Publications Associated with Graduate Work at U.C. Berkeley

1.     Kim, J.E., McCamant, D.W., Zhu L., and Mathies, R.A. Resonance Raman structural evidence that the cis-to-trans isomerization in rhodopsin occurs in femtoseconds. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 105, 1240-1249, (2001).

2.     McCamant, D.W., Kim, J.E., and Mathies, R.A. Vibrational relaxation in b-carotene probed by picosecond Stokes and anti-Stokes resonance Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 106, 6030-6038, (2002).

3.     McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., and Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond time-resolved stimulated Raman spectroscopy: Application to the ultrafast internal conversion of b-carotene. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 107, 8208-8214, (2003).  [This article was chosen for review in the “Analytical Currents” section of Analytical Chemistry, 75 (17), 370A, (2003).]

4.     McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., and Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond broadband stimulated Raman: A new approach for high-performance vibrational spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopy, 57, 1317-1323, (2003).

5.     Kukura, P., McCamant, D.W., Davis, P.H., and Mathies, R.A., Vibrational structure of the S2 (1Bu) excited state of diphenyloctatetraene observed by femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy. Chemical Physics Letters, 382, 81-86, (2003).

6.     Lee, S.Y., Zhang, D., McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., and Mathies, R.A. Theory of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Chemical Physics, 121, 3632-3642, (2004).

7.     Kukura, P., McCamant, D.W., Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond time resolved stimulated Raman spectroscopy of the S2 (1Bu+) excited state of b-carotene. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 5921-5925, (2004). 

[See also the cover graphics of this issue.]

8.     McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., Yoon, S., and Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond broadband stimulated Raman spectroscopy: Apparatus and methods. Reviews of Scientific Instruments, 75, 4971-4980, (2004).

9.     Yoon, S., McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., Mathies, R.A., Zhang, D., and Lee, S.Y. Dependence of line shapes in femtosecond broadband stimulated Raman spectroscopy on pump-probe time delay. Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, 24505, (2005).

10.  McCamant, D.W., Kukura, P., and Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond stimulated Raman study of excited-state evolution in bacteriorhodopsin. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109, 10449-10457, (2005).

11.  Kukura, P., McCamant, D.W., Yoon, S., Wandschneider, D.B., and Mathies, R.A. Structural observation of the primary isomerization in vision with femtosecond stimulated Raman. Science, 310, 1006-1009, (2005).

See also the commentary by Paul Champion in this issue (Science, 310, 980-982, (2005))

12.  Kukura, P., McCamant, D.W., Mathies, R.A. Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 58, 461-488, (2007).

13.  Mi, Q., Chernick, E.T., McCamant, D.W., Weiss, E.A., Ratner, M.A., and Wasielewski, M.R., Spin dynamics of photogenerated triradicals in fixed distance electron donor-chromophore-acceptor-TEMPO molecules. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 110, 7323-7333, (2006).

14.  Dance, Z.E.X, Mi, Q., McCamant, D.W., Ahrens, M.J., Ratner, M.A., Wasielewski, M.R., Time-resolved EPR studies of photogenerated radical ion pairs separated by p-phenylene oligomers and of triplet states resulting from charge recombination. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, 25163-25173, (2006).

15.  Lewis, F.D., Zhang, L., Kelley, R.F., McCamant, D., Wasielewski, M.R., A perylenedicarboxamide linker for DNA hairpins. Tetrahedron, 63, 3457-3464, (2007).