Publications 2023

1.        Austen Moss, Youngwoo Jang, Jacob Arvidson, Hong Wang, and Francis D’Souza, Highly Coupled Heterobicycle-Fused Porphyrin Dimers: Excitonic Coupling and Charge Separation with Coordinated Fullerene, C60, ChemSusChem 2023, e202202289 (1 of 12), doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202202289.

2.      Noah Holzer, Amanda Brown, Jam Riyan Hamza, Jatan K Sharma, Francis D’Souza, Prashanth K Poddutoori, Bathochromically shifted absorption and near IR emission in bismuth (III) porphyrins with meso-fluorophenyl and methoxyphenyl substitutions, J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2023, 27, A-H. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424623501250

3.          Sudagar, A. J., Shao, S., Zolek, T., Maciejewska, D., Asztemborska, M., Cieplak, M., Sharma, P. S., D'Souza, F., Kutner, W., Noworyta, K. R., "Improving the Selectivity of the C-C Coupled Product Electrosynthesis by Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-An Enhanced Route from Phenol to Biphenol." ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023, 15, 49595-49610. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c09696

4.      Sheokand, M., Alsaleh, A. Z., D'Souza, F., Misra, R., "Excitation Wavelength-Dependent Charge Stabilization in Highly Interacting Phenothiazine Sulfone-Derived Donor-Acceptor Constructs." JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 2023, 127, 2761-2773. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08472

5.      Washburn, S., Kaswan, R. R., Shaikh, S., Moss, A., D'Souza, F., Wang, H., "Excited-State Charge Transfer in Push-Pull Platinum(II) π-Extended Porphyrins Fused with Pentacenequinone." JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2023, 127, 9040-9051. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05261

6.     Manan Guragain, Dilip Pinjari, Rajneesh Misra, Francis D'Souza, Zinc Tetrapyrrole Coordinated to Imidazole Functionalized Tetracyanobutadiene or cyclohexa-2,5-diene-1,4-diylidene-expanded-tetracyanobutadiene Conjugates: Dark vs. Light-Induced Electron Transfer, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202302665. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202302665

7.    Courtney Cooper, Ros Paul, Ajyal Alsaleh, Spenser Washburn, William Rackers, Siddhartha Kumar, Vladimir N Nesterov, Francis D’Souza, Sergei A Vinogradov, Hong Wang, Naphthodithiophene-Fused Porphyrins: Synthesis, Characterization, and Impact of Extended Conjugation on Aromaticity, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202302013(1of9), doi.org/10.1002/chem.202302013.

8.    Swathi Nenavath, Naresh Duvva, Ram R Kaswan, Gary N Lim, Francis D’Souza, Lingamallu Giribabu, Intramolecular Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer Reactions in Phenanthroimidazole–Boron Dipyromethane Donor–Acceptor Dyads, J. Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127, 32, 6779–6790. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c04141

9.          Chamari V Ileperuma, José Garcés‐Garcés, Shuai Shao, Fernando Fernández‐Lázaro, Ángela Sastre‐Santos, Paul A Karr, Francis D'Souza, Panchromatic Light‐Capturing Bis‐styryl BODIPY‐Perylenediimide Donor‐Acceptor Constructs: Occurrence of Sequential Energy Transfer Followed by Electron Transfer, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202301686(1 of 11). doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301686

10.      Ajyal Z Alsaleh, Dilip Pinjari, Rajneesh Misra, Francis D'Souza, Far-Red Excitation Induced Electron Transfer in Bis Donor-AzaBODIPY Push-Pull Systems; Role of Nitrogenous Donors in Promoting Charge Separation, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202301659(1 of 12). 

11.      Inderpal Yadav Jatan K. Sharma Muniappan Sankar and Francis D’Souza, Symmetrically Functionalized Copper and Silver Corrole-Bis-TCBD Push-Pull Conjugates: Efficient Population of Triplet States via Charge Transfer, Chem. Eur. J., 2023, 29, e202301341. doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301341

12.    Youngwoo Jang, Bijesh Sekaran, Rajneesh Misra, and Francis D’Souza, Accelerated Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Tetracyanobutadiene and Tetracyanoquinodimethane Incorporated Asymmetric Triphenylamine-Quinoxaline Push-Pull Conjugates, J. Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127, 445504462. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01732

13.       Precious Chukwunenye, Ashwin Ganesan, Mojgan Gharaee, Kabirat Balogun, Qasim Adesope, Stella Chinelo Amagbor, Teresa D. Golden, Francis D’Souza, Thomas R. Cundari, and Jeffry A. Kelber, Stability and Activity of Titanium Oxynitride Thin Films for The Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia at Different pH Values, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2023, 19540-19552. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CP01330H

14.      B. Sekaran, M. Guragain, R. Misra and F. D’Souza, b-Pyrrole functionalized push-pull porphyrins: Excited charge transfer promoted enhanced singlet oxygen generation, J. Phys. Chem. A. 2023, 127, 7964-7975. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05292.

