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Dewey Holten is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and chemistry, with a strong emphasis on the chemistry and photophysical properties of porphyrins as well as photosynthetic processes.

The primary fields of study Dewey Holten focuses on include:

  • Materials Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Chemistry

Their work more specifically involves subfields such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Main topics of Dewey Holten's research include:

  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies

Holten has published multiple papers in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviews
  • Science Advances
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Selected recent papers by Dewey Holten include:

  • Comprehensive review of photophysical parameters (ε, Φf, τs) of tetraphenylporphyrin (H2TPP) and zinc tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) - Critical benchmark molecules in photochemistry and photosynthesis, 2021, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C Photochemistry Reviews
  • Structures of Rhodopseudomonas palustris RC-LH1 complexes with open or closed quinone channels, 2021, Science Advances
  • Photophysical Properties and Electronic Structure of Zinc(II) Porphyrins Bearing 0-4 meso-Phenyl Substituents: Zinc Porphine to Zinc Tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP), 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Hidden vibronic and excitonic structure and vibronic coherence transfer in the bacterial reaction center, 2022, Science Advances
  • The fluorescence quantum yield parameter in Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-Meaning, misperception, and molecular design, 2021, Chemical Physics Reviews

Dewey Holten frequently collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Christine Kirmaier
  • David F. Bocian
  • Jonathan S. Lindsey
  • Nikki Cecil M. Magdaong
  • James R. Diers

Best Publications

  • Probing electronic communication in covalently linked multiporphyrin arrays. A guide to the rational design of molecular photonic devices.

    Dewey Holten;David F Bocian;Jonathan S Lindsey

  • Primary photochemistry of reaction centers from the photosynthetic purple bacteria.

    Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten

  • Design, Synthesis, and Photodynamics of Light-Harvesting Arrays Comprised of a Porphyrin and One, Two, or Eight Boron-Dipyrrin Accessory Pigments

    Feirong Li;Sung Ik Yang;Yangzhen Ciringh;Jyoti Seth

  • Structural Control of the Photodynamics of Boron-Dipyrrin Complexes

    Hooi Ling Kee;Christine Kirmaier;Lianhe Yu;Patchanita Thamyongkit

  • Optical properties of metalloporphyrin excited states

    Juan Rodriguez;Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten

  • Charge separation in a reaction center incorporating bacteriochlorophyll for photoactive bacteriopheophytin.

    Christine Kirmaier;Dale Gaul;Randy DeBey;Dewey Holten

  • Temperature and detection-wavelength dependence of the picosecond electron-transfer kinetics measured in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides reaction centers. Resolution of new spectral and kinetic components in the primary charge-separation process

    Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten;William W. Parson

  • Template-Directed Synthesis, Excited-State Photodynamics, and Electronic Communication in a Hexameric Wheel of Porphyrins

    Junzhong Li;Arounaguiry Ambroise;Sung Ik Yang;James R. Diers

  • Photophysical properties of conformationally distorted metal-free porphyrins. Investigation into the deactivation mechanisms of the lowest excited singlet state

    Steve Gentemann;Craig J. Medforth;Timothy P. Forsyth;Daniel J. Nurco

  • Excited-state energy-transfer dynamics in self-assembled triads composed of two porphyrins and an intervening Bis(dipyrrinato)metal complex.

    Lianhe Yu;Kannan Muthukumaran;Igor V Sazanovich;Christine Kirmaier

  • Structural control of the excited-state dynamics of bis(dipyrrinato)zinc complexes: Self-assembling chromophores for light-harvesting architectures

    Igor V. Sazanovich;Christine Kirmaier;Eve Hindin;Lianhe Yu

  • Primary photochemical processes in isolated reaction centers of Rhodopseudomonas viridis

    Dewey Holten;Maurice W. Windsor;William W. Parson;J.Philip Thornber

  • Control of electron transfer between the L- and M-sides of photosynthetic reaction centers

    Barbara A. Heller;Dewey Holten;Christine Kirmaier

  • Nickel porphyrin photophysics and photochemistry. A picosecond investigation of ligand binding and release in the excited state

    Dongho Kim;Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten

  • Evidence that a distribution of bacterial reaction centers underlies the temperature and detection-wavelength dependence of the rates of the primary electron-transfer reactions.

    Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten

  • Picosecond-photodichroism studies of the transient states in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides reaction centers at 5 K. Effects of electron transfer on the six bacteriochlorin pigments

    Christine Kirmaier;Dewey Holten;William W. Parson

  • Structural Control of Photoinduced Energy Transfer between Adjacent and Distant Sites in Multiporphyrin Arrays

    Robin K. Lammi;Arounaguiry Ambroise;Thiagarajan Balasubramanian;Richard W. Wagner

  • Porphyrins XXXV . Exciton coupling in μ-oxo Scandum dimers

    Martin Gouterman;Dewey Holten;Eliot Lieberman

  • Influence of an amino-acid residue on the optical properties and electron transfer dynamics of a photosynthetic reaction centre complex

    Edward J. Bylina;Christine Kirmaier;Lynda McDowell;Dewey Holten

  • Design and Synthesis of Porphyrin-Based Optoelectronic Gates

    Arounaguiry Ambroise;Richard W. Wagner;Polisetti Dharma Rao;Jennifer A. Riggs

  • Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of a photoexcited metalloporphyrin

    Juan Rodriguez;Dewey Holten

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Kirmaier
Christine Kirmaier Washington University in St. Louis
Jonathan S. Lindsey
Jonathan S. Lindsey North Carolina State University
David F. Bocian
David F. Bocian University of California, Riverside
Michael R. Hamblin
Michael R. Hamblin University of Johannesburg
Martin Gouterman
Martin Gouterman University of Washington
William W. Parson
William W. Parson University of Washington
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Steven G. Boxer
Steven G. Boxer Stanford University
C. Neil Hunter
C. Neil Hunter University of Sheffield
Paul A. Loach
Paul A. Loach Northwestern University

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