Ana Moore

About

Ana Moore is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis at Arizona State University. She received her doctorate in organic chemistry from Texas Tech University in 1972, working with Professor William C. Herndon. Prior to her appointment at ASU, she worked at the University of Washington as a postdoctoral associate with Professor Neil Andersen. Since joining ASU in 1976, she has led a team of students and postdoctoral associates alongside colleagues Devens Gust and Tom Moore to design and build bio-inspired molecular systems, contributing significantly to the development of the field known as artificial photosynthesis. Her research focuses on artificial photosynthetic constructs that can operate more efficiently than natural photosynthesis by rationally designing systems to optimize solar energy conversion. These constructs primarily consist of covalently linked synthetic chromophores, electron donors and acceptors, and proton donors and acceptors that facilitate light absorption, electron transfer, and proton-coupled electron transfer processes characteristic of photosynthetic cells. Her work emphasizes understanding key catalytic and light-driven aspects of photosynthesis, with the goal of developing design principles for energy-converting artificial systems. Current projects include the construction of complex solar-to-fuel converters, such as hybrid systems involving molecular components, semiconductor oxides,…

Research topics

• Organic chemistry
• Chemistry
• Photochemistry
• Physical chemistry
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemical physics
• Nuclear physics
• Stereochemistry
• Quantum mechanics

Selected publications

• PCET-Based Ligand Limits Charge Recombination with an Ir(III) Photoredox Catalyst

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021 · 45 citations

  ), a substrate surrogate, by the reducing moiety of the charge separated species demonstrates that the inclusion of BIP significantly slows the charge recombination rate. The effect of ∼24-fold slower charge recombination in a photocatalytic phthalimide ester reduction resulted in a greater than 2-fold increase in reaction quantum efficiency.

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• Electrochemically Driven Photosynthetic Electron Transport in Cyanobacteria Lacking Photosystem II

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022-02-14 · 42 citations

  articleOpen access

  complex to enable both NADPH and ATP production. This work demonstrates an electrochemical system that can drive photosynthetic electron transport, provides a platform for photosynthetic foundational studies, and has the potential for improving photosynthetic performance at high light intensities.

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• Role of Intact Hydrogen-Bond Networks in Multiproton-Coupled Electron Transfer

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2020 · 38 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  ) oxidation of the phenol results in an overall chemically irreversible two-proton-coupled electron-transfer process in which the second proton-transfer step yields the pyridinium cation detected by infrared spectroelectrochemistry. In this case, we postulate an initial intramolecular proton-coupled electron-transfer step yielding the E1PT product followed by a slow, likely intermolecular chemical step involving a second proton transfer to give the E2PT product. Insights into the electrochemical…

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• Electron–Nuclear Dynamics Accompanying Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021-02-18 · 37 citations

  articleOpen access

  Although photoinduced proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) plays an essential role in photosynthesis, a full understanding of the mechanism is still lacking due to the complex nonequilibrium dynamics arising from the strongly coupled electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom. Here we report the photoinduced PCET dynamics of a biomimetic model system investigated by means of transient IR and two-dimensional electronic-vibrational (2DEV) spectroscopies, IR spectroelectrochemistry (IRSEC), and c…

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• Proton-coupled electron transfer across benzimidazole bridges in bioinspired proton wires

  Chemical Science · 2020 · 33 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  a Grotthuss-type mechanism over long distances without the intervention of water molecules.

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Recent grants

• Materials World Network: Study at the Nanoscale of Photovoltaic Materials

  NSF · $260k · 2009–2012

Frequent coauthors

• Thomas A. Moore

  Arizona State University

  475 shared

• Devens Gust

  Arizona State University

  458 shared

• Paul A. Liddell

  Arizona State University

  154 shared

• Gerdenis Kodis

  Arizona State University

  123 shared

• Joakim Andréasson

  54 shared

• Yuichi Terazono

  39 shared

• Miguel Gervaldo

  National University of Río Cuarto

  35 shared

• Stephen D. Straight

  Signature Research (United States)

  35 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry

  Texas Tech University

  1972

• M.S.

  Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  1966

• Other

  Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

  1964

Awards & honors

• Regents Professor, Arizona State University
• Distinguished Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scien…

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