Highlights of project 2-04 in 2011

3 November 2011	Vibrational energy flow in self-assembled phospholipid micelles.	Journal of Physical Chemistry A
29 September 2011	Solute-solvent interactions probed with the OH-stretching mode of photoacid molecules.	Journal of Physical Chemistry A
12 May 2011	N-H stretching vibrations of GC base pairs probed with linear and nonlinear 2D-IR spectrosocpy.	Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Shaul Mukamel Festschrift)
5 May 2011	Probing hydrogen-bonded complexes with heterospectral two-dimensional UV/NMR correlation spectroscopy.	Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
10 February 2011	Ultrafast 2D-IR photon echo spectroscopy of DNA AT-oligomers.	Journal of Physcial Chemistry B

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2010

1 July 2010	Combined NMR, steady-state IR and ultrafast IR study of dimers of pyridone.	Journal of Physical Chemistry A and Journal of Physical Chemistry A
5 May 2010	Ultrafast vibrational dynamics and local interactions in DNA.	Angewandte Chemie International Edition Angewandte Chemie

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2009

12 November 2009	Generation and observation of aqueous carbonic acid.	Science
29 April 2009	Vibrational energy flow in DNA.	Chemical Physics Letters

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2008

11 November 2008	Structure and dynamics of tight and loose ion pairs in bimolecular electron transfer.	Angewandte Chemie International Edition
15 August 2008	Disentangling N-H and O-H stretching vibrations in hydrated DNA oligomers.	Journal of Physical Chemistry B
30 July 2008	Photophysics of a model system for [Fe-Fe]-hydrogenase.	Inorganic Chemistry
5 June 2008	Looking at ultrafast temperature jumps in water with X-ray pulses.	Applied Physics A
23 March 2008	Unser Wasser - tot oder lebendig?	Bayerischer Rundfunk - Faszination Wissen
15 January 2008	Cooling water means slowing down structural memory loss while vibrational excitations become more delocalised	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2007

12 February 2007	Ultrafast base-induced solvent switches mediate the aqueous proton transfer between acids and bases	Angewandte Chemie International Edition
8 February 2007	A two-stage structural response to vibrational energy disposal in the hydrogen bond network of water is revealed	Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2006

28 December 2006	Observation of strongly and weakly coupled ion pairs in bimolecular electron transfer reactions in solution	Journal of Physical Chemistry A
4 December 2006	Observation of coherent wavepacket modulations of the amino hydrogen bond of the 7-azaindole dimer	Chemical Physics Letters
12 October 2006	Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft 2006 für Dr. Nils Huse	Klaus Tschira Stiftung
21 August 2006	Vibrational energy flow pathway in an intramolecular hydrogen bond mapped out with ultrafast infrared and resonance Raman spectroscopy	Journal of Chemical Physics
20 July 2006	Lise-Meitner Preis für Dr. Nils Huse	Freunde und Förderer der Physik der HU Berlin
12 June 2006	Femtosecond dynamics of intramolecular vibrational excitations in neat water (H2O) reveal a Fermi resonance between the O–H stretching and bending modes.	Chemical Physics Letters

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2005

28 December 2005	Trans-to-cis rearrangement in the primary stages of photoinduced isomerization in photoactive yellow protein	Journal of the American Chemical Society
7 October 2005	Proton hopping through water bridges between acids and bases	Science
30 September 2005	Fermi resonances with fingerprint modes and low frequency hydrogen bond modes equally important in interaction with O-H stretching vibration of acetic acid dimer	Physical Review Letters
17 August 2005	Twisting in the electronically excited state of the chromophore of green fluorescent protein	Journal of the American Chemical Society
10 March 2005	Ultrafast memory loss in the hydrogen bond network of neat water	Nature

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2004

22 July 2004	Vibrational energy flow in a hydrogen bond	Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2 June 2004	Neue Erkenntnisse über die Struktur von flüssigem Wasser	Deutschlandfunk
31 March 2004	Large conformational changes upon electronic excitation dictate ultrafast internal conversion dynamics in a photochromic switch	Journal of the American Chemical Society
25 February 2004	Nitric oxide is tilted when bound to the heme iron in myoglobin	Journal of the American Chemical Society

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2003

28 November 2003	Probing how fingerprint vibrations couple to the hydroxyl stretching vibration in acetic acid dimer	Chemical Physics Letters
7 November 2003	Infrared photon echo of the hydroxyl-tretching vibration in acetic acid dimer dominated by multi-level quantum beats	Physical Review Letters
18 July 2003	Proximal and distal transfer stages observed when acids and bases exchange protons in aqueous solution	Science
10 July 2003	"Carl-Ramsauer Preis" für Dr. Jens Stenger	Carl Ramsauer prize winners
12 March 2003	Ultrafast internal conversion is an important relaxation channel in the spiropyran photochromic switch	Journal of the American Chemical Society
28 February 2003	Hydrogen bond wavepacket motions observed in acetic acid dimer	Chemical Physics Letters
15 January 2003	How molecular structure dictates linear and multi-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy	Journal of Chemical Physics

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2002

8 July 2002	Out-of-plane deformation modes, that are not totally symmetric, appear to be the primary accepting modes in the internal conversion of p-nitroaniline	Journal of Chemical Physics
24 June 2002	Following an intramolecular hydrogen transfer reaction in a local fashion	Faraday Discussions
14 March 2002	Fastests hydrogen bond network rearrangements in liquid water occur on time scales from femtoseconds to picoseconds	Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2001

9 July 2001	Why hydrogen bond network fluctuations have such a major impact in the coherence loss of hydroxyl stretching oscillators of water	Physical Review Letters
5 April 2001	Low-frequency wavepacket motions observed in a medium strong hydrogen bond	Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Highlights of project 2-04 in 2000

22 March 2000

Vibrational fingerprint patterns help resolve the issue of excited state twisting in dimethylaminobenzonitrile

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Highlights of project 2-04 in 1999

29 October 1999	Vibrational energy flow in betaine-30 after ultrafast internal conversion does not follow Boltzmann's route at early times	Chemical Physics Letters
22 July 1999	Rearrangement of hydrogen-bonded complexes initiated by optical excitation of a coumarin dye	Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Highlights of project 2-04 in 1998

5 October 1998

Solvation dynamics after optical excitation of a coumarin dye includes hydrogen bond rearrangements

Physical Review Letters

Highlights of project 2-04 in 1996

20 December 1996

Molecular skeleton wave packet motions observed accompanying an optically induced intramolecular hydrogen transfer reaction

Chemical Physics Letters

Ultrafast molecular structural dynamics in the condensed phase

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