Local and Global Electric Field Asymmetry in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers
We use the Vibrational Stark Effect and electrostatic modeling to explain why unidirectional electron transfer is achieved in photosynthetic reaction centers.
Category: Electrostatics
Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis
Boxer, S. G.; Fried, S. D.; Schneider, S. H.; Wu, Y. Proceedings of the 24th International Solvay Conference on Chemistry, World Scientific Publishing Co. 2017, 274-279.
Proton Network Flexibility Enables Robustness and Large Electric Fields in the Ketosteroid Isomerase Active Site
Wang, L.; Fried, S. D.; Markland, T. E. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121, 9807–9815. [DOI]
Electric Fields and Enzyme Catalysis
Fried, S. D.; Boxer, S. G. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 2017, 86, 387–415. [DOI]
Response to Comments on ‘Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the activesite of ketosteroid isomerase.’
Fried, S. D.; Boxer, S. G. Science 2015, 349, 936. [DOI]
Measuring Electric Fields and Non-covalent Interactions Using the Vibrational Stark Effect
Fried, S. D.; Boxer, S. G. Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, 48, 998-1006. [DOI]
Extreme Electric Fields Power Catalysis in the Active Site of Ketosteroid Isomerase
Fried, S. D.; Bagchi, S.; Boxer, S. G. Science 2014, 346, 1510-1514. [DOI]
Modeling Organochlorine Compounds and the σ-hole Effect Using a Polarizable Multipole Force Field
Mu, X.; Wang, Q.; Wang, L.-P.; Fried, S. D.; Piquemal, J.-P.; Dalby, K. N.; Ren, P. J. Phys. Chem. B 2014, 118, 6456-6465. [DOI]
Calculations of the Electric Fields in Liquid Solutions
Fried, S. D.; Wang, L.-P.; Boxer, S. G.; Ren, P.; Pande, V. S. J. Phys. Chem. B 2013, 117, 16236–16248. [DOI]
Measuring Electrostatic Fields in Both Hydrogen Bonding and non-Hydrogen Bonding Environments Using Carbonyl Vibrational Probes
Fried, S. D.; Bagchi, S.; Boxer, S. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 11181-11192. [DOI]
A Solvatochromic Model Calibrates Nitriles’ Vibrational Frequencies to Electrostatic Field
Bagchi, S.; Fried, S. D.; Boxer, S. G. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10373-10376. [DOI]
Solvent-induced Infrared Frequency Shifts in Aromatic Nitriles are Quantitatively Described by the Vibrational Stark Effect
Levinson, N. M.; Fried, S. D.; Boxer, S. G. J. Phys. Chem. B 2012, 116, 10470-10476. (Rich Mathies festschrift) [DOI]