosecond pump-dump-probe and pump-repump-probe experiments to resolve a ground-state intermediate in cyanobacterial phytochrome Cph1
LJGW van Wilderen, IP Clark, M Towrie, and JJ van Thor, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 113, no. 51, pp. 16354-16364
DOI: 10.1021/jp9038539 

 

2D-IR spectroscopy: ultrafast insights into biomolecule structure and function
NT Hunt, Chem. Soc. Rev., vol. 38, no. 7, p. 1837
DOI: 10.1039/b819181f 

 

Excited state reactions in fluorescent proteins
SR Meech, Chem. Soc. Rev., vol. 38, no. 10, p. 2922
DOI: 10.1039/b820168b 

 

ps-TRIR covers all the bases – recent advances in the use of transient IR for the detection of short-lived species in nucleic acids
M Towrie, GW Doorley, MW George, AW Parker, SJ Quinn, and JM Kelly, Analyst, vol. 134, no. 7, p. 1265
DOI: 10.1039/b902108f 

 

A study of the pH dependence of electronically excited guanosine compounds by picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
DA McGovern, GW Doorley, AM Whelan, AW Parker, M Towrie, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., vol. 8, no. 4, p. 542
DOI: 10.1039/b817756b 

 

A time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy study on adenine/thymine based nucleic acid systems
S Quinn, GW Doorley, DA McGovern, AW Parker, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, and JM Kelly, in “Ultrafast Phenomena XVI” P Corkum, S Silvestri, KA Nelson, E Riedle, RW Schoenlein Ed. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_193 

 

Luminescence and time-resolved infrared study of dyads containing (diimine)Ru(4,4′-diethylamido-2,2′-bipyridine)2 and (diimine)Ru(CN)4 moieties: Solvent-induced reversal of the direction of photoinduced energy-transfer
TL Easun, WZ Alsindi, N Deppermann, M Towrie, KL Ronayne, X-Z Sun, MD Ward, and MW George, Inorg. Chem., vol. 48, no. 18, pp. 8759-8770
DOI: 10.1021/ic900924w 

 

Unusually slow photodissociation of CO from (η6-C6H6)Cr(CO)3 (M = Cr or Mo): A time-resolved infrared, matrix isolation, and DFT investigation
MAH Alamiry, NM Boyle, CM Brookes, MW George, C Long, P Portius, MT Pryce, KL Ronayne, X-Z Sun, M Towrie, and KQ Vuong, Organometallics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1461-1468
DOI: 10.1021/om800925s 

 

Relaxation dynamics of pseudomonas aeruginosa ReI(CO)3(α-diimine)(HisX)+ (X = 83,107,109,124,126)CuII azurins
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, M Busby, K Ronayne, M Towrie, C Gradinaru, J Sudhamsu, J Sykora, M Hof, S Zalis, AJ Di Bilio, BR Crane, HB Gray, and A Vlcek, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 131, no. 33, pp. 11788-11800
DOI: 10.1021/ja902744s 

 

Excited-state relaxation dynamics of Re(I) tricarbonyl complexes with macrocyclic phenanthroline ligands studied by time-resolved IR spectroscopy 
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, M Towrie, J-P Collin, S Zalis, and AVlcek Jr., Dalt. Trans., no. 20, p. 3941
DOI: 10.1039/b820748h 

 

Spin-resolved two-photon photoemission on Fe77B16Si5 alloy 
CM Cacho, VR Dhanak, LB Jones, CJ Baily, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, C Binns, and EA Seddon, J. Electron Spectros. Relat. Phenomena, vol. 169, no. 2-3, pp. 62-66
DOI: 10.1016/j.elspec.2008.11.002 

 

A combined theoretical and experimental study on the role of spin states in the chemistry of Fe(CO)5 photoproducts 
M Besora, J-L Carreon-Macedo, AJ Cowan, MW George, JN Harvey, P Portius, KL Ronayne, X-Z Sun, and M Towrie, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 131, no. 10, pp. 3583-3592
DOI: 10.1021/ja807149t 

 

A Time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopic study of the photo-dynamics of crystalline materials 
M Towrie, AW Parker, KL Ronayne, KF Bowes, JM Cole, PR Raithby, and JE Warren, Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 57-65
DOI: 10.1366/000370209787169902 

 

A CMOS image sensor with in-pixel ADC, timestamp, and sparse readout 
JP Crooks, SE Bohndiek, CD Arvanitis, R Speller, H XingLiang, EG Villani, M Towrie, and R Turchetta, IEEE Sens. J., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 20-28
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2008407 

 

Dynamic position and force measurement for multiple optically trapped particles using a high-speed active pixel sensor 
M Towrie, SW Botchway, A Clark, E Freeman, R Halsall, AW Parker, M Prydderch, R Turchetta, AD Ward, and MR Pollard, Rev. Sci. Instrum., vol. 80, no. 10, p. 103704
DOI: 10.1063/1.3202381 

 

Picosecond transient infrared study of the ultrafast deactivation processes of electronically excited B-DNA and Z-DNA forms of [poly(dG-dC)]2 
GW Doorley, DA McGovern, MW George, M Towrie, AW Parker, JM Kelly, and SJ Quinn, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 123-127
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200803904 


2008 


Structure and vibrational dynamics of model compounds of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzyme system via ultrafast two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy 
AI Stewart, IP Clark, M Towrie, SK Ibrahim, AW Parker, CJ Pickett, and NT Hunt, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 112, no. 32, pp. 10023-32
DOI: 10.1021/jp803338d 


