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Gonzalez-Pato N, Blasi D, Nikolaidou DM, Bertocchi F, Cerdá J, Terenziani F, Ventosa N, Aragó J, Lapini A, Veciana J, Ratera I. Nanothermometer Based on Polychlorinated Trityl Radicals Showing Two-Photon Excitation and Emission in the Biological Transparency Window: Temperature Monitoring of Biological Tissues. Small Methods 2024; 8:e2301060. [PMID: 37994387 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202301060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Nanothermometers are emerging probes as biomedical diagnostic tools. Especially appealing are nanoprobes using NIR light in the range of biological transparency window (BTW) since they have the advantages of a deeper penetration into biological tissues, better contrast, reduced phototoxicity and photobleaching. This article reports the preparation and characterization of organic nanoparticles (ONPs) doped with two polychlorinated trityl radicals (TTM and PTM), as well as studies of their electronic and optical properties. Such ONPs having inside isolated radical molecules and dimeric excimers, can be two-photon excited showing optimal properties for temperature sensing. Remarkably, in TTM-based ONPs the emission intensity of the isolated radical species is unaltered increasing temperature, while the excimer emission intensity decreases strongly being thereby able to monitor temperature changes with an excellent thermal absolute sensitivity of 0.6-3.7% K-1 in the temperature range of 278-328 K. The temperature dependence of the excimeric bands of ONPs are theoretically simulated by using electronic structure calculations and a vibronic Hamiltonian model. Finally, TTM-doped ONPs as ratiometric NIR-nanothermometers are tested with two-photon excitationwith enucleated pig eye sclera, as a real tissue model, obtaining a similar temperature sensitivity as in aqueous suspensions, demonstrating their potential as NIR nanothermometers for bio applications.
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- Nerea Gonzalez-Pato
- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)/CIBER-BBN, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)/CIBER-BBN, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, 70125, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, Parma, 43124, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, Parma, 43124, Italy
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna, 46980, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, Parma, 43124, Italy
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)/CIBER-BBN, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, Catedrático José Beltrán 2, Paterna, 46980, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, Parma, 43124, Italy
- LENS, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara 1, Sesto Fiorentino (Fi), 50019, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) strada della Cacce 91, Torino, 10135, Italy
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)/CIBER-BBN, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC)/CIBER-BBN, Campus de la UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, E-08193, Spain
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Bertocchi F, Marchetti D, Doria S, di Donato M, Sissa C, Gemmi M, Dalcanale E, Pinalli R, Lapini A. Tuning the Optical Properties Through Hydrogen Bond-assisted H-aggregate Formation: The ODIN Case. Chemistry 2024; 30:e202302619. [PMID: 37788976 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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The current work focuses on the investigation of two functionalized naphthyridine derivatives, namely ODIN-EtPh and ODIN-But, to gain insights into the hydrogen bond-assisted H-aggregate formation and its impact on the optical properties of ODIN molecules. By employing a combination of X-ray and electron crystallography, absorption and emission spectroscopy, time resolved fluorescence and ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy (visible and infrared) we unravel the correlation between the structure and light-matter response, with a particular emphasis on the influence of the polarity of the surrounding environment. Our experimental results and simulations confirm that in polar and good hydrogen-bond acceptor solvents (DMSO), the formation of dimers for ODIN derivatives is strongly inhibited. The presence of a phenyl group linked to the ureidic unit favors the folding of ODIN derivatives (forming an intramolecular hydrogen bond) leading to the stabilization of a charge-transfer excited state which almost completely quenches its fluorescence emission. In solvents with a poor aptitude for forming hydrogen bonds, the formation of dimers is favored and gives rise to H aggregates, with a consequent considerable reduction in the fluorescence emission. The urea-bound phenyl group furtherly stabilizes the dimers in chloroform.
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- Francesco Bertocchi
- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Materials Interfaces, Electron Crystallography, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Italy
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- ICCOM-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 5001, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- ICCOM-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 5001, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Materials Interfaces, Electron Crystallography, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025, Pontedera, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, and INSTM, UdR Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 5001, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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Bardi B, Giavazzi D, Ferrari E, Iagatti A, Di Donato M, Phan Huu DKA, Di Maiolo F, Sissa C, Masino M, Lapini A, Painelli A. Solid state solvation: a fresh view. Mater Horiz 2023; 10:4172-4182. [PMID: 37522331 DOI: 10.1039/d3mh00988b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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The design of efficient organic electronic devices, including OLEDs, OPVs, luminescent solar concentrators, etc., relies on the optimization of relevant materials, often constituted by an active (functional) dye embedded in a matrix. Understanding solid state solvation (SSS), i.e. how the properties of the active dye are affected by the matrix, is therefore an issue of fundamental and technological relevance. Here an extensive experimental and theoretical investigation is presented shedding light on this, somewhat controversial, topic. The spectral properties of the dye at equilibrium, i.e. absorption and Raman spectra, are not affected by the matrix dynamics. Reliable estimates of the matrix polarity are then obtained from an analysis of the micro-Raman spectra of polar dyes. Specifically, to establish a reliable polarity scale, the spectra of DCM or NR dispersed in amorphous matrices are compared with the spectra of the same dyes in liquid solvents with known polarity. On the other hand, steady-state emission spectra obtained in solid matrices depend in a highly non-trivial way on the matrix polarity and its dynamics. An extensive experimental and theoretical analysis of the time-resolved emission spectra of NR in a very large time window (15 fs-15 ns) allows us to validate this dye as a good probe of the dielectric dynamics of the surrounding medium. We provide a first assessment of the relaxation dynamics of two matrices (mCBPCN and DPEPO) of interest for OLED application, unambiguously demonstrating that the matrix readjusts for at least 15 ns after the dye photoexcitation.
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- Brunella Bardi
- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- CNR-INO (Istituto Nazionaledi Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
- ICCOM-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
- LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy), Via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Dept. Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
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Venturi S, Rossi B, Tortora M, Torre R, Lapini A, Foggi P, Paolantoni M, Catalini S. Amyloidogenic and non-amyloidogenic molten globule conformation of β-lactoglobulin in self-crowded regime. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 242:124621. [PMID: 37141974 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Molecular insights on the β-lactoglobulin thermal unfolding and aggregation are derived from FTIR and UV Resonance Raman (UVRR) investigations. We propose an in situ and in real-time approach that thanks to the identification of specific spectroscopic markers can distinguish the two different unfolding pathways pursued by β-lactoglobulin during the conformational transition from the folded to the molten globule state, as triggered by the pH conditions. For both the investigated pH values (1.4 and 7.5) the greatest conformational variation of β-lactoglobulin occurs at 80 °C and a high degree of structural reversibility after cooling is observed. In acidic condition β-lactoglobulin exposes to the solvent its hydrophobic moieties in a much higher extent than in neutral solution, resulting on a highly open conformation. Moving from the diluted to the self-crowded regime, the solution pH and consequently the different molten globule conformation select the amyloid or non-amyloid aggregation pathway. At acidic condition the amyloid aggregates form during the heating cycle leading to the formation of transparent hydrogel. On the contrary, in neutral condition the amyloid aggregates never form. Information on the secondary structure conformational change of β-lactoglobulin and the formation of amyloid aggregates are obtained by FTIR spectroscopy and are related to the information of the structural changes localized around the aromatic amino acid sites by UVRR technique. Our results highlight a strong involvement of the chain portions where tryptophan is located on the formation of amyloid aggregates.
