List of works by Werner M Nau

A 10-A spectroscopic ruler applied to short polyprolines

scientific article

A Comparative Photomechanistic Study (Spin Trapping, EPR Spectroscopy, Transient Kinetics, Photoproducts) of Nucleoside Oxidation (dG and 8-oxodG) by Triplet-Excited Acetophenones and by the Radicals Generated from α-Oxy-Substituted Derivatives thro

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

A Conformational Flexibility Scale for Amino Acids in Peptides

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

A Fluorescence-Based Supramolecular Tandem Assay for Monitoring Lysine Methyltransferase Activity in Homogeneous Solution

scientific article published on 24 February 2012

A Selective Cucurbit[8]uril-Peptide Beacon Ensemble for the Ratiometric Fluorescence Detection of Peptides

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

A Supramolecular Approach for Enhanced Antibacterial Activity and Extended Shelf-life of Fluoroquinolone Drugs with Cucurbit[7]uril

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

A fluorescence-based method for direct measurement of submicrosecond intramolecular contact formation in biopolymers: an exploratory study with polypeptides

scientific article published in January 2002

A joint structural, kinetic, and thermodynamic investigation of substituent effects on host-guest complexation of bicyclic azoalkanes by beta-cyclodextrin

scientific article published in January 2002

A long-lived amphiphilic fluorescent probe studied in POPC air-water monolayer and solution bilayer systems

scientific article published in November 2001

A photoinduced pH jump applied to drug release from cucurbit[7]uril

scientific article

A simple assay for quality binders to cucurbiturils

scientific article

A supramolecular five-component relay switch that exposes the mechanistic competition of dissociative versus associative binding to cucurbiturils by ratiometric fluorescence monitoring

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Activation and stabilization of drugs by supramolecular pKa shifts: drug-delivery applications tailored for cucurbiturils

scientific article published in January 2008

Active tumor-targeting luminescent gold clusters with efficient urinary excretion

scientific article published on 29 June 2016

Adamantylglycine as a high-affinity peptide label for membrane transport monitoring and regulation

scientific article published in January 2024

Analysis of host-assisted guest protonation exemplified for p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene--towards enzyme-mimetic pKa shifts

scientific article

Ascorbic acid as a free radical scavenger in porcine and bovine aqueous humour

scientific article published in January 2004

Associative chemosensing by fluorescent macrocycle-dye complexes – a versatile enzyme assay platform beyond indicator displacement.

scientific article

Binding affinities of cucurbit[n]urils with cations

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Binding of inorganic cations by p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene monitored through competitive fluorophore displacement in aqueous solution

scientific article published on 30 September 2005

Biomolecular and supramolecular kinetics in the submicrosecond time range: the fluorazophore approach.

scientific article

Boron clusters as broadband membrane carriers

scientific article published on 23 March 2022

CHAPTER 7. Cucurbiturils in Drug Delivery And For Biomedical Applications

Cellular Uptake of Cell‐Penetrating Peptides Activated by Amphiphilic p‐Sulfonatocalix[4]arenes

scientific article published on 27 March 2024

Chemistry inside molecular containers in the gas phase

scientific article published on 7 April 2013

Chemosensing ensembles for monitoring biomembrane transport in real time.

scientific article

Chiral resolution through precipitation of diastereomeric capsules in the form of 2:1 beta-cyclodextrin-guest complexes

scientific article published in May 2005

Co-conformational variability of cyclodextrin complexes studied by induced circular dichroism of azoalkanes

scientific article published in June 2001

Comparison of Complexation-Induced pKa Shifts in the Ground and Excited States of Dyes as Well as Different Macrocyclic Hosts and Their Manifestation in Host-Retarded Excited-Dye Deprotonation

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Complexation of acridine orange by cucurbit[7]uril and beta-cyclodextrin: photophysical effects and pKa shifts

scientific article published on 10 December 2007

Computational Assessment of Polar Ground-State Effects on the Bond Dissociation Energies of Benzylic and Related Bonds

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

Conformational properties of carbonyl isocyanates—stereoelectronic effects favouring the cisoid conformation

Correction: Tuning temperature responsive poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)s by supramolecular host-guest interactions

scientific article published in April 2015

Corynebacterium jeikeium jk0268 constitutes for the 40 amino acid long PorACj, which forms a homooligomeric and anion-selective cell wall channel

scientific article

Coulomb Repulsion in Short Polypeptides

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Cucurbit[8]uril and blue-box: high-energy water release overwhelms electrostatic interactions

