Publications by Frederico Alves Lima

Mapping the thermo-induced valence tautomerism in Cobalt dioxolane single crystals

Majed Chergui, Frederico Alves Lima, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2021

Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies

Majed Chergui, Wojciech Gawelda, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Frederico Alves Lima, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Samuel Menzi

The structure-function relationship is at the heart of biology, and major protein deformations are correlated to specific functions. For ferrous heme proteins, doming is associated with the respiratory function in hemoglobin and myoglobins. Cytochrome c (C ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Measurement of the CKM angle using B-+/- DK +/- with D -> KS0(+-),(KsK+K-)-K-0 decays (vol 08, 176, 2018)

Ian William Marison, Mai Tu Xuan, Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Basile Schäli, Jean Wicht, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, François Fleuret, Luc Henry, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Alessio Ferrari, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Frederico Alves Lima, Matthew Needham, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Nandita Aggarwal, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Adriano Pastore, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Luis Alberto Granado Cardoso, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Observation of the decay Lambda(0)(b) -> Lambda(+)(c)p(p)over-bar pi(-)

Mai Tu Xuan, Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Basile Schäli, Jean Wicht, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, François Fleuret, Luc Henry, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Alessio Ferrari, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Frederico Alves Lima, Matthew Needham, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Nandita Aggarwal, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Adriano Pastore, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Craig Matthew Smith, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Evidence for an nc(1S)ff- resonance in B0 yc(1S)K+ decays

Ian William Marison, Mai Tu Xuan, Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Basile Schäli, Jean Wicht, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, François Fleuret, Luc Henry, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Gang Yu, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Marilisa Neri, Alessio Ferrari, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Frederico Alves Lima, Matthew Needham, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Nandita Aggarwal, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Adriano Pastore, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

NO binding kinetics in myoglobin investigated by picosecond Fe K-edge absorption spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Camelia Borca, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Thomas James Penfold, Jochen Rittmann, Mahsa Silatani

Diatomic ligands in hemoproteins and the way they bind to the active center are central to the protein's function. Using picosecond Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we probe the NO-heme recombination kinetics with direct sensitivity to the Fe-NO bi ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Probing the electronic and geometric structure of ferric and ferrous myoglobins in physiological solutions by Fe K-edge absorption spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Thomas James Penfold

We present an iron K-edge X-ray absorption study of carboxymyoglobin (MbCO), nitrosylmyoglobin (MbNO), oxymyoglobin (MbO(2)), cyanomyoglobin (MbCN), aquomet myoglobin (metMb) and unligated myoglobin (deoxyMb) in physiological media. The analysis of the XAN ...

2014

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Ground and Excited Rhenium–Carbonyl–Diimine Complexes: Evidence for a Two-Center Electron Transfer

Majed Chergui, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Amal El Nahhas, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima, Thomas James Penfold

Steady-state and picosecond time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to study the ground and lowest triplet states of ReX(CO)(3)(bpy), X = Etpy (n = 1), Cl, or Br (n = 0). We demonstrate that the transient spectra at both the Re L3- and Br ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Solvent Induced Luminescence Quenching: Static and Time-Resolved X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of a Copper(I) Phenanthroline Complex

Majed Chergui, Olivier Christian Bräm, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Thomas James Penfold, Lotta Susanne Karlsson, Jochen Rittmann, Gloria Capano

We present a static and picosecond X-ray absorption study at the Cu K-edge of bis(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)copper(I) (Cu(dmp)(2); dmp = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) dissolved in acetonitrile and dichloromethane. The steady-state photolumi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Studies of the Structural Dynamics of Molecular and Biological Systems in Solution

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Thomas James Penfold, Lotta Susanne Karlsson

We review our recent studies of excited state structures and dynamics of chemical and biological systems with pico- and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the liquid phase. ...

2011

Investigation of Physiological Solutions of Metalloproteins in a High-Repetition Rate Picosecond X-ray Absorption Experiment

Frederico Alves Lima

Over the last decade, ultrafast time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has evolved to be now a mature and well-established experimental technique, giving extremely detailed information about the local geometrical and electronic structure in the ...

EPFL2011

Probing the Transition from Hydrophilic to Hydrophobic Solvation with Atomic Scale Resolution

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Ivano Tavernelli, Amal El Nahhas, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima, Thomas James Penfold

Picosecond and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to probe the changes of the solvent shell structure upon electron abstraction of aqueous iodide using an ultrashort laser pulse. The transient L-1,L-3 edge EXAFS at 50 ps time delay points to ...

2011

A high-repetition rate scheme for synchrotron-based picosecond laser pump/x-ray probe experiments on chemical and biological systems in solution

Majed Chergui, Frank van Mourik, Camelia Borca, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima, Marco Eli Reinhard, Daniel Grollman, Mercedes Hannelore Rittmann-Frank, Lotta Susanne Karlsson

We present the extension of time-resolved optical pump/x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) probe experiments towards data collection atMHz repetition rates. The use of a high-power picosecond laser operating at an integer fraction of the repetition rate of ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Watching atoms dance

Majed Chergui, Paul Beaud, Wojciech Gawelda, Camelia Borca, Amal El Nahhas, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima

The introduction of pump-probe techniques to the field of x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has allowed the monitoring of both structural and electronic dynamics of disordered systems in the condensed phase with unprecedented accuracy, both in time and i ...

Iop Publishing Ltd, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol Bs1 6Be, England2009

Structural determination of photochemically active diplatinum molecule by time-resolved EXAFS spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Amal El Nahhas, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima

Metallica: A large contraction of the PtPt bond in the triplet excited state of the photoreactive [Pt2(P2O5H2)4]4- ion is determined by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (see picture). The strengthening of the PtPt interaction is accompanied by a ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2009

Retrieving photochemically active structures by time-resolved EXAFS spectroscopy

Majed Chergui, Wojciech Gawelda, Camelia Borca, Amal El Nahhas, Van Thai Pham, Renske Marjan van der Veen, Frederico Alves Lima

Describing the nature and structure of molecular excited states is important in order to understand their chemical reactivity and role as intermediates in photochemical reactions. The recent implementation of x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the ultrafast ...

Iop Publishing Ltd, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol Bs1 6Be, England2009