Professor Spiridoula Matsika — Selected Publications

KA. Kistler, S. Matsika, "The fluorescence mechanism of 5-methyl-2-pyrimidinone: An ab initio study of a fluorescent pyrimidine analog". Photochemistry and Photobiology. 83, 611-624, (2007).

KA. Kistler, S. Matsika, "Radiationless decay mechanism of cytosine: An ab initio study with comparisons to the fluorescent analogue 5-methyl-2-pyrimidinone". Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 111, 2650-2661, (2007).

KA. Kistler, S. Matsika, "Cytosine in context: A theoretical study of substituent effects on the excitation energies of 2-pyrimidinone derivatives". Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 111, 8708-8716, (2007).

S. Matsika, "Conical Intersections in Molecular Systems". Rev. Comp. Chem. 23, 83, (2007).

Xu ZR, S. Matsika, "Combined Multireference Configuration Interaction/Molecular Dynamics Approach for Calculating Solvatochromic Shifts: Application to the n(0)- pi* Electronic Transition of Formaldehyde". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110 (43): 12035-12043 (2006).

S. Matsika, "Three-State Conical Intersections in Nucleic Acid Bases". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109 (33): 7538-7545 (2005).

Elliott R.; Compton R.; Levis R.; Matsika S. "Excited electronic states of the cyclic isomers of O-3 and SO2". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109 (49): 11304-11311 (2005).

S. Matsika, "Radiationless Decay of Excited States of Uracil through Conical Intersections", J. Phys. Chem. A. (2004), 108, 7584-7590.

S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, "Beyond Two-State Conical Intersections. Three-State Conical Intersections in Low Symmetry Molecules: the Allyl Radical" J. Amer. Chem. Soc. (2003), 125, 10672-10676.

S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, "Photodissociation of the Vinoxy Radical through Conical, and Avoided, Intersections'' J. Chem. Phys. (2002), 117, 7198-7206.

S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, "Conical Intersections and the Spin-Orbit Interaction", The Role of Degenerate States in Chemistry: A Special Volume of Advances in Chemical Physics, (2002), 124, 557-581.

S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, "Intersecting Conical Intersection Seams: their Location, Representation, and Effect on Local Topography" J. Phys. Chem. A (2002), 106, 2580-2591.

S. Matsika and D. R. Yarkony, "Accidental Conical Intersections of Three States of the Same Symmetry. I. Location and Relevance'' J. Chem. Phys. (2002), 117, 6907-6910.

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