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- Sara Venturi
- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, S.S. 114 km 163.5, Basovizza, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, S.S. 114 km 163.5, Basovizza, 34149 Trieste, Italy; AREA SCIENCE PARK, Padriciano, 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone, 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 17/A, 43124 Parma, PR, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy; CNR-INO, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; CNR-INO, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Florence, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, 06123, Via Pascoli, Perugia, Italy.
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Swathi K, Sujith M, Divya PS, P MV, Delledonne A, Phan Huu DKA, Di Maiolo F, Terenziani F, Lapini A, Painelli A, Sissa C, Thomas KG. From symmetry breaking to symmetry swapping: is Kasha's rule violated in multibranched phenyleneethynylenes? Chem Sci 2023; 14:1986-1996. [PMID: 36845926 PMCID: PMC9945429 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc05206g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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The phenomenon of excited-state symmetry breaking is often observed in multipolar molecular systems, significantly affecting their photophysical and charge separation behavior. As a result of this phenomenon, the electronic excitation is partially localized in one of the molecular branches. However, the intrinsic structural and electronic factors that regulate excited-state symmetry breaking in multibranched systems have hardly been investigated. Herein, we explore these aspects by adopting a joint experimental and theoretical investigation for a class of phenyleneethynylenes, one of the most widely used molecular building blocks for optoelectronic applications. The large Stokes shifts observed for highly symmetric phenyleneethynylenes are explained by the presence of low-lying dark states, as also established by two-photon absorption measurements and TDDFT calculations. In spite of the presence of low-lying dark states, these systems show an intense fluorescence in striking contrast to Kasha's rule. This intriguing behavior is explained in terms of a novel phenomenon, dubbed "symmetry swapping" that describes the inversion of the energy order of excited states, i.e., the swapping of excited states occurring as a consequence of symmetry breaking. Thus, symmetry swapping explains quite naturally the observation of an intense fluorescence emission in molecular systems whose lowest vertical excited state is a dark state. In short, symmetry swapping is observed in highly symmetric molecules having multiple degenerate or quasi-degenerate excited states that are prone to symmetry breaking.
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- K. Swathi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di ParmaParco Area delle Scienze 17A43124ParmaItaly,School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM)VithuraThiruvananthapuram695 551India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM) Vithura Thiruvananthapuram 695 551 India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM)VithuraThiruvananthapuram695 551India
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM) Vithura Thiruvananthapuram 695 551 India
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di ParmaParco Area delle Scienze 17A43124ParmaItaly
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Università di Parma Parco Area delle Scienze 17A 43124 Parma Italy
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- School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM)VithuraThiruvananthapuram695 551India
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Francolini G, Allegra A, Caini S, Detti B, Di Cataldo V, Alitto A, Parisi S, D’Angelillo R, Bruni A, Ingrosso G, Timon G, Burchini L, Frosini G, Valzano M, Ganovelli M, Desideri I, Visani L, Olmetto E, Becherini C, Salvestrini V, Lapini A, Meattini I, Livi L. Early outcomes from a phase II randomized trial testing stereotactic body radiation therapy in patients undergoing I line treatment with abiraterone acetate for oligometastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (ARTO trial-NCT03449719). Eur Urol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(23)01226-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Spedicati M, Ruocco G, Zoso A, Mortati L, Lapini A, Delledonne A, Divieto C, Romano V, Castaldo C, Di Meglio F, Nurzynska D, Carmagnola I, Chiono V. Biomimetic design of bioartificial scaffolds for the in vitro modelling of human cardiac fibrosis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:983872. [PMID: 36507252 PMCID: PMC9731288 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.983872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
In vitro models of pathological cardiac tissue have attracted interest as predictive platforms for preclinical validation of therapies. However, models reproducing specific pathological features, such as cardiac fibrosis size (i.e., thickness and width) and stage of development are missing. This research was aimed at engineering 2D and 3D models of early-stage post-infarct fibrotic tissue (i.e., characterized by non-aligned tissue organization) on bioartificial scaffolds with biomimetic composition, design, and surface stiffness. 2D scaffolds with random nanofibrous structure and 3D scaffolds with 150 µm square-meshed architecture were fabricated from polycaprolactone, surface-grafted with gelatin by mussel-inspired approach and coated with cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) by 3 weeks culture of human cardiac fibroblasts. Scaffold physicochemical properties were thoroughly investigated. AFM analysis of scaffolds in wet state, before cell culture, confirmed their close surface stiffness to human cardiac fibrotic tissue. Following 3 weeks culture, biomimetic biophysical and biochemical scaffold properties triggered the activation of myofibroblast phenotype. Upon decellularization, immunostaining, SEM and two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy showed homogeneous decoration of both 2D and 3D scaffolds with cardiac ECM. The versatility of the approach was demonstrated by culturing ventricular or atrial cardiac fibroblasts on scaffolds, thus suggesting the possibility to use the same scaffold platforms to model both ventricular and atrial cardiac fibrosis. In the future, herein developed in vitro models of cardiac fibrotic tissue, reproducing specific pathological features, will be exploited for a fine preclinical tuning of therapies.
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- Mattia Spedicati
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,POLITO Biomedlab, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,POLITO Biomedlab, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,POLITO Biomedlab, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research, Pisa, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italy,Department of Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Science and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry “Scuola Medica Salernitana”, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,POLITO Biomedlab, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,POLITO Biomedlab, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy,Interuniversity Center for the Promotion of the 3Rs Principles in Teaching and Research, Pisa, Italy,*Correspondence: Valeria Chiono,
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Russo A, Incorvaia L, Capoluongo E, Tagliaferri P, Gori S, Cortesi L, Genuardi M, Turchetti D, De Giorgi U, Di Maio M, Barberis M, Dessena M, Del Re M, Lapini A, Luchini C, Jereczek-Fossa BA, Sapino A, Cinieri S. Implementation of preventive and predictive BRCA testing in patients with breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer: a position paper of Italian Scientific Societies. ESMO Open 2022; 7:100459. [PMID: 35597177 PMCID: PMC9126927 DOI: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2022.100459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Constitutional BRCA1/BRCA2 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants (PVs) are associated with an increased risk for developing breast and ovarian cancers. Current evidence indicates that BRCA1/2 PVs are also associated with pancreatic cancer, and that BRCA2 PVs are associated with prostate cancer risk. The identification of carriers of constitutional PVs in the BRCA1/2 genes allows the implementation of individual and family prevention pathways, through validated screening programs and risk-reducing strategies. According to the relevant and increasing therapeutic predictive implications, the inclusion of BRCA testing in the routine management of patients with breast, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers represent a key requirement to optimize medical or surgical therapeutic and prevention decision-making, and access to specific anticancer therapies. Therefore, accurate patient selection, the use of standardized and harmonized procedures, and adherence to homogeneous testing criteria, are essential elements to implement BRCA testing in clinical practice. This consensus position paper has been developed and approved by a multidisciplinary Expert Panel of 64 professionals on behalf of the AIOM–AIRO–AISP–ANISC–AURO–Fondazione AIOM–SIAPEC/IAP–SIBioC–SICO–SIF–SIGE–SIGU–SIU–SIURO–UROP Italian Scientific Societies, and a patient association (aBRCAdaBRA Onlus). The working group included medical, surgical and radiation oncologists, medical and molecular geneticists, clinical molecular biologists, surgical and molecular pathologists, organ specialists such as gynecologists, gastroenterologists and urologists, and pharmacologists. The manuscript is based on the expert consensus and reports the best available evidence, according to the current eligibility criteria for BRCA testing and counseling, it also harmonizes with current Italian National Guidelines and Clinical Recommendations. The rapid technologic and medical progress on BRCA-related cancers produced a clinical need for BRCA testing optimization. To incorporate BRCA testing in the routine management is a key requirement to help medical or surgical decision-making Standardized procedures and harmonized testing criteria are needed to implement BRCA testing in clinical practice. Adequate training and qualification for multidisciplinary team members are crucial for the success of the patient care path.