Ultrafast excited state dynamics controlling photochemical isomerization of N-methyl-4-[trans-2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]pyridinium coordinated to a {ReI(CO)3(2,2′-bipyridine)} chromophore 
M Busby, F Hartl, P Matousek, M Towrie, and A Vlcek, Chem. – A Eur. J., vol. 14, no. 23, pp. 6912-6923
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200800188 


Photooxidation of guanine by a ruthenium dipyridophenazine complex intercalated in a double-stranded polynucleotide monitored directly by picosecond visible and infrared transient absorption spectroscopy 
B Elias, C Creely, GW Doorley, MM Feeney, C Moucheron, A Kirsch-DeMesmaeker, J Dyer, DC Grills, MW George, P Matousek, AW Parker, M Towrie, and JM Kelly, Chem. – A Eur. J., vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 369-375
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200700564 


An alternate proton acceptor for excited-state proton transfer in green fluorescent protein: Rewiring GFP 
D Stoner-Ma, AA Jaye, KL Ronayne, J Nappa, SR Meech, and PJ Tonge, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 130, no. 4, pp. 1227-1235
DOI: 10.1021/ja0754507 


Probing the mechanism of carbon-hydrogen bond activation by photochemically generated hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borato carbonyl rhodium complexes: New experimental and theoretical investigations 
AJ Blake, MW George, MB Hall, J McMaster, P Portius, XZ Sun, M Towrie, CE Webster, C Wilson, and SD Zaric, Organometallics, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 189-201
DOI: 10.1021/om7008217 


Solvation-driven excited-state dynamics of [Re(4-Et-pyridine)(CO)3(2,2′-bipyridine)]+ in imidazolium ionic liquids. A time-resolved infrared and phosphorescence study 
AM Blanco-Rodriguez, KL Ronayne, S Zalis, J Sykora, M Hof, and A Vlcek, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 112, no. 16, pp. 3506-3514
DOI: 10.1021/jp710442v 


Nanosecond CO photodissociation and excited-state character of [Ru(X)(X’)(CO)2(N,N’-diisopropyl-1,4-diazabutadiene)] (X = X’ = Cl or I; X = Me, X’ = I; X = SnPh3 , X’ = Cl) studied by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy and DFT calculations 
A Gabrielsson, M Towrie, S Zalis, and A Vlcek, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 4236-4242
DOI: 10.1021/ic702304k 


 

Ultrafast electronic and vibrational dynamics of stabilized A state mutants of the green fluorescent protein (GFP): Snipping the proton wire 
D Stoner-Ma, AA Jaye, KL Ronayne, J Nappa, PJ Tonge, and SR Meech, Chem. Phys., vol. 350, no. 1-3, pp. 193-200
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.02.021 


Tryptophan-accelerated electron flow through proteins 
C Shih, AK Museth, M Abrahamsson, AM Blanco-Rodriguez, AJ Di Bilio, J Sudhamsu, BR Crane, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, A Vlcek, JH Richards, JR Winkler, and HB Gray, Science (80-. )., vol. 320, no. 5884, pp. 1760-1762
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158241 


Photoinduced energy transfer in a conformationally flexible Re(I)/Ru(II) dyad probed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy: Effects of conformation and spatial localization of excited states 
TL Easun, WZ Alsindi, M Towrie, KL Ronayne, X-Z Sun, MD Ward, and MW George, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 5071-5078
DOI: 10.1021/ic702005w 


Balance between ultrafast parallel reactions in the green fluorescent protein has a structural origin 
JJ van Thor, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, and JT Sage, Biophys. J., vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 1902-1912
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.129957 


Ultrafast excited state dynamics of Pt(II) chromophores bearing multiple infrared absorbers 
EA Glik, S Kinayyigit, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, IV Sazanovich, JA Weinstein, and FN Castellano, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 15, pp. 6974-6983
DOI: 10.1021/ic800578h 


Photophysical properties of platinum(II)-acetylide complexes: the effect of a strongly electron-accepting diimine ligand on excited-state structure 
CJ Adams, N Fey, ZA Harrison, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 18, pp. 8242-8257
DOI: 10.1021/ic800850h 


 

Probing the solvent dependent photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(dppz-X2)Cl] (dppz-X2 = 11,12-X2-dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine); X = CH3, H, F, Cl, CF3) 
MK Kuimova, WZ Alsindi, AJ Blake, ES Davies, DJ Lampus, P Matousek, J McMaster, AW Parker, M Towrie, X-Z Sun, C Wilson, and MW George, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 21, pp. 9857-9869
DOI: 10.1021/ic800753f 


 

Excited state dynamics of a PtII diimine complex bearing a naphthalene-diimide electron acceptor 
IV Sazanovich, MAH Alamiry, J Best, RD Bennett, OV Bouganov, ES Davies, VP Grivin, AJHM Meijer, VF Plyusnin, KL Ronayne, AH Shelton, SA Tikhomirov, M Towrie, and JA Weinstein, Inorg. Chem., vol. 47, no. 22, pp. 10432-10445
DOI: 10.1021/ic801022h 


Ground- and excited-state infrared spectra of an azacrown-substituted [(bpy)Re(CO)3L]+ complex: Structure and bonding in ground and excited states and effects of Ba2+ binding 
JD Lewis, M Towrie, and JN Moore, J. Phys. Chem. A, vol. 112, no. 17, pp. 3852-3864
DOI: 10.1021/jp711260d 

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