Direct detection of the open-shell singlet phenyloxenium ion: an atom-centered diradical reacts as an electrophile

L Du, Y Qiu, X Lan, R Zhu, DL Phillips… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A new photoprecursor to the phenyloxenium ion, 4-methoxyphenoxypyridinium
tetrafluoroborate, was investigated using trapping studies, product analysis, computational …

Quantum chemistry of the excited state: recent trends in methods developments and applications

M Navarrete-Miguel, J Segarra-Martí… - 2018 - books.rsc.org
Advances (2016–2017) in Quantum Chemistry of the Excited State (QCEX) are presented in
this book chapter focusing firstly on developments of methodology and excited-state reaction …

Stoichiometric nitroxyl photorelease using the (6-hydroxy-2-naphthalenyl) methyl phototrigger

Y Zhou, RB Cink, AJ Seed, MC Simpson… - Organic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The design and synthesis of a photoactivatable HNO donor incorporating the (6-
hydroxynaphthalen-2-yl) methyl (6, 2-HNM) photocage coupled to the …

Direct observation of photoinduced ultrafast generation of singlet and triplet quinone methides in aqueous solutions and insight into the roles of acidic and basic sites …

J Ma, X Zhang, N Basarić… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy experiments and density
functional theory computations were done for a mechanistic investigation of 3-(1 …

Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Study of N,N-Di(4-bromo)nitrenium Ions in Selected Solutions

L Du, X Lan, Z Yan, R Zhu, DL Phillips - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nitrenium ions are important reactive intermediates in chemistry and biology. In this work,
femtosecond and nanosecond transient absorption (fs-TA and ns-TA) along with …

Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Study of N,N–Di(4–bromo)nitrenium Ions in Acidic Aqueous Solution

L Du, Z Yan, X Bai, R Liang, DL Phillips - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nitrenium ions are common reactive intermediates with high activities towards some
biological nucleophiles. In this paper, we employed femtosecond transient absorption (fs …

Time-resolved spectroscopic observation of diphenylnitrenium ion reactions with guanosine

L Du, Z Yan, Z Zhu, SC Cheng, Y Zhang… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Arylnitrenium ions have gained attention for their high reactivity toward guanosine, which in
some cases has been linked to carcinogenesis. Although many studies have examined …

Time-resolved spectroscopic and density functional theory investigation of the influence of the leaving group on the generation of a binol quinone methide

Z Yan, L Du, X Lan, X Zhang, DL Phillips - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2018 - Elsevier
Quinone methides are important reactive intermediates in photobiology and photochemistry,
with little known regarding the photo-induces generation of reactive quinone methides …

Mechanistic Studies on the Decomposition of Photoactive Nitrosyl Hydride (HNO) Precursors

R Cink - 2019 - openrepository.aut.ac.nz
Nitroxyl hydride (HNO) is a biologically relevant, highly reactive molecule and is a redox
cousin of NO. HNO shows extremely promising pharmacological properties, including …

Time-resolved spectroscopic and density functional theory investigation of the photogeneration of a bifunctional quinone methide in neutral and basic aqueous …

Z Yan, L Du, X Lan, Y Li, W Wang, DL Phillips - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Binol quinone methides (BQMs) can be generated from 1, 1′-(2, 2′-dihydroxy-1, 1′-
binaphthyl-6, 6′-diyl) bis (N, N, N-trimethylmethanamiuium) bromide (BQMP-b) in a 1: 1 …