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 …

Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

DR Dietze, RA Mathies - ChemPhysChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is an ultrafast nonlinear optical
technique that provides vibrational structural information with high temporal (sub‐50 fs) …

Simulating coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of nonadiabatic molecular processes: From the infrared to the x-ray regime

M Kowalewski, BP Fingerhut, KE Dorfman… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Panoramic portrait of primary molecular events preceding excited state proton transfer in water

W Liu, Y Wang, L Tang, BG Oscar, L Zhu, C Fang - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photochemistry powers numerous processes from luminescence and human vision, to light
harvesting. However, the elucidation of multidimensional photochemical reaction …

Capturing structural snapshots during photochemical reactions with ultrafast Raman spectroscopy: From materials transformation to biosensor responses

C Fang, L Tang, BG Oscar, C Chen - The journal of physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemistry studies the composition, structure, properties, and transformation of matter. A
mechanistic understanding of the pertinent processes is required to translate fundamental …

Photoswitchable fluorescent proteins: mechanisms on ultrafast timescales

L Tang, C Fang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advancement of super-resolution imaging (SRI) relies on fluorescent proteins with novel
photochromic properties. Using light, the reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins (RSFPs) …

Map** structural dynamics of proteins with femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

C Fang, L Tang - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The structure–function relationships of biomolecules have captured the interest and
imagination of the scientific community and general public since the field of structural …

Design of large stokes shift fluorescent proteins based on excited state proton transfer of an engineered photobase

EM Santos, W Sheng… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The incredible potential for fluorescent proteins to revolutionize biology has inspired the
development of a variety of design strategies to address an equally broad range of …

Unveiling coupled electronic and vibrational motions of chromophores in condensed phases

C Fang, L Tang, C Chen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The quest for capturing molecular movies of functional systems has motivated scientists and
engineers for decades. A fundamental understanding of electronic and nuclear motions, two …

A versatile femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy setup with tunable pulses in the visible to near infrared

L Zhu, W Liu, C Fang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a versatile and efficient setup to perform femtosecond stimulated Raman
spectroscopy (FSRS). Technical innovations are implemented to achieve the wavelength …