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30. Lewis N. H. C., Dereka B., Zhang Y.,  Maginn E. J., Tokmakoff A.:
    From Networked to Isolated: Observing Water Hydrogen Bonds in Concentrated Electrolytes with Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 28, 5305–5319.
     
31. Dereka B., Lewis N. H. C., Zhang Y., Hahn N. T., Keim J. H., Snyder S. A., Maginn E. J., Tokmakoff A.:
    Exchange-Mediated Transport in Battery Electrolytes: Ultrafast or Ultraslow?
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 8591-8604.
     
32. Dereka B., Lewis N. H. C., Keim J. H., Snyder S. A., Tokmakoff A.:
    Characterization of Acetonitrile Isotopologues as Vibrational Probes of Electrolytes
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 2022, 126, 278-291.
     
33. Dereka B., Yu Q., Lewis N. H. C., Carpenter W., Bowman J., Tokmakoff A.:
    Crossover from Hydrogen to Chemical Bonding
    Science, 2021, 371, 160-164.
     
34. Dereka B., Rosspeintner A., Svechkarev D., Vauthey E.:
    Comment on “Theoretical Insights into the Excited State Decays of a Donor-Acceptor Dyad: Is the Twisted and Rehybridized Intramolecular Charge-Transfer State Involved?"
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 2020, 124, 10578-10581.
     
35. Carpenter W., Yu Q., Hack J., Dereka B., Bowman J., Tokmakoff A.:
    Decoding the 2D IR Spectrum of the Aqueous Proton with High-Level VSCF/VCI Calculations
    J. Chem. Phys. 2020, 153, 124506.
     
36. Lewis N. H. C., Iscen A., Felts A., Dereka B., Schatz G. C., Tokmakoff A.:
    Vibrational Probe of Aqueous Electrolytes: The Field Is Not Enough
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 2020, 124, 7013-7026.
     
37. Dereka B., Svechkarev D., Rosspeintner A., Aster A., Lunzer M., Liska R., Mohs A. M., Vauthey E.:
    Solvent Tuning of Photochemistry upon Excited-State Symmetry Breaking
    Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 1925.

     

38. Verma P., Rosspeintner A., Dereka B., Vauthey E., Kumpulainen T.:
    Broadband Fluorescence Reveals Mechanistic Differences in Excited-State Proton Transfer to Protic and Aprotic Solvents
    Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 7963-7971.

     

39. Lewis N. H. C., Zhang Y., Dereka B., Carino E., Maginn E., Tokmakoff A.:
    Signatures of Ion-Pairing and Aggregation in the Vibrational Spectroscopy of Super-Concentrated Aqueous Lithium Bistriflimide Solutions
    J. Phys. Chem. C,  2020, 124, 3470-3481.

     

40. Dereka B., Fureraj I., Rosspeintner A., Vauthey E.:
    Halogen-Bond Assisted Photoinduced Electron Transfer
    Molecules 2019, 24, 4361.

     

41. Söderberg M., Dereka B., Marrocchi A., Carlotti B., Vauthey E.:
    Ground-State Structural Disorder and Excited-State Symmetry Breaking in a Quadrupolar Molecule
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2019, 10, 2944-2948.

     

42. Dereka B., Helbing J., Vauthey E.;
    Transient Glass Formation around a Quadrupolar Photoexcited Dye in a Strongly H-Bonding Liquid Observed by Transient 2D-IR Spectroscopy
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 17014-17018;
    Angew. Chem. 2018, 130, 17260-17264 (Link)

     

17. Bouilloux J., Yuschenko O., Dereka B., Boso G., Babič A., Zbinden H., Vauthey E., Lange N.:
    Cyclopeptidic Photosensitizer Prodrugs as Proteolytically Triggered Drug Delivery Systems of Pheophorbide A: Part II – Co-loading of Pheophorbide A and Black Hole Quencher
    Photochem. Photobiol. Sci,. 2018, 17, 1739-1748.

     

18. Bouilloux J., Yuschenko O., Dereka B., Boso G., Zbinden H., Vauthey E., Babič A., Lange N.:
    Cyclopeptidic Photosensitizer Prodrugs as Proteolytically Triggered Drug Delivery Systems of Pheophorbide A: Part I – Self-Quenched Prodrugs
    Correction: Cyclopeptidic Photosensitizer Prodrugs as Proteolytically Triggered Drug Delivery Systems of Pheophorbide A: Part I – Self-Quenched Prodrugs
    Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2018, 17, 1728-1738.
     
