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Publications 1.
A. L.
Maçanita, contribution in Chemicals in
Agriculture, ed. European
Environmental Research
Organisation,
Rome (1990). 2.
R. S. Becker and A. L. Maçanita,
"Biological Photosensitizers. Phototoxic Agents of the Future
?", Rev. Port. Química, 2
(1995), 30-44. 3. A.
Horta, I.
Piérola e A. L. Maçanita,
"Polyphenylsiloxanes:
Photophysics, Conformation and Dynamics", em The
Polymeric Materials
Encyclopedia, ed. J. Salomone, C.R.C. Press Inc., Boca Raton,
Florida
(1996), vol.8, pp. 6391-6402. 4.
A. L. Maçanita, "Photophysics of
Polysiloxanes", em Plenary
Lectures of the III
Congresso de
Fotoquímica, ed. U.N.E.D., 5.
F.
Pina, L. Benedito, M. J.
Melo, A. J. Parola, J C. Lima e A. L. Maçanita, “Structural
Transformations of
the Synthetic Salt 4’,7-Dihydroxyflavylim Chloride in Acid and Basic
Aqueous
Solutions. Part 1 -
Ground-State”, Anales de
Quimica, International Edition, 93, 111-118 (1997). 6.
F. B. Dias, J. C. Lima, I. F.
Piérola, A. Horta, A. L. Maçanita, “Dinâmica de
Polisiloxanos”, in Química
de Polímeros, eds. J. S. Seixas de Melo, M. J. Moreno,
H. D. Burrows,
M. H. Gil, Imprensa da Univ. Coimbra (2004), cap III.6.
7.
S.M. Costa, A.L. Maçanita e M.J. Prieto,
"Excited States of Aromatic Esters",
J. Photochem., 11, 2, 109 (1979). 8.
S.M. Costa, A.L.
Maçanita, E.C. Melo e M.J. Prieto "The
Quenching of Excited
Aromatic Esters by Triethylamine", J.
Photochem., 11, 5, 361
(1979). 9.
S.M. Costa e A.L. Maçanita, "Near Diffusion
Controlled Photokinetics in Aromatic Ester-Aliphatic Amine System", J. Photochem., 11 5, 479,
(1979). 10.
S.M. Costa e A.L. Maçanita, "Transient Effects
in Charge-Transfer Diffusion-Controlled Processes in Non Ionic
Micelles", J. Phys. Chem., 84,
2408,
(1980). 11.
S.M. Costa, A.L. Maçanita e S.J. Formosinho,
"Effective Distances of Charge Transfer Reactions in the Excited
State", J. Phys. Chem., 88,
89, (1984) 12.
T. Sá e Melo,
A.L.Maçanita, M.J. Prieto, M. Bazin, J.C. Ronfard e R.Santus,
"Photophysical Behaviour of 5-Methoxypsoralen in Dioxane-Water
Mixtures", Photochem. Photobiology,
47, 429, (1988). 13.
A.L. Maçanita, F.P. Costa, S.M. Costa, E.C. Melo e
H.Santos, "The 9-Anthroate Chromophore as a Fluorescent Probe for
Water", J. Phys. Chem., 93,
336 (1989). 14.
J.M.G. Martinho, A.L. Maçanita e M.N. Berberan
Santos, "The Effect of Radiative Transport on Fluorescence Emission", J. Chem. Phys.,
90, 53 (1989). 15.
P. Figueiredo, A.L. Maçanita, F. Pina e L.
Vilas-Boas, "Fluorescence Spectra and Decays of Malvidin 3,5 -
Diglucoside
in Aqueous Solution", J. Photochem.
Photobiol., 52, 411 (1990). 16.
A.L. Maçanita , J. Magalhães, A. Dias, H.
Teles e E.
Iglésias, "Dipole-Dipole Interactions Between the Terminal
Groups of
1,n-(Diarylcarboxy)Alkanes, n=1,2,...6), J.
Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 86, 4011, (1990). 17.
