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Robert Bittl is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and has focused their research primarily in the field of Chemistry. Their work spans several subfields, including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Organic Chemistry.

The main topics explored in Robert Bittl's research include:

  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Chirality
  • Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Bittl has published research in a range of journals and platforms with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • "Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity: An Enabling Technology for Quantum Applications," 2023, Advanced Materials
  • "Cobalt-Exchanged Poly(Heptazine Imides) as Transition Metal-Nx Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Pigmentation Chemistry and Radical-Based Collagen Degradation in Alkaptonuria and Osteoarthritic Cartilage," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Assessing the Nature of Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity by Magnetic Resonance," 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • "Controlling Intramolecular Singlet Fission Dynamics via Torsional Modulation of Through-Bond versus Through-Space Couplings," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in Bittl's work include:

  • Christian Teutloff
  • Alessandro Chiesa
  • Stefano Carretta
  • Roberta Sessoli
  • P. Santini

Best Publications

  • Cryptochrome blue light photoreceptors are activated through interconversion of flavin redox states

    Jean-Pierre Bouly;Erik Schleicher;Maribel Dionisio-Sese;Filip Vandenbussche;Filip Vandenbussche

  • The Signaling State of Arabidopsis Cryptochrome 2 Contains Flavin Semiquinone

    Roopa Banerjee;Erik Schleicher;Stefan Meier;Rafael Muñoz Viana

  • Strongly exchange-coupled triplet pairs in an organic semiconductor

    Leah R. Weiss;Sam L. Bayliss;Felix Kraffert;Karl J. Thorley

  • Human and Drosophila Cryptochromes Are Light Activated by Flavin Photoreduction in Living Cells

    Nathalie Hoang;Erik Schleicher;Sylwia Kacprzak;Jean-Pierre Bouly

  • Radicals, radical pairs and triplet states in photosynthesis.

    Wolfgang Lubitz;Friedhelm Lendzian;Robert Bittl

  • On the reaction mechanism of adduct formation in LOV domains of the plant blue-light receptor phototropin.

    Erik Schleicher;Radoslaw M. Kowalczyk;Christopher W. M. Kay;Peter Hegemann

  • How carotenoids protect bacterial photosynthesis

    Richard J. Cogdell;Tina D. Howard;Robert Bittl;Erberhard Schlodder

  • Correlated Donor/Acceptor Crystal Orientation Controls Photocurrent Generation in All-Polymer Solar Cells

    Marcel Schubert;Brian A. Collins;Brian A. Collins;Hannah Mangold;Ian A. Howard

  • Time-Resolved X-, K-, and W-Band EPR of the Radical Pair State of Photosystem I in Comparison with in Bacterial Reaction Centers

    A. Van Der Est;T. Prisner;R. Bittl;Petra Fromme

  • TIME-RESOLVED W-BAND (95 GHZ) EPR SPECTROSCOPY OF ZN-SUBSTITUTED REACTION CENTERS OF RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES R-26

    T.F. Prisner;A. van der Est;R. Bittl;W. Lubitz

  • Pulsed EPR Study of Spin-Coupled Radical Pairs in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Measurement of the Distance Between and in Photosystem I and between and in Bacterial Reaction Centers

    Robert Bittl;Stephan G. Zech

  • Magnetic-field effect on the photoactivation reaction of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase

    Kevin B. Henbest;Kiminori Maeda;P. J. Hore;Monika Joshi

  • Tryptophan and tyrosine radicals in ribonucleotide reductase: a comparative high-field EPR study at 94 GHz.

    Günther Bleifuss;Matthias Kolberg;Stephan Pötsch;Wulf Hofbauer

  • Transient EPR of light-induced radical pairs in plant photosystem I: observation of quantum beats

    Gerd Kothe;Stefan Weber;Robert Bittl;Ernst Ohmes

  • Electron transfer in cyanobacterial photosystem I: I. Physiological and spectroscopic characterization of site-directed mutants in a putative electron transfer pathway from A0 through A1 to FX.

    Wu Xu;Parag Chitnis;Alfia Valieva;Art van der Est

  • A single-crystal ENDOR and density functional theory study of the oxidized states of the [NiFe] hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F

    Maurice van Gastel;Matthias Stein;Marc Brecht;Marc Brecht;Olga Schröder

  • Signal transduction in light-oxygen-voltage receptors lacking the adduct-forming cysteine residue

    Estella F. Yee;Ralph P. Diensthuber;Anand T. Vaidya;Anand T. Vaidya;Peter P. Borbat

  • Reversible [4Fe-3S] cluster morphing in an O2-tolerant [NiFe] hydrogenase.

    Stefan Frielingsdorf;Stefan Frielingsdorf;Johannes Fritsch;Andrea Schmidt;Mathias Hammer

  • Recruitment of a Foreign Quinone into the A1 Site of Photosystem I: II. STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYLLOQUINONE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY MUTANTS BY ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ELECTRON-NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY *

    Boris Zybailov;Art van der Est;Stephan G. Zech;Christian Teutloff

  • Electronic structure of neutral tryptophan radicals in ribonucleotide reductase studied by EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy

    Friedhelm Lendzian;Margareta Sahlin;Fraser MacMillan;Robert Bittl

  • Electronic Structure of Antiferromagnetically Coupled Dinuclear Manganese (MnIIIMnIV) Complexes Studied by Magnetic Resonance Techniques

    Kai-Oliver Schäfer;Robert Bittl;Wolfgang Zweygart;Friedhelm Lendzian

  • Transient EPR of radical pairs in photosynthetic reaction centers: prediction of quantum beats

    Robert Bittl;Gerd Kothe

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Lubitz
Wolfgang Lubitz Max Planck Society
Friedhelm Lendzian
Friedhelm Lendzian Technical University of Berlin
Margaret Ahmad
Margaret Ahmad Xavier University
Petra Fromme
Petra Fromme Arizona State University
Friedhelm Finger
Friedhelm Finger Forschungszentrum Jülich
Adelbert Bacher
Adelbert Bacher Technical University of Munich
Oliver Lenz
Oliver Lenz Johnson & Johnson
Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag Freie Universität Berlin

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