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List of works by David C Grills

Application of Pulse Radiolysis to Mechanistic Investigations of Catalysis Relevant to Artificial Photosynthesis.

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Carbon-to-metal hydrogen atom transfer: direct observation using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

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Cell design for picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy in high-pressure liquids and supercritical fluids.

scientific article published in January 2008

Development of a broadband picosecond infrared spectrometer and its incorporation into an existing ultrafast time-resolved resonance Raman, UV/visible, and fluorescence spectroscopic apparatus

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Development of nanosecond time-resolved infrared detection at the LEAF pulse radiolysis facility.

scientific article published on April 2015

Direct Observation of Competitive Ultrafast CO Dissociation and Relaxation of an MLCT Excited State: Picosecond Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopic Study of [Cr(CO)4(2,2‘-bipyridine)]

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Direct measurements of rate constants and activation volumes for the binding of H2, D2, N2, C2H4, and CH3CN to W(CO)3(PCy3)2: theoretical and experimental studies with time-resolved step-scan FTIR and UV-vis spectroscopy

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Direct observation of a hydrogen-bonded charge-transfer state of 4-dimethylaminobenzonitrile in methanol by time-resolved IR spectroscopy

scientific article published in April 2003

Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction with a Homogeneous Catalyst in Ionic Liquid: High Catalytic Activity at Low Overpotential.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Electron Localization of Anions Probed by Nitrile Vibrations.

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Excited state dependent electron transfer of a rhenium-dipyridophenazine complex intercalated between the base pairs of DNA: a time-resolved UV-visible and IR absorption investigation into the photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(F2dppz)(py)]+ bound to eith

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Identification of Ion-Pair Structures in Solution by Vibrational Stark Effects

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Investigation of excited state, reductive quenching, and intramolecular electron transfer of Ru(ii)-Re(i) supramolecular photocatalysts for CO2 reduction using time-resolved IR measurements.

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Kinetic and mechanistic studies of carbon-to-metal hydrogen atom transfer involving Os-centered radicals: evidence for tunneling.

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Small Molecule Binding to Pincer-PCP Rhodium(I) Complexes

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Mechanism of the formation of a Mn-based CO2 reduction catalyst revealed by pulse radiolysis with time-resolved infrared detection

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Metal-dependent reactivity differences for transients formed by flash photolysis of (PNP)M(CO), M = Co and Rh.

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Molecular Catalysts with Intramolecular Re-O Bond for Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Monitoring the effect of ultrafast deactivation of the electronic excited states of DNA bases and polynucleotides following 267 nm laser excitation using picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

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Nitrile Vibration Reports Induced Electric Field and Delocalization of Electron in the Charge-Transfer State of Aryl Nitriles

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Photooxidation of guanine by a ruthenium dipyridophenazine complex intercalated in a double-stranded polynucleotide monitored directly by picosecond visible and infrared transient absorption spectroscopy

scientific article published in January 2008

Picosecond time-resolved infrared investigation into the nature of the lowest excited state of fac-[Re(Cl)(CO)3(CO2Et-dppz)] (CO2Et-dppz = dipyrido[3,2a:2′,3′c]phenazine-11-carboxylic ethyl ester)

Picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopic investigation of excited state dynamics in a PtII diimine chromophore.

scientific article published in February 2002

Probing Intermolecular Electron Delocalization in Dimer Radical Anions by Vibrational Spectroscopy.

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Probing intraligand and charge transfer excited states of fac-[Re(R)(CO)(3)(CO(2)Et-dppz)](+) (R = py, 4-Me(2)N-py; CO(2)Et-dppz = dipyrido[3,2a:2',3'c]phenazine-11-carboxylic ethyl ester) using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

Probing the reactivity of photoinitiators for free radical polymerization: time-resolved infrared spectroscopic study of benzoyl radicals.

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PtII diimine chromophores with perfluorinated thiolate ligands: nature and dynamics of the charge-transfer-to-diimine lowest excited state

scientific article published in November 2003

Radiation stability of cations in ionic liquids. 5. Task-specific ionic liquids consisting of biocompatible cations and the puzzle of radiation hypersensitivity

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Radiolytic formation of the carbon dioxide radical anion in acetonitrile revealed by transient IR spectroscopy

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Reactivity of a fac-ReCl(α-diimine)(CO)3 complex with an NAD+ model ligand toward CO2 reduction.

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Revealing the photophysics of fac-[(dppz-12-NO2)Re(CO)3(4-Me2Npy)]+: a picosecond time-resolved IR study.

scientific article published in April 2002

Solvent dependent photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(11,12-X2dppz)(py)]+ (X = H, F or Me)

scientific article published on 08 May 2007

Solvent effects on the charge transfer excited states of 4-dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN) and 4-dimethylamino-3,5-dimethylbenzonitrile (TMABN) studied by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy: a direct observation of hydrogen bonding interactions

scientific article published on 06 August 2007

Synthesis of fluorinated ReCl(4,4'-R2-2,2'-bipyridine)(CO)3 complexes and their photophysical characterization in CH3CN and supercritical CO2.

scientific article published in March 2009

The photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3(dppz)(py)]+ in CH3CN: a comparative picosecond flash photolysis, transient infrared, transient resonance Raman and density functional theoretical study

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The reaction of cobaloximes with hydrogen: products and thermodynamics

scientific article published on 09 December 2014

Turning on the Protonation-First Pathway for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by Manganese Bipyridyl Tricarbonyl Complexes.

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Unexpected Roles of Triethanolamine in the Photochemical Reduction of CO2 to Formate by Ruthenium Complexes

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Unraveling the photochemistry of Fe(CO)5 in solution: observation of Fe(CO)3 and the conversion between 3Fe(CO)4 and 1Fe(CO)4(Solvent).

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Vibrational Spectroscopy Reveals Effects of Electron Push-Pull and Solvent Polarity on Electron Delocalization in Radical Anions of Donor-Acceptor Compounds

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Vibrational Stark effects to identify ion pairing and determine reduction potentials in electrolyte-free environments

scientific article published on 17 January 2015