C. Salom, J. A. Semlyen, S. Clarson, I. Hernandez
Fuentes, A.L.Maçanita, A. Horta e I.F. Piérola,
"Viscosity Dependence of
the Excimer to Monomer Fluorescence Ratio. Cyclic and Linear
Polymethylphensiloxanes", Macromolecules,
24, 6827, (1991). 18.
A.L. Maçanita, I.F. Piérola e A. Horta,
"Decay
of Polyphenylsiloxane Fluorescence Emission; Kinetic Parameters and
Rotational
Motion", Macromolecules, 24,
1293, (1991). 19.
E.C. Melo, S.M.B. Costa, A.L. Maçanita e H.
Santos,
"The Use of the n-(9-Anthroyloxy) Stearic Acids to Probe the Water
Contents of SDS, DTAC and Triton X-100 Micelles", J.
Colloid Interf. Sci. 141, 439 (1991). 20.
M.J. Melo, F. Pina, A.L. Maçanita, E.C. Melo,
", C. Herrmann, R.Forster, H. Koch e H. Wamhoff, "Photochemistry of
2-(2-Furyl) -Benzimidazole (Fuberidazole)", Z. Naturforsch., 476, 1431,
(1992). 21.
A. Lopes, A.L. Maçanita e F.S. Pina, E.C. Melo e
H.
Wamhoff, "Multiequilibria of 2-2'-Furanyl-1H-benzimidazole Neutral and
Protonated Forms in the Presence of Amphiphilic Aggregates", Environ. Sci.
Technol., 26,
2448,
(1992). 22.
A. Dias, A.P. Varela, M. da
Graça Miguel, A.L. Maçanita e R.S. Becker, -Carbolines
as Photosensitizers 1. Photophysics, Kinetics and Excited-State Equilibria
in Organic Solvents and Theoretical Calculations", J.
Phys. Chem., 96, 10290, (1992). 23.
J. Seixas de Melo e A.L. Maçanita, "Three
Interconverting Excited Species: Experimental Study and Solution of the
General
Photokinetic Triangle by Time-Resolved Fluorescence”, Chem.
Phys. Lett., 204, (1993), 556. 24.
H. Santos, D. Turner, J.C. Lima, P. Figureiredo,
F.S. Pina e A.L. Maçanita, "Elucidation of the Multiple
Equilibria of
Malvin in Aqueous Solutions by One-and-Two- Dimensional NMR", Phytochemistry, 33, 1227,
(1993). 25.
J.C. Lima, P. Danesh, P. Figueiredo, F. Pina e A.L.
Maçanita, "Excited States of Anthocyanins. The Chalcone Isomers
of
Malvidin 3,5-Diglucoside", Photochem.
Photobiology, 59, (3), 412, (1994). 26.
P. Figueiredo, J. Lima, H. Santos e M.C. Wigand, R.
Brouillard, A.L. Maçanita e F. Pina, "Photochromism of the
Synthetic
4',7-Dihydroxy-Flavylium Chloride",
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116,
1249, (1994). 27.
A.L. Maçanita, A. Horta e I. Piérola,
"Photophysics of Siloxanes. The Influence of Preformed Dimers on
Temperature Behaviour of Dimeric and Polymeric Methylphenylsiloxane", Macromolecules, 27, 958,
(1994). 28.
A.L. Maçanita, P. Danesh, F. Peral, A. Horta e 29.
A.L. Maçanita, A. Horta e I. Piérola,
"Influence of Isolated Chromophores on the Temperature
Dependence of the Excimer Emission
in Steady-State and Time-Resolved
Fluorescence of Polysiloxanes”, Macromolecules,
27, 3797 (1994). 30.
A.L. Maçanita, A. Horta e I. Piérola,
"Dinamics
of Cyclic Chains of Polymethylphenylsiloxane", Makromol.
Chem., Macromol. Symp., 84, 365 (1994). 31.
M. J. Melo, A. L. Maçanita, E. Melo, H. Wamhoff e
F.
Pina, "Photophysical Properties and Photodegradaton Mechanism of
2-(2'Furanyl)-1H-benzimidazole (Fuberidazole)”, J.
Photochem. Photobiology A: Chem., 83, 237
(1994). 32.