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- A Russo
- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
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- Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, "Federico II" University of Naples, Naples, Italy; Department of Clinical Pathology- Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
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- Medical and Translational Oncology Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, IRCCS Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria, Negrar di Valpolicella, Italy
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- Department of Oncology and Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy
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- University Hospital Foundation "A. Gemelli", IRCCS - Medical Genetics Unit, Rome, Italy; Section of Genomic Medicine, Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Catholic University Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Center for Studies on Hereditary Cancer, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Unit of Medical Genetics, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Medical Oncology, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", Meldola, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Division of Medical Oncology, Ordine Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy
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- Unit of Histopathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IEO, European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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- S.C. Experimental Surgery, Oncology Hospital, Brotzu Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenetics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Urology, University of Florence, University Hospital of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, Section of Pathology, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy; ARC-Net Research Center, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Candiolo Cancer Institute, FPO-IRCCS Candiolo, Candiolo, Italy; Department of Medical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Division and Breast Unit, Senatore Antonio Perrino Hospital, ASL Brindisi, Brindisi, Italy
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Mezzetti A, Schnee J, Lapini A, Di Donato M. Correction to: Time-resolved infrared absorption spectroscopy applied to photoinduced reactions: how and why. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2022; 21:609. [PMID: 35446008 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-022-00208-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Alberto Mezzetti
- Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS), UMR 7197, Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Pl Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface (LRS), UMR 7197, Sorbonne Université, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Pl Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.,Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche della Vita e della Sostenibilità Ambientale, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy. .,ICCOM-CNR via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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Gemma L, Di Maida F, Mari A, Grosso A, Verrienti P, Lambertini L, Bacchiani M, Valastro F, Bisegna C, Bossa R, Lapini A, Scelzi S, Masieri L, Carini M, Minervini A. Robot assisted radical cystectomy with florence robotic intracorporeal neobladder (FloRIN): a six-month assessment of functional and urodynamic features compared with a contemporary series of open vescica ileale padovana (VIP). EUR UROL SUPPL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-1683(21)00862-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Roscigno M, Badenchini F, Napodano G, Borghesi M, Marenghi C, Magnani T, Simone G, Conti G, Guazzoni G, Tanello M, Ranieri A, Battaglia M, Lapini A, Altieri V, Bollito E, Cicchetti G, Colombo P, Colecchia M, Ditonno P, Fabiano M, Frego E, Rodolfo H, Montironi R, Patriarca C, Pili A, Paganelli A, Sanseverino R, Rancati T, Bangma C, Da Pozzo L, Valdagni R. Factors predicting active treatment free-survival and initial experience with mpMRI as a selection tool in patient undergoing active surveillance: 10-year follow-up of SIUrO PRIAS-ITA working group. EUR UROL SUPPL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s2666-1683(20)35566-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Divieto C, Barrera G, Celegato F, D'Agostino G, Di Luzio M, Coïsson M, Lapini A, Mortati L, Zucco M, Pavarelli S, Sassi MP, Tiberto P. Au-Coated Ni80Fe20 Submicron Magnetic Nanodisks: Interactions With Tumor Cells. Front Nanotechnol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fnano.2020.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Taschin A, Bartolini P, Fanetti S, Lapini A, Citroni M, Righini R, Bini R, Torre R. Pressure Effects on Water Dynamics by Time-Resolved Optical Kerr Effect. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:3063-3068. [PMID: 32212735 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Despite water being the most common and most widely studied substance in the world, it still presents unknown aspects. In particular, water shows several thermodynamic and dynamical anomalies in the liquid and supercooled metastable phases, and the natures of these phases are still hotly debated. Here, we report measurements of water using the optical Kerr effect as a function of pressure along two isotherms, at 273 K from 0.1 to 750 MPa and at 297 K from 0.1 to 1350 MPa, reaching the supercooled metastable phase. The structural relaxation and the low frequency vibrational dynamics of water show a peculiar pressure dependence similar to that of other dynamical properties. The data analysis suggests the presence in the water phase diagram of a crossover area that divides two regions characterized by different dynamic regimes, which appear to be related to two liquid forms, one dominated by the high density water and the other by the low density water.
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- Andrea Taschin
- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ICCOM-CNR, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- INRIM, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, I-10135 Torino, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via Della Lastruccia 13, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ICCOM-CNR, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna del Piano 10, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via Della Lastruccia 13, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Capobianco A, Di Donato M, Caruso T, Centore R, Lapini A, Manfredi C, Velardo A, Volino S, Peluso A. Phototautomerism of triazolo-triazole scaffold. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Gironi B, Lapini A, Ragnoni E, Calvagna C, Paolantoni M, Morresi A, Sassi P. Free volume and dynamics in a lipid bilayer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:23169-23178. [PMID: 31612182 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03451j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The lateral diffusion of lipids and of small molecules inside a membrane is strictly related to the arrangement of acyl chains and to their mobility. In this study, we use FTIR and time resolved 2D-IR spectroscopic techniques to characterize the structure and dynamics of the hydrophobic region of palmitoyl-oleylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol vesicles dispersed in water/dimethylsulfoxide solutions. By means of a non-polar probe, hexacarbonyl tungsten, we monitor the distribution of free volumes inside the bilayer and the conformational dynamics of hydrophobic tails in relation to the different compositions of the membrane or the different compositions of the solvent. Despite the important structural changes induced by the presence of DMSO in the solvating medium, the picosecond dynamics of the membrane is preserved under the different conditions.
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- Beatrice Gironi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123 Perugia, Italy.
