Bern Kohler

Bern Kohler was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1964, and is currently a Professor of chemistry at The Ohio State University. He received his B.S. degree from Stanford in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree from M.I.T. in 1990 under the mentorship of Keith A. Nelson. After postdoctoral work at ETH Zürich with Urs P. Wild, and at the University of California, San Diego with the late Kent R. Wilson, he joined the Ohio State faculty in 1995. He first began working in femtosecond laser spectroscopy as a graduate student in the mid 1980s. His research group studies condensed-phase biomolecular photoprocesses and ultrafast charge transfer dynamics. His special areas of interest include DNA photophysics and solar energy photoconversion.

Biography Updated on 13 August 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~kohler/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Internal conversion to the electronic ground state occurs via two distinct pathways for pyrimidine bases in aqueous solution
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 435–440, 2007
  2. Symposium-in-Print: DNA Photodynamics Introduction
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 592–594, 2007
  3. Thymine Dimerization in DNA Is an Ultrafast Photoreaction
    Science, vol. 315, no. 5812, pp. 625–629, 2007
  4. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 37, pp. 18641–18650, 2006
  5. Molecular spectroscopy: Complexity of excited-state dynamics in DNA (Reply)
    Nature, vol. 441, no. 7094, Article ID nature04904, 2006
  6. Base stacking controls excited-state dynamics in A?T DNA
    Nature, vol. 436, no. 7054, Article ID nature03933, 3 pages, 2005
  7. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 109, no. 20, pp. 4431–4436, 2005
  8. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 30, pp. 11182–11188, 2004
  9. Chemical Reviews, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 1977–2020, 2004
  10. Strickler?Berg analysis of excited singlet state dynamics in DNA and RNA nucleosides
    Faraday Discussions, vol. 127, p. 137, 2004
  11. Singlet Excited-state Lifetimes of Cytosine Derivatives Measured by Femtosecond Transient Absorption�
    Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 77, no. 2, p. 158, 2003
  12. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, no. 44, pp. 13594–13601, 2003
  13. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 22, pp. 6428–6438, 2002
  14. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 124, no. 24, pp. 6818–6819, 2002
  15. Femtosecond electron ejection in liquid acetonitrile: Evidence for cavity electrons and solvent anions
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 117, no. 19, p. 8855, 2002
  16. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 21, pp. 5166–5166, 2001
  17. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 123, no. 42, pp. 10370–10378, 2001
  18. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 105, no. 24, pp. 5768–5777, 2001
  19. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 33, pp. 8087–8088, 2000
  20. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 122, no. 38, pp. 9348–9349, 2000
  21. Quantum control of I[sub 2] in the gas phase and in condensed phase solid Kr matrix
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 106, no. 20, p. 8486, 1997
  22. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 101, no. 20, pp. 3815–3822, 1997
  23. Quantum Control of Wave Packet Evolution with Tailored Femtosecond Pulses
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 74, no. 17, pp. 3360–3363, 1995
  24. Accounts of Chemical Research, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 133–140, 1995
  25. Mode-locking matter with light
    Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 97, no. 48, pp. 12602–12608, 1993
  26. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 113, no. 22, pp. 8367–8374, 1991
  27. Molecular dynamics in liquids from femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated scattering
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 470–481, 1988
  28. Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 91, no. 9, pp. 2237–2240, 1987
  29. The crystal structure of trans,trans-1,3,5,7-octatetraene as a model for fully-ordered trans-polyacetylene
    Synthetic Metals, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 37–52, 1985
  30. 6-Fluoro-vitamin D3: A new antagonist of the biological actions of vitamin D3 and its metabolites which interacts with the intestinal receptor for 1?,25(OH)2-vitamin D3*1
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 233, no. 1, pp. 127–132, 1984
  31. Visual chromophore electronic structure
    Biophysics of Structure and Mechanism, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 101–106, 1977