J. Seixas de Melo, R.S. Becker e A.L. Maçanita
"Photophysical Behaviour of Coumarins as a Function of Substitution and
Solvent. Evidence for the Existence of a Lowest Lying (n*) State", J. Phys.
Chem., 98, 6054,
(1994). 33.
M. L. Borges, O.C. Matos, I. Pais, J. Seixas de
Melo, C.P. Ricardo, A.L. Maçanita e R.S. Becker, "Evaluation of
a Broad
Variety of Coumarins, Chromones, their Furohomologues and Thione
Analogues as
Phototoxins Activated by UVA and Visible Light", Pesticide
Science, 44, 155 (1995). 34.
A. Lopes, J. S. Melo, A. J. Martins, A. L.
Maçanita,
F.S. Pina, H. Wamhoff e 35.
Ralph S. Becker, J. Seixas de Melo, A.L. Maçanita
e
Fausto Elisei "Comprehensive Investigation of the Solution Photophysics
and Theoretical Aspects of Oligothiophenes of 1-7 Rings", J.
Pure and Applied Chem.,67, 9,
(1995). 36.
A. P. Varela, A. Dias, M. da Graça Miguel, Ralph
S.
Becker e A.L. Maçanita, "Comment on Excited-State Acid-Base
Kinetics and
Equilibria in Norharmane", J. Phys. Chem., 99, 2239-2240 (1995). 37.
A. P. Varela, M. da Graça
Miguel, H. Burrows, A.L. Maçanita and Ralph
S. Becker. " - Carboline
Photosensitizers 3: Studies On Ground and Excited State Partioning in
AOT/Water/Cyclohexane Microemulsions", J. Phys. Chem. 99,
16093 (1995). 38.
R.S. Becker, J. Seixas de Melo, A.L. Maçanita e F.
Elisei, “Comprehensive Evaluation of the Absorption, Photophysical,
Energy
Transfer, Structural and Theoretical Properties of -Oligothiophenes with 1-7
Rings”, J. Phys. Chem.100
, 18683-18695 (1996). 39.
A. Dias, A.P. Varela, M. da
Graça Miguel, R. S. Becker, H. Burrows e A.L. Maçanita, “-Carbolines
2. Equilibria,
Interconversion Rates and Structural Electronic Considerations in the
Lowest
Excited State of Harmine as a Function of pH”, J. Phys.
Chem., 100, 17970-17977 (1996). 40.
J.
Seixas de Melo, R.S. Becker, F. Elisei e
A.L. Maçanita, “Photophysical Properties of Coumarins. The Photophysical Behavior
of 3-Chloro-7-methoxy-4-methylcoumarin Related to the Energy Separation
of the
Two Lowest Close-Lying Singlet Excited States”, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 6062-6069 (1997). 41.
M. L. Borges, L. Latterini, F. Elisei, P. Silva, R.
Borges, R. S. Becker and A. L. Maçanita, “Photophysical
Properties and
Photobiological Activity of the Furanochromones Visnagin and Khellin”, Photochem. and Photobiology, 67(2),
184-191 (1998). 42.
C. Renamayor, M. R. Vigil, I.
Piérola, E. C. Melo, J. C. Lima e A.L. Maçanita,
“Intermolecular Excimers of
Indane and Acenaphthene. Kinetics and Thermodynamics from
Picosecond-Time-Resolved Fluorescence”, Chem.
Phys. Lett. 287, 379-387 (1998). 43.
C. Houbiers, J. C. Lima, M. Helena Santos e A. L.
Maçanita, “Color Stabilization of Malvidin 3-Glucoside:
Self-Aggregation and
Copigmentation of the Flavylium Cation with the trans-Chalcone
Form”, J.
Phys. Chem., 102, 3578-3586 (1998). 44.
J. C. Lima, 45.
A. Horta, A. L. Maçanita, J. J. Freire and
Inés
Piérola, “Dynamics of siloxane chains bearing phenil
chromophores”, Polym. Int., 48,
1-6, (1999). 46.
K. A. Zachariasse, A. L. Maçanita and Wolfgang
Kühnle, “Chain Length Dependence of Intramolecular Excimer
Formation with
1,n-Bis(1-pyrenecarboxy) alkanes for n = 1-16, 22 and 32”, J.
