Publications

2010

'Optically trapped probes with nanometer-scale tips for femto-Newton force measurement (link opens in a new window)'

Pollard, M R; Botchway, S W; Chichkov, B; Freeman, E; Halsall, R N J; Jenkins, D W K; Loader, I; Ovsianikov, A; Parker, A W; Stevens, R; Turchetta, R; Ward, A D and Towrie, M
New J Phys 12 (2010) 113056

'ULTRA: A Unique Instrument for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy'

Greetham GM, Burgos P, Cao QA, Clark IP, Codd PS, Farrow RC, George MW, Kogimtzis M, Matousek P, Parker AW, Pollard MR, Robinson DA, Xin ZJ, Towrie M.
APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 64(12) 1311 (2010)

'Excited State Dynamics and Activation Parameters of Remarkably Slow Photoinduced CO Loss from (eta(6)-Benzene)Cr(CO)(3) in n-Heptane Solution: A DFT and Picosecond-Time-Resolved Infrared Study'

Clark IP, George MW, Greetham GM, Harvey EC, Long C, Manton JC, Pryce MT
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 114(43) 11425 (2010)

'Ultrafast Excited-State Processes in Re(I) Carbonyl-Diimine. Complexes:From Excitation to Photochemistry'

A. Vlcek
Photophys. Organometallics 29, 73-114 (2010)

'Temporal and Spatial Resolution in Transmission Raman Spectroscopy'

N. Everall, P. Matousek, N. MacLeod, K.L. Ronayne and I.P. Clark
Appl. Spectrosc. 64, 52-60 (2010)

'Interactions of the beta-blocker drug, propranolol, with detergents, beta-cyclodextrin and living cells studied using fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging'

R.H. Bisby, S.W. Botchway, A.G Crisostomo, J. Karolin, A.W. Parker and L. Schroder
Spectrosc-Int. J. 24, 137-142 (2010)

'Infrared Characterization of the Guanine Radical Cation: Finger Printing DNA Damage'

A.W. Parker, C.Y. Lin, M.W. George, M. Towrie and M.K. Kuimova. J
Phys. Chem. B 114, 3660-3667 (2010)

'Optically trapped probes with nanometer-scale tips for femto-Newton force measurement (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)'

Pollard MR, Botchway SW, Chichkov B, Freeman E, Halsall RNJ, Jenkins DWK, Loader I, Ovsianikov A, Parker AW, Stevens R, Turchetta R, Ward AD, Towrie M
NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 12 1130560 (2010)

'Femtosecond to microsecond photochemistry of a [FeFe]hydrogenase enzyme model compound'

Kaziannis, Spyridon; Santabarbara, Stefano; Wright, Joseph A; Greetham, Gregory M; Towrie, Michael; Parker, Anthony W; Pickett, Christopher J; Hunt, Neil T
J Phys Chem B 114(46) 15370 (2010)

'Understanding the factors affecting the activation of alkane by Cp ' Rh(CO)(2) (Cp ' = Cp or Cp*)'

George MW, Hall MB, Jina OS, Portius P, Sun XZ, Towrie M, Wu H, Yang XZ, Zaric SD
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 107(47) 20178 (2010)

'Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics of the Charge-Transfer Excited State and Redox Activity of the Ground State of Mono- and Binuclear Platinum(II) Diimine Catecholate and Bis-catecholate Complexes: A Transient Absorption, TRIR, DFT, and Electrochemical Study'

Best, Sazanovich, Adams, Bennett, Davies ES, Meijer AJHM, Towrie M, Tikhomirov SA, Bouganov OV, Ward MD, Weinstein JA
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 49(21) 10041 (2010)

'Determination of the Photolysis Products of [FeFe]Hydrogenase Enzyme Model Systems using Ultrafast Multidimensional Infrared Spectroscopy'

Stewart AI, Wright JA, Greetham GM, Kaziannis S, Santabarbara S, Towrie M, Parker AW, Pickett CJ, Hunt NT
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 49(20)  9563 (2010)

'Infrared Characterization of the Guanine Radical Cation: Finger Printing DNA Damage'

Parker AW, Lin CY, George MW, Towrie M, Kuimova MK
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 114(10)  3660 (2010)

'Optically trapped probes with nanometer-scale tips for femto-Newton force measurement

Pollard, M R; Botchway, S W; Chichkov, B; Freeman, E; Halsall, R N J; Jenkins, D W K; Loader, I; Ovsianikov, A; Parker, A W; Stevens, R; Turchetta, R; Ward, A D and Towrie, M
New J Phys 12 (2010) 113056

'Investigating the vibrational dynamics of a 17e(-) metallocarbonyl intermediate using ultrafast two dimensional infrared spectroscopy'

Kania, Rafal; Stewart, Andrew I; Clark, Ian P; Greetham, Gregory M; Parker, Anthony W; Towrie, Michael; Hunt, Neil T.
Phys Chem Chem Phys 12(5) (2010) 1051