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Cucurbituril Encapsulation of Fluorescent Dyes

article published in 2007

Cucurbituril-Mediated Supramolecular Acid Catalysis

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Cucurbiturils as fluorophilic receptors

article published in 2014

Cucurbiturils as supramolecular inhibitors of DNA restriction by type II endonucleases.

scientific article published in March 2015

Cucurbiturils: from synthesis to high-affinity binding and catalysis

scientific article published in January 2015

Cucurbiturils: molecular nanocapsules for time-resolved fluorescence-based assays

scientific article published in March 2004

Deep-Red Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters for Nucleoli Staining: Real-Time Monitoring of the Nucleolar Dynamics in Reverse Transformation of Malignant Cells

scientific article

Dependence of lipid peroxidation on pigmentation of the porcine iris

scientific article published in May 2001

Design of a Fluorescent Dye for Indicator Displacement from Cucurbiturils: A Macrocycle-Responsive Fluorescent Switch Operating through a pKaShift

scientific article published on 23 August 2008

Design of peptide substrates for nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence assays of proteases: 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene as a noninvasive fluorophore

scientific article published on 3 November 2006

Determining Protease Substrate Selectivity and Inhibition by Label-Free Supramolecular Tandem Enzyme Assays

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Diastereomer-differentiating photochemistry of beta-arylbutyrophenones: Yang cyclization versus type II elimination

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Diastereomeric discrimination in the lifetimes of Norrish Type II triplet 1,4-biradicals and stereocontrolled partitioning of their reactivity (Yang cyclization versus Type II fragmentation).

scientific article

Diffusion of alpha-tocopherol in membrane models: probing the kinetics of vitamin E antioxidant action by fluorescence in real time

scientific article published in May 2004

Diffusion-Enhanced Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Flexible Peptides: From the Haas-Steinberg Partial Differential Equation to a Closed Analytical Expression

scientific article published in 2023

Diffusion-enhanced Förster resonance energy transfer and the effects of external quenchers and the donor quantum yield

scientific article

Discrepancies between conformational distributions of a polyalanine peptide in solution obtained from molecular dynamics force fields and amide I' band profiles

scientific article published on 7 December 2010

Distance distributions of short polypeptides recovered by fluorescence resonance energy transfer in the 10 A domain

scientific article published in June 2006

Dodecaborate-Functionalized Anchor Dyes for Cyclodextrin-Based Indicator Displacement Applications

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Dynamically Analyte-Responsive Macrocyclic Host–Fluorophore Systems

scientific article published on 02 May 2014

Dynamically self-assembling metalloenzyme models based on calixarenes

scientific article published in November 2006

Effect of bridgehead substitution on the fluorescence quenching of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-enes by solvents and antioxidants

scientific article published on 19 October 2009

Effect of cucurbit[n]urils on tropicamide and potential application in ocular drug delivery

Effect of temperature, cholesterol content, and antioxidant structure on the mobility of vitamin E constituents in biomembrane models studied by laterally diffusion-controlled fluorescence quenching

scientific article published in November 2005

Effects of cucurbit[7]uril on enzymatic activity

scientific article published on 22 February 2007

Efficient Host–Guest Energy Transfer in Polycationic Cyclophane–Perylene Diimide Complexes in Water

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Efficient fluorescence enhancement and cooperative binding of an organic dye in a supra-biomolecular host-protein assembly

scientific article published in January 2007

Encapsulation of ionic liquids inside cucurbiturils

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Energy and Electron Transfer Dynamics within a Series of Perylene Diimide/Cyclophane Systems.

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Excited state quenching via “unsuccessful” chemical reactions

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Excited-state properties of fluorenones: influence of substituents, solvent and macrocyclic encapsulation

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Exploiting Long-Lived Molecular Fluorescence

Face-Fusion of Icosahedral Boron Hydride Increases Affinity to γ-Cyclodextrin: closo,closo-[B21 H18 ]- as an Anion with Very Low Free Energy of Dehydration

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Fluorescence Monitoring of Peptide Transport Pathways into Large and Giant Vesicles by Supramolecular Host-Dye Reporter Pairs

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Fluorescence quenching kinetics in short polymer chains: Dependence on chain length

Fluorescence quenching of azoalkanes by solvent-assisted radiationless deactivation involving CH bonds

