Publications

*corresponding author †Supervised UConn undergraduates

UConn / BNL

35. Anti-Arrhenius behavior of electron transfer reactions in molecular dimers

Neo Linand Tomoyasu Mani.* Chemical Science, 14, 13095-13107 (2023)

34. Red-Colored Circularly Polarized Luminescence from a Benzo-Fused BODIPY-BINOL Complex

Miu Tsuji, Sara Abuhadba, Angela Chen, Mio Ito, Amrita Makhijani, Yutaka Kuwahara, Tatiana Esipova, and Tomoyasu Mani* Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 127, 45, 9781–9787 (2023)

33. Type-I CdS/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dot-Gold Heterostructural Nanocrystals for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

Na Jin, Yonglei Sun, Wenwu Shi, Ping Wang, Yasutaka Nagaoka, Tong Cai, Rongzhen Wu, Lacie Dube, Hawi N Nyiera, Yuzi Liu, Tomoyasu Mani, Xinzhong Wang, Jing Zhao, Ou Chen. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 8, 21886-21896 (2023)

32. Quantum Dot–Organic Molecule Conjugates as Hosts for Photogenerated Spin Qubit Pairs

Autumn Y Lee, Troy A Colleran, Amisha Jain, Jens Niklas, Brandon K Rugg, Tomoyasu Mani, Oleg G Poluektov, Jacob H Olshansky.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 145, 8, 4372-4377 (2023)

31. Anionic ligand-induced chirality in perovskite nanoplatelets

Thi Kim Tran Tran, Joseph A Adewuyi, Yongchen Wang, M Daniela Morales-Acosta, Tomoyasu Mani, Gaël Ung, Jing Zhao.* Chemical Communications 59, 1485-1488 (2023)

30. Acceleration of Nonradiative Charge Recombination Reactions at Larger Distances in Kinked Donor–Bridge–Acceptor Molecules

Samuel Johnson,† Amrita Makhijani,† Miu Tsuji, and Tomoyasu Mani.* Journal of Physical Chemistry B 126, 8851–8863 (2022) “Steven G. Boxer Festschrift”

29. Length-Dependent Photocatalytic Activity of Hybrid Ag-CdS Nanorods

Yongchen Wang, Hawi N. Nyiera, Ann W. Mureithi, Yonglei Sun, Tomoyasu Mani, and Jing Zhao.* Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126, 15685–15693 (2022)

28. Molecular qubits based on photogenerated spin-correlated radical pairs for quantum sensing

Tomoyasu Mani* Chemical Physics Review 3, 021301 (2022) (Invited Review)

27. Impact of hole scavengers on photocatalytic reduction of nitrobenzene using cadmium sulfide quantum dots

Ann W. Mureithi, Yonglei Sun, Tomoyasu Mani, Amy R. Howell, and Jing Zhao.* Cell Reports Physical Science,3, 100889 (2022)

26. Transition-Metal doped Titanate Nanowire Photocatalysts Boosted by Selective Ion-Exchange induced Defect Engineering

Xingxu Lu, Mudi Wu, Fangyuan Liu, Yanliu Dang, Meilin Li, Mingyue Ruan, Chunxiang Zhu, Tomoyasu Mani, Steven L. Suib, Pu-Xian Gao.* Applied Surface Science, 591, 1531156 (2022)

25. Chemical redox-induced chiroptical switching of supramolecular assemblies of viologens

Yutaka Kuwahara,* Mio Ito, Tatsumi Iwamoto, Makoto Takafuji, Hirotaka Ihara, Naoya Ryu, and Tomoyasu Mani. RSC Advance, 12, 2019-2025 (2022)

24. meso-Antracenyl-BODIPY Dyad as a New Photocatalyst in Atom-Transfer Radical Addition Reactions

Sara Abuhadba, Miu Tsuji, Tomoyasu Mani*, and Tatiana V. Esipova*. ACS Omega, 6, 32809–32817 (2021)

23. Structural and Photophysical Characterization of All Five Constitutional Isomers of the Octaethyl-β,β’-dioxo-bacterio- and -isobacteriochlorin Series

Christian Brueckner,* Nivedita Chaudhri, Dustin E. Nevonen, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Arthur Graf, Elizabeth Kaesmann, Ruoshi Li, Matthew Guberman-Pfeffer, Tomoyasu Mani, Arunpatcha Nimthong-Roldán, Matthias Zeller, Adrien Chauvet, Victor Nemykin. Chemistry A European Journal, 27, 1-16 (2021)

22.  IR Linewidth and Intensity Amplifications of Nitrile Vibrations Report Nuclear-Electronic Couplings and Associated Structural Heterogeneity in Radical Anions

Juchao Yan, Reid W. Wilson,† Jason T. Buck, David C. Grills, Eric W. Reinheimer, and Tomoyasu Mani.* Chemical Science, 12, 12107-12117 (2021)

21. Magnetic Control of Recombination Fluorescence and Tunability by Modulation of Radical Pair Energies in Rigid Donor−Bridge−Acceptor Systems.

Jason T. Buck and Tomoyasu Mani.* Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142, 49, 20691–20700 (2020)

20. Micelles Embedded in Multiphasic Protein Hydrogel Enable Efficient and Air-Tolerant Triplet Fusion Upconversion with Heavy-Atom and Spin-Orbit Charge-Transfer Sensitizers.