2009

'Dynamic position and force measurement for multiple optically trapped particles using a high speed active pixel sensor'

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80 (2009)

'2D-IR spectroscopy: ultrafast insights into biomolecule structure and function'

N.T. Hunt
Chem. Soc. Rev. 38, 1825-2148 (2009)

'Excited state reactions in fluorescent proteins'

S.R. Meech
Chem. Soc. Rev. 38, 2922-2934 (2009)

'Unusually Slow Photodissociation of CO from (eta(6)-C6H6)Cr(CO)(3) (M = Cr or Mo): A Time-Resolved Infrared, Matrix Isolation, and DFT Investigation'

Alamiry, MAH; Boyle, NM; Brookes, CM, et
ORGANOMETALLICS 28(5) 1461 (2009)

'A CMOS Image Sensor With In-Pixel ADC, Timestamp, and Sparse Readout'

Crooks, JP; Bohndiek, SE; Arvanitis, CD, et al.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL 9(1-2) 20 (2009)

'Mid-infrared picosecond pump-dump-probe and pump-repump-probe experiments to resolve a ground-state intermediate in cyanobacterial phytochrome Cph1'

van Wilderen, Luuk J G W; Clark, Ian P; Towrie, Michael; van Thor, Jasper J.
J Phys Chem B 113(51) (2009) 16354

'Dynamic position and force measurement for multiple optically trapped particles using a high-speed active pixel sensor'

Towrie M, Botchway SW, Clark A, Freeman E, Halsall R, Parker AW, Prydderch M, Turchetta R, Ward AD, Pollard MR.
Rev Sci Instrum 80(10) (2009) 103704

'Luminescence and time-resolved infrared study of dyads containing (diimine)Ru(4,4'-diethylamido-2,2'-bipyridine)2 and (diimine)Ru(CN)4 moieties: solvent-induced reversal of the direction of photoinduced energy-transfer'

Easun, Timothy L; Alsindi, Wassim Z; Deppermann, Nina; Towrie, Michael; Ronayne, Kate L; Sun, Xue-Zhong; Ward, Michael D; George, Michael W.
Inorg Chem 48(18) (2009) 8759

'Relaxation Dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Re-I(CO)(3)(alpha diimine)(HisX)(+) (X=83, 107, 109, 124, 126)Cu-II Azurins'

Blanco-Rodriguez AM, Busby M, Ronayne K, Towrie M , Gradinaru C, Sudhamsu J, Sykora J, Hof M, Zalis S, Di Bilio, Crane BR, Gray HB, Vlcek A.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(33) 2009 11788

'pps-TRIR covers all the bases - recent advances in the use of transient IR for the detection of short-lived species in nucleic acids'

Towrie M, Doorley GW, George MW, Parker AW, Quinn SJ, Kelly JM.
Analyst 134(7) (2009) 1265

'Excited-state relaxation dynamics of Re(I) tricarbonyl complexes with macrocyclic phenanthroline ligands studied by time-resolved IR spectroscopy'

Blanco-Rodriguez, Ana Maria; Towrie, Michael; Collin, Jean-Paul; Zalis, Stanislav; Jr, Antonin Vlcek.
Dalton Trans 20 (2009) 3941

'Spin-resolved two-photon photoemission on Fe77B16Si5 alloy'

Cacho CM, Dhanak VR, Jones LB, Baily CJ, Ronayne KL, Towrie M, Binns C, Seddon EA.
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and related phenomena 169(2-3) (2009) 62

'A study of the pH dependence of electronically excited guanosine compounds by picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy'

McGovern DA, Doorley GW, Whelan AM, Parker AW, Towrie M,Kelly JM, Quinn SJ.
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 8(4) (2009) 542-548

'A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Role of Spin States in the Chemistry of Fe(CO)(5) Photoproducts'

Carreon-Macedo JL, Cowan AJ, George MW, Harvey JN, Portius P, Ronayne KL, Sun XZ, Towrie M.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 131(10) (2009) 3583

'A time-resolved infrared vibrational spectroscopic study of the photo-dynamics of crystalline materials'

M Towrie, AW Parker, KL Ronayne, KF Bowes, JM Cole, PR Raithby and JE Warren
Applied Spectroscopy 63(1) (2009) 57

2008

'Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of the Ultrafast Deactivation Processes of Electronically Excited B-DNA and Z-DNA Forms of [poly(dG-dC)]2.' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

Gerard W. Doorley, David A. McGovern, Michael W. George, Michael Towrie, Anthony W. Parker John M. Kelly, and Susan J. Quinn*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47 (2008)

'Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics Controlling Photochemical Isomerization of N-Methyl-4-[trans-2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]pyridinium Coordinated to a {ReI(CO)3(2,2’-bipyridine)} Chromophore.' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