Fluorescent Dyes and Their Supramolecular Host/Guest Complexes with Macrocycles in Aqueous Solution

scientific article published on 07 October 2011

Fluorescent artificial receptor-based membrane assay (FARMA) for spatiotemporally resolved monitoring of biomembrane permeability

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Gold nanoparticle aggregation enables colorimetric sensing assays for enzymatic decarboxylation

HYDROPHOBE Challenge: A Joint Experimental and Computational Study on the Host-Guest Binding of Hydrocarbons to Cucurbiturils, Allowing Explicit Evaluation of Guest Hydration Free-Energy Contributions.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Halogen Bonding inside a Molecular Container

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

High-Affinity Binding of Metallacarborane Cobalt Bis(dicarbollide) Anions to Cyclodextrins and Application to Membrane Translocation

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

High-affinity host–guest chemistry of large-ring cyclodextrins

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Host-guest complexation of neutral red with macrocyclic host molecules: contrasting pK(a) shifts and binding affinities for cucurbit[7]uril and beta-cyclodextrin

scientific article published in March 2006

Implementation of anion-receptor macrocycles in supramolecular tandem assays for enzymes involving nucleotides as substrates, products, and cofactors

scientific article published on 7 January 2010

In-cage and out-of-cage combinations of benzylic radical pairs in the glassy and melted states of poly(alkyl methacrylate)s

scientific article

Inclusion of neutral guests by water-soluble macrocyclic hosts – a comparative thermodynamic investigation with cyclodextrins, calixarenes and cucurbiturils

Increased antioxidant reactivity of vitamin C at low pH in model membranes

scientific article published in September 2002

Indicator displacement assays inside live cells

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Induced circular dichroism and structural assignment of the cyclodextrin inclusion complexes of bicyclic azoalkanes

scientific article published in January 2005

Interactions of amino acids and polypeptides with metal oxide nanoparticles probed by fluorescent indicator adsorption and displacement

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Intracavity folding of a perylene dye affords a high-affinity complex with cucurbit[8]uril.

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Intramolecular O-H...O hydrogen-bond-mediated reversal in the partitioning of conformationally restricted triplet 1,4-biradicals and amplification of diastereodifferentiation in their lifetimes

scientific article

Intramolecular singlet-singlet energy transfer in antenna-substituted azoalkanes

scientific article published on 2 December 2003

Investigation of polar and stereoelectronic effects on pure excited-state hydrogen atom abstractions from phenols and alkylbenzenes

scientific article published in January 2006

Kinetic solvent effects on hydrogen abstraction reactions

scientific article published on 20 June 2007

Kinetics of end-to-end collision in short single-stranded nucleic acids

scientific article published in January 2004

Kinetics of one- and two-directional charge hopping in one-dimensional systems: application to DNA.

scientific article published in December 2001

Label-Free Fluorescent Kinase and Phosphatase Enzyme Assays with Supramolecular Host-Dye Pairs

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Label-free continuous enzyme assays with macrocycle-fluorescent dye complexes

scientific article published in July 2007

Lipid peroxidation in porcine irises: dependence on pigmentation

scientific article published in March 2001

Matrix isolation Raman spectroscopy and semiempirical calculations of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene (DBH) and its photoproduct bicyclo[2.1.0]-pentane (BCP)

Mechanism of host-guest complexation by cucurbituril

scientific article published in May 2004

Membrane Permeability and Its Activation Energies in Dependence on Analyte, Lipid, and Phase Type Obtained by the Fluorescent Artificial Receptor Membrane Assay

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Method-Unifying View of Loop-Formation Kinetics in Peptide and Protein Folding

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Modulation of excited-state proton transfer of 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)benzimidazole in a macrocyclic cucurbit[7]uril host cavity: dual emission behavior and pK(a) shift

scientific article published in November 2009

Modulation of spectrokinetic properties of o-quinonoid reactive intermediates by electronic factors: time-resolved laser flash and steady-state photolysis investigations of photochromic 6- and 7-arylchromenes

scientific article

Molecular encapsulation of fluorescent dyes affords efficient narrow-band dye laser operation in water

scientific article

Nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence protease assays

scientific article published in May 2006

New insights into the mechanism of triplet radical-pair combinations. The persistent radical effect masks the distinction between in-cage and out-of-cage processes

scientific article

Noncovalent chirality sensing ensembles for the detection and reaction monitoring of amino acids, peptides, proteins, and aromatic drugs

