Publications of William M. Ames

Rapatskiy, L.; Ames, W. M.; Pérez-Navarro, M.; Savitsky, A.; Griese, J. J.; Weyhermüller, T.; Shafaat, H. S.; Högbom, M.; Neese, F.; Pantazis, D. A.; Cox, N. Characterization of Oxygen Bridged Manganese Model Complexes Using Multifrequency ¹⁷O-Hyperfine EPR Spectroscopies and Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 2015, 119, 13904–13921.

Beckwith, M. A.; Ames, W.; Vila, F. D.; Krewald, V.; Pantazis, D. A.; Mantel, C.; Pécaut, J.; Gennari, M.; Duboc, C.; Collomb, M.-N.; Yano, J.; Rehr, J. J.; Neese, F.; DeBeer, S. How Accurately Can Extended X-Ray Absorption Spectra Be Predicted from First Principles? Implications for Modeling the Oxygen-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2015, 137, 12815–12834.

Pérez Navarro, M.; Ames, W. M.; Nilsson , H.; Lohmiller, T.; Pantazis, D. A.; Rapatskiy, L.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Neese, F.; Boussac, A.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W.; Cox, N. Ammonia Binding to the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Identifies the Solvent-Exchangeable Oxygen Bridge (μ-Oxo) of the Manganese Tetramer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2013, 110, 15561–15566.

Rapatskiy, L.; Cox, N.; Savitsky, A.; Ames, W. M.; Sander, J.; Nowaczyk, M. M.; Rögner, M.; Boussac, A.; Neese, F.; Messinger, J.; Lubitz, W. Detection of the Water-Binding Sites of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Using W-Band ¹⁷O Electron–Electron Double Resonance-Detected NMR Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2012, 134, 16619–16634.

Pantazis, D. A.; Ames, W.; Cox, N.; Lubitz, W.; Neese, F. Two Interconvertible Structures that Explain the Spectroscopic Properties of the Oxygen‐Evolving Complex of Photosystem II in the S₂ State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 51, 9935–9940.

Cox, N.; Ames, W.; Epel, B.; Kulik, L. V.; Rapatskiy, L.; Neese, F.; Messinger, J.; Wieghardt, K.; Lubitz, W. Electronic Structure of a Weakly Antiferromagnetically Coupled Mn^IIMn^III Model Relevant to Manganese Proteins: A Combined EPR, ⁵⁵Mn-ENDOR, and DFT Study. Inorganic Chemistry 2011, 50, 8238–8251.