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John Kelly is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, materials science, and medicine. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including molecular biology, materials chemistry, oncology, organic chemistry, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research topics include DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, metal complexes synthesis and properties, click chemistry and applications, photodynamic therapy research studies, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Kelly has published extensively, with frequent contributions to journals such as Chemical Communications, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Cambridge Structural Database, ACS Applied Bio Materials, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Recent publications by John Kelly include the following:

  • Effect of Alkyl Chain Length on the Photophysical, Photochemical, and Photobiological Properties of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for Their Application as DNA-Targeting, Cellular-Imaging, and Light-Activated Therapeutic Agents (2021, ACS Applied Bio Materials)
  • Adenine Radical Cation Formation by a Ligand-Centered Excited State of an Intercalated Chromium Polypyridyl Complex Leads to Enhanced DNA Photo-oxidation (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Understanding the factors controlling the photo-oxidation of natural DNA by enantiomerically pure intercalating ruthenium polypyridyl complexes through TA/TRIR studies with polydeoxynucleotides and mixed sequence oligodeoxynucleotides (2020, Chemical Science)
  • Water-soluble amphiphilic ruthenium(ii) polypyridyl complexes as potential light-activated therapeutic agents (2020, Chemical Communications)
  • Caught in the Loop: Binding of the [Ru(phen)2(dppz)]2+ Light-Switch Compound to Quadruplex DNA in Solution Informed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy (2020, Chemistry - A European Journal)

Frequent collaborators include Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Igor V. Sazanovich, Susan J. Quinn, Michael Towrie, and Christine J. Cardin, indicating a consistent collaborative network in their research activities.

Best Publications

  • A study of the interactions of some polypyridylruthenium (II) complexes with DNA using fluorescence spectroscopy, topoisomerisation and thermal denaturation.

    John M. Kelly;Alessandro B. Tossi;David J. McConnell;Colm OhUigin

  • Recent advances in the development of 1,8-naphthalimide based DNA targeting binders, anticancer and fluorescent cellular imaging agents

    Swagata Banerjee;Emma B. Veale;Caroline M. Phelan;Samantha A. Murphy

  • Optical Properties and Growth Aspects of Silver Nanoprisms Produced by a Highly Reproducible and Rapid Synthesis at Room Temperature

    Damian Aherne;Deirdre M. Ledwith;Matthew Gara;John M. Kelly

  • Photochemical interactions of methylene blue and analogues with DNA and other biological substrates.

    Eimer M. Tuite;John M. Kelly

  • The development of ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes and conjugates for in vitro cellular and in vivo applications

    Fergus E. Poynton;Sandra A. Bright;Salvador Blasco;D. Clive Williams

  • Reverse saturable absorption in tetraphenylporphyrins

    W. Blau;H. Byrne;W.M. Dennis;J.M. Kelly

  • Cu2O: a catalyst for the photochemical decomposition of water?

    Petra E. de Jongh;Daniel Vanmaekelbergh;John J. Kelly

  • Ruthenium polypyridyl chemistry; from basic research to applications and back again

    Johannes G. Vos;John M. Kelly

  • A comparative study of the interaction of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis (N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphyrin and its zinc complex with DNA using fluorescence spectroscopy and topoisomerisation

    John M. Kelly;Martin J. Murphy;David J. McConnell;Cohn OhUigin

  • Chiral highly luminescent CdS quantum dots

    Mícheál P. Moloney;Yurii K. Gun'ko;John M. Kelly

  • Growth of well-defined ZnO microparticles by hydroxide ion hydrolysis of zinc salts

    Ruth A. McBride;John M. Kelly;Declan E. McCormack

  • A rapid, straight-forward method for controlling the morphology of stable silver nanoparticles

    Deirdre M. Ledwith;Aine M. Whelan;John M. Kelly

  • [Ru(TAP)2(dppz)]2+: a DNA intercalating complex, which luminesces strongly in water and undergoes photo-induced proton-coupled electron transfer with guanosine-5′-monophosphate

    Isabelle Ortmans;Benjamin Elias;John M. Kelly;Cécile Moucheron

  • Crystal structures of Λ-[Ru(phen) 2 dppz] 2+ with oligonucleotides containing TA/TA and AT/AT steps show two intercalation modes

    Hakan Niyazi;James P. Hall;Kyra O'Sullivan;Graeme Winter

  • A study of some polypyridylruthenium(II) complexes as DNA binders and photocleavage reagents.

    Alessandro B. Tossi;John M. Kelly

  • Ruthenium(II) complexes with 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene and 1,4,5,8-tetraazaphenanthrene ligands: Key role played by the photoelectron transfer in DNA cleavage and adduct formation

    Jean-Paul Lecomte;Andrée Kirsch-De Mesmaeker;Martin M Feeney;John M Kelly

  • The Effect of Processing Conditions on Varistors Prepared From Nanocrystalline ZnO

    Suresh C. Pillai;John M. Kelly;Declan E. McCormack;Paul O'Brien

  • Photoreactions of ruthenium (II) and osmium (II) complexes with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

    Cécile Moucheron;Andrée Kirsch-De Mesmaeker;John M. Kelly

  • Methylene blue photosensitised strand cleavage of DNA: effects of dye binding and oxygen.

    Colm OhUigin;David J. McConnell;John M. Kelly;Wilhelm J. M. van der Putten

  • Advances in the synthesis of ZnO nanomaterials for varistor devices

    Suresh C. Pillai;John M. Kelly;Raghavendra Ramesh;Declan E. McCormack

  • Versatile Solution Phase Triangular Silver Nanoplates for Highly Sensitive Plasmon Resonance Sensing

    Denise E Charles;Damian Aherne;Matthew Gara;Deirdre M Ledwith

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Towrie
Michael Towrie Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Werner J. Blau
Werner J. Blau Trinity College Dublin
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson
Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson Trinity College Dublin
Anthony W. Parker
Anthony W. Parker Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Michael W. George
Michael W. George University of Nottingham
Yurii K. Gun'ko
Yurii K. Gun'ko Trinity College Dublin
Suresh C. Pillai
Suresh C. Pillai Atlantic Technological University
Johannes G. Vos
Johannes G. Vos Dublin City University
Pavel Matousek
Pavel Matousek Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
John J. McGarvey
John J. McGarvey Queen's University Belfast

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