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

Novel fluorescent pH sensor based on coumarin with piperazine and imidazole substituents

scientific article

Phosphorylation-Responsive Membrane Transport of Peptides

scientific article published on 11 October 2017

Phosphorylation-induced conformational changes in short peptides probed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer in the 10A domain

scientific article published in March 2007

Photochemical techniques for studying the flexibility of polypeptides

Photochemistry of N-isopropoxy-substituted 2(1H)-pyridone and 4-p-tolylthiazole-2(3H)-thione: alkoxyl-radical release (spin-trapping, EPR, and transient spectroscopy) and its significance in the photooxidative induction of DNA strand breaks

scientific article

Photophysical properties and fluorescence quenching of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene in zeolites

Photoreduction of Azoalkane Triplet States by Hydrogen Atom and Charge Transfer

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Photoreduction of Azoalkanes by Direct Hydrogen Abstraction from 1,4-Cyclohexadiene, Alcohols, Stannanes, and Silanes

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Precise supramolecular control of surface coverage densities on polymer micro- and nanoparticles

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Preferential binding of unsaturated hydrocarbons in aryl-bisimidazolium·cucurbit[8]uril complexes furbishes evidence for small-molecule π-π interactions

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Primary and secondary structure dependence of peptide flexibility assessed by fluorescence-based measurement of end-to-end collision rates

scientific article published in December 2004

Quenching of n,pi*-excited states in the gas phase: variations in absolute reactivity and selectivity

scientific article published in September 2002

Ratiometric DNA sensing with a host–guest FRET pair

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Rational design of boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) reporter dyes for cucurbit[7]uril

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Reaction of singlet-excited 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene and tert-butoxyl radicals with aryl-substituted benzofuranones

scientific article published in March 2006

Refractive index effects on the oscillator strength and radiative decay rate of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene

scientific article published on 2 November 2004

Release of High-Energy Water as an Essential Driving Force for the High-Affinity Binding of Cucurbit[n]urils

scientific article published on 10 September 2012

Salt-induced guest relocation from a macrocyclic cavity into a biomolecular pocket: interplay between cucurbit[7]uril and albumin

scientific article published on 12 June 2008

Selective Detection of Nitroexplosives Using Molecular Recognition within Self-Assembled Plasmonic Nanojunctions

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Selective fluorescence quenching of 2,3-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]oct-2-ene by nucleotides.

scientific article published in October 2003

Selective sensing of citrate by a supramolecular 1,8-naphthalimide/calix[4]arene assembly via complexation-modulated pKa shifts in a ternary complex

scientific article

Selective time-resolved binding of copper(II) by pyropheophorbide-a methyl ester

scientific article published on 22 February 2010

Single-label kinase and phosphatase assays for tyrosine phosphorylation using nanosecond time-resolved fluorescence detection

scientific article published on 29 November 2007

Solvent Polarity Affects H Atom Abstractions from C–H Donors

scientific article published on 15 April 2011

Spectroscopy of acyl and carbonyl isocyanates

Spherical shape complementarity as an overriding motif in the molecular recognition of noncharged organic guests by p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene: complexation of bicyclic azoalkanes

scientific article

Spiroiminodihydantoin Is a Major Product in the Photooxidation of 2‘-Deoxyguanosine by the Triplet States and Oxyl Radicals Generated from Hydroxyacetophenone Photolysis and Dioxetane Thermolysis

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Steady-state photochemistry (Pschorr cyclization) and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of twisted 2-bromoaryl ketones

Strong Binding of Hydrocarbons to Cucurbituril Probed by Fluorescent Dye Displacement: A Supramolecular Gas-Sensing Ensemble

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Strongly Fluorescent, Switchable Perylene Bis(diimide) Host-Guest Complexes with Cucurbit[8]uril In Water

scientific article published on 22 June 2012

Structure-dependent reactivity of oxyfunctionalized acetophenones in the photooxidation of DNA: base oxidation and strand breaks through photolytic radical formation (spin trapping, EPR spectroscopy, transient kinetics) versus [...]

scientific article

Structure-reactivity relationships in the photoreduction of n,pi*-excited ketones and azoalkanes: the effect of reaction thermodynamics, excited-state electrophilicity, and antibonding character in the transition state

scientific article published in February 2002

Substituent electronic effects on the persistence and absorption spectra of (Z)-o-xylylenols. A nanosecond laser flash photolysis study

scientific article

Substrate-selective supramolecular tandem assays: monitoring enzyme inhibition of arginase and diamine oxidase by fluorescent dye displacement from calixarene and cucurbituril macrocycles.