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Fanetti S, Falsini N, Bartolini P, Citroni M, Lapini A, Taschin A, Bini R. Superheating and Homogeneous Melting Dynamics of Bulk Ice. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:4517-4522. [PMID: 31342749 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Homogeneous melting of crystals is a complex multistep process involving the formation of transient states at temperatures considerably higher than the melting point. The nature and persistence of these metastable structures are intimately connected to the melting process, and a precise definition of the temporal boundaries of these phenomena is not yet available. We set up a specifically designed experiment to probe by transient infrared absorption spectroscopy the entire dynamics, ranging from tens of picoseconds to microseconds, of superheating and melting of an ice crystal. In spite of a large excess of energy provided, only about 30% of the micrometric crystal liquefies in the first 20-25 ns because of the long persistence of the superheated metastable phase that extends for more than 100 ns. This behavior is ascribed to the population of low-energy states that trap a large amount of energy, favoring the formation of a metastable, likely plastic, ice phase.
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- Samuele Fanetti
- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- ICCOM, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici , Via Madonna del Piano 10 , I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino , Firenze , Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- INRIM, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica , Strada delle Cacce 91 , I-10135 Torino , Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- ENEA, Centro Ricerche Frascati , Via E. Fermi 45 , I-00044 Frascati Roma , Italy
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- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) , via Nello Carrara 1 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- ICCOM, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici , Via Madonna del Piano 10 , I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino , Firenze , Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" , Università di Firenze , via della Lastruccia 3 , 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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la Gatta S, Milano F, Farinola GM, Agostiano A, Di Donato M, Lapini A, Foggi P, Trotta M, Ragni R. A highly efficient heptamethine cyanine antenna for photosynthetic Reaction Center: From chemical design to ultrafast energy transfer investigation of the hybrid system. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics 2019; 1860:350-359. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2019.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Revised: 12/11/2018] [Accepted: 01/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Doria S, Lapini A, Di Donato M, Righini R, Azzaroli N, Iagatti A, Caram JR, Sinclair TS, Cupellini L, Jurinovich S, Mennucci B, Zanotti G, Paoletti AM, Pennesi G, Foggi P. Understanding the influence of disorder on the exciton dynamics and energy transfer in Zn-phthalocyanine H-aggregates. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:22331-22341. [PMID: 30124697 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp02172d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The photophysics of 9(19),16(17),23(24)-tri-tert-butyl-2-[ethynyl-(4-carboxymethyl)phenyl]phthalocyaninatozinc(ii) and its H-aggregates is studied in different solvents by means of ultrafast non-linear optical spectroscopy and computational modeling. In non-coordinating solvents, both stationary and time-resolved spectroscopies highlight the formation of extended molecular aggregates, whose dimension and spectral properties depends on the concentration. In all the explored experimental conditions, time-resolved transient absorption experiments show multi exponential decay of the signals. Additional insights into the excited state relaxation mechanisms of the system is obtained with 2D electronic spectroscopy, which is employed to compare the deactivation channels in the absence or presence of aggregates. In ethanol and diethylether, where only monomers are present, an ultrafast relaxation process among the two non-degenerate Q-states of the molecule is evidenced by the appearance of a cross peak in the 2D-maps. In chloroform or CCl4, where disordered H-aggregates are formed, an energy transfer channel among aggregates with different composition and size is observed, leading to the non-radiative decay towards the lower energy dark state of the aggregates. Efficient coupling between less and more aggregated species is highlighted in two-dimensional electronic spectra by the appearance of a cross peak. The kinetics and intensity of the latter depend on the concentration of the solution. Finally, the linear spectroscopic properties of the aggregate are reproduced using a simplified structural model of an extended aggregate, based on Frenkel Hamiltonian Calculations and on an estimate of the electronic couplings between each dimer composing the aggregate computed at DFT level.
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- Sandra Doria
- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università degli Studi di Firenze, via Nello Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
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Lerch MM, Di Donato M, Laurent AD, Medved' M, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Lapini A, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Szymański W, Feringa BL. Solvent Effects on the Actinic Step of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct Photoswitching. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:8063-8068. [PMID: 29845699 PMCID: PMC6055754 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201803058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) are negative photochromes that switch with visible light and are highly promising for applications ranging from smart materials to biological systems. However, the strong solvent dependence of the photoswitching kinetics limits their application. The nature of the photoswitching mechanism in different solvents is key for addressing the solvatochromism of DASAs, but as yet has remained elusive. Here, we employ spectroscopic analyses and TD-DFT calculations to reveal changing solvatochromic shifts and energies of the species involved in DASA photoswitching. Time-resolved visible pump-probe spectroscopy suggests that the primary photochemical step remains the same, irrespective of the polarity and protic nature of the solvent. Disentangling the different factors determining the solvent-dependence of DASA photoswitching, presented here, is crucial for the rational development of applications in a wide range of different media.
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- Michael M. Lerch
- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 49747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)via N. Carrara 150019 SestoFiorentinoItaly
- Istituto Nazionale di OtticaLargo Fermi 650125FirenzeItaly
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230, BP 922082 Rue de la Houssinière44322Nantes, Cedex 3France
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- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and MaterialsDepartment of Physical ChemistryFaculty of SciencePalacký University in Olomouc17. listopadu 1192/12CZ-771 46OlomoucCzech Republic
- Department of ChemistryFaculty of Natural SciencesMatej Bel UniversityTajovského 40SK-97400Banská BystricaSlovak Republic
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)via N. Carrara 150019 SestoFiorentinoItaly
- Istituto Nazionale di OtticaLargo Fermi 650125FirenzeItaly
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)via N. Carrara 150019 SestoFiorentinoItaly
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)via N. Carrara 150019 SestoFiorentinoItaly
- Istituto Nazionale di OtticaLargo Fermi 650125FirenzeItaly
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular SciencesUniversity of AmsterdamScience Park 9041098XHAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)via N. Carrara 150019 SestoFiorentinoItaly
- Istituto Nazionale di OtticaLargo Fermi 650125FirenzeItaly
- Dipartimento di ChimicaUniversità di Perugiavia Elce di Sotto 806100PerugiaItaly
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- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 49747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
- Department of RadiologyUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Center GroningenHanzeplein 19713 GZGroningenThe Netherlands
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- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of GroningenNijenborgh 49747 AGGroningenThe Netherlands
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Lerch MM, Di Donato M, Laurent AD, Medved' M, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Lapini A, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Szymański W, Feringa BL. Solvent Effects on the Actinic Step of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct Photoswitching. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201803058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael M. Lerch
- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) via N. Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Largo Fermi 6 50125 Firenze Italy
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230, BP 92208 2 Rue de la Houssinière 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3 France
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- Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and MaterialsDepartment of Physical ChemistryFaculty of SciencePalacký University in Olomouc 17. listopadu 1192/12 CZ-771 46 Olomouc Czech Republic
- Department of ChemistryFaculty of Natural SciencesMatej Bel University Tajovského 40 SK-97400 Banská Bystrica Slovak Republic
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) via N. Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Largo Fermi 6 50125 Firenze Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) via N. Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) via N. Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Largo Fermi 6 50125 Firenze Italy
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular SciencesUniversity of Amsterdam Science Park 904 1098XH Amsterdam The Netherlands
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) via N. Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Largo Fermi 6 50125 Firenze Italy
- Dipartimento di ChimicaUniversità di Perugia via Elce di Sotto 8 06100 Perugia Italy
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- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
- Department of RadiologyUniversity of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9713 GZ Groningen The Netherlands
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- Centre for Systems ChemistryStratingh Institute for ChemistryUniversity of Groningen Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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Lerch MM, Medved′ M, Lapini A, Laurent AD, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Szymański W, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Di Donato M, Feringa BL. Tailoring Photoisomerization Pathways in Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts: The Role of the Hydroxy Group. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:955-964. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b10255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michael M. Lerch
- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical
Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University in Olomouc, 17. listopadu 1192/12, CZ-771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK-97400 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, via della
Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230, BP 92208, 2 Rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3, France
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department
of Radiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Van’t
Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science
Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Di Donato M, Lerch MM, Lapini A, Laurent AD, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Ihrig SP, Medved’ M, Jacquemin D, Szymański W, Buma WJ, Foggi P, Feringa BL. Shedding Light on the Photoisomerization Pathway of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:15596-15599. [PMID: 29039920 PMCID: PMC5680540 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASAs) are negative photochromes that hold great promise for a variety of applications. Key to optimizing their switching properties is a detailed understanding of the photoswitching mechanism, which, as yet, is absent. Here we characterize the actinic step of DASA-photoswitching and its key intermediate, which was studied using a combination of ultrafast visible and IR pump-probe spectroscopies and TD-DFT calculations. Comparison of the time-resolved IR spectra with DFT computations allowed to unambiguously identify the structure of the intermediate, confirming that light absorption induces a sequential reaction path in which a Z-E photoisomerization of C2-C3 is followed by a rotation around C3-C4 and a subsequent thermal cyclization step. First and second-generation DASAs share a common photoisomerization mechanism in chlorinated solvents with notable differences in kinetics and lifetimes of the excited states. The photogenerated intermediate of the second-generation DASA was photo-accumulated at low temperature and probed with time-resolved spectroscopy, demonstrating the photoreversibility of the isomerization process. Taken together, these results provide a detailed picture of the DASA isomerization pathway on a molecular level.