Michael Busby, Frantisˇek Hartl, Pavel Matousek, Mike Towrie,and Antonin Vlcˇek, Jr.
Chem. Eur. J. 14 (2008), 6912

'Photooxidation of guanine by a ruthenium dipyridophenazine complex intercalated in a double-stranded polynucleotide monitored directly by picosecond visible and infrared transient absorption spectroscopy.' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

Elias, B, Creely, C, Doorley, GW, Feeney, MM, Moucheron, C, Kirsch-DeMesmaeker, A Dyer, J, Grills, DC, George, MW, Matousek, P, Parker, AW, Towrie, M, Kelly, JM.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL 14 (2008) 369

'An Alternate Proton Acceptor for Excited-State ProtonTransfer in Green Fluorescent Protein: Rewiring' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

D Stoner-Ma, AA Jaye, KL Ronayne, J Nappa, SR Meech and PJ Tonge;
J Am Chem Soc 130(4), 1227-1235, 2008.

'Probing the mechanism of carbon-hydrogen bond activation by photochemically generated hydridotris(pyrazolyl)borato carbonyl rhodium complexes: New experimental and theoretical investigations' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

AJ Blake, MW George, MB Hall, J McMaster, P Portius, X-Z Sun, M Towrie, CE Webster, C Wilson, SD Zaric
Organometallics 27, 189-201, 2008.

'n-driven excited-state dynamics of [Re(4-Et-Pyridine)(CO)3(2,2 '-bipyridine)]+ in imidazolium ionic liquids. A time-resolved infrared and phosphorescence study' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

JD Lewis, M Towrie and JN Moore
J Phys Chem A 112, 3506-3514, 2008

'Nanosecond CO photodissociation and excited-state character of [Ru(X)(X ')(CO)(2)(N,N '-diisopropyl-1,4-diazabutadiene)] (X = X ' = Cl or I; X = Me, X ' = I; X = SnPh3, X ' = Cl) studied by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy and DFT calculations' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

abrielsson, M Towrie, S Zalis and A Vlcek Jr.
Inorg Chem 47(10), 4236-4242, 2008.

'Ultrafast Electronic and Vibrational Dynamics of Stabilized A State Mutants of the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP): Snipping the Proton Wire'

D Stoner-Ma, AA Jaye, KL Ronayne, J Nappa, PJ Tonge, SR Meech
Chem Phys 350(1-3), 193-200, 2008.

'Dramatic Acceleration of Electron Flow through Proteins' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

C. Shih, AK Museth, M Abrahamsson, AM Blanco-Rodriguez, AJ Di Bilio, J Sudhamsu, BR Crane, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, A Vlček, Jr, JH Richards, JR Winkler and HB Gray
Science, 320, 1760-1762, 2008

'Photoinduced Energy Transfer in a Conformationally Flexible Re(I)/Ru(II) Dyad Probed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy: Effects of Conformation and Spatial Localization of Excited States' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

TL Easun, WZ Alsindi, M Towrie, KL Ronayne, X-Z Sun, MD Ward and MW George
Inorg Chem 47(12), 5071-5078, 2008

'Structure and Vibrational Dynamics of Model Compounds of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Enzyme System via Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

AI Stewart, IP Clark, M Towrie, SK Ibrahim, AW Parker, CJ Pickett and NT Hunt
J Phys Chem B 112(32), 10023-10032, 2008.

'Balance between ultrafast parallel reactions in the Green Fluorescent Protein has a structural origin' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

JJ van Thor, KL Ronayne, M Towrie and JT Sage
Biophys J 95(4), 1902-1912, 2008

'Ultrafast excited state dynamics of Pt(II) chromophores bearing multiple infrared absorbers' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

EA Glik, S Kinayyigit, KL Ronayne, M Towrie, IV Sazanovich, JA Weinstein, FN Castellano
Inorg Chem 47(15), 6974-6983, 2008

'Photophysical properties of platinum(II)-acetylide complexes: The effect of a strongly electron-accepting diimine ligand on excited-state structure' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

CJ Adams, N Fey, ZA Harrison, IV Sazanovich, M Towrie, JA Weinstein
Inorg Chem 47(18), 8242-8257, 2008

'Probing the solvent dependent photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(dPPZ-X2)Cl] (dPPZ-X2=11,12-X2-dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine); X = CH3, H, F, Cl, CF3)' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

MK Kuimova, WZ Alsindi, AJ Blake, ES Davies, DJ Lampus, P Matousek, J McMaster, AW Parker, M Towrie, X-Z Sun, C Wilson and MW George
Inorg Chem, 47(21), 9857-9869

'Excited State Dynamics of a Pt(II) Diimine Complex bearing a Naphthalene-Diimide Electron Acceptor' (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window) (link opens in a new window)

I. V. Sazanovich, M. A. H. Alamiry, J. Best, R. D. Bennett, V. F. Plyusnin, A. H. Shelton, S. A. Tikhomirov, M. Towrie, J. A. Weinstein et al
Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 10432