scientific article published in August 2009

Supramolecular Tandem Enzyme Assays

scientific article published on 24 February 2012

Supramolecular assemblies through host-guest complexation between cucurbiturils and an amphiphilic guest molecule

scientific article

Supramolecular capsules: under control

scientific article published on April 2010

Supramolecular dye laser with cucurbit[7]uril in water

scientific article

Supramolecular encapsulation of benzimidazole-derived drugs by cucurbit[7]uril

Supramolecular logic with macrocyclic input and competitive reset

scientific article published on April 2010

Supramolecular tandem enzyme assays for multiparameter sensor arrays and enantiomeric excess determination of amino acids

scientific article published in January 2008

Switch-over in photochemical reaction mechanism from hydrogen abstraction to exciplex-induced quenching: interaction of triplet-excited versus singlet-excited acetone versus cumyloxyl radicals with amines.

scientific article

Taming fluorescent dyes with cucurbituril

Temperature dependence of looping rates in a short peptide

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Temperature-dependent loop formation kinetics in flexible peptides studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

Tetrahydro-1,8-naphthyridinol Analogues of α-Tocopherol as Antioxidants in Lipid Membranes and Low-Density Lipoproteins

scientific article published on 27 July 2007

The "true" affinities of metal cations to p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene: a thermodynamic study at neutral pH reveals a pitfall due to salt effects in microcalorimetry.

scientific article

The Hydrophobic Effect Revisited-Studies with Supramolecular Complexes Imply High-Energy Water as a Noncovalent Driving Force

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

The chaotropic effect as an orthogonal assembly motif for multi-responsive dodecaborate-cucurbituril supramolecular networks

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

The infrared and Raman spectra of carbonyl diisocyanate

The strategic use of supramolecular pK(a) shifts to enhance the bioavailability of drugs

scientific article published on 02 February 2012

TheDParameter (EPR Zero-Field Splitting) of Localized 1,3-Cyclopentanediyl Triplet Diradicals as a Measure of Electronic Substituent Effects on the Spin Densities inPara-Substituted Benzyl-Type Radicals

scientific article published on 01 October 1996

Thermoresponsive interplay of water insoluble poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)s composition and supramolecular host-guest interactions.

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Toxicity of cucurbit[7]uril and cucurbit[8]uril: an exploratory in vitro and in vivo study

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

Transition-Metal-Promoted Chemoselective Photoreactions at the Cucurbituril Rim

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Triple Emission fromp-Dimethylaminobenzonitrile-Cucurbit[8]uril Triggers the Elusive Excimer Emission

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

Triple molecular recognition as a directing element in the formation of host-guest complexes with p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene and beta-cyclodextrin.

scientific article published on 21 June 2008

Tuning temperature responsive poly(2-alkyl-2-oxazoline)s by supramolecular host-guest interactions

scientific article published on March 2015

Two Orders of Magnitude Variation of Diffusion-Enhanced Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Polypeptide Chains

Ultrastable rhodamine with cucurbituril

scientific article

Validation of drug-like inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis L-aspartate α-decarboxylase using nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR)

scientific article

Variable temperature infrared spectroscopy of chlorocarbonyl isocyanate Cl-CO-NCO and the effect of polarizable substituents on the conformations of carbonyl isocyanates and isothiocyanates

Versatile, one-pot introduction of nonahalogenated 2-ammonio-decaborate ions as boron cluster scaffolds into organic molecules; host-guest complexation with γ-cyclodextrin

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Vibrational spectra and conformational behaviour of carbonyl isothiocyanates XCONCS, XF, Cl, Br, MeO, EtO, and acetyl isothiocyanate CH3CONCS

Vibrational spectra of acetyl isocyanate and mono-, di- and trichloroacetyl isocyanates

Water Structure Recovery in Chaotropic Anion Recognition: High-Affinity Binding of Dodecaborate Clusters to γ-Cyclodextrin

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Wavelength-Selective Photodenitrogenation of Azoalkanes to High-Spin Polyradicals with Cyclopentane-1,3-diyl Spin-Carrying Units and Their Photobleaching: EPR/UV Spectroscopy and Product Studies of the Matrix-Isolated Species

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

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