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  1. Transient Terahertz Stark Effect: A Dynamic Probe of Electric Interactions in Polar Liquids

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, June 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  2. Short-Range Cooperative Slow-down of Water Solvation Dynamics Around SO42––Mg2+ Ion Pairs

    Article • ACS Physical Chemistry Au, October 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  3. Coherent polaron dynamics of electrons solvated in polar liquids

    Article • PNAS Nexus, June 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  4. Field-Induced Electron Generation in Water: Solvation Dynamics and Many-Body Interactions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, April 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  5. Electron Transfer-Induced Active Site Structural Relaxation in 64-Photolyase of Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, July 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  6. Infrared and NMR Spectroscopic Fingerprints of the Asymmetric H 7 + O 3 Complex in Solution

    Article • ChemPhysChem, April 2021, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  7. Phosphate Vibrations Probe Electric Fields in Hydrated Biomolecules: Spectroscopy, Dynamics, and Interactions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, April 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  8. Infrared and NMR Spectroscopic Fingerprints of the Asymmetric H 7 + O 3 Complex in Solution

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2021, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  9. Terahertz Polaron Oscillations of Electrons Solvated in Liquid Water

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  10. The mutual interactions of RNA, counterions and water

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Colin Caveney (Kudos Admin), Benjamin Fingerhut

  11. Magnesium Contact Ions Stabilize the Tertiary Structure of Transfer RNA: Electrostatics Mapped by Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectra and Theoretical Simulations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  12. On the role of non-diagonal system–environment interactions in bridge-mediated electron transfer

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, November 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  13. Regulatory Impact of the C-Terminal Tail on Charge Transfer Pathways in Drosophila Cryptochrome

    Article • Molecules, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  14. Field-Induced Tunneling Ionization and Terahertz-Driven Electron Dynamics in Liquid Water

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  15. Aqueous Contact Ion Pairs of Phosphate Groups with Na+, Ca2+ and Mg2+ – Structural Discrimination by Femtosecond Infrared Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, April 2020, De Gruyter

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  16. Change of Hydration Patterns upon RNA Melting Probed by Excitations of Phosphate Backbone Vibrations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, February 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  17. Contact Ion Pairs of Phosphate Groups in Water: Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Dimethyl Phosphate and ab Initio Simulations

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, September 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  18. Hydrated Excess Protons in Acetonitrile/Water Mixtures: Solvation Species and Ultrafast Proton Motions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  19. Electron Transfer Pathways and Dynamics in Drosophila Cryptochrome - the Role of Protein Electrostatics

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2019, EDP Sciences

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  20. Ultrafast dynamics of hydrated excess protons in CH3CN:H2O mixtures

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2019, EDP Sciences

    Thomas Elsaesser, Benjamin Fingerhut

  21. Interactions of RNA and Water probed by 2D-IR Spectroscopy

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2019, EDP Sciences

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  22. Noncovalent Interactions of Hydrated DNA and RNA Mapped by 2D-IR Spectroscopy

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  23. Phosphate–Magnesium Ion Interactions in Water Probed by Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, January 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  24. Coupled excitation energy and charge transfer dynamics in reaction centre inspired model systems

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  25. Ultrafast vibrational relaxation and energy dissipation of hydrated excess protons in polar solvents

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, December 2018, Elsevier

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  26. Decay Pathways of Thymine Revisited

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, May 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  27. Vibrational Dynamics and Couplings of the Hydrated RNA Backbone: A Two-Dimensional Infrared Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  28. Simulating Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Nonadiabatic Molecular Processes: From the Infrared to the X-ray Regime

    Article • Chemical Reviews, September 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  29. Large-amplitude transfer motion of hydrated excess protons mapped by ultrafast 2D IR spectroscopy

    Article • Science, July 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  30. Molecular couplings and energy exchange between DNA and water mapped by femtosecond infrared spectroscopy of backbone vibrations

    Article • Structural Dynamics, July 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  31. Coarse-grained representation of the quasi adiabatic propagator path integral for the treatment of non-Markovian long-time bath memory

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  32. Predominance of short range Coulomb forces in phosphate-water interactions—a theoretical analysis

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  33. Range, Magnitude, and Ultrafast Dynamics of Electric Fields at the Hydrated DNA Surface

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  34. The Hydrated Excess Proton in the Zundel Cation H5 O2 + : The Role of Ultrafast Solvent Fluctuations

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2016, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  35. The Hydrated Excess Proton in the Zundel Cation H5 O2 + : The Role of Ultrafast Solvent Fluctuations