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- Mariangela Di Donato
- European
Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università
di Firenze, via della
Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- European
Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università
di Firenze, via della
Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230,
BP 92208, 2 Rue de
la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- European
Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- European
Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical
Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký
University in Olomouc, 17. listopadu 1192/12, CZ-771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, SK-97400 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- CEISAM, UMR CNRS 6230,
BP 92208, 2 Rue de
la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 103 bd St Michael, 75005 Paris Cedex 5, France
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department
of Radiology, University of Groningen, University
Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Van’t
Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University
of Amsterdam, Science
Park 904, 1098XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- European
Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica, Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica, Università di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Centre
for Systems Chemistry, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747
AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Lapini A, Pagliai M, Fanetti S, Citroni M, Scandolo S, Bini R, Righini R. Pressure Dependence of Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in Liquid Water Probed by Ultrafast Infrared Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:3579-3584. [PMID: 27560355 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Clarifying the structure/dynamics relation of water hydrogen-bond network has been the aim of extensive research over many decades. By joining anvil cell high-pressure technology, femtosecond 2D infrared spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations, we studied, for the first time, the spectral diffusion of the stretching frequency of an HOD impurity in liquid water as a function of pressure. Our experimental and simulation results concordantly demonstrate that the rate of spectral diffusion is almost insensitive to the applied pressure. This behavior is in contrast with the previously reported pressure-induced speed up of the orientational dynamics, which can be rationalized in terms of large angular jumps involving sudden switching between two hydrogen-bonded configurations. The different trend of the spectral diffusion can be, instead, inferred considering that the first solvation shell preserves the tetrahedral structure with pressure and the OD stretching frequency is only slight perturbed.
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- Andrea Lapini
- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy , Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica INO-CNR , Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici ICCOM-CNR , Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy , Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) , I-34151 Trieste, Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy , Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy , Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Bellardita L, Damiano R, Porpiglia F, Scattoni V, Amodeo A, Bortolus R, Lapini A, Cocci A, Cicalese V, Caponera M, Mastrangelo P, Francesca F, Valdagni R, Taverna G, di Trapani D, Leonardi R, Minocci D, Gaboardi F, Montanari E, Conti G. Adaptation and validation of an Italian version of the Prostate Cancer Specific Quality of Life Instrument (PROSQOLI). Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2016; 20:2773-2778. [PMID: 27424974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The Prostate Cancer Specific Quality of Life Instrument (PROSQOLI) is a measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in advanced hormone-resistant prostate cancer. In this study, we aimed at performing a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Italian version of the PROSQOLI. PATIENTS AND METHODS The original version of the PROSQOLI underwent several turnarounds of translations. A total of 472 patients treated with radical prostatectomy, radiotherapy or medical therapy were enrolled for the validation of the questionnaire. The PROSQOLI was administered together with the SF-12. Reliability indexes were calculated by using Cronbach alpha. To evaluate the validity of the construct, relationships between PROSQOLI and SF12 were assessed. The ANOVA test was used to evaluate the differences between groups of patients who had received different treatments. RESULTS The reliability coefficient was 0.91. Item-to-total correlation indices were in most cases >0.70. The correlation between the scores of the PROSQOLI and those of the SF-12 questionnaire was high (r=0.8139, p<0.0001). The ANOVA test showed significant differences between groups (p<0.01) based on age, recurrence risk and treatment. CONCLUSIONS The adaptation process showed that the PROSQOLI Italian version has high reliability and presents both convergent and discriminant validity. This version of the tool can be used to assess HRQoL in Italian men who underwent radical treatment for advanced prostate cancer.
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- L Bellardita
- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.
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Tosi I, Segado Centellas M, Campioli E, Iagatti A, Lapini A, Sissa C, Baldini L, Cappelli C, Di Donato M, Sansone F, Santoro F, Terenziani F. Excitation Dynamics in Hetero-bichromophoric Calixarene Systems. Chemphyschem 2016; 17:1686-706. [PMID: 26867716 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201501065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2015] [Revised: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In this work, the dynamics of electronic energy transfer (EET) in bichromophoric donor-acceptor systems, obtained by functionalizing a calix[4]arene scaffold with two dyes, was experimentally and theoretically characterized. The investigated compounds are highly versatile, due to the possibility of linking the dye molecules to the cone or partial cone structure of the calix[4]arene, which directs the two active units to the same or opposite side of the scaffold, respectively. The dynamics and efficiency of the EET process between the donor and acceptor units was investigated and discussed through a combined experimental and theoretical approach, involving ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy and density functional theory based characterization of the energetic and spectroscopic properties of the system. Our results suggest that the external medium strongly determines the particular conformation adopted by the bichromophores, with a direct effect on the extent of excitonic coupling between the dyes and hence on the dynamics of the EET process itself.
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- Irene Tosi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.,INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125, Firenze, Italy
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.,Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy.
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy. .,INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125, Firenze, Italy. .,Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organo Metallici (ICCOM-CNR), UOS di Pisa, Area della Ricerca via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17/a, 43124, Parma, Italy.
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Ragnoni E, Palombo F, Green E, Winlove CP, Di Donato M, Lapini A. Coacervation of α-elastin studied by ultrafast nonlinear infrared spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:27981-27990. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04049g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Elastin is the main protein to confer elasticity to biological tissues, through the formation of a hierarchical network of fibres.
