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Simon J. George is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Radiation, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

  • X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
  • Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Hemoglobin structure and function

Simon J. George has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, such as Stephen P. Cramer, Ingrid J. Pickering, Graham N. George, Linda Vogt, and Julien J. H. Cotelesage.

The scientist has published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Chemical Science
  • RSC Advances

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Simon J. George include:

  • "Sulfur X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy of Organic Sulfones," 2023, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • "Facile electrocatalytic proton reduction by a [Fe-Fe]-hydrogenase bio-inspired synthetic model bearing a terminal CN ligand," 2024, Chemical Science
  • "X-ray absorption spectroscopy of organic sulfoxides," 2020, RSC Advances
  • "Oxygen K-edge X-ray absorption spectra of liquids with minimization of window contamination," 2021, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
  • "Temperature-dependent iron motion in extremophile rubredoxins - no need for 'corresponding states'," 2024, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Determination of the Nitrogen Chemical Structures in Petroleum Asphaltenes Using XANES Spectroscopy

    Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley;Oliver C. Mullins;Jan Van Elp;Simon J. George

  • Identification and characterization of zinc binding sites in protein kinase C.

    Stevan R. Hubbard;W. Robert Bishop;Paul Kirschmeier;Simon J. George

  • High-Yield Expression of Heterologous [FeFe] Hydrogenases in Escherichia coli

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Alyssa S. Bingham;Simon J. George;Simon J. George

  • Copper L-edge spectral studies. A direct experimental probe of the ground-state covalency in the blue copper site in plastocyanin

    Simon J. George;Michael D. Lowery;Edward I. Solomon;Stephen P. Cramer

  • X-ray magnetic circular dichroism—a high energy probe of magnetic properties

    Tobias Funk;Aniruddha Deb;Simon J. George;Hongxin Wang

  • [FeFe]-hydrogenase maturation: HydG-catalyzed synthesis of carbon monoxide.

    Eric M. Shepard;Benjamin R. Duffus;Simon J. George;Shawn E. McGlynn

  • Synthesis of the 2Fe subcluster of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase H cluster on the HydF scaffold

    Eric M. Shepard;Shawn E. McGlynn;Alexandra L. Bueling;Celestine S. Grady-Smith

  • Electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization of the conversion of the 7Fe into the 8Fe form of ferredoxin III from Desulfovibrio africanus. Identification of a [4Fe–4S] cluster with one non-cysteine ligand

    S J George;F A Armstrong;E C Hatchikian;A J Thomson

  • The HydG enzyme generates an Fe(CO)2(CN) synthon in assembly of the FeFe hydrogenase H-cluster.

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;William K. Myers;Daniel L. M. Suess;Troy A. Stich

  • TIME-RESOLVED BINDING OF CARBON MONOXIDE TO NITROGENASE MONITORED BY STOPPED-FLOW INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY

    Simon J. George;Gillian A. Ashby;Christopher W. Wharton;Roger N. F. Thorneley

  • Variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism.

    Andrew J. Thomson;Myles R. Cheesman;Simon J. George

  • Transient FTIR spectroelectrochemical and stopped-flow detection of a mixed valence (Fe(I)-Fe(II)) bridging carbonyl intermediate with structural elements and spectroscopic characteristics of the di-iron sub-site of all-iron hydrogenase.

    Mathieu Razavet;Stacey J. Borg;Simon J. George;Stephen P. Best

  • A Radical Intermediate in Tyrosine Scission to the CO and CN− Ligands of FeFe Hydrogenase

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;William K. Myers;Troy A. Stich;Simon J. George

  • The Di‐Iron Subsite of All‐Iron Hydrogenase: Mechanism of Cyanation of a Synthetic {2Fe3S}–Carbonyl Assembly

    Simon J. George;Zhen Cui;Mathieu Razavet;Christopher J. Pickett

  • Reactions of H2, CO, and O2 with active [NiFe]-hydrogenase from Allochromatium vinosum. A stopped-flow infrared study.

    Simon J. George;Sergei Kurkin;Roger N. F. Thorneley;Simon P. J. Albracht

  • Investigation of metal ion uptake reactivities of [3Fe-4S] clusters in proteins: voltammetry of co-adsorbed ferredoxin-aminocyclitol films at graphite electrodes and spectroscopic identification of transformed clusters

    Julea N. Butt;Fraser A. Armstrong;Jacques Breton;Simon J. George

  • Cell-free H-cluster synthesis and [FeFe] hydrogenase activation: all five CO and CN⁻ ligands derive from tyrosine.

    Jon M. Kuchenreuther;Simon J. George;Simon J. George;Celestine S. Grady-Smith;Stephen P. Cramer;Stephen P. Cramer

  • Hydrogen-induced activation of the [NiFe]-hydrogenase from Allochromatium vinosum as studied by stopped-flow infrared spectroscopy.

    Sergei Kurkin;Simon J. George;Roger N. F. Thorneley;Simon P. J. Albracht

  • A novel, general method of analyzing magnetic circular dichroism spectra and magnetization curves of high-spin metal ions: Application to the protein oxidized rubredoxin, Desulfovibrio gigas

    Vasily S. Oganesyan;Simon J. George;Myles R. Cheesman;Andrew J. Thomson

  • The Consequences of Interface Mixing on Organic Photovoltaic Device Characteristics

    David M. Huang;Scott A. Mauger;Stephan Friedrich;Simon J. George

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Cramer
Stephen P. Cramer Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Andrew J. Thomson
Andrew J. Thomson University of East Anglia
Fraser A. Armstrong
Fraser A. Armstrong University of Oxford
Julea N. Butt
Julea N. Butt University of East Anglia
Graham N. George
Graham N. George University of Saskatchewan
James R. Swartz
James R. Swartz Stanford University
Roger N. F. Thorneley
Roger N. F. Thorneley John Innes Centre
Myles R. Cheesman
Myles R. Cheesman University of East Anglia
Christopher J. Pickett
Christopher J. Pickett University of East Anglia
John W. Peters
John W. Peters Washington State University

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