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2016, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  36. Simulation of Multi-Dimensional Signals in the Optical Domain: Quantum-Classical Feedback in Nonlinear Exciton Propagation

    Article • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, June 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  37. Coherent Dynamics of Phosphate Ions in Bulk H2O

    Article • January 2016, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  38. The Hydrated Excess Proton - Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of the Zundel Cation H_5O_2 ^+

    Article • January 2016, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  39. Monitoring conical intersections in the ring opening of furan by attosecond stimulated X-ray Raman spectroscopy

    Article • Structural Dynamics, October 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  40. Ultrafast phosphate hydration dynamics in bulk H2O

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  41. Spectral lineshapes in nonlinear electronic spectroscopy

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  42. Anharmonicities and coherent vibrational dynamics of phosphate ions in bulk H2O

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  43. Signatures of Conical Intersection Mediated Relaxation Dynamics in Time-Resolved Broadband Raman Detection

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  44. Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy of the Cyclobutane Thymine Dimer Repair Mechanism: A Computational Study

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  45. Probing the Conical Intersection Dynamics of the RNA Base Uracil by UV-Pump Stimulated-Raman-Probe Signals; Ab Initio Simulations

    Article • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, February 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  46. Signatures of Conical Intersection Mediated Relaxation Dynamics in Time-Resolved Broadband Raman Detection

    Article • January 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  47. Ground and Excited State Surfaces for the Photochemical Bond Cleavage in Phenylmethylphenylphosphonium Ions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  48. Time-resolved broadband Raman spectroscopies: A unified six-wave-mixing representation

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  49. Quasiparticle representation of coherent nonlinear optical signals of multi-excitons

    Article • New Journal of Physics, August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  50. Monitoring Nonadiabatic Dynamics of the RNA Base Uracil by UV Pump–IR Probe Spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, May 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  51. Suppression of population transport and control of exciton distributions by entangled photons

    Article • Nature Communications, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  52. Time Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Thioflavin T Photoisomerization: A Simulation Study

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, April 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  53. A Comprehensive Microscopic Picture of the Benzhydryl Radical and Cation Photogeneration and Interconversion through Electron Transfer

    Article • ChemPhysChem, March 2013, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  54. Broadband infrared and Raman probes of excited-state vibrational molecular dynamics: simulation protocols based on loop diagrams

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  55. Selective Assignment of Energy Transfer and Charge Separation Pathways in Reaction Centers by Pulse Polarized 2-D Photon Echo Spectroscopy

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2013, EDP Sciences

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  56. 2D optical photon echo spectroscopy of a self-assembled quantum dot

    Article • Annalen der Physik, December 2012, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  57. Dissecting biexciton wave functions of self-assembled quantum dots by double-quantum-coherence optical spectroscopy

    Article • Physical Review B, December 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  58. Manipulation of two-photon-induced fluorescence spectra of chromophore aggregates with entangled photons: A simulation study

    Article • Physical Review A, August 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  59. Resolving the Electron Transfer Kinetics in the Bacterial Reaction Center by Pulse Polarized 2-D Photon Echo Spectroscopy

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, June 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  60. ONIOM approach for non-adiabatic on-the-fly molecular dynamics demonstrated for the backbone controlled Dewar valence isomerization

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  61. Buildup and Decay of the Optical Absorption in the Ultrafast Photo-Generation and Reaction of Benzhydryl Cations in Solution

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  62. Mechanism of UV-induced Dewar lesion repair catalysed by DNA (6-4) photolyase

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  63. Mechanism of UV-Induced Formation of Dewar Lesions in DNA

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2011, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  64. Mechanismus der UV-induzierten Bildung von Dewar-Schäden in DNA

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, November 2011, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  65. The detailed balance limit of photochemical energy conversion

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  66. The First Picoseconds in the Life of Benzhydryl Cations: Ultrafast Generation and Chemical Reactions

    Article • January 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  67. Optimization of the Fast Charge Separation in Artificial Photosynthesis for Efficient Transport

    Article • January 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  68. Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: Optimization in Model and Nature

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  69. Design criteria for optimal photosynthetic energy conversion

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, December 2008, Elsevier

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  70. Ultrafast dissociation pathways of diphenylmethyl chloride to generate reactive carbo cations

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2008, Elsevier

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  71. Titanium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroamination of Vinylarenes.

    Article • ChemInform, January 2006, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  72. Titan-katalysierte intermolekulare Hydroaminierung von Vinylarenen

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2005, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut

  73. Titanium-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroamination of Vinylarenes

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2005, Wiley

    Benjamin Fingerhut