Niels Damrauer, Ph.D., is associate professor of chemistry at CU-Boulder. He and his team are developing a research program that brings together strategies for actively controlling the photochemical and photophysical reactivity of electronically, structurally, and reactively complex systems. He is especially interested in discovering new types of photochemistry as well as the physical and synthetic strategies for achieving it. Areas being targeted are control of photochemistry using complex shaped laser fields and control of excited-state transformations through synthetic manipulation of molecular structures that exploit large-amplitude molecular motions. This research is motivated to understand how energy and charge flow within complex systems, which is critical in efforts to convert sunlight to electricity or fuel stocks.
Niels' Recent RASEI Activities
Combined Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Insights Into a General Method for Photosensitized Alkene Aziridination
ACS CATALYSIS, 2024, 14, 12310-12317 Read more
Revealing the Singlet Fission Mechanism for a Silane-Bridged Thienotetracene Dimer
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 2024, 128, 20, 3982-3992 Read more
Mechanistic Investigation of a Photocatalyst Model Reveals Function by Perylene-Like Closed Shell Super-Photoreductant Capable of Reducing Unactivated Arenes
ACS CATALYSIS, 2024, 14, 4, 2252-2263 Read more
Molecular Control of Triplet-Pair Spin Polarization and Its Optoelectronic Magnetic Resonance Probes
ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH, 2024, 57, 1, 59-69 Read more
Enhancing NIR-to-visible upconversion in a rigidly coupled tetracene dimer: approaching statistical limits for triplet–triplet annihilation using intramolecular multiexciton states
CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 2024, 15, 1283-1296 Read more
Multiexciton quintet state populations in a rigid pyrene-bridged parallel tetracene dimer
CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 2023, 14, 11554-11565 Read more
Preparation of a Rigid and Nearly Coplanar Bis-tetracene Dimer through an Application of the CANAL Reaction
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 2023, 88, 17, 12251-12256 Read more
Entangled spin-polarized excitons from singlet fission in a rigid dimer
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023, 14, 1180 Read more