publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

2025

  1. Quantifying the Emergence of Selection Prior to Biological Evolution
    Michael Jirasek, Abhishek Sharma, Mary Wong, and 2 more authors
    Dec 2025
    arXiv:2512.18752 [q-bio.MN]
    DOI

2024

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    Investigating and Quantifying Molecular Complexity Using Assembly Theory and Spectroscopy
    Michael Jirasek, Abhishek Sharma, Jessica R. Bame, and 9 more authors
    ACS Central Science, May 2024
    DOI
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    Validation of the Scientific Literature via Chemputation Augmented by Large Language Models
    Sebastian Pagel, Michael Jirásek, and Leroy Cronin
    May 2024
    DOI
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    Constructing the Molecular Tree of Life using Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry
    Amit Kahana, Alasdair MacLeod, Hessam Mehr, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09305, May 2024
    DOI

2023

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    Disentangling global and local ring currents
    David Bradley, Michael Jirásek, Harry L. Anderson, and 1 more author
    Chemical Science, May 2023
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    DOI
  2. Identifying molecular selection using Assembly Theory and closed-loop experiments
    Amit Kahana, Michael Jirasek, Silke Asche, and 3 more authors
    In The 2023 Conference on Artificial Life, May 2023
    DOI

2022

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    Population and coherence dynamics in large conjugated porphyrin nanorings
    Giovanni Bressan, Michael Jirasek, Palas Roy, and 3 more authors
    Chemical Science, May 2022
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    DOI
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    Correspondence on "How Aromatic Are Molecular Nanorings? The Case of a Six-Porphyrin Nanoring"
    Jie-Ren Deng, David Bradley, Michael Jirásek, and 2 more authors
    Angewandte Chemie, May 2022
    DOI
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    A helquat-like compound as a potent inhibitor of flaviviral and coronaviral polymerases
    Eva Konkolova, Kateřina Krejčová, Luděk Eyer, and 8 more authors
    Molecules, May 2022
    DOI

2021

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    A Peierls Transition in Long Polymethine Molecular Wires: Evolution of Molecular Geometry and Single-Molecule Conductance
    Wenjun Xu, Edmund Leary, Sara Sangtarash, and 9 more authors
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nov 2021
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI
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    From Macrocycles to Quantum Rings: Does Aromaticity Have a Size Limit?
    Michael Jirásek, Harry L. Anderson, and Martin D. Peeks
    Accounts of Chemical Research, Aug 2021
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI
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    Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Aromatic Stabilization Energy in Large Macrocycles
    Michael Jirásek, Michel Rickhaus, Lara Tejerina, and 1 more author
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Jan 2021
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI

2020

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    Allosteric Cooperativity and Template-Directed Synthesis with Stacked Ligands in Porphyrin Nanorings
    Pernille S. Bols, Michel Rickhaus, Lara Tejerina, and 4 more authors
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Jul 2020
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI
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    Global aromaticity at the nanoscale
    Michel Rickhaus, Michael Jirasek, Lara Tejerina, and 6 more authors
    Nature Chemistry, Jan 2020
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    DOI
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    Mechanisms of IR amplification in radical cation polarons
    William J. Kendrick, Michael Jirásek, Martin D. Peeks, and 6 more authors
    Chemical Science, Jan 2020
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    DOI
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    Exciton–Exciton Annihilation as a Probe of Exciton Diffusion in Large Porphyrin Nanorings
    Giovanni Bressan, Michael Jirasek, Harry L. Anderson, and 2 more authors
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Aug 2020
    DOI

2019

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    Global Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in Porphyrin Nanoring Anions
    Martin D. Peeks, Michael Jirasek, Timothy D. W. Claridge, and 1 more author
    Angewandte Chemie, Sep 2019
    Publisher: Wiley
    DOI
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    Tuning the Circumference of Six-Porphyrin Nanorings
    Renée Haver, Lara Tejerina, Hua-Wei Jiang, and 6 more authors
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Apr 2019
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI
  3. Chiroptical Redox Switching of Tetra‐Cationic Derivatives of Azoniahelicenes
    Igor Rončević, Michael Jirásek, Lukáš Severa, and 5 more authors
    ChemElectroChem, Jun 2019
    DOI
  4. Time-Resolved Structural Dynamics of Extended pi-Electron Porphyrin Nanoring
    Giovanni Bressan, Michael Jirasek, Harry L. Anderson, and 2 more authors
    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Oct 2019
    Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
    DOI

2017

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    Flavin-Mediated Visible-Light [2+2] Photocycloaddition of Nitrogen- and Sulfur-Containing Dienes
    Michael Jirásek, Karolína Straková, Tomáš Neveselý, and 3 more authors
    European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Jan 2017
    Publisher: Wiley
    DOI
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    Single-Acetylene Linked Porphyrin Nanorings
    Michel Rickhaus, Andreas Vargas Jentzsch, Lara Tejerina, and 4 more authors
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Jan 2017
    DOI
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    Ferrocenyl helquats: unusual chiral organometallic nonlinear optical chromophores
    Laura E. R. Buckley, Benjamin J. Coe, Daniela Rusanova, and 14 more authors
    Dalton Transactions, Jan 2017
    DOI
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    Tunable Chiral Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Chromophores Based on Helquat Dications
    L.E.R. Buckley, B.J. Coe, D. Rusanova, and 13 more authors
    Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Jan 2017
    DOI

2016

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    Enantiopure Alleno‐Acetylenic Helicages Containing Multiple Binding Sites
    Ori Gidron, Michael Jirásek, Michael Wörle, and 1 more author
    Chemistry – A European Journal, Nov 2016
    DOI

2015

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    Homochiral [2]Catenane and Bis[2]catenane from Alleno-Acetylenic Helicates - A Highly Selective Narcissistic Self-Sorting Process
    Ori Gidron, Michael Jirásek, Nils Trapp, and 3 more authors
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, Oct 2015
    DOI
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    Functional helquats: Helical cationic dyes with marked, switchable chiroptical properties in the visible region
    P.E. Reyes-Gutiérrez, M. Jirásek, L. Severa, and 15 more authors
    Chemical Communications, Oct 2015
    DOI

2014

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    Study of deoxyribonucleic acid–ligand interactions by partial filling affinity capillary electrophoresis
    M. Ruzicka, M. Cízková, M. Jirásek, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Chromatography A, Oct 2014
    DOI

2012

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    Counterion–induced inversion of conformer stability of a [5]helquat dication
    L. Severa, M. Jirásek, P. Svec, and 7 more authors
    ChemPlusChem, Oct 2012
    DOI