Publications 2024
(258) Wójcik, P.; Khvorost, T.; Lao, G.; Zhu, G. Z.; Macias Jr., A.; Caram, J. R.; Campbell, W. C.; García-Garibay, M. A.; Hudson, E. R.; Alexandrova, A. N.; Krylov, A. I. Photoswitching Molecules Functionalized with Optical Cycling Centers Provide a Novel Platform for Studying Chemical Transformations in Ultracold Molecules. J. Phys. Chem. A 2024.

(257) Konieczny, K. A.; Paul, I.; Rodriguez, J. A.; García-Garibay, M. A. From Beam Damage to Massive Reaction Amplification under the Electron Microscope: An Ionization-Induced Chain Reaction in Crystals of a Dewar Benzene. ACS Cent. Sci. 2024, 10, 12, 2346–2352

(256) Lao, G.; Khvorost, T.; Macias Jr., A.; Morgan, H. W. T.; Lavroff, R. H.; Choi, R.; Zhou, H.; Usvyat, D.; Zhu, G. Z.; García-Garibay, M. A.; Alexandrova, A. N.; Hudson, E. R.; Campbell, W. C. Bottom-up approach to scalable growth of molecules capable of optical cycling. arXiv:2411.03199. Submitted Nov. 5, 2024. [Preprint, has not been peer-reviewed].

(255) Paul, I.; Konieczny, K. A.; Chavez, R. C.; Shan, J. R.; Houk, K. N.; García-Garibay, M. A. Cascade Photoreaction in Crystals: A Phase Change Caused by a Dewar Benzene Quantum Chain Triggers a Topochemical [2 + 2] Photodimerization. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 41, 27988–27992

(254) Fajardo Jr., J.; Rowen, J. F.; Schleif, T.; Jariwala, P.; García-Garibay, M. A. Elusive Arylalkylcarbenes in Solution and in Crystals: Facile 1,2-R (R = H, Ph) Migrations of 1,2,2-Triphenylethylidene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 33, 23221–23229

(253) Paul, I.; Konieczny, K. A.; Chavez, R. C.; García-Garibay, M. A. Reaction amplification with a gain: Triplet exciton–mediated quantum chain using mixed crystals with a tailor-made triplet sensitizer. PNAS, 2024, 121(14)

(252) Liepuoniute, I.; Shan, J.-R.; Houk, K. N.; García-Garibay, M. A. Computational Study of Ground-State Destabilization Effects and Dipole–Dipole Interaction Energies in Amphidynamic Crystals. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89(1), 9–15.

Publications 2023
(251) King, J.; García-Garibay, M. A. Kinetics of Photoreactive 4,4′-Dimethylbenzophenone Nanocrystals: Relative Contributions to Triplet Decay from Intermolecular H-Atom Transfer and Reductive Charge Transfer Quenching. J. Phys. Chem. A 2023, 127 (34), 7216–7220.

(250) Carreras, A.; Lorbach, A.; Bazan, G. C.; Alemany, P.; Wu, G.; García-Garibay, M. A.; Maverick, E. F. An Unusual Fullerene–Carbene Adduct: Thermal Motion, Disorder, or Both?**. Helvetica Chimica Acta 2023, 106 (2), e202200142.

(249) Hipwell, V. M.; Meyer, A. R.; García-Garibay, M. A. Exceptionally Long Lifetimes of Strongly Entangled Acyl–Trityl Radical Pairs Photochemically Generated in Crystalline Trityl Ketones. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (2), 1342–1348.

(248) Rivera, E.; Paul, I.; Fajardo, J.; García-Garibay, M. A. Quantum Chain Amplification in Nanocrystalline Dewar Benzenes by Intramolecular Sensitization. Chem. Sci. 2023, 14 (21), 5802–5810.

Publications 2022
(247) Hipwell, V. M.; Zee, C.-T.; Rodriguez. J.; García-Garibay, M. A. “Scale-Dependent Photosalience and Topotactic Reaction of Microcrystalline Benzylidenebutyrolactone Determined by Electron Microscopy and Electron Diffraction.” Crystal Growth & Design, 2022, Publication Date: February 7, 2022.

(246) Chang, T. Y.; Adrion, D. M.; Meyer, A. R.; Lopez, S. A.; García-Garibay, M. A. “A green chemistry approach toward the stereospecific synthesis of densely functionalized cyclopropanes via the solid-state photodenitrogenation of crystalline 1-pyrazolines.” J. Org. Chem. 2022, Publication Date: January 18, 2022.

(245) Jellen, M. J.; Jiang, X.; Benders, S.; Adams, A,; García–Garibay, M.A. “The Slip/Stick Viscosity Models of Nanoconfined Liquids: Solvent-Dependent Rotation in Metal-Organic Frameworks.” J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 3, 1780–1790. Publication Date: February 7, 2022
