2012

Hendry, E., Mikhaylovskiy, R., Barron, L., Kadodwala, M., and Davis, T.J. (2012) Chiral electromagnetic fields generated by arrays of nanoslits. Nano Letters, 12 (7). pp. 3640-3644. ISSN 1530-6984 (doi:10.1021/nl3012787)

2011

Merten, C., Barron, L.D., Hecht, L., and Johannessen, C. (2011) Determination of the helical screw sense and side-group chirality of a synthetic chiral polymer from Raman optical activity. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 50 (42). pp. 9973-9976. ISSN 1433-7851 (doi:10.1002/anie.201104345)

Merten, C., Barron, L.D., Hecht, L., and Johannessen, C. (2011) Backbone and side group helicity of a synthetic chiral polymer from raman optical activity. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 50 (23). pp. 5349-5351. ISSN 1433-7851 (doi:10.1002/anie.201008258)

Johannessen, J., Pendrill, R., Widmalm, G., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2011) Glycan structure of a high mannose glycoprotein from raman optical activity. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 50 (23). pp. 5349-5341. ISSN 1433-7851 (doi:10.1002/anie.201008258)

2010

Barron, L.D., and Buckingham, A.D. (2010) Vibrational optical activity. Chemical Physics Letters, 492 (4-6). pp. 199-213. ISSN 0009-2614 (doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.03.090)

Hendry, E., Carpy, T., Johnston, J., Popland, M., Mikhaylovskiy, R.V., Lapthorn, A., Kelly, S.M., Barron, L.D., Gadegaard, N., and Kadodwala, M. (2010) Ultrasensitive detection and characterization of biomolecules using superchiral fields. Nature Nanotechnology, 5 (11). pp. 783-787. ISSN 1748-3387 (doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.209 )

Kapitan, J., Johannessen, C., Bour, P., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2010) Vibrational Raman Optical Activity of 1-Phenylethanol and 1-Phenylethylamine: Revisiting Old Friends. Chirality, 21 (1E). E4-E12. ISSN 0899-0042 (doi:10.1002/chir.20747)

2009

Kapitan, J., Gallo, D., Goasdoue, N., Nicaise, M., Desmadril, M., Hecht, L., Leclercq, G., Barron, L.D., and Jacquot, Y. (2009) Identification of a human estrogen receptor α-derived antiestrogenic peptide that adopts a polyproline II conformation. Journal of Peptide Science, 15 (7). pp. 455-464. ISSN 1075-2617 (doi:10.1002/psc.1136)

Barron, L., Johannessen, C., Kapitan, J., and Hecht, L. (2009) Structure and behaviour of folded and unfolded proteins from Raman optical activity. Book of Abstracts of the Twelfth International Conference on Circular Dichroism . p. 26.

Johannessen, C., Kapitan, J., Collet, H., Commeyras, A., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2009) Poly(L-proline) II Helix Propensities in Poly(L-lysine) Dendrigraft Generations from Vibrational Raman Optical Activity. Biomacromolecules, 10 (6). pp. 1662-1664. ISSN 1525-7797 (doi:10.1021/bm9002249)

2008

Bada, J. L. et al. (2008) Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector. Space Science Reviews, 135 (1-4). pp. 269-279. ISSN 0038-6308 (doi:10.1007/s11214-007-9213-3)

Barron, L. D. (2008) Chirality and life. Space Science Reviews, 135 (1-4). pp. 187-201. ISSN 0038-6308 (doi:10.1007/s11214-007-9254-7 Univ Glasgow, Dept Chem, WestCHEM, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland.)

Barron, L. D. (2008) Magnetic molecules - Chirality and magnetism shake hands. Nature Materials, 7 (9). pp. 691-692. ISSN 1476-1122 (doi:10.1038/nmat2263 Univ Glasgow, Dept Chem, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland.)

Deplazes, E., van Bronswijk, W., Zhu, F., Barron, L. D., Ma, S., Nafie, L. A., and Jalkanen, K. J. (2008) A combined theoretical and experimental study of the structure and vibrational absorption, vibrational circular dichroism, Raman and Raman optical activity spectra of the L-histidine zwitterion. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 119 (1-3). pp. 155-176. ISSN 1432-881X (doi:10.1007/s00214-007-0276-8)

