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Rudolph A. Marcus
Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry

1. An Interpretation of Fluctuations in Enzyme Catalysis Rate, Spectral Diffusion, and Radiative Component of Lifetimes in Terms of Electric Field Fluctuation
M. K. Prakash and R. A. Marcus
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104, 15982 (2007)

2. Evidence for a Diffusion-Controlled Mechanism for Fluorescence Blinking of Colloidal
Quantum Dots
M. Pelton, G. Smith, N. F. Scherer and R. A. Marcus
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104, 14249 (2007)

3. H and other transfers in enzymes and in solution: theory and computations, a unified
view. II. Applications to experiment and computations.
R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. B. 111, 6643, (2007)

4. On the theory of organic catalysis “on water”
Y. Jung and R. A. Marcus
J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 129, 5492, (2007)

5. Explanation of quantum dot blinking without the long-lived trap hypothesis
P. A. Frantsuzov and R. A. Marcus
Phys. Rev. B, 72, 155321 (2005) -

6. On the theory of the CO + OH reaction, including H and C kinetic isotope effects
W.-C. Chen and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys., 123, 094307 (2005).

7. Mechanisms of fluorescence blinking in semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots
J. Tang and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys., 123, 054704 (2005).

8. Mass-Independent Isotope Effect in the Earliest Processed Solids in the Solar System. A Possible Chemical Mechanism.
R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 121, 8201 (2004).

9. A Model for Charge Transfer Inverse Photoemission.
S. Gosavi and R. A. Marcus
Electrochim. Acta 49, 3 (2003)

10. A model for the cooperative free energy transduction and kinetics in ATP hydrolysis by F1-ATPase
Y. Q. Gao, Q. Yang, M. Karplus, and R. A. Marcus
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 100, 11339 (2003)

11. Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale.
D. Adams, L. Brus, C. E. D. Chidsey, S. Creager, C. Creutz, C. R. Kagan, P. Kamat, M. Lieberman, S. Lindsay, R. A. Marcus, R. M. Metzger, M. E. Michel-Beyerle, J. R. Miller, M. D. Newton, D. R. Rolison, O. Sankey, K. S. Schanze, J. Yardley, and X. Zhu
J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 6668 (2003)

12. A Theoretical Study of Ozone Isotopic Effects Using a Modified ab initio
Potential Energy Surface.
Y. Q. Gao, W.-C. Chen, and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 117, 1536 (2002)

13. On the Theory of Strange and Unconventional Isotopic Effects on Ozone Formation.
Y. Q. Gao and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 116, 137 (2002)

14. Theoretical Investigation of the Directional Electron Transfer in 4-Aminonaphthalimide Compounds.
Y. Q. Gao and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. A 106, 1956 (2002)

15. Strange and Unconventional Isotope Effects in Ozone Formation.
Y. Q. Gao and R. A. Marcus
Science 293, 259 (2001)

16. On the Theory of Ion Transfer Rates Across the Interface of Two Immiscible Liquids.
R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 113, 1618 (2000)

17. On the Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions at Semiconductor Electrode/Liquid Interfaces.
Y. Q. Gao, Y. Georgievskii, and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 112, 3358 (2000)

18. Nonadiabatic Electron Transfer at Metal Surfaces.
S. Govsavi and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 2067 (2000)

19. An Intramolecular Theory of the Mass-Independent Isotope Effect for Ozone. I.
B. C. Hathorn and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 111, 4087 (1999)

20. Linear Response in Theory of Electron Transfer Reactions as an Alternative to the Molecular Harmonic Oscillator Model.
Y. Georgievskii, C.-P. Hsu, and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 110, 5307 (1999)

21. Time-Dependent Fluorescence Spectra of Large Molecules in Polar Solvents.
C.-P. Hsu, Y. Georgievskii, and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. A 102, 2658 (1998)

22. Dynamic Stokes Shift in Solution: Effect of Finite Pump Pulse Duration.
Y. Georgievskii, C.-P. Hsu, and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 108, 7356 (1998)

23. Electron Transfer Model for the Electric Field Effect on Quantum Yield of Charge Separation in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.
S. Tanaka and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. B 101, 5031 (1997)

24. Tunneling Matrix Element in Ru-Modified Blue Copper Proteins: Pruning the Protein in Search of Electron Transfer Pathways.
J. N. Gehlen, I. Daizadeh, A. A. Stuchebrukhov, and R. A. Marcus
Inorg. Chim. Acta 243, 271 (1996)

25. Theoretical Study of Electron Transfer in Ferrocytochromes.
A. A. Stuchebrukhov and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. 99, 7581 (1995)

26. Free Energy of Nonequilibrium Polarization Systems 4. A Formalism Based on the Nonequilibrium Dielectric Displacement.
R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. 98, 7170 (1994)

27. Correlation Between Theory and Experiment in Electron-Transfer Reactions in Proteins: Electronic Couplings in Modified Cytomchrome c and Myoglobin Derivatives.
P. Siddarth and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. 97, 13078 (1993)

28. Vibrational Superexchange Mechanism of Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in (CH3)3CCCH Molecules.
A. A. Stuchebrukhov, A. Mehta, and R. A. Marcus
J. Phys. Chem. 97, 12491 (1993)

29. Quantum Correction for Electron Transfer Rates. Comparison of Polarizable versus Nonpolarizable Descriptions of Solvent.
X. Song and R. A. Marcus
J. Chem. Phys. 99, 7768 (1993)