Ultrafast elementary photochemical processes of organic molecules in liquid solution

T Kumpulainen, B Lang, A Rosspeintner… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast photochemical reactions in liquids occur on similar or shorter time scales compared
to the equilibration of the optically populated excited state. This equilibration involves the …

Structural changes accompanying intramolecular electron transfer: focus on twisted intramolecular charge-transfer states and structures

ZR Grabowski, K Rotkiewicz, W Rettig - Chemical reviews, 2003 - ACS Publications
Zbigniew Ryszard Grabowski was born 1927 (original prewar name Ryszard Abrahamer).
Under the German occupation he was self-taught while in hiding. He took part in the Warsaw …

Charge separation in excited states of decoupled systems—TICT compounds and implications regarding the development of new laser dyes and the primary process …

W Rettig - Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
The understanding of the dual fluorescence of certain aromatic systems has greatly
advanced in recent years. The accompanying large charge separation has been shown to …

Molecular rotors: what lies behind the high sensitivity of the thioflavin-T fluorescent marker

N Amdursky, Y Erez, D Huppert - Accounts of chemical research, 2012 - ACS Publications
Thioflavin-T (ThT) can bind to amyloid fibrils and is frequently used as a fluo-rescent marker
for in vitro biomedical assays of the potency of inhibitors for amyloid-related diseases, such …

Thioflavin T as a molecular rotor: fluorescent properties of thioflavin T in solvents with different viscosity

VI Stsiapura, AA Maskevich, VA Kuzmitsky… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The effect of solvent viscosity on thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescent properties is analyzed to
understand the molecular mechanisms of the characteristic increase in ThT fluorescence …

Controlling the optical properties of inorganic nanoparticles

GD Scholes - Advanced Functional Materials, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The sophistication with which we can now prepare and characterize inorganic nanoparticles
has inspired new areas of research into the fundamental properties and applications of …

Photophysics of internal twisting

E Lippert, W Rettig, V Bonačić‐Koutecký… - … in chemical physics, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, some statistical approaches have been reported concerning dynamics in
molecular liquids, and this especially in the deduction of (1) equations of state, for hard-core …

Femtosecond studies of solvation and intramolecular configurational dynamics of fluorophores in liquid solution

M Glasbeek, H Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent chromophores are optically active probe molecules with widespread
applications in chemistry and biology. Usually chromophores function in condensed matter …

Protein dynamics control the kinetics of initial electron transfer in photosynthesis

H Wang, S Lin, JP Allen, JAC Williams, S Blankert… - Science, 2007 - science.org
The initial electron transfer dynamics during photosynthesis have been studied in
Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centers from wild type and 14 mutants in which the …

Ultrafast guest dynamics in cyclodextrin nanocavities

A Douhal - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
The invention and development of laser technology and other related ultrafast techniques
has opened and established new areas in molecular science called femtochemistry and …