Gheorghe, R., Chamoreau, L.M., Kapitan, J., Ovanesyan, N.S., Aldoshin, S.M., Hecht, L., Barron, L.D., Train, C., and Gruselle, M. (2008) Enantiomerically Pure Quaternary Ammonium Salts with a Chiral Alkyl Chain N(CH3)(n-C3H7)(2)(sec-C4H9)I: Synthesis and Physical Studies. Chirality, 20 (10). pp. 1085-1091. ISSN 0899-0042 (doi:10.1002/chir.20577)

Jalkanen, K. J., Degtyarenko, I. M., Nieminen, R. M., Cao, X., Nafie, L. A., Zhu, F., and Barron, L. D. (2008) Role of hydration in determining the structure and vibrational spectra of L-alanine and N-acetyl L-alanine N '-methylamide in aqueous solution: a combined theoretical and experimental approach. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 119 (1-3). pp. 191-210. ISSN 1432-881X (doi:10.1007/s00214-007-0361-z)

Kapitan, J., Zhu, F.J., Hecht, L., Gardiner, J., Seebach, D., and Barron, L.D. (2008) Solution structures of beta peptides from Raman optical activity. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 47 (34). pp. 6392-6394. ISSN 1433-7851 (doi:10.1002/anie.200801111)

Zhu, F., Kapitan, J., Tranter, G.E., Pudney, P.D.A., Isaacs, N.W., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2008) Residual structure in disordered peptides and unfolded proteins from multivariate analysis and ab initio simulation of Raman optical activity data. Proteins: Structure Function and Bioinformatics, 70 (3). pp. 823-833. ISSN 0887-3585 (doi:10.1002/prot.21593)

2007

Ashton, L, Barron, LD, Hecht, L, Hyde, J, and Blanch, EW (2007) Two-dimensional Raman and Raman optical activity correlation analysis of the alpha-helix-to-disordered transition in poly(L-glutamic acid). Analyst, 132 . pp. 468-479. (doi:10.1039/b700421d)

Barron, LD, Zhu, FJ, Hecht, L, Tranter, GE, and Isaacs, NW (2007) Raman optical activity: An incisive probe of molecular chirality and biomolecular structure. Journal of Molecular Structure, 834 . pp. 7-16. (doi:10.1016/j.molstruc.2006.10.033)

2006

Barron, LD (2006) Structure and behaviour of biomolecules from Raman optical activity. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 16 . pp. 638-643. (doi:10.1016/j.sbi.2006.08.004)

Barron, LD, Zhu, FJ, and Hecht, L (2006) Raman optical activity: An incisive probe of chirality, and of biomolecular structure and behaviour. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 42 . pp. 15-24. (doi:10.1016/j.vibspec.2006.04.020)

Macleod, NA, Johannessen, C, Hecht, L, Barron, LD, and Simons, JP (2006) From the gas phase to aqueous solution: Vibrational spectroscopy, Raman optical activity and conformational structure of carbohydrates. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 253 . pp. 193-200. (doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2006.01.031)

Zhu, FJ, Isaacs, NW, Hecht, L, Tranter, GE, and Barron, LD (2006) Raman optical activity of proteins, carbohydrates and glycoproteins. Chirality, 18 . pp. 103-115. (doi:10.1002/chir.20225)

Zhu, FJ, Tranter, GE, Isaacs, NW, Hecht, L, and Barron, LD (2006) Delineation of protein structure classes from multivariate analysis of protein Raman optical activity data. Journal of Molecular Biology, 363 . pp. 19-26. (doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.08.038)

2005

Zhu, FJ, Isaacs, NW, Hecht, L, and Barron, LD (2005) Polypeptide and carbohydrate structure of an intact glycoprotein from Raman optical activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127 . pp. 6142-6143.

Zhu, FJ, Isaacs, NW, Hecht, L, and Barron, LD (2005) Raman optical activity: A tool for protein structure analysis. Structure, 13 . pp. 1409-1419. (doi:10.1016/j.str.2005.07.009)

2004

Barron, L. (2004) Molecular Light Scattering and Optical Activity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.. ISBN 9780521813419

Barron, LD, Hecht, L, McColl, IH, and Blanch, EW (2004) Raman optical activity comes of age. Molecular Physics, 102 . pp. 731-744. (doi:10.1080/00268970410001704399)

Blanch, EW, Gill, AC, Rhie, AGO, Hope, J, Hecht, L, Nielsen, K, and Barron, LD (2004) Raman optical activity demonstrates poly(L-proline) II helix in the N-terminal region of the ovine prion protein: Implications for function and misfunction. Journal of Molecular Biology, 343 . pp. 467-476. (doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2004.08.058)

