Starla Glover group

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Bioinspired strategies for solar driven generation of fuel and feedstocks

Our research

Making energy and chemical resources sustainable, carbon neutral and non-toxic on a global scale is a huge challenge, that we must necessarily realize to mitigate anthropogenic pollution and climate change. The development of catalysts to produce energy storing molecules and/or chemical feedstocks that meet the above requirements would represent a large step in the right direction.

Research in the Glover group is aimed at developing new light activated catalyst systems to produce solar fuels and chemical feedstocks. We are further interested in understanding catalysis at the mechanistic level to inform on how best to make new systems more robust and efficient.

Group members

Research leader: Starla Glover

Group members: Sigrid Berglund

Publications

Switching the proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for non-canonical tyrosine residues in a de novo protein

Nilsen-Moe, Astrid; Reinhardt, Clorice R.; Huang, Ping; Agarwala, Hemlata et al.

Part of Chemical Science, p. 3957-3970, 2024
- DOI for Switching the proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for non-canonical tyrosine residues in a de novo protein
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Concerted and Stepwise Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer for Tryptophan-Derivative Oxidation with Water as the Primary Proton Acceptor: Clarifying a Controversy

Nilsen-Moe, Astrid; Rosichini, Andrea; Glover, Starla; Hammarström, Leif

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 7308-7319, 2022
- DOI for Concerted and Stepwise Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer for Tryptophan-Derivative Oxidation with Water as the Primary Proton Acceptor: Clarifying a Controversy
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Polymer Dots as Photoactive Membrane Vesicles for [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Self-Assembly and Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution

Pavliuk, Mariia V.; Lorenzi, Marco; Morado, Dustin R.; Gedda, Lars et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 13600-13611, 2022
- DOI for Polymer Dots as Photoactive Membrane Vesicles for [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Self-Assembly and Solar-Driven Hydrogen Evolution
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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines, Fair and Square

Tyburski, Robin; Liu, Tianfei; Glover, Starla; Hammarström, Leif

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 560-576, 2021
- DOI for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines, Fair and Square
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Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in the Interior of a de novo Protein: Mechanisms and Primary Proton Acceptor

Nilsen-Moe, Astrid; Reinhardt, Clorice R.; Glover, Starla D.; Liang, Li et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 11550-11559, 2020
- DOI for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in the Interior of a de novo Protein: Mechanisms and Primary Proton Acceptor
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Pourbaix Diagram, Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, and Decay Kinetics of a Protein Tryptophan Radical: Comparing the Redox Properties of W₃₂^• and Y₃₂^• Generated Inside the Structurally Characterized α₃W and α₃Y Proteins

Glover, Starla; Tyburski, Robin; Liang, Li; Tommos, Cecilia et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 185-192, 2018
- DOI for Pourbaix Diagram, Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer, and Decay Kinetics of a Protein Tryptophan Radical: Comparing the Redox Properties of W₃₂^• and Y₃₂^• Generated Inside the Structurally Characterized α₃W and α₃Y Proteins
Isolating the Effects of the Proton Tunneling Distance on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Series of Homologous Tyrosine-Base Model Compounds

Glover, Starla D.; Parada, Giovanny A.; Markle, Todd F.; Ott, Sascha et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 2090-2101, 2017
- DOI for Isolating the Effects of the Proton Tunneling Distance on Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in a Series of Homologous Tyrosine-Base Model Compounds
A multidonor-photosensitizer-multiacceptor triad for long-lived directional charge separation

Schlotthauer, Tina; Schroot, Robert; Glover, Starla; Hammarström, Leif et al.

Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 28572-28578, 2017
- DOI for A multidonor-photosensitizer-multiacceptor triad for long-lived directional charge separation
Hydrogen Bonded Phenol-Quinolines with Highly Controlled Proton-Transfer Coordinate

Parada, Giovanny A.; Glover, Starla D.; Orthaber, Andreas; Hammarström, Leif et al.

Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 3365-3372, 2016
- DOI for Hydrogen Bonded Phenol-Quinolines with Highly Controlled Proton-Transfer Coordinate
Control over Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer and Photoinduced Tautomerization: Influence of the Hydrogen-Bond Geometry

Parada, Giovanny A.; Markle, Todd F.; Glover, Starla D.; Hammarström, Leif et al.

Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 6362-6366, 2015
- DOI for Control over Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer and Photoinduced Tautomerization: Influence of the Hydrogen-Bond Geometry
Photochemical Tyrosine Oxidation in the Structurally Well-Defined alpha Y-3 Protein: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and a Long-Lived Tyrosine Radical

Glover, Starla D.; Jorge, Christine; Liang, Li; Valentine, Kathleen G. et al.

Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 14039-14051, 2014
- DOI for Photochemical Tyrosine Oxidation in the Structurally Well-Defined alpha Y-3 Protein: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer and a Long-Lived Tyrosine Radical

Research areas

Physical Chemistry

Contact

If you have questions about our research, you are welcome to contact programme professor Leif Hammarström.
Leif Hammarström