Unraveling the detailed mechanism of excited-state proton transfer

P Zhou, K Han - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus As one of the most fundamental processes, excited-state proton transfer (ESPT)
plays a major role in both chemical and biological systems. In the past several decades …

QM/AMOEBA description of properties and dynamics of embedded molecules

M Nottoli, M Bondanza, P Mazzeo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the development, implementation, and application of a polarizable QM/MM
strategy, based on the AMOEBA polarizable force field, for calculating molecular properties …

Bioinspired Catalyst Design Principles: Progress in Emulating Properties of Enzymes in Synthetic Catalysts

B Ginovska, OY Gutiérrez, A Karkamkar, MS Lee… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Catalysis enables many aspects of modern life, including fuels, products, plastics, and
medicines. Recent advances in catalysis have enabled us to realize higher efficiencies and …

Map** the complete photocycle that powers a large Stokes shift red fluorescent protein

Z Wang, Y Zhang, C Chen, R Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Large Stokes shift (LSS) red fluorescent proteins (RFPs) are highly desirable for bioimaging
advances. The RFP mKeima, with coexisting cis‐and trans‐isomers, holds significance as …

Structural characterization of fluorescent proteins using tunable femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

C Chen, JN Henderson, DA Ruchkin, JM Kirsh… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The versatile functions of fluorescent proteins (FPs) as fluorescence biomarkers depend on
their intrinsic chromophores interacting with the protein environment. Besides X-ray …

Nature of the ultrafast interligands electron transfers in dye-sensitized solar cells

F Perrella, X Li, A Petrone, N Rega - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Charge-transfer dynamics and interligand electron transfer (ILET) phenomena play a pivotal
role in dye-sensitizers, mostly represented by the Ru-based polypyridyl complexes, for TiO2 …

An efficient implementation of two-component relativistic density functional theory with torque-free auxiliary variables

A Petrone, DB Williams-Young, S Sun… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
An integration and assembly strategy for efficient evaluation of the exchange correlation
term in relativistic density functional theory within two-component Kohn–Sham framework is …

Ab‐initio molecular dynamics and hybrid explicit‐implicit solvation model for aqueous and nonaqueous solvents: GFP chromophore in water and methanol solution as …

U Raucci, F Perrella, G Donati, M Zoppi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Solute–solvent interactions are proxies for understanding how the electronic density of a
chromophore interacts with the environment in a more exhaustive way. The subtle balance …

Modeling excited-state proton transfer to solvent: A dynamics study of a super photoacid with a hybrid implicit/explicit solvent model

U Raucci, MG Chiariello, N Rega - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The rapid growth of time-resolved spectroscopies and the theoretical advances in ab initio
molecular dynamics (AIMD) pave the way to look at the real-time molecular motion following …

Multiresolution continuous wavelet transform for studying coupled solute–solvent vibrations via ab initio molecular dynamics

G Donati, A Petrone, N Rega - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Vibrational analysis in solution and the theoretical determination of infrared and Raman
spectra are of key importance in many fields of chemical interest. Vibrational band dynamics …