Phys. Chem. B 103, 9356-9365 (1999). 47.
F. B. Dias, J. C. Lima, A. L. Maçanita, A. Horta
and
I. F. Piérola, “Dynamics of Cyclic Methyl-Phenyl-Trisiloxane in
the Picosecond
Range”, J. Phys. Chem. A 104
(2000),
17-24. 48.
A. Horta, 49.
J. Gonzalez-Benito, A. J. Aznar, J. C. Lima, F.
Baião, A. L. Maçanita and J. Baselga “Fluorescence
Labeled Pyrenesulfonamide
Response for Characterizing Polymeric Interfaces in Composite
Materials”, Journal of Fluorescence
(2000), 10,
141-146. 50.
F. Elisei, J. C. Lima, F. Ortica, G. G. Aloisi, M.
Costa, E. Leitão, I. Abreu, A. Dias, V. Bonifácio, J.
Medeiros, A. L. Maçanita
and R. S. Becker “Photophysical Properties of Hydroxy Substituted
Flavothiones”, J. Phys. Chem. A (2000), 104, 6095-6102. 51.
F. B.
Dias, J. C. Lima, A. L.
Maçanita, A. Horta, I. F. Piérola, “Anomalous
Fluorescence and 1H NMR of Linear
Poly(methylphenylsiloxane) in
Dilute Solution, at Temperatures below - 50 ºC”, Macromolecules
(2000) 33, 4772-4779. 52.
J. Gonzalez-Benito J, A. J. Aznar, A. L. Macanita
and J. Baselga “Thermal
transitions of polysiloxane
coatings onto glass fibers”, Bol. Soc. Esp. Ceram. (2000) 39
(3), 396-400. 53.
F.
B. Dias, J. C. Lima, I. F. Piérola, A. Horta
and A. L. Maçanita, “Internal Dynamics of
Poly(methylphenylsiloxane) Chains as
revealed by Picosecond Time Resolved Fluorescence”, J.
Phys. Chem. A (2001), 105 (45), 10286-10295. 54.
M.
Borges, A. Romão, O. Matos, C. Mazzano, S. Caffieri, R. S.
Becker and A. L.
Maçanita, “Photobiological
Properties of Hydroxy Substituted Flavothiones”, Photochem.
Photobiology (2002), 75,
97-106. 55.
F. B.
Dias, J. C. Lima, A.
Horta, I. F. Piérola, A. L. Maçanita, “Dynamics of
Linear Poly(methylphenylsiloxane) by Time-Resolved
Fluorescence: Slow vs
Fast Relaxations and Low-Temperature Behavior in
Chains of Different Lengths”, Macromolecules,
(2002), 35,
7082-7088. 56.
A. L. Maçanita, P. Moreira, J. C. Lima, F. Quina,
C.
Yihwa and C. Vautier-Giongo, “Proton
Transfer in Anthocyanins and Related
Flavylium Salts. Determination of Ground-State Rate Constants with
Nanosecond-Laser Flash Photolysis (Light-Pulse Jump)”, J.
Phys Chem. A (2002), 106, 1248-1255. 57.
J. C. Lima, C. Vautier-Giongo, A. Lopes, E. C. Melo,
F. H. Quina, A. L. Maçanita “Color Stabilization of
Anthocyanins: Effect of SDS
Micelles on the Acid-Base and Hydration Kinetics of Malvidin
3-glucoside
(Oenin)” J. Phys.
Chem. A
(2002), 106, 5851-5859. 58.
C. Vautier-Giongo, C. Yihwa, P. F. Moreira
Jr., J. C. Lima, A. A. Freitas, F. H. Quina, A. L. Maçanita,
“Manipulation of
the Reactivity of a Synthetic Anthocyanin Analog in Aqueous Micellar
Media”, Langmuir,
(2002) 18,
10109-10115. 59.
