Highlights

The MSD facility collaborates with research groups internationally and across the UK, as well as internally within the STFC to develop and support leading research facilities and research programs. Recent highlights include:

Chemical Reactions

• Solution phase biomolecular reactions (Orr-Ewing et al)
  • STFC research makes front cover of science
  • Results From ULTRA Make Editors Choice
• Ultrafast energy flow in the wake of solution-phase bimolecular reactions (link opens in a new window) (Glowacki et al)
• Understanding the factors affecting the activation of alkane by Cp ' Rh(CO)(2) (Cp ' = Cp or Cp*) (link opens in a new window) (George et al)

• Phototriggering Electron Flow through ReI-modified Pseudomonas aeruginosa Azurins. (link opens in a new window) (Vlcek et al)

Protein & DNA Structure & Dynamics

• Protein Motions Are Coupled to the Reaction Chemistry in Coenzyme B12-Dependent Ethanolamine Ammonia Lyase (link opens in a new window) (Scrutton et al)
• A Comparative Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of 1-Methylcytosine and 5'-dCMP That Sheds Further Light on the Excited States of Cytosine Derivatives (link opens in a new window) (Keane et al)
• Charge Photoinjection in Intercalated and Covalently Bound [Re(CO)3(dppz)(py)]+–DNA Constructs Monitored by Time-Resolved Visible and Infrared Spectroscopy (link opens in a new window) (Vlcek et al)

Instrumentation and Technique Developments

• Time Resolved Multiple Probe Spectroscopy (TR^MPS)