Publications 2020

1.     Yi Hu, Michael B. Thomas, Whitney A. Webre, Austen Moss, R. G. Waruna Jinadasa, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Francis D’Souza and Hong Wang, Bisporphyrin-Fused Pentacenes Exhibiting Abnormal High Stability, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 132, 20250-20257. DOI:  10.1002/ange.202008076

2.      M. Dukh, W. A. Tabaczyynski, S. Seetharaman, Z. Ou, K. M. Kadish, F. D’Souza, R. K. Pandey, ‘Dual functional meso and beta-pyrrole linked chlorin-bactereochlorin dyads for promoting near infrared FRET and singlet oxygen generation, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 14996-15006. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003042

3.     Mandeep K. Chahal, Daniel T. Payne, Jan Labuta, Paul A. Karr, Francis D’Souza, Katsuhiko Ariga and Jonathan P. Hill, Selective phase transfer reagents (OxP-crowns) for chromogenic detection of nitrates especially ammonium nitrate, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 13177-13183. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003166

4.   Charu Popli, Youngwoo Jang, Yuvraj Patil, Rajneesh Misra and Francis D’Souza, ‘Formation of Highly Efficient, Long-Lived Charge Separated States in Star-Shaped Ferrocene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Triphenylamine Donor-Acceptor-Donor Conjugates, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 15109-15115. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202002851

5.      Ngan K Ngo, Shuai Shao, Heidi Conrad, Stephen F Sanders, Francis D'Souza, Teresa D Golden, Synthesis, Characterization, and the Effects of Organo-grafted Nanoparticles in Nickel Coatings for Enhanced Corrosion Protection, Mater. Commun. 2020, 25, 101628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.101628

6.     Siddhartha Kumar, Whitney A Webre, Courtney Stewart, Francis D’Souza, Hong Wang, A Synthetic Approach to β-Functionalized Naphtho[2,3]porphyrins, Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 7078-7082. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02313

7.     Luis Martín-Gomis, Sairaman Seetharaman, David Herrero, Paul A. Karr, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Francis D’Souza, and Ángela Sastre-Santos, ‘Distance-Dependent Electron Transfer Kinetics in Axially Connected Silicon Phthalocyanine-Fullerene Conjugates’ ChemPhysChem, 2020, 21, 2254-2262. doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202000578.

8.     Maciej Cieplak, Rafał Węgłowski, Zofia Iskierk, Dorota Węgłowska, Piyush Sindhu Sharma, Krzysztof R. Noworyta, Francis D'Souza, Włodzimierz Kutner, ‘Protein determination with molecularly imprinted polymer recognition combined with birefringence liquid crystal detection’ Sensors, 2020, 20, 4692. doi:10.3390/s20174692

9.      M. Poddar, Y. Jang, R. Misra, F. D’Souza, Excited-State Electron Transfer in 1,1,4,4-Tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene (TCBD)- and Cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-diylidene-Expanded TCBDSubstituted BODIPY-Phenothiazine Donor–Acceptor Conjugates’, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 6869-6878. doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000346

10.    A. Ganesan, S. Shao, S. Seetharaman, W. A. Perera, F. D’Souza, Electropolymerizable meso-Tetrakis Biphenyl-Bis(bithiophene) Zinc Porphyrin: Ground and Excited State Properties in Solution and in Films with Axially Coordinated C60’ ECS J. Solid State Science and Tech. 2020, 9, 061008. DOI: 10.1149/2162-8777/aba0d0.

11.    N. Solladie, S. Fukuzumi, K. Ohkubo, F. D’Souza, R. Rein, K. Saito, V. Troiani, H. Qiu, S. Gadde, T. Hasegawa, Two Different Multiple Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Using Either Zinc Porphyrinic Oligopeptide-Fulleropyrrolidine or Free- Base Porphyrinic Polypeptide-Li+@C60 Supramolecular Complexes ECS J. Solid State Science and Tech. 2020, 9, 061026. DOI: 10.1149/2162-8777/abaaf5

12.   B. Saremi, V. Bandi, S. Kazemi, Y. Hong, F. D’Souza, B. Yuan, ‘Exploring NIR aza-BODIPY-based polarity sensitive probes with ON-and-OFF fluorescence switching in Pluronic nanoparticles’, Polymers, 2020, 12, 540. doi:10.3390/polym12030540

13.     S. Chatterjee, W. A. Webre, S. Patra, B. Rout, G. A. Glass, F. D’Souza, S. Chatterjee, ‘Achievement of superior efficiency of TiO2 nanorod-nanoparticle composite photoanode in dye sensitized solar cell’ J. Alloys & Compounds, 2020, 826, 154188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.154188

14.   M. Sankar, P. Rathi, A. Ganesan, S. Seetharaman, P. A. Karr, F. D’Souza, ‘A Persubstituted Triphenylamine Bearing Dendritic Zinc Porphyrin to Host Endohedral Fullerene, Sc3N@C80: Formation and Excited State Electron Transfer’, J. Phys. Chem. B. 2020, 124, 5723-5729. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c04392

15.    H. T. Ngo, J. E. M. Lewis, D. T. Payne, F. D’Souza, J. P. Hill, K. Ariga, G. Yoshikawa, S. M. Goldup, ‘Rotaxanation as a sequestering template to preclude incidental metal insertion in complex oligochromophores.’ Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 7447. DOI: 10.1039/c9cc09681g

16.    N. Zarrabi, S. Seetharaman, S. Chaudhuri, N. Holzer, V. S. Batista, A. Van der Est, F. D’Souza, P. K. Podduroori, ‘Decelerating Charge Recombination Using Fluorinated Porphyrins in N,N-Bis(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)aniline—Aluminum(III) Porphyrin—Fullerene Reaction Center Models,’ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 10008-10024. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c01574

17.     L. M. Gomiz, S. Seetharaman, P. Karr, F. F. Lazaro, F. D’Souza, A. Sastre-Santos, Distance matter: Effect of the spacer length in the photophysical properties in Multimodular Perylenediimide‐Silicon Phthalocyanine‐Fullerene Triads,’ Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 4822-4832. doi.org/10.1002/chem.201905605 

18.     M. Pokkar, Y. Jang, R. Misra, R. D’Souza, Excited‐State Electron Transfer in 1,1,4,4‐Tetracyanobuta‐1,3‐diene (TCBD)‐ and Cyclohexa‐2,5‐diene‐ 1,4‐diylidene‐Expanded TCBD‐Substituted BODIPY‐Phenothiazine Donor–Acceptor Conjugates,’ Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 6869-6878. doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000346

19.     G. Rotas, M. B. Thomas, R. Canton-Vitoria, F. D’Souza, N. Tagmatarchis, ‘Preparation, photophysical and electrochemical evaluation of an azaborondipyrromethene/zinc porphyrin/graphene all supramolecular nanoensemble’ Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 6652-6661. doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000174

20.    M. K. Chahal, H. B. Gobeze, W. A. Webre, P. A. Karr, D. T. Payne, K. Ariga, F. D’Souza, J. P. Hill, ‘Electron and energy transfer in a porphyrin-oxoporphyrinogen-fullerene triad, ZnP-OxP-C60’ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, 22, 14356. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP02696D

21.     R. Caballero, L. D. Servian, H. B. Gobeze, O. Fernandez-Delgado, L. Echegoyen, F. D’Souza, F. Langa, ‘Sc3N@Ih-C80 based donor–acceptor conjugate: role of thiophene spacer in promoting ultrafast excited state charge separation’, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 19861-19866. DOI: 10.1039/D0RA04379F

22.     L. M. Arellano, H. B. Gobeze, M. J. Gomez-Escalonilla, J. L. G. Fierro, F. D’Souza, F. Langa, Triplet photosensitizer-nanotube conjugates: synthesis, characterization and photochemistry of charge stabilizing, palladium porphyrin/carbon nanotube conjugates.’ Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 9890-9898. DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02136a

23.     D. R. Subedi, H. B. Gobeze, Y. Kandrashkin, P. K. Poddutoori, A. Van der Est, F. D’Souza, ‘Exclusive triplet electron transfer leading to long-lived radical ion-pair formation in an electron rich platinum porphyrin covalently linked to fullerene dyad.’ Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 6058-6061. DOI: 10.1039/d0cc02007a

24.     M. K. Chahal, A. Liyanage, H. B. Gobeze, D. T. Payne, K. Ariga, J. P. Hill, F. D’Souza, ‘Supramolecular ultrafast energy and electron transfer in a directly linked BODIPY–oxoporphyrinogen dyad upon fluoride ion binding.’ Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 3855-3858. DOI: 10.1039/d0cc006333

25.     Daniel T Payne, Whitney A Webre, Habtom B Gobeze, Sairaman Seetharaman, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Paul A Karr, Mandeep K Chahal, Jan Labuta, Wipakorn Jevasuwan, Naoki Fukata, John S Fossey, Katsuhiko Ariga, Francis D'Souza, Jonathan P Hill, ‘Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, the fuchsonarenes,’ Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 2614-2620. DOI: 10.1039/D0SC00651C

26.    S. Shao, H. B. Gobeze, V. Band, C. Funk, B. Heine, M. J. Duffy, V. Nesterov, P. A. Karr, F. D’Souza, ‘Triplet BODIPY and azaBODIPY derived donor-acceptor dyads: Competitive electron transfer versus. Intersystem crossing upon photoexcitation.’ ChemPhotoChem, 2020, 4, 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201900189

27.     D. T. Payne, M. K. Chahal, V. Brezina, W. A. Webre, K. Arigan, F. D’Souza, J. Labuta and J. P. Hill, Diporphyrin tweezers for multichannel spectroscopic analysis of chirality and enantiomeric excess, Front. Chem. Sci.Eng. 2020, 14, 28-40.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-019-1869-1

28.    M. B. Thomas, S. Kumar, T. Esquivel, H. Wang, F. D’Souza, Excited state electron transfer in A2 and A2B2 functionalized zinc porphyrins carrying rigid and flexible b-pyrrole p-extended substituents. J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2020, 24, 904-919. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424620500017

29.   Dilip Pinjari, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Yuvraj Patil, Rajneesh Misra and Francis D’Souza, Interfacing High-Energy Charge Transfer States to a Near-IR Sensitizer for Efficient Electron Transfer upon   Near-IR Irradiation’ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23697-23705. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202013036