15.       Jorge Follana-Berná, Andrew Dawson, Sairaman Seetharaman, Paul A. Karr, Ángela Sastre-Santos, and Francis D’Souza, ‘p-Extended Pyrazinepyrene Fused Zinc Phthalocyanines: Synthesis and Excited State Charge Separation Involving Coordinated C60, J. Phys.Chem. A 2023, 127, 6191-6203. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02738

16.     Noah Holzer, Jiacheng Jin, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Jatan Sharma, Niloofar Zarrabi, Francis D’Souza, Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Fluorinated Antimony(V) Tetraarylporphyrins as High-Valent Electron Acceptors with Unparalleled Reduction Potentials, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62, 7097-7110. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00635

17.       Ashwin Ganesan, Samar Alhowity, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Manan Guragain, Olatomide Omolere, Thomas R. Cundari, Jeffry Kelber, Francis D’Souza, Electro- and Photocatalytic Conversion of N2 to NH3 by Chemically Modified Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, MoS2, and WS2, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2023, 170, 056501.

18.     Taur P Pandurang, Joseph Cacaccio, Farukh A Durrani, Ajyal Alsaleh, Munawwar Sajjad, Francis D'Souza, Mykhaylo Dukh, Dalip Kumar, Ravindra K Pandey, A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a, and a Direct Correlation Between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity, Molecules, 2023, 28, 3782 (1-17) https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28093782.

19.       C. Popli, Y. Jang, R. Misra and F. D’Souza, Charge Resonance and Photoinduced Charge Transfer in Bis(N, N-Dimethylaminophenyl-TCBD)-Diketopyrrolopyrrole Multi-Modular System, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2023, 2023, 127, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01528

20.       Kabirat Balogun Ashwin Ganeshan Precious Chukwunenye, Mojgan Gharaee, Slavomir. Nemšák, Paul S. Bagus, Thomas R. Cundari, Francis D’Souza, and Jeffry A. Kelber, Vanadium oxide, Vanadium Oxynitride, and Cobalt Oxynitride as Electrocatalysts for the Nitrogen Reduction Reaction: A Review of Recent Developments, J. Physics: Condensed Matter, 2023, 35, 333002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/acd49d

21.      Xiao-Fei Chen, Habtom B. Gobeze, Francis D'Souza, Dennis K. P. Ng, Assembling Artificial Photosynthetic Models in Water Using β-Cyclodextrin-Conjugated Phthalocyanines as Building Blocks, Chem. Eur. J. 2023, e202300709(1 of 11), doi.org/10.1002/chem.202300709

22.       Poddutoori, P. K., Shea, M., Manoleff, L., Zosel, N., Lim, G., D'Souza, F., "Ultrafast electron injection in TiO₂ surface-anchored aluminum(III) porphyrin stacks." JOURNAL OF PORPHYRINS AND PHTHALOCYANINES 2023, 27, 1212-1222. DOI: 10.1142/S108842462350075X

23.     Jan Hynek, Mandeep K. Chahal, Daniel T. Payne, Anuradha Liyanage, Francis D’Souza, and Jonathan P. Hill, Design rules for oxoporphyrinogen (‘OxP’) as a versatile chromophore for efficient singlet oxygen generation, J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2023, 27, A-K. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424623500359

24.        Manju Sheokand, Ajyal Z. Alsaleh, Francis D’Souza, and Rajneesh Misra, Excitation Wavelength-Dependent Charge Stabilization in Highly Interacting Phenothiazine Sulfone-Derived Donor-Acceptor Constructs‘ J. Phys. Chem. B. 2023, 127, 2761-2773. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08472

25.      Jakub Kalecki, Maciej Cieplak, Zofia Iskierko, Joanna Piechowska, Wojciech Nogala, Francis D’Souza and Piyush Sindhu Sharma, Post-imprinting modification: electrochemical and scanning electrochemical microscopy studies of a semi-covalently surface imprinted polymer, J. Mater. Chem. B. 2023, 11, 1659-1669. DOI: 10.1039/d2tb02116a

26.     Mandeep K Chahal, Subrata Maji, Anuradha Liyanage, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Pelin Jonathan Hill, Daniel Tony Payne, Wipakorn Jevasuwan, Naoki Fukata, Paul A Karr, Jan Labuta, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Shinsuke Ishihara, Katsuhiko Ariga, Francis D'Souza, Genki Yoshikawa, Yusuke Yamauchi, Jonathan P Hill, Persistent Microporosity of a Non-planar Porphyrinoid based on Multiple Supramolecular Interactions for Nanomechanical Sensor Applications, Mater. Chem. Front. 2023, 7, 325-332. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2QM01039A