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Devereux, S., Massaro, M., Barker, A., Hinds, D., Hifni., Simpson, J., Quinn, S. “Spectroscopic study of the loading of cationic porphyrins by carbon nanohorns as high capacity carriers of photoactive molecules to cells“. J. Mater. Chem. B, 2019, Advance Article doi: 10.1039/C9TB00217K
Deeney, C.; McKiernan, E.P.; Belhout, S.A.; Rodriguez, B.J.; Redmond, G.; Quinn, S.J. “Template-Assisted Synthesis of Luminescent Carbon Nanofibers from Beverage-Related Precursors by Microwave Heating“. Molecules 2019, 24, 1455. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24081455
Keane, P.M., Tory, J., Towrie, M., Sazanovich, I.V., Cardin, C.J., Quinn, S.J., Hartl, F., Kelly, J.M. and Long, C., “Spectro-electrochemical Studies on [Ru (TAP)2 (dppz)] 2+— Insights into the Mechanism of its Photosensitized Oxidation of Oligonucleotides “. Inorg. Chem., 2019, 1, 663–671 doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02859
Devereux, S., Cheung, H., Daly, H., O'Shea, D., Quinn, S. "Multimodal Microscopy Distinguishes Extracellular Aggregation and Cellular Uptake of Single-Walled Carbon Nanohorns", Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/chem.201801532
Deeney, C., Suxiao, W., Belhout, S. A., Gowen, A., Rodriguez, B. J., Redmond, G., Quinn, S. J. “Templated microwave synthesis of luminescent carbon nanofibers”, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 12907.
Keane, P. M., Hall, J. P., Poynton, F. E., Poulsen, B. C., Gurung, S. P., Clark, I. P., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Cardin, C. J., Quinn, S. J., Kelly, J. M. “Inosine can increase DNA's susceptibility to photo-oxidation by a Ru(II) complex due to structural change in the minor groove”, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 10344-10351.
Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Photochemically active DNA-Intercalating Ruthenium and related Complexes - Insights by Combining Crystallography and Transient Spectroscopy”, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 4705-4723.
Belhout, S. A., Kim, J.-Y., Hinds, D. T., Owen, N. J., Coulter, J. A., Quinn, S. J. “Multifunctional and robust composite materials comprising gold nanoparticles at a spherical polystyrene particle surface”, Chem Commun, 2016, 52, 14388-14391.
Ford, R., Quinn, S. J., O'Neill R. D. “Characterization of Biosensors Based on Recombinant Glutamate Oxidase: Comparison of Crosslinking Agents in Terms of Enzyme Loading and Efficiency Parameters”, Sensors, 2016, 16, 1565.
Keane, P. M., Baptista, F. R., Gurung, S. P., Devereux, S. J., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Brazier, J. A., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Long-lived Excited-State Dynamics of i-Motif Structures Probed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy”, ChemPhysChem, 2016, 17, 1281-1287.
Poynton, F. E., Hall, J. P., Keane, P. M., Schwarz, C., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Cardin, C. J., Cardin, D. J., Quinn, S. J., Long, C., Kelly, J. M. “Direct observation by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy of the bright and the dark excited states of the [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ light-switch compound in solution and when bound to DNA”, Chem. Sci., 2016, 7, 3075.
Hall, J. P., Poynton, F. E., Keane, P. M., Gurung, S. P., Brazier, J. A., Cardin, D. J., Winter, G., Gunnlaugsson, T., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Monitoring one-electron photo-oxidation of guanine in DNA crystal using ultrafast infrared spectroscopy”, Nat. Chem., 2015, 7, 961-7.
Ryan, J. R., Poynton, F. E., Elmes, R. B. P., Erby, M., Williams, C. D., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Unexpected DNA binding properties with correlated downstream biological applications in mono vs. bis-1,8-naphthalimide Ru(II)-polypyridyl conjugates”, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 16332-44.
Keane, P. M., Poynton, F. E., Hall, J. P., Clark, I. P., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Quinn, S. J., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M. “Monitoring one-electron photo-oxidation by Monitoring guanine photo-oxidation by enantiomerically resolved Ru(II) dipyridophenazine complex using inosine-substituted oligonucleotides”, Faraday Discuss., 2015, 185, 455-469.
Baptista, F. R., Belhout, S. A., Giordani, S., Quinn, S. J. “Recent developments in carbon nanomaterial sensors”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 4433-53.
Keane, P. M., Poynton, F. E., Hall, J. P., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Quinn, S. J., Cardin, C. J., Kelly, J. M. “Reversal of a Single Base-Pair Step Controls Guanine Photo-Oxidation by an Intercalating Ruthenium(II) Dipyridophenazine Complex”, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., 2015, 54, 8364-8368.
Bartelmess, J., Quinn, S. J., Giordani, S. “Carbon nanomaterials: multi-functional agents for biomedical fluorescence and Raman imaging”, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 4672-4698.
Metz, K. M., Sanders, S. E., Pender, J. P., Dix, M. R., Hinds, D. T., Quinn, S. J., Ward, A. D., Duffy, P., Cullen, R. J., Colavita, P. E. “Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles via Natural Extracts: The Biogenic Nanoparticle Corona and Its Effects on Reactivity”, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2015, 3, 1610-1617.
Cloonan, S. M., Elmes, R. B. P., Erby, M. L., Bright, S. A., Poynton, F. E., Nolan, D. E., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T., Williams, D. C. “Detailed biological profiling of a photoactivated and apoptosis inducing pdppz Ruthenium(II)polypyridyl complex in cancer cells”, J. Med. Chem., 2015, 58, 4494-4505.
Devereux, S. J., Keane, P. M., Vasudevan, S., Sazanovich, I. V., Towrie, M., Cao, Q., Sun, X.-Z., George, M. W., Cardin, C. J., Kane-Maguire, N. A. P., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Study of picosecond processes of an intercalated dipyridophenazine Cr(III) complex bound to defined sequence DNAs using TA and time-resolved infrared methods”, Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 17706.
Keane, P. M., Wojdyla, M., Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., Parker, A. W., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J. “Long-lived excited states in i-motif DNA studied by picosecond time-resolved IR spectroscopy”, Chem. Commun. (Journal cover and highlighted in LaserLab Europe Magazine), 2014, 21, 2990-2992.
Doorley, G. W., Wojdyla, M., Watson, G. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Tracking DNA Excited States by Picosecond-Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy: Signature Band for a Charge-Transfer Excited State in Stacked Adenine-Thymine Systems”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2013, 4, 2739-2744.
Gallagher, S. A., Comby, S., Wojdyla, M., Gunnlaugsson, T., Kelly, J. M., Gun'ko, Y. K., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Quinn, S. J. “Efficient Quenching of TGA-capped CdTe Quantum Dot Emission by Surface Coordinated Eu(III) Cyclen Complex”, Inorg. Chem., 2013, 52, 4133-4135.
Wojdyla, M., Gallagher, S. A., Moloney, M. P., Gun'ko, Y. K., Kelly, J. M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M. “Picosecond to Millisecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Broad-Band Emitting Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots”, J. Phys. Chem. C., 2012, 116, 16226-16232.
Keane, P. M. Wojdyla, M. Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., Clark, I. P. Parker, A. W., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Magno, L. M., Quinn, S. J. “Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy of Polymeric Cytosine Nucleic Acids Reveal the Long-lived Species is due to a Localised State”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Special Issue on Ultrafast dynamics), 2012, 14, 6307-6311
Duffy, P. Magno, L. A. Yadavc, R., Roberts, S. K., Ward, A. D., Botchway, S. W., Colavita, P. E., Quinn, S. J. “Incandescent Porous Carbon Microspheres to Light up Cells: Solution Phenomena and Cellular Uptake”, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 432 - 439.
Ryan, G. J., Elmes, R. B. P., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Synthesis and photophysical evaluations of fluorescent quaternary bipyridyl-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates as nucleic acid targeting agents”, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2012, 24, 175-188.
Keane, P. M., Gallagher, S. A., Magno, L. M., Leising, M. J., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Gun'ko, Y. K., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “Photophysical studies of CdTe quantum dots in the presence of cationic porphyrins”, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 13159-66.
Parker, A.W. and Quinn, S. J. “Infrared Spectroscopy of DNA”, Invited chapter, Springer, Encyclopedia of Biophysics, 2012.
Palma, A, Alvarez, L, Scholz, D., Frimannsson, D., Grossi, M., Quinn, S. J. O'Shea, D. “Uptake Mediated Off/On Responsive Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanoparticles”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 19618–19621.
Keane, P. M., Wojdyla, M., Doorley, G. W., Watson, G. W., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Parker, A.W., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. “A Comparative Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of 1-Methylcytosine and 5'-dCMP That Sheds Further Light on the Excited States of Cytosine Derivatives”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 4212–4215.
Elmes, R. B. P., Erby, M., Cloonan, S. M., Quinn, S. J., Williams, D. C., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Quaternarized pdppz: synthesis, DNA-binding and biological studies of a novel dppz derivative that causes cellular death upon light irradiation”, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 686–688.
Quinn, S. J. Doorley, G. W., Wojdyla, M., McGovern, D.A., Kelly, Towrie, M., Parker, A.W., “Excited-State Dynamics of Adenine Thymine Dinucleotides: Influence of Stacking”, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Annual Report, 2010.
Nagle, P.S., Quinn, S. J., J. M. Kelly, O’Donovan, D. H., Khan, A. R. Rodriguez,F., Nguyen, B., Wilson, D. C., Rozas, I. “Understanding the DNA binding of novel non-symmetrical guanidinium/2-aminoimidazolinium derivatives”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 5558–5567
Vasudevan, S., Smith, J. A., Wojdyla, M., McCabe, T., Fletcher, N., Quinn, S. J., Kelly, J. M,. “Substituted dipyridophenazine complexes of Cr(III): Synthesis, enantiomeric resolution and binding interactions with calf thymus DNA”, Dalton Trans., 2010, 39, 3990–3998.
Wojdyla, M., Smith, J. A., Vasudevan, S., Quinn, S. J., Kelly, J. M,. “Excited state behaviour of substituted dipyridophenazineCr(III) complexes in the presence of nucleic acids”, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2010, 9, 1196–1202.
Gallagher, S. A., Moloney, M. P., Wojdyla, M., Quinn, S. J., Kelly, J. M., Gun’ko, Y. K. “Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of chiral CdSe quantum dots”, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 8350–8355.
Doorley, G.W., McGovern, D. A., George, M. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M. and Quinn, S. J. “Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of the Ultrafast Deactivation Processes of Electronically Excited B-DNA and Z-DNA Forms of [poly(dGdC)]2”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 123.
Doorley, G. W., McGovern, D. A., George, M. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Quinn, S.J., Kelly, J. M. “Recent Advances in the Use of Transient IR for the Detection of Ultrafast Species in DNA”, Analyst, 2009, 134, 1265–1273.
Nagle, P.S., Rodriguez, F., Kahvedžić, A., Quinn, S. J., Rozas, I. “Asymmetrical di–aromatic guanidinium/2–aminoimidazolinium derivatives: synthesis and DNA affinity”, J. Med. Chem., 2009, 52, 7113.
Quinn, S. J., Doorley, G.W., McGovern, D.A., Parker, A.W., Ronayne, K.L., Towrie, M. Kelly, J.M. “A Time-resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy Study on Adenine/Thymine Based Nucleic Acid Systems”, Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 2009, 92, 595-598.
Keane, P. M., Wojdyla, M., Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., Clark, I. P., Greetham, G. M., Towrie, M., Parker, A.W., Quinn, S. J. “Unraveling the Photodynamics of Cytosine-Rich Systems Using Ultrafast Transient Infrared Spectroscopy”, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Annual Report, 2009.
McGovern, D. A., Doorley, G. W., Whelan, A. M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M. and Quinn, S. J. “A Study of the pH Dependence of Electronically Excited Guanosine Compounds by Picosecond Time-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy”, Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2009, 8, 542-8.
Bonnet, C. S., Massue, J., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T. “Lanthanide luminescent gold nanoparticles: pH-driven self-assembly formation between Eu(III)-cyclen conjugated AuNPs and sensitising β-diketonate antenna in water”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2009, 7, 3074.
Nonat, A. M., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T. “Mixed f-d coordination complexes as dual visible and near infrared (NIR) emitting probes for targeting DNA”, Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48, 4646–4648.
Paduka Ali, H. D., Quinn, S. J., McCabe, T., Kruger, P. E. and Gunnlaugsson, T. “Crystallographic, 1H NMR and CD studies of sterically strained thiourea anion receptors possessing two stereogenic centres”, New. J. Chem. 2009, 33, 793-800.
Cathcart, H., Nicolosi, V., Hughes, M., Blau, W. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J. and Coleman, J. N., “Ordered DNA wrapping switches on Luminescence in Single-walled Nanotube Dispersions”, J. Am. Chem. Soc, 2008, 112, 12734.
Massue, J., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T. “Lanthanide Luminescent Displacement Assays: The Sensing of Phosphate Anions Using Eu(III)−Cyclen-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 6900.
dos Santos, C. M.G., Harte, A. J, Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T. “Recent developments in the field of supramolecular lanthanide luminescent sensors and self-assemblies”, Coord. Chem. Rev. 2008, 252, 2512–2527.
Alvira, M., Quinn, S. J., Aviñó, A., Fitzmaurice, F. and Eritja, R. “Synthesis of oligonucleotide conjugates carrying viologen and fluorescent compounds.” Open Org. Chem. J., 2008, 2, 56-60.
Cathcart, H., Quinn, S., Nicolosi, V., Kelly, J. M., Blau W. J., and Coleman, J. N. “Spontaneous Debundling of SWNTs in DNA based Dispersions”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007, 111, 66.
Ryan, G. J., Quinn, S. and Gunnlaugsson, T., “Highly effective DNA photocleavage by novel ‘rigid’ Ru(bpy)3-4-nitro- and 4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates”, Inorg. Chem., 2007, 47, 401.
McGovern, D.A., Doorley, G. W., Quinn, S., Whelan, A.M., Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M., Parker A. W. and Kelly, J. M. “Picosecond Probing of the Vibrational Spectra of Transients formed upon UV excitation of the Mononucleotide 5’-Guanosine Monophosphate in Stacked G-tetrad Structures”, Chem. Commun, 2007, 5158.
Quinn, S., Doorley, G. W., Watson, G. W., Cowan, A. J., George, M. W., Parker, A. W. Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M. and Kelly, J. M., “Ultrafast IR spectroscopy of the short-lived transients formed by UV excitation of cytosine derivatives”, Chem. Commun, 2007, 2130.
Doorley, G. W., Kelly, J. M., McGovern, D. A., Quinn, S., Whelan, A. M., Ronayne, K. L., “Picosecond Processes in DNA Monitored by Transient Infra-Red Absorption Spectroscopy”, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Annual Report, 2006.
Senechal-David, K., Pope, S.J.A., Quinn, S., Faulkner S. and Gunnlaugsson T. “Sensitized Near-Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence from Nd(III)- and Yb(III)-Based Cyclen-Ruthenium Coordination Conjugates”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2006, 45, 10040.
Mandal, A., Fitzmaurice, D., Waghorne, E., Koll, A., Filarowski, A., Quinn, S., Mukherjee, S. “Proton transfer reaction of a new orthohydroxy Schiff base at room temperature and 77 K”, Spectrochimica Acta A, 2004, 60, 805.