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Overview

Peter J. Wagner was affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research contributions spanned multiple disciplines, including engineering and physics and astronomy, with a primary focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their body of work addressed topics related to molecular junctions and nanostructures, graphene research and applications, fullerene chemistry and applications, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, and force microscopy techniques and applications.

  • Bottom-up synthesis of nitrogen-containing graphene nanoribbons from the tetrabenzopentacene molecular motif, 2020, Carbon
  • Atomic-Scale Rectification and Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectromicroscopy, 2022, Nano Letters

Peter J. Wagner's research was commonly published in venues such as Carbon and Nano Letters. Frequent coauthors included Gregory Czap, W. Ho, Zhijing Feng, Amir Mazaheripour, and David J. Dibble.

  • Gregory Czap
  • W. Ho
  • Zhijing Feng
  • Amir Mazaheripour
  • David J. Dibble

Best Publications

  • Type II photoelimination and photocyclization of ketones

    Peter John Wagner

  • Extent of charge transfer in the photoreduction of phenyl ketones by alkylbenzenes.

    Peter J. Wagner;Royal J. Truman;Alan E. Puchalski;Ronald. Wake

  • THE PHOTOENOLIZATION OF 2-METHYLACETOPHENONE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS

    R. Haag;J. Wirz;P. Wagner

  • Effects of ring substituents on the type II photoreactions of phenyl ketones. How interactions between nearby excited triplets affect chemical reactivity

    Peter J. Wagner;Allen E. Kemppainen;Herbert N. Schott

  • Chemistry of excited triplet organic carbonyl compounds.

    Peter J. Wagner

  • Solvent effects on type II photoelimination of phenyl ketones

    Peter John. Wagner

  • Triplet energy transfer. III. How efficient is diffusion-controlled triplet energy transfer

    Peter John Wagner;Irene Kochevar

  • Positive Halogen Compounds. X. Solvent Effects in the Reactions of t-Butoxy Radicals

    Cheves. Walling;Peter J. Wagner

  • 1,5-Biradicals and five-membered rings generated by .delta.-hydrogen abstraction in photoexcited ketones

    Peter J. Wagner

  • Imaging the halogen bond in self-assembled halogenbenzenes on silver

    Zhumin Han;Gregory Czap;Chi-lun Chiang;Chen Xu

  • Substituent Effects on Hydrogen Abstraction by Phenyl Ketone Triplets.

    P. J. Wagner;R. J. Truman;J. C. Scaiano

  • Mechanisms of Photochemical Reactions in Solution. XXXVIII.1 Quenching of the Type II Photoelimination Reaction

    Peter J. Wagner;George S. Hammond

  • Probing and imaging spin interactions with a magnetic single-molecule sensor.

    Gregory Czap;Peter J. Wagner;Feng Xue;Lei Gu

  • Triplet energy transfer. VII. Quenching of triplet phenyl ketones by olefins

    Irene E. Kochevar;Peter J. Wagner

  • Conformational changes involved in the singlet-triplet transitions of biphenyl

    Peter John. Wagner

  • TYPE II PHOTOPROCESSES OF PHENYL KETONES. A GLIMPSE AT THE BEHAVIOR OF 1,4 BIRADICALS.

    Peter J. Wagner;P. A. Kelso;A. E. Kemppainen;J. M. McGrath

  • Type II photoprocesses of phenyl ketones. Triplet state reactivity as a function of .gamma. and .delta. substitution

    Peter J. Wagner;Allen E. Kemppainen

  • Conformational flexibility and photochemistry

    Peter J. Wagner

  • Type II photoprocesses of phenyl ketones. Evidence for a biradical intermediate

    Peter J. Wagner;Philip A. Kelso;Richard G. Zepp

  • The photocyclization of o-alkoxy phenyl ketones

    Peter J. Wagner;Michael A. Meador;Bong Ser Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Thomas
Michael J. Thomas Medical College of Wisconsin
Nicholas Leventis
Nicholas Leventis Missouri University of Science and Technology
Juan C. Scaiano
Juan C. Scaiano University of Ottawa
Irene E. Kochevar
Irene E. Kochevar Harvard University
George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond University of Hawaii at Manoa
Petr Klán
Petr Klán Masaryk University
Cheves Walling
Cheves Walling University of Utah
Nicholas J. Turro
Nicholas J. Turro Columbia University
Jakob Wirz
Jakob Wirz University of Basel
Jaroslav Koča
Jaroslav Koča Central European Institute of Technology

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