Maçanita, A. L.; Elisei, F.; Aloisi, G. G.;
Ortica, F.; Bonifácio, V.; Dias, A.; Leitão, E.; Maycock,
C. D.; Becker, R. S.;
“Photochemistry of Flavothione and Hydroxyflavothiones: Mechanisms and
Kinetics”, Photochem. & Photobiology, 77,
22-29, 2003. 60.
Giestas, L.; Yihwa, C.;Lima, J. C.;
Vautier-Giongo, C.; Lopes, A.; Quina, F. H.; Maçanita, A. L.;
“The Dynamics of
Ultra-fast Excited State Proton Transfer in Anionic Micelles”, J. Phys. Chem. A , 107, 3263-3267, 2003. 61.
Dias, F. B.; Maçanita, A. L.; Melo, J. S.;
Burrows, H. D.; Güntner, R.; Scherf, U.; Monkman, A. P.;
“Picosecond
Conformational Relaxation of Singlet Excited Polyfluorene in Solution”,
J. Chem Phys., 118, 7119-7126,
2003. 62.
Moreira, P. F.; Giestas, L.; Yihwa, C.;
Vautier-Giongo, C.; Quina, F. H.; Maçanita,
A. L.; Lima, J. C.; “Ground- and
excited-state proton transfer in anthocyanins: From weak acids to
superphotoacids” J. Phys. Chem. A, 107,
4203-4210, 2003. 63.
Aloisi, G. G.; Latterini, L.; Maçanita,
A. L.; Becker, R. S.; Elisei,
F.; “Singlet and triplet state
properties of substituted flavothiones”, Phys.
Chem. Chem. Phys., 5 (16),
3464-3469, 2003. 64.
Faria, T. Q.; Knapp, S.; Ladenstein, R.; Maçanita,
A. L.; 65.
Noronha, M.; Lima, J. C.; Lamosa, P.;
Santos, H.; Maycock, C.; Ventura, R.; Maçanita, A. L.;
“Intramolecular
Fluorescence Quenching of Tyrosine by the Peptide a-Carbonyl
Group Revisited”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 108,
2155-2166, 2004. 66.
Noronha, M.; Lima, J. C.; Bastos, M.;
Santos, H.; Maçanita, A.L.; “Unfolding of Ubiquitin studied by
Picosecond
Time-Resolved Fluorescence of the Tyrosine Residue”, Biophys.
J., 87,
2609-2620, 2004. 67.
Fernandes, A. C.; Romão, C. C.; Rosa, C.
P.; Vieira, V. P.; Lopes, A.; Silva, P. F.;
Maçanita, A. L.;
“One-Step Synthesis of Novel Flavylium Salts Containing an Alkyl Side
Chain in
Positions 3, 4’, 5 and 6 and their Photophysical Properties in Micellar
Media”, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 23,
4877-4883, 2004. 68.
Faria, T. Q.; Lima, J. C.; Bastos, M.;
Maçanita, A. L.; Santos, H.; “Protein Stabilization by Osmolytes
from
Hyperthermophiles. Effect of Mannosylglycerate on the Thermal Unfolding
of
Recombinant Nucleases from Staphylococous Aureus studied by Picosecond
Time-Resolved Fluorescence and Calorimetry”, J. Biological
Chem., 279,
48680-48691, 2004. 69.
Silva,
P.F.; Lima, J. C.; Quina, F.
H.; Maçanita, A. L.; “Excited-State Electron-Transfer in
Anthocyanins and
Related Flavylium Salts” J. Phys. Chem. A, 107,
3263-3269, 2004. 70.
Silva, P.F.; Lima, J. C.;
Freitas, A. A.; Shimizu, K.; Quina, F. H.; Maçanita, A. L.;
"Charge
Transfer as a General Phenomenon in the Copigmentation of
Anthocyanins", J. Phys. Chem. A, 109,
7329-7338, 2005. 71.
Orte, A.; Talavera, E.
M.; Macanita, A. L.; Orte, J. C.; Alvarez-Pez, J. M.; “Three-State 2',7'-Difluorofluorescein Excited-State
Proton Transfer Reactions in Moderately Acidic and Very Acidic Media”, J.
Phys. Chem. A, 109, 8705-8718, 2005. 72.
Noronha, M.; 73.