Blanch, EW, McColl, IH, Hecht, L, Nielsen, K, and Barron, LD (2004) Structural characterization of proteins and viruses using Raman optical activity. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 35 . pp. 87-92. (doi:10.1016/j.vibspec.2003.12.005)

McColl, IH, Blanch, EW, Hecht, L, and Barron, LD (2004) A study of alpha-helix hydration in polypeptides, proteins, and viruses using vibrational Raman optical activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126 . pp. 8181-8188. (doi:10.1021/ja048991u)

McColl, IH, Blanch, EW, Hecht, L, Kallenbach, NR, and Barron, LD (2004) Vibrational Raman optical activity characterization of poly(L-proline) II helix in alanine oligopeptides. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126 . pp. 5076-5077. (doi:10.1021/ja049271q)

Toniolo, C et al. (2004) The complete chirospectroscopic signature of the peptide 3(10)-helix in aqueous solution. Biopolymers, 75 . pp. 32-45. (doi:10.1002/bip.20109)

2003

Barron, L.D., Blanch, E.W., McColl, I.H., Syme, C.D., Hecht, L., and Nielsen, K. (2003) Structure and behaviour of proteins, nucleic acids and viruses from vibrational Raman optical activity. Spectroscopy: An International Journal , 17 (2-3). pp. 101-126. ISSN 0712-4813 (doi:10.1155/2003/787940)

Blanch, EW, Hecht, L, and Barron, LD (2003) Vibrational Raman optical activity of proteins, nucleic acids, and viruses. Methods, 29 . pp. 196-209.

Blanch, EW, Kasarda, DD, Hecht, L, Nielsen, K, and Barron, LD (2003) New insight into the solution structures of wheat gluten proteins from Raman optical activity. Biochemistry, 42 . pp. 5665-5673. (doi:10.1021/bo027059y)

McColl, LH, Blanch, EW, Gill, AC, Rhie, AGO, Ritchie, MA, Hecht, L, Nielsen, K, and Barron, LD (2003) A new perspective on beta-sheet structures using vibrational Raman optical activity: From poly(L-lysine) to the prion protein. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125 . pp. 10019-10026. (doi:10.1021/ja021464v)

2002

Blanch, E.W., Robinson, D.J., Hecht, L., Syme, C.D., Nielsen, K., and Barron, L.D. (2002) Solution structures of potato virus X and narcissus mosaic virus from Raman optical activity. Journal of General Virology, 83 (1). pp. 241-246. ISSN 0022-1317

Syme, C.D., Blanch, E.W., Holt, C., Jakes, R., Goedert, M., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2002) A Raman optical activity study of rheomorphism in caseins, synucleins and tau - New insight into the structure and behaviour of natively unfolded proteins. European Journal of Biochemistry, 269 (1). pp. 148-156. ISSN 1742-464X (doi:10.1046/j.0014-2956.2001.02633.x)

Barron, LD, Blanch, EW, and Hecht, L (2002) Unfolded proteins studied by raman optical activity. Unfolded Proteins, 62 . pp. 51-90.

Blanch, E.W., Hecht, L., Syme, C.D., Volpetti, V., Lomonossoff, G.P., Nielsen, K., and Barron, L.D. (2002) Molecular structures of viruses from Raman optical activity. Journal of General Virology, 83 (10). pp. 2593-2600. ISSN 0022-1317

2001

Smyth, E., Syme, C.D., Blanch, E.W., Hecht, L., Vasak, M., and Barron, L.D. (2001) Solution structure of native proteins with irregular folds from Raman optical activity. Biopolymers, 58 (2). pp. 138-151. ISSN 0006-3525 (doi:10.1002/1097-0282(200102)58:2<138::AID-BIP30>3.0.CO;2-W)

Barron, LD, and Buckingham, AD (2001) Time reversal and molecular properties. Accounts of Chemical Research, 34 . pp. 781-789. (doi:10.1021/ar0100576)

Blanch, E.W., Robinson, D.J., Hecht, L., and Barron, L.D. (2001) A comparison of the solution structures of tobacco rattle and tobacco mosaic viruses from Raman optical activity. Journal of General Virology, 82 . pp. 1499-1502. ISSN 0022-1317

Blanch, EW, Hecht, L, Day, LA, Pederson, DM, and Barron, LD (2001) Tryptophan absolute stereochemistry in viral coat proteins from Raman optical activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123 . pp. 4863-4864.

2000

Barron, L.D. (2000) Chirality, magnetism and light. Nature, 405 (6789). pp. 895-896. ISSN 0028-0836 (doi:10.1038/35016183)