Alexander M. Oddo,† Tomoyasu Mani,* Challa V. Kumar.*ACS Applied Materials & Interface, 12, 35, 39293–39303 (2020)

19. Turning on Solid-State Phosphorescence of Platinum Acetylides With Aromatic Stacking.

William J. Mullin, Huan Qin, Tomoyasu Mani, Peter Müller, Matthew J. Panzer , and Samuel W. Thomas.* Chemical Communications, 56, 6854-6857 (2020)

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

Andrew M. Boudreau,†‡ Reid W. Wilson,†‡ Mengshijie Yang,†‡ David C. Grills, and Tomoyasu Mani.* Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 8, 1543-1549 (2020)

‡equal contribution

17. Intramolecular Long-Range Charge-Transfer Emission in Donor−Bridge−Acceptor Systems

Jason T. Buck, Reid W. Wilson,and Tomoyasu Mani.* Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, 3080-3086 (2019)

16. Spin-Allowed Transitions Control the Formation of Triplet Excited States in Orthogonal Donor-Acceptor Dyads.

Jason T. Buck, Andrew M. Boudreau,† André DeCarmine, Reid W. Wilson, James Hampsey, and Tomoyasu Mani.* Chem, 5, 138 (2019)

‡equal contribution

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

Tomoyasu Mani* and David C. Grills. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 122, 7293 (2018)

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

Tomoyasu Mani* and David C. Grills. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121, 7327–7335 (2017)

Prior to UConn

13. Gold Tris(carboxyphenyl)corroles as Multifunctional Materials: Photophysical, Photodynamic and Photovoltaic properties.

Abraham B. Alemayehu, Nicholas U. Day, Tomoyasu Mani, Alexander B. Rudine, Kolle E. Thomas, Odrun A. Gederaas, Sergei Vinogradov, Carl C. Wamser, and Abhik Ghosh. ACS Applied Materials & Interface, 8, 18935-18942 (2016)

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

John H. Hack, David C. Grills, John R. Miller, and Tomoyasu Mani*.  Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 1149-1157 (2016) 

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11. Electron Localization of Anions Probed by Nitrile Vibrations

Tomoyasu Mani*, David C. Grills, Marshall D. Newton, and John R. Miller. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, 10979-10991 (2015)

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10. CENP-C Reshapes and Stabilizes CENP-A Nucleosomes at the Centromere

Samantha J. Falk, Lucie Y. Guo, Nikolina Sekulic, Evan M. Smoak, Tomoyasu Mani, Glennis A. Logsdon, Kushol Gupta, Lars E. T. Jansen, Gregory D. Van Duyne, Sergei A. Vinogradov, Michael A. Lampson, and Ben E. Black. Science, 348, 699-703 (2015) equal contribution

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9. Vibrational Stark Effects To Identify Ion Pairing and Determine Reduction Potentials in Electrolyte-Free Environments

Tomoyasu Mani*, David C. Grills, and John R. Miller*. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137, 1136-1140 (2015)

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8. Role of Bad Dihedral Angles: Methylfluorenes Act as Energy Barriers for Excitons and Polarons of Oligofluorenes

Tomoyasu Mani* and John R. Miller.* Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 118, 9451-9459 (2014)

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7. The stereochemistry of amide side-chains containing carboxyl groups influences water exchange rates in EuDOTA-tetraamide complexes

Tomoyasu Mani, Ana Christina L. Opina, Piyu Zhao, Mary Evbuomwan, Nate Milburn, Gyula Tircso, Cemile Kumas, and A. Dean Sherry.  Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 19, 161-171 (2014)

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6. Magnetic Field Effects on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation in Solutions: Modulation of Visible/NIR Luminescence

Tomoyasu Mani and Sergei A. Vinogradov. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4, 2799-2804 (2013)

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5. Tb3+-tRNA for LRET studies of Protein Synthesis

Dulce Alonso Hernandez, Wei Liu, Gabriel Rosenblum, Tomoyasu Mani, Yale Goldman, Barry Cooperman.  Bioconjugate Chemistry, 24, 1186-1190 (2013)

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4. Modulation of Visible Room Temperature Phosphorescence by Weak Magnetic Fields

Tomoyasu Mani, Mana Tanabe, Seigo Yamauchi, Nikolai V. Tkachenko, Sergei A. Vinogradov.  Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 3, 3115-3119 (2012)

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3. Generation of phosphorescent triplet states via photoinduced electron transfer: energy and electron transfer dynamics in Pt porphyrin-Rhodamine B dyads

Tomoyasu Mani, Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzik, and Sergei A. Vinogradov. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 116, 3598–3610 (2012)

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2. The Effect of the Regiochemistry of Butyl Amide Substituents on the Solution-State Structures of Lanthanide(III) DOTA-tetraamide complexes

Tomoyasu Mani, Gyula Tircso, Piyu Zhao, A. Dean Sherry, and Mark Woods. Inorganic Chemistry, 48, 10338-10345 (2009)

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1. Modulation of Water Exchange in Ln(III) DOTA-tetraamide Complexes: Considerations for CEST Imaging

Tomoyasu Mani, Gyula Tircso, Osamu Togao, Piyu Zhao, Todd Soesbe, Masaya Takahashi, and A. Dean Sherry. Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, 4, 183-191 (2009)

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