Rodrigues, R.; Vautier-Giongo, C.; Silva,
P. F.; Fernandes, A. C.; Cruz, R.; Maçanita, A. L.; Quina, F.
H.; “Geminate
Proton Recombination at the Surface of SDS and CTAC Micelles probed
with a
Micelle-Anchored Anthocyanin”, Langmuir, 22,
933-940, 2006. 74.
Paulo, L.; Freitas, A. A.; Silva, P.
F.; Shimizu,
K.; Quina F. H.; Maçanita, A. L.; “Novel Ground and Excited
State Prototropic
Reactivity of a Hydroxycarboxyflavylium Salt”, J. Phys.
Chem. A, 110,
2089-2096, 2006. 75.
Pina,
J.; Burrows, H. D.; Becker, R. S.; Dias, F. B.; Maçanita, A. L.;
Seixas de Melo,
J.; “Photophysical Studies of a,w-Dicyano-oligothiophenes
NC(C4H2S)nCN (n = 1-6)”,
J. Phys. Chem. B, 110, 6499
-6505, 2006. 76.
Freitas,
A. A.; Paulo, L.;
Maçanita, A. L.; Quina, F. H.; “Acid-Base Equilibria and
Dynamics in SDS
Micelles: Geminate Recombination and Effect of Charge Stabilization”, Langmuir, 22,
7986-7993, 2006. 77.
Dias,
F. B.; Morgado, J.;
Maçanita, A. L.; Costa, Burrows, H. D.; Monkman, A. P.; “Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) b-phase
Formation in Dilute Solution” Macromolecules, 39, 5854-5864, 2006. 78.
Seixas
de Melo, J.; Pina, J.;
Burrows, H. D.; Di Paolo, R. E.;
Maçanita, A. L.; “Electronic
Spectral and Photophysical Properties of Some p-Phenylenevinylene
Oligomers in Solution and Thin
Films”, Chem. Phys., 330,
449-456, 2006. 79.
Quina,
F. H.; Freitas, A. A.; Maçanita, A. L.;
Silva, P. F.; Lima, J. C.; “The (Photo)Chemistry of Anthocyanins”, The Spectrum 19, 12-17, 2006. 80.
Noronha, M.; Lima, J. C.; Paci, E.;
Santos, H.; Maçanita, A. L.; “Tracking
Local Conformational Changes of Ribonuclease
A using
Picosecond
Time-Resolved Fluorescence of the Six Tyrosine Residues”, Biophys. J. , 92, 4401-4414, 2007. DOI:10.1529/biophysj.106.093625 web:
http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/92/12/4401 81.
Seixas de Melo, J.; Costa, T.; Francisco,
A.; Maçanita, A.L.; Gago, S.; Gonçalves, I. S.; “Dynamics
of Short as Compared
to Long Poly(acrylic acid) Chains Hydrophobically Modified with Pyrene
followed
by Fluorescence Techniques”, Chem. Phys.
Phys. Chem., 9,
1370 – 1385, 2007. DOI: 10.1039/b613382g web: http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CP/article.asp?doi=b613382g 82.
Di Paolo, R. E.; Seixas de Melo, J.; Pina, J.; Burrows, H.
D.; Morgado, J.; Maçanita, A. L.; “Conformational Relaxation of p-Phenylenevinylene (PV) Trimers in Solution, studied by Picosecond Time-Resolved
Fluorescence”, Chem.Phys.Chem., 8,
2657-2664,
2007. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200700548 web:http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/116841194/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 83.
Monteserín, M;
Burrows, H. D.; Valente, A. J. M.; Lobo, V. M. M.; Mallavia, R.; Tapia, M. J.;
García-Zubiri, I. X.; Di Paolo, R. E.;
Maçanita, A. L.;
“Modulating the Emission Intensity of
Poly-(9,9-bis(6'-N,N,N-trimethylammonium)hexyl)-fluorenephenylene)bromide
through interaction with Sodium Alkylsulfonate surfactants”, J. Phys. Chem. B, 111
(48), 13560 -13569, 2007. DOI: 10.1021/jp0741760 WEB: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcbfk/2007/111/i48/abs/jp0741760.html |