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- Elena Ragnoni
- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopies
- Via Nello Carrara 1
- I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino
- Italy
- Department of Physics
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- School of Physics and Astronomy
- University of Exeter
- Exeter EX4 4QJ
- UK
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- School of Physics and Astronomy
- University of Exeter
- Exeter EX4 4QJ
- UK
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopies
- Via Nello Carrara 1
- I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino
- Italy
- Department of Chemistry
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopies
- Via Nello Carrara 1
- I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino
- Italy
- INO
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Detti B, Scoccianti S, Cassani S, Franzese C, Di Cataldo V, Villari D, Cai T, Desideri I, Livi L, Lapini A, Nicita G, Carini M, Biti G. Synchronous bilateral testicular germ cell tumour: case report and review of the literature. Klin Onkol 2015; 26:281-5. [PMID: 23961859 DOI: 10.14735/amko2013281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We report a case of a 30 years old male affected by synchronous bilateral germ cell tumor with a history of unilateral cryptorchidism; the patient underwent surgical treatment followed by adjuvant radiotherapy on paraaortic and iliac lymphnodes. Patients with synchronous tumors usually present with a higher stage disease in contrast to those with unilateral testicular carcinoma, yet the prognosis remains equally favorable.
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- B Detti
- Radioterapia, Azienda Ospedaliero‑Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.
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Di Donato M, Ragnoni E, Lapini A, Foggi P, Hiller RG, Righini R. Femtosecond transient infrared and stimulated Raman spectroscopy shed light on the relaxation mechanisms of photo-excited peridinin. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:212409. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4915072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Di Donato M, Ragnoni E, Lapini A, Kardaś TM, Ratajska-Gadomska B, Foggi P, Righini R. Identification of the Excited-State C═C and C═O Modes of trans-β-Apo-8'-carotenal with Transient 2D-IR-EXSY and Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:1592-1598. [PMID: 26263319 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Assigning the vibrational modes of molecules in the electronic excited state is often a difficult task. Here we show that combining two nonlinear spectroscopic techniques, transient 2D exchange infrared spectroscopy (T2D-IR-EXSY) and femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS), the contribution of the C═C and C═O modes in the excited-state vibrational spectra of trans-β-apo-8'-carotenal can be unambiguously identified. The experimental results reported in this work confirm a previously proposed assignment based on quantum-chemical calculations and further strengthen the role of an excited state with charge-transfer character in the relaxation pathway of carbonyl carotenoids. On a more general ground, our results highlight the potentiality of nonlinear spectroscopic methods based on the combined use of visible and infrared pulses to correlate structural and electronic changes in photoexcited molecules.
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- Mariangela Di Donato
- †LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- ‡INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- §Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- †LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- ‡INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- ‡INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- §Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- ∥Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Zwirki Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- †LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- ‡INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- ⊥Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, via Elce di Sotto 8, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- †LENS (European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- ‡INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- §Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università di Firenze, via della Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Kardaś TM, Ratajska-Gadomska B, Lapini A, Ragnoni E, Righini R, Di Donato M, Foggi P, Gadomski W. Dynamics of the time-resolved stimulated Raman scattering spectrum in presence of transient vibronic inversion of population on the example of optically excited trans-β-apo-8'-carotenal. J Chem Phys 2015; 140:204312. [PMID: 24880285 DOI: 10.1063/1.4879060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We have studied the effect of transient vibrational inversion of population in trans-β-apo-8(')-carotenal on the time-resolved femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (TR-FSRS) signal. The experimental data are interpreted by applying a quantum mechanical approach, using the formalism of projection operators for constructing the theoretical model of TR-FSRS. Within this theoretical frame we explain the presence of transient Raman losses on the Stokes side of the TR-FSRS spectrum as the effect of vibrational inversion of population. In view of the obtained experimental and theoretical results, we conclude that the excited S2 electronic level of trans-β-apo-8(')-carotenal relaxes towards the S0 ground state through a set of four vibrational sublevels of S1 state.
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- T M Kardaś
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Zwirki Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Zwirki Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Universit`a di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Universit`a di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Universit`a di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Universit`a di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Universit`a di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Zwirki Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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Azzaroli N, Lobello MG, Lapini A, Iagatti A, Bussotti L, Di Donato M, Calogero G, Pastore M, De Angelis F, Foggi P. Monitoring the intramolecular charge transfer process in the Z907 solar cell sensitizer: a transient Vis and IR spectroscopy and ab initio investigation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03314d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The excited state dynamics of Z907 in solution and on semiconductor substrates has been studied with ultrafast UV/Vis and IR spectroscopy and DFT/TDDFT calculations.
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- Nicolò Azzaroli
- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
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- Computational Laboratory for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari
- I-06123 Perugia
- Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
- INO-CNR
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”
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- Computational Laboratory for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari
- I-06123 Perugia
- Italy
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- Computational Laboratory for Hybrid Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari
- I-06123 Perugia
- Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
- Università di Firenze
- Florence
- Italy
- INO-CNR
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Ragnoni E, Di Donato M, Iagatti A, Lapini A, Righini R. Mechanism of the Intramolecular Charge Transfer State Formation in all-trans-β-Apo-8′-carotenal: Influence of Solvent Polarity and Polarizability. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:420-32. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5093288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Elena Ragnoni
- LENS (European
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy
- INO (Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- LENS (European
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy
- INO (Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, via della
Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
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- LENS (European
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy
- INO (Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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- LENS (European
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy
- INO (Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, via della
Lastruccia 13, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), Italy
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- LENS (European
Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) Italy
- INO (Istituto
Nazionale di Ottica), Largo Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, via della
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Citroni M, Fanetti S, Guigue B, Bartolini P, Taschin A, Lapini A, Foggi P, Bini R. Picosecond optical parametric generator and amplifier for large temperature-jump. Opt Express 2014; 22:30047-30052. [PMID: 25606934 DOI: 10.1364/oe.22.030047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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An optical parametric generator and amplifier producing 15 ps pulses at wavelengths tunable around 2 μm, with energies up to 15 mJ/pulse, has been realized and characterized. The output wavelength is chosen to match a vibrational combination band of water. By measuring the induced birefringence changes we prove that a single pulse is able to completely melt samples of ice in the 10⁻⁶ cm³ volume range, both at room pressure (263 K) and at high pressure (298 K, 1 GPa) in a sapphire anvil cell. This source opens the possibility of studying melting and freezing processes by spectroscopic probes in water or water solutions in a wide range of conditions as found in natural environments.
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Fanetti S, Pagliai M, Citroni M, Lapini A, Scandolo S, Righini R, Bini R. Connecting the Water Phase Diagram to the Metastable Domain: High-Pressure Studies in the Supercooled Regime. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:3804-3809. [PMID: 26278751 DOI: 10.1021/jz501971h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Pressure is extremely efficient to tune intermolecular interactions, allowing the study of the mechanisms regulating, at the molecular level, the structure and dynamics of condensed phases. Among the simplest molecules, water represents in many respects a mystery despite its primary role in ruling most of the biological, physical, and chemical processes occurring in nature. Here we report a careful characterization of the dynamic regime change associated with low-density and high-density forms of liquid water by measuring the line shape of the OD stretching mode of HOD in liquid water along different isotherms as a function of pressure. Remarkably, the high-pressure studies have been here extended down to 240 K, well inside the supercooled regime. Supported by molecular dynamics simulations, a correlation among amorphous and crystalline solids and the two different liquid water forms is attempted to provide a unified picture of the metastable and thermodynamic regimes of water.
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- Samuele Fanetti
- †LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- §The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), ICTP - Strada Costiera, 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Di Donato M, Segado Centellas M, Lapini A, Lima M, Avila F, Santoro F, Cappelli C, Righini R. Combination of transient 2D-IR experiments and ab initio computations sheds light on the formation of the charge-transfer state in photoexcited carbonyl carotenoids. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:9613-30. [PMID: 25050938 DOI: 10.1021/jp505473j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The excited state dynamics of carbonyl carotenoids is very complex because of the coupling of single- and doubly excited states and the possible involvement of intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) states. In this contribution we employ ultrafast infrared spectroscopy and theoretical computations to investigate the relaxation dynamics of trans-8'-apo-β-carotenal occurring on the picosecond time scale, after excitation in the S2 state. In a (slightly) polar solvent like chloroform, one-dimensional (T1D-IR) and two-dimensional (T2D-IR) transient infrared spectroscopy reveal spectral components with characteristic frequencies and lifetimes that are not observed in nonpolar solvents (cyclohexane). Combining experimental evidence with an analysis of CASPT2//CASSCF ground and excited state minima and energy profiles, complemented with TDDFT calculations in gas phase and in solvent, we propose a photochemical decay mechanism for this system where only the bright single-excited 1Bu(+) and the dark double-excited 2Ag(-) states are involved. Specifically, the initially populated 1Bu(+) relaxes toward 2Ag(-) in 200 fs. In a nonpolar solvent 2Ag(-) decays to the ground state (GS) in 25 ps. In polar solvents, distortions along twisting modes of the chain promote a repopulation of the 1Bu(+) state which then quickly relaxes to the GS (18 ps in chloroform). The 1Bu(+) state has a high electric dipole and is the main contributor to the charge-transfer state involved in the dynamics in polar solvents. The 2Ag(-) → 1Bu(+) population transfer is evidenced by a cross peak on the T2D-IR map revealing that the motions along the same stretching of the conjugated chain on the 2Ag(-) and 1Bu(+) states are coupled.
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- Mariangela Di Donato
- LENS (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy) via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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Patrizi B, Lapini A, Di Donato M, Marcelli A, Lima M, Righini R, Foggi P, Baiocco P, Bonamore A, Boffi A. Role of local structure and dynamics of small ligand migration in proteins: a study of a mutated truncated hemoprotein from Thermobifida fusca by time resolved MIR spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:9209-17. [PMID: 25019316 DOI: 10.1021/jp504499b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Carbon monoxide recombination dynamics in a mutant of the truncated hemoglobin from Thermobida fusca (3F-Tf-trHb) has been analyzed by means of ultrafast Visible-pump/MidIR-probe spectroscopy and compared with that of the wild-type protein. In 3F-Tf-trHb, three topologically relevant amino acids, responsible for the ligand stabilization through the formation of a H-bond network (TyrB10 TyrCD1 and TrpG8), have been replaced by Phe residues. X-ray diffraction data show that Phe residues in positions B10 and G8 maintain the same rotameric arrangements as Tyr and Trp in the wild-type protein, while Phe in position CD1 displays significant rotameric heterogeneity. Photodissociation of the ligand has been induced by exciting the sample with 550 nm pump pulses and the CO rebinding has been monitored in two mid-IR regions respectively corresponding to the ν(CO) stretching vibration of the iron-bound CO (1880-1980 cm(-1)) and of the dissociated free CO (2050-2200 cm(-1)). In both the mutant and wild-type protein, a significant amount of geminate CO rebinding is observed on a subnanosecond time scale. Despite the absence of the distal pocket hydrogen-bonding network, the kinetics of geminate rebinding in 3F-Tf-trHb is very similar to the wild-type, showing how the reactivity of dissociated CO toward the heme is primarily regulated by the effective volume and flexibility of the distal pocket and by caging effects exerted on the free CO on the analyzed time scale.
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- Barbara Patrizi
- LENS (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy) Via N. Carrara 1, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy
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Fanetti S, Lapini A, Pagliai M, Citroni M, Di Donato M, Scandolo S, Righini R, Bini R. Structure and Dynamics of Low-Density and High-Density Liquid Water at High Pressure. J Phys Chem Lett 2014; 5:235-40. [PMID: 26276206 DOI: 10.1021/jz402302z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Liquid water has a primary role in ruling life on Earth in a wide temperature and pressure range as well as a plethora of chemical, physical, geological, and environmental processes. Nevertheless, a full understanding of its dynamical and structural properties is still lacking. Water molecules are associated through hydrogen bonds, with the resulting extended network characterized by a local tetrahedral arrangement. Two different local structures of the liquid, called low-density (LDW) and high-density (HDW) water, have been identified to potentially affect many different chemical, biological, and physical processes. By combining diamond anvil cell technology, ultrafast pump-probe infrared spectroscopy, and classical molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the liquid structure and orientational dynamics are intimately connected, identifying the P-T range of the LDW and HDW regimes. The latter are defined in terms of the speeding up of the orientational dynamics, caused by the increasing probability of breaking and reforming the hydrogen bonds.
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- Samuele Fanetti
- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- §The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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- †LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Via N. Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
- ‡Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff" dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
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Lapini A, Fabbrizzi P, Piccardo M, di Donato M, Lascialfari L, Foggi P, Cicchi S, Biczysko M, Carnimeo I, Santoro F, Cappelli C, Righini R. Ultrafast resonance energy transfer in the umbelliferone–alizarin bichromophore. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:10059-74. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54609h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Fast and efficient intramolecular energy transfer takes place in the umbelliferone–alizarin bichromophore; the process is well described by the Förster mechanism.
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- Andrea Lapini
- LENS (European laboratory for non linear spectroscopy)
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica)
- 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
- Universitá di Firenze
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- LENS (European laboratory for non linear spectroscopy)
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica)
- 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
- Universitá di Firenze
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- LENS (European laboratory for non linear spectroscopy)
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica)
- 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica Università degli Studi di Perugia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
- Universitá di Firenze
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- Istituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici (ICCOM-CNR)
- UOS di Pisa
- Area della Ricerca
- I-56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università di Pisa
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- LENS (European laboratory for non linear spectroscopy)
- 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
- INO (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica)
- 50125 Firenze, Italy
- Dipartimento di Chimica ‘Ugo Schiff’
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Kardaś TM, Ratajska-Gadomska B, Gadomski W, Lapini A, Righini R. The role of stimulated Raman scattering in supercontinuum generation in bulk diamond. Opt Express 2013; 21:24201-24209. [PMID: 24104330 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.024201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report on experimental results of supercontinuum generation in bulk diamond. The spectrum of supercontinuum generated with 800 nm pump extends up to 600 nm towards short wavelengths. We present the numerical model explaining the phenomenon, in which the role of different nonlinear effects including stimulated Raman scattering is discussed. Unlike in other materials, in diamond the feature of supercontinuum due to stimulated Raman response is apparently visible.
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Azzaroli N, Lapini A, Di Donato M, Dei A, Righini R. Valence Tautomerism in Co–Dioxolene Complexes: Static and Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy Study. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:15492-502. [DOI: 10.1021/jp405334y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nicolò Azzaroli
- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara
1, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara
1, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara
1, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- University of Florence, Chemistry Department,
Via della Lastruccia 1, Sesto Fiorentino,
Italy
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- University of Florence, Chemistry Department,
Via della Lastruccia 1, Sesto Fiorentino,
Italy
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- LENS, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Via Nello Carrara
1, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- University of Florence, Chemistry Department,
Via della Lastruccia 1, Sesto Fiorentino,
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Lapini A, Di Donato M, Patrizi B, Marcelli A, Lima M, Righini R, Foggi P, Sciamanna N, Boffi A. Carbon monoxide recombination dynamics in truncated hemoglobins studied with visible-pump midIR-probe spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:8753-61. [PMID: 22759230 DOI: 10.1021/jp3019149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Carbon monoxide recombination dynamics upon photodissociation with visible light has been characterized by means of ultrafast visible-pump/MidIR probe spectroscopy for the truncated hemoglobins from Thermobifida fusca and Bacillus subtilis. Photodissociation has been induced by exciting the sample at two different wavelengths: 400 nm, corresponding to the heme absorption in the B-band, and 550 nm, in the Q-bands. The bleached iron-CO coordination band located at 1850-1950 cm(-1) and the free CO absorption band in the region 2050-2200 cm(-1) have been observed by probe pulses tuned in the appropriate infrared region. The kinetic traces measured at 1850-1950 cm(-1) reveal multiexponential subnanosecond dynamics that have been interpreted as arising from fast geminate recombination of the photolyzed CO. A compared analysis of the crystal structure of the two proteins reveals a similar structure of their distal heme pocket, which contains conserved polar and aromatic amino acid residues closely interacting with the iron ligand. Although fast geminate recombination is observed in both proteins, several kinetic differences can be evidenced, which can be interpreted in terms of a different structural flexibility of the corresponding heme distal pockets. The analysis of the free CO band-shape and of its dynamic evolution brings out novel features about the nature of the docking site inside the protein cavity.
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- Andrea Lapini
- LENS (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
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Baldazzi V, Tassi R, Lapini A, Carini M, Mazzanti R. Sunitinb-induced hyperlipidemia in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.15_suppl.e15106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mazzanti R, Baldazzi V, Tassi R, Lapini A, Caruso S, Garofoli E, Lunghi A, Carini M. Sunitinib and altered parathyroid function. J Clin Oncol 2011. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2011.29.15_suppl.e15138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vázquez SM, Abbotto A, Angelis FD, Foggi P, Lapini A, Lima M, Lobello M, Marcelli A, Touceda PT. Transient absorption spectroscopy of a heteroaromatic donor–acceptor-π-conjugated 2,2′-bipyridine dye. J Mol Struct 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2011.01.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Novara G, Antonelli A, Bertini R, Carmignani G, Cosciani Cunico S, De Cobelli O, Lapini A, Longo N, Minervini A, Montorsi F, Serni S, Simonato A, Siracusano S, Volpe A, Zattoni F, Ficarra V. 1993 PROGNOSTIC ROLE OF MICROVASCULAR INVASION IN CLEAR CELL RENAL CELL CARCINOMA: RESULTS OF THE SATURN PROJECT. J Urol 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.02.2220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gacci M, Vittori G, Siena G, Rossetti M, Tosi N, Serni S, Lapini A, Maggi M, Carini M. 334 LONG TERM SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF COMBINATION THERAPY WITH VARDENAFIL 10 MG AND TAMSULOSIN 0,4 MG FOR PERSISTENT IRRITATIVE LUTS: A RANDOMIZED DOUBLE BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-9056(11)60330-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Lapini A, Foggi P, Bussotti L, Righini R, Dei A. Relaxation dynamics in three polypyridyl iron(II)-based complexes probed by nanosecond and sub-picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. Inorganica Chim Acta 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2008.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Minervini A, Serni S, Giubilei G, Lanzi F, Vittori G, Lapini A, Carini M. Multiple ipsilateral renal tumors: retrospective analysis of surgical and oncological results of tumor enucleation vs radical nephrectomy. Eur J Surg Oncol 2008; 35:521-6. [PMID: 18640001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2008.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2008] [Revised: 05/14/2008] [Accepted: 06/02/2008] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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AIMS To evaluate the role of nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) compared to radical nephrectomy (RN) for treating multiple ipsilateral renal tumors. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the clinical and pathological data of 960 patients who had surgery for pathologically confirmed RCC between 1986 and 2006. Thirty-four patients were diagnosed as having at least one ipsilateral smaller solid lesion associated with the primary RCC: 22 had RN while 12 had NSS for tumor enucleation. RESULTS All patients who had NSS had tumors confined within the kidney, as did 82% of patients treated with RN. The sole presence of concomitant accompanying benign histology to the primary RCC was diagnosed in 20% of patients. The mean (median, range) follow-up for patients treated with RN and NSS was 69 (58, 12-214) and 58 (44, 12-151) months. Tumor stage was significantly associated with tumor-specific survival (TSS) in the RN group (p<0.001). None of the patients who had tumor enucleation had positive surgical margins. Two patients recurred locally after NSS, elsewhere in the kidney, resulting in a crude ipsilateral recurrence rate of 17%. The analysis of TSS for patients with multiple ipsilateral tumors with a pT1 primary lesion showed no statistically significant differences between patients who had RN or NSS. Two patients had contralateral recurrence, resulting in a crude rate of 6%. CONCLUSIONS For patients with multiple ipsilateral renal tumors, 20% of the satellite lesions are benign and 6% develop a contralateral metachronous recurrence. We also observed similar TSS for patients treated with NSS and RN.
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- A Minervini
- Department of Urology, University of Florence, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy.
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Feis A, Lapini A, Catacchio B, Brogioni S, Foggi P, Chiancone E, Boffi A, Smulevich G. Unusually Strong H-Bonding to the Heme Ligand and Fast Geminate Recombination Dynamics of the Carbon Monoxide Complex of Bacillus subtilis Truncated Hemoglobin. Biochemistry 2007; 47:902-10. [DOI: 10.1021/bi701297f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Alessandro Feis
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Bruno Catacchio
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Silvia Brogioni
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Paolo Foggi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Emilia Chiancone
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Alberto Boffi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
| | - Giulietta Smulevich
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Università di Firenze, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences and CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06100 Perugia, Italy
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Gacci M, Serni S, Lapini A, Vittori G, Vignolini G, Nesi G, Carini M. PSA recurrence after brachytherapy for seed misplacement: a double-blind radiologic and pathologic work-up after salvage prostatectomy. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2007; 11:99-101. [DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4501011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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