Cytochrome P450: Nature’s Aircraft Carrier

Methodology for Non-covalent Attachment of Molecular Species onto Electrode Surfaces and Electrochemical Studies with Nitrogenase from Azotobacter vinelandii Towards Synthetic Fuel Forming Reactions

Expansion of Collision Induced Dissociation-Cleavable Protein Cross-linkers for Simplified Tandem Mass Spectrometric Analysis

Assigning the Absolute Configuration of Amines and Synthesis of Allium and Alkaloid Natural Products

Development of the In(III)-Catalyzed Intermolecular Alkenylation and Synthetic Studies Towards the Anthraquinone-Xanthone Heterodimers

Synthesis of Cytotoxic Haterumaimide and Lissoclimide Natural Products

Multipolar Raman Scattering on Plasmons

Abstract: Dichroism in Raman has long been an area of interest in spectroscopy as a powerful tool for elucidating molecular chirality. Here, I will provide details from investigations into plasmonic, rather than molecular, dichroism observed in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) studies. The sample used is the prototypical dimer nantenna, consisting of two gold nanospheres, which is functionalized with bipyridyl ethylene molecular reporters.

Single-Nanoparticle Microscopy of DNA-incorporated Hydrogel Nanoparticles

Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of the tyrosine ring mode

Stochastic Models of Photoexcitation and Charge Accumulation for Solar Energy Conversion

A stochastic model has been created to efficiently explore the parameter space surrounding schemes for a new dye-sensitized solar cell and photoelectrochemical constructs. Models of a variety of semiconductor configurations that are populated with surface-anchored light-absorbing molecules and electrocatalysts are simulated under various illumination conditions. Absorption of light by dyes results in the creation of mobile charges that hop by self-exchange electron transfer across the semiconductor surface and ultimately accumulate on electrocatalysts or recombine.

UCI Department of Chemistry

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