Dr John Mack

  • Rhodes University
  • Lecturer, Chemistry
  • South Africa

My co-authors include

Dr Ojodomo Achadu
Dr Balaji Babu
Dr Simon J Coles

My Publications

Methodological Survey of Simplified TD-DFT Methods for Fast and Accurate Interpretation...

  • ACS Omega
  • April 2019

Photophysical properties and photodynamic therapy activities of detonated nanodiamonds-...

  • Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy
  • March 2019

Corrosion Resistance of Aluminum against Acid Activation: Impact of Benzothiazole-Subst...

  • Molecules
  • January 2019

Preparation of NIR absorbing axial substituted tin(<scp>iv</scp>) porphyrins and their ...

  • MedChemComm
  • January 2019

Effect of bromination on the optical limiting properties at 532 nm of BODIPY dyes with ...

  • Journal of Molecular Structure
  • January 2019

Co(<scp>ii</scp>)Tetraphenyltetraphenanthroporphyrin@MWCNTs: enhanced π–π interaction f...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2019

Synthesis, characterization and photodynamic activity of Sn(<scp>iv</scp>) triarylcorro...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2019

A 3,5-DistyrylBODIPY Dye Functionalized with Boronic Acid Groups for Direct Electrochem...

  • Electroanalysis
  • November 2018

Core-modified rubyrins with phenanthrene-fused pyrrole rings: Highly selective and tuna...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • November 2018

The investigation of in vitro dark cytotoxicity and photodynamic therapy effect of a 2,...

  • Journal of Coordination Chemistry
  • October 2018

Enhanced nonlinear optical response of benzothiazole substituted ball-type phthalocyani...

  • Optical Materials
  • August 2018

An optical limiting study in aminophenoxy substituted phthalocyanine in the presence of...

  • Journal of Luminescence
  • June 2018

Photophysical and enhanced nonlinear optical response in asymmetric benzothiazole subst...

  • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
  • June 2018

Electrospun 3,5-dithienylvinyleneBODIPY embedded polystyrene nanofibers for the photoca...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • June 2018

Photophysical and optical limiting properties at 532 nm of BODIPY dyes with p-benzyloxy...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • May 2018

Photophysicochemical behaviour and antimicrobial properties of monocarboxy Mg (II) and ...

  • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
  • March 2018

Porphyrin dimers with a bridging chiral amide-bonded benzo-moiety: Influence of positio...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • February 2018

Photophysical and strong optical limiting properties of ball-type phthalocyanines dimer...

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • February 2018

Synthesis and photophysical properties of BODIPY-decorated graphene quantum dot–phthalo...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2018

Iron(<scp>iii</scp>)porphyrin electrocatalyzed enantioselective carbon-chloride bond cl...

  • Dalton Transactions
  • January 2018

The photophysicochemical behavior of symmetric and asymmetric zinc phthalocyanines, sur...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2018

Photophysical properties of a novel styryl-BODIPY with a fused crown ether moiety

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2018

Pyridone substituted phthalocyanines: Photophysico-chemical properties and TD-DFT calcu...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2018

Investigation of photophysicochemical properties of zinc phthalocyanines conjugated to ...

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • December 2017

Photophysical and optical limiting properties of a novel distyryl-BODIPY with fused cro...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • December 2017

Push–pull type manganese(III)corroles: Synthesis, electronic structures and tunable int...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • November 2017

Singly and Doubly N-Confused Calix[4]phyrin Organoplatinum(II) Complexes as Near-IR Tri...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • October 2017

Optical limiting properties of 3,5-dipyrenylvinyleneBODIPY dyes at 532 nm

  • Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
  • October 2017

Enantioselective electrochemical carbon-chloride bond cleavage of hexachlorocyclohexane...

  • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
  • October 2017

Optical Limiting Properties of 3,5-Dithienylenevinylene BODIPY Dyes at 532 nm

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • September 2017

Highly efficient C Cl bond cleavage and unprecedented C C bond cleavage of environmen...

  • Applied Catalysis A General
  • September 2017

Nonlinear optical dynamics of benzothiazole derivatized phthalocyanines in solution, th...

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • September 2017

N-Bridged Annulated BODIPYs: Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Blueshifted Dyes

  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • August 2017

Halogen substituted A 2 B type Co(III)triarylcorroles: Synthesis, electronic structure ...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • July 2017

Optical limiting properties of 2,6-dibromo-3,5- distyrylBODIPY dyes at 532 nm

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • July 2017

Electronic structure and NH-tautomerism of a novel metal-free phenanthroline-annelated ...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • May 2017

Photophysical studies of 2,6-dibrominated BODIPY dyes substituted with 4-benzyloxystyry...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • April 2017

Improved nonlinear optical behaviour of ball type indium(III) phthalocyanine linked to ...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • January 2017

Synthesis, photophysical and nonlinear optical properties of a series of ball-type phth...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2017

Cu(<scp>iii</scp>)triarylcorroles with asymmetric push–pull meso-substitutions: tunable...

  • Dalton Transactions
  • January 2017

Aza boron-pyridyl-isoindoline analogues: synthesis and photophysical properties

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2017

Optical limiting properties of 3,5-diphenyldibenzo-azaBODIPY at 532 nm

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2017

4-Bis(4-aminophenoxy)phenoxy derivitized phthalocyanine conjugated to metallic nanopart...

  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • January 2017

Expanded, Contracted, and Isomeric Porphyrins: Theoretical Aspects

  • Chemical Reviews
  • December 2016

Flexible Metal-Porphyrin Dimers (M=MnIII Cl, CoII , NiII , CuII ): Synthesis, Spectrosc...

  • ChemPlusChem
  • November 2016

Aggregation Control of Robust Water-Soluble Zinc(II) Phthalocyanine-Based Photosensitizers

  • Langmuir
  • November 2016

A2B type copper(III)corroles containing zero-to-five fluorine atoms: Synthesis, electro...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • October 2016

Synthesis, Characterization, and Electronic Structures of Porphyrins Fused with Polycyc...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • August 2016

Rational Design of Emissive NIR-Absorbing Chromophores: RhIIIPorphyrin-Aza-BODIPY Conju...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • August 2016

Synthesis and photophysicochemical properties of BODIPY dye functionalized gold nanorod...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • August 2016

Tuning the synthetic cobalt(III)corroles electroreductive catalyzed lindane dehalogenat...

  • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
  • August 2016

A Chiral Hemiporphyrazine Derivative: Synthesis and Chiroptical Properties

  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • July 2016

Optically active BODIPYs

  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • July 2016

Spectroscopic investigations and theoretical calculations of DABCO induced xanthene bri...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • May 2016

MCD spectroscopy and TD-DFT calculations of magnesium tetra-(15-crown-5-oxanthreno)-pht...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2016

Efficient energy transfer in ethynyl bridged corrole–BODIPY dyads

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2016

Highly efficient near IR photosensitizers based-on Ir–C bonded porphyrin-aza-BODIPY con...

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2016

Photoisomerization and optical behavior study of a subphthalocyanine–bisazobenzene–subp...

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • January 2016

Photoisomerization and optical properties of a subphthalocyanine–azobenzene–subphthaloc...

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2016

Photophysical properties of tetraphenylporphyrinsubphthalocyanine conjugates

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2016

Synthesis and photophysical properties of orthogonal rhodium(<scp>iii</scp>)–carbon bon...

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • January 2016

Synthesis and properties of azulene-functionalized BODIPYs

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2016

Synthesis, characterization and electrochemistry of rhodium(<scp>iii</scp>) complexes o...

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2016

Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium(II) Complexes of meso-Substituted [14]Tribe...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • November 2015

Synthesis and Photophysical Investigation of Tetraazaporphyrin Substituted with Aggrega...

  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
  • November 2015

Optical properties and electronic structures of axially-ligated group 9 porphyrins

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • August 2015

Facile synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties, and theoretical calcula...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • July 2015

Modulation of the molecular spintronic properties of adsorbed copper corroles

  • Nature Communications
  • June 2015

Organosilicon compounds as fluorescent chemosensors for fluoride anion recognition

  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • February 2015

Corrole–BODIPY conjugates: enhancing the fluorescence and phosphorescence of the corrol...

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2015

A BODIPY-based ‘turn-on’ fluorescent probe for hypoxic cell imaging

  • Chemical Communications
  • January 2015

Synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties of an acenaphthalene fused-rin...

  • RSC Advances
  • January 2015

Spectroscopic and nonlinear optical properties of the four positional isomers of 4α-(4-...

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • January 2015

Lipophilic M(α,α′-OC<sub>5</sub>H<sub>11</sub>)<sub>8</sub>phthalocyanines (M = H<sub>2...

  • Dalton Transactions
  • January 2015

Optical limiting and singlet oxygen generation properties of phosphorus triazatetrabenz...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2015

Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrochemistry of the Manganese(I) Complexes ofmeso-...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • November 2014

A new aza-BODIPY based NIR region colorimetric and fluorescent chemodosimeter for fluoride

  • RSC Advances
  • October 2014

Synthesis, characterization and photodynamic therapy properties of an octa-4-tert-butyl...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • August 2014

Trends in the TD-DFT calculations of porphyrin and phthalocyanine analogs

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • August 2014

Porphodilactones as Synthetic Chlorophylls: Relative Orientation of β-Substituents on a...

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • July 2014

MCD spectroscopy and TD-DFT calculations of low symmetry subnaphthalocyanine analogs

  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • July 2014

Asymmetrical aza-boron-dipyridomethene derivatives with large Stokes shifts: synthesis ...

  • Tetrahedron Letters
  • July 2014

Core-Modified Rubyrins Containing Dithienylethene Moieties

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • April 2014

Synthesis, photophysicochemical properties and TD-DFT calculations of tetrakis(2-benzoy...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • April 2014

Phosphorus(V)-Corrole: Synthesis, Spectroscopic Properties, Theoretical Calculations, ...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • March 2014

Photophysicochemical properties and TD-DFT calculations of a novel terminal alkyne subs...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • March 2014

Photophysical and photochemical properties and TD-DFT calculations of novel zinc and pl...

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • March 2014

Boron-pyridyl-imino-isoindoline dyes: facile synthesis and photophysical properties

  • Chemical Communications
  • January 2014

Structural modification strategies for the rational design of red/NIR region BODIPYs

  • Chemical Society Reviews
  • January 2014

Optical nonlinearities and photophysicochemical behaviour of green and blue forms of lu...

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • January 2014

TD-DFT calculations and MCD spectroscopy of porphyrin and phthalocyanine analogues: rat...

  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
  • January 2014

New 2,6-Distyryl-Substituted BODIPY Isomers: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and T...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • December 2013

Synthesis, characterization and solid-state emission properties of arylsilyl-substitute...

  • Dyes and Pigments
  • December 2013

MCD spectroscopy and TD-DFT calculations of low-symmetry acenaphthoporphyrins with dual...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • October 2013

Acenaphthylene-Fused Cyclo[8]pyrroles with Intense Near-IR-Region Absorption Bands

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • August 2013

MCD spectroscopy and TD-DFT calculations of a naphthalene-ring-bridged coplanar binucle...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • June 2013

A BODIPY fluorescent probe with selective response for hypochlorous acid and its applic...

  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • June 2013

A red fluorescent turn-on probe for hydrogen sulfide and its application in living cells

  • Chemical Communications
  • January 2013

Magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy and electronic structures of C3 symmetry bucky...

  • Chemical Physics Letters
  • January 2013

Synthesis and Properties of Fused-Ring-Expanded Porphyrins that were Core-Modified with...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • November 2012

Synthesis, Characterization, MCD Spectroscopy, and TD-DFT Calculations of Copper-Metala...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • November 2012

Synthesis and photophysical properties of covalent conjugates of aqua platinum(II) and ...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • November 2012

Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Electronic Structures of Fully Core-Modified Porphyr...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • September 2012

Trends in the optical and redox properties of tetraphenyltetraphenanthroporphyrins

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • July 2012

Fourteen-Electron Ring Model and the Anomalous Magnetic Circular Dichroism of meso -Tr...

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • April 2012

Synthesis, Characterization, and Spectroscopic Analysis of Antiaromatic Benzofused Meta...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • February 2012

Chiral Phthalocyanine with Unambiguous Absolute Molecular Structures for Both Enantiomers

  • Acta Chimica Sinica
  • January 2012

Synthesis, structure and spectroscopic properties of a porphycene-Re I complex

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • July 2011

Self-Assembly and Gelation Behavior of Tris(phenylisoxazolyl)benzenes

  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • June 2011

meso-Aryl Phenanthroporphyrins: Synthesis and Spectroscopic Properties

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • June 2011

Cyclo[8]isoindoles: Ring-Expanded and Annelated Porphyrinoids

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • May 2011

The Synthesis and Properties of Free‐Base [14]Triphyrin(2.1.1) Compounds and the Format...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • March 2011

Synthesis and Spectroscopic Properties of Fused-Ring-Expanded Aza-Boradiazaindacenes

  • Chemistry - An Asian Journal
  • March 2011

Low Symmetry Phthalocyanines and Their Analogues

  • Chemical Reviews
  • February 2011

A selective colorimetric and fluorometric ammonium ion sensor based on the H-aggregatio...

  • Chemical Communications
  • January 2011

Facile Hg2+ detection in water using fluorescent self-assembled monolayers of a rhodami...

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry
  • January 2011

Re-examination of the emission properties of alkoxy- and thioalkyl-substituted phthaloc...

  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • March 2010

Specific Cu2+-induced J-aggregation and Hg2+-induced fluorescence enhancement based on ...

  • Chemical Communications
  • January 2010

Synthesis, Structures, and Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Benzoporphycenes

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • October 2009

Effect of peripheral fused ring substitution on the optical spectroscopy and electronic...

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • October 2009

A Facile One-Pot Synthesis of meso -Aryl-Substituted [14]Triphyrin(2.1.1)

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • December 2008

Application of MCD Spectroscopy and TD-DFT to Nonplanar Core-Modified Tetrabenzoporphyr...

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • May 2008

Magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy of cobalt tetraphenyltetraacenaphthoporphyrin

  • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry
  • March 2008

Heme Binding Properties of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> IsdE

  • Biochemistry
  • October 2007

Application of MCD spectroscopy to porphyrinoids

  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • February 2007

Characterization of the Heme Binding Properties of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> IsdA

  • Biochemistry
  • October 2006

Application of MCD Spectroscopy and TD−DFT to a Highly Non-Planar Porphyrinoid Ring Sys...

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • November 2005

In vivo heme scavenging by Staphylococcus aureus IsdC and IsdE proteins

  • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
  • July 2004

Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure of Electron Deficient Zinc Phthalocyanines

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • May 2003

Electronic Structure of Reduced Symmetry Peripheral Fused-Ring-Substituted Phthalocyanines

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • September 2002

Assignment of the optical spectra of metal phthalocyanines through spectral band deconv...

  • Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • October 2001

Transition Assignments in the Ultraviolet−Visible Absorption and Magnetic Circular Dich...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • January 2001

Assignment of the optical spectrum of metal porphyrin and phthalocyanine radical anions

  • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
  • January 2001

Degradation Pathways during the Treatment of Methyl tert -Butyl Ether by the UV/H 2 O ...

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • February 2000

Photochemistry of nitrite and nitrate in aqueous solution: a review

  • Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
  • November 1999

Absorption, Fluorescence, and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectra of and Molecular Orbi...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • November 1997

Assignment of the Optical Spectra of Metal Phthalocyanine Anions

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • January 1997

Band Deconvolution Analysis of the Absorption and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Spectral ...

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry
  • May 1995

Photochemical Formation of the Anion Radical of Zinc Phthalocyanine and Analysis of the...

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • February 1994