19. Nançoz C., Licari G., Beckwith J., Söderberg M., Dereka B., Rosspeintner A., Yushchenko O., Letrun R., Richert S., Lang B., Vauthey E.:
    Influence of the Hydrogen-Bond Interactions on the Excited-State Dynamics of a Push-Pull Azobenzene Dye: the Case of Methyl Orange
    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 7254-7264.

     

20. Dereka B., Rosspeintner A., Stężycki R., Ruckebusch C., Gryko D. T., Vauthey E.:
    Excited-State Symmetry Breaking in a Quadrupolar Molecule Visualized in Time and Space
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8, 6029-6034.

     

21. Dereka B., Svechkarev D., Rosspeintner A., Tromayer M., Liska R., Mohs A. M., Vauthey E.:
    Direct Observation of a Photochemical Alkyne-Allene Reaction and of a Twisted and Rehybridized Intramolecular Charge-Transfer State in a Donor-Acceptor Dyad
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2017, 139, 16885-16893.
     
22. Kumpulainen T., Rosspeintner A., Dereka B., Vauthey E.:
    Influence of Solvent Relaxation on Ultrafast Excited-State Proton Transfer to Solvent
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8, 4516-4521.

     

23. Dereka B., Vauthey E.:
    Solute-Solvent Interactions and Excited-State Symmetry Breaking: Beyond the Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen-Bond Interactions
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2017, 8, 3927-3932.
     
24. Dereka B., Vauthey E.:
    Direct Local Solvent Probing by Transient Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals the Mechanism of Hydrogen-Bond Induced Nonradiative Deactivation
    Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 5057-5066.
     
25. Ivanov A. I., Dereka B., Vauthey E.: A
    Simple Model of Solvent-Induced Symmetry-Breaking Charge Transfer in Excited Quadrupolar Molecules
    J. Chem. Phys., 2017, 146, 164306.
     
26. Dereka B., Koch M., Vauthey E.:
    Looking at Photoinduced Charge Transfer Processes in the IR: Answers to Several Long-Standing Questions
    Acc. Chem. Res., 2017, 50, 426-434.
     
27. Q. Sun, Dereka B., Vauthey E., Lawson Daku L. M., Hauser A.:
    Ultrafast Transient IR Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations of Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes
    Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 223-230.
     
28. Dereka B., Rosspeintner A., Krzeszewski M., Gryko D. T., Vauthey E.:
    Symmetry Breaking Charge Transfer and Hydrogen Bonding: Toward Asymmetrical Photochemistry
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 15624-15628;
    Angew. Chem., 2016, 128, 15853-15857 (Link)

     

29. Dereka B., Rosspeintner A., Li Z., Liska R., Vauthey E.:
    Direct Visualization of Excited-State Symmetry Breaking Using Ultrafast Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 4643-4649.

     

30. Dereka B., Letrun R., Svechkarev D., Rosspeintner A., Vauthey E.:
    Excited-State Dynamics of 3-Hydroxyflavone Anion in Alcohols
    J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 2434-2443.

3. Dereka B., Svechkarev D., Doroshenko A. O.:
   Facile Ultrasensitive Monitoring of Mercury Ions in Water by Fluorescent Ratiometric Detection
   Centr. Eur. J. Chem., 2013, 11, 584-593.
    
4. Svechkarev D., Dereka B., Doroshenko A. O.:
   Mercuty Ions Complexation with a Series of Heterocyclic Derivatives of 3-Hydroxychromone: Spectral Effects and Prospects for Ultrasensitive Hg²⁺ Probing
   J. Phys. Chem. A., 2011, 115, 4223-4230.
    
5. Svechkarev D., Doroshenko A. O., Baumer V., Dereka B.:
   Nature of Dual Fluorescence in 2-(Quinolin-2-yl)-3-Hydroxychromone: Tuning between Concurrent H-Bond Directions and ESIPT Pathways
   J. Lumin., 2011, 131, 253-261.

1. Dereka B.:
   Excited-State Symmetry Breaking: from Fundamental Photophysics to Asymmetrical Photochemistry.
   In Photochemistry, Vol. 49; Crespi S., Protti S., Ed.; Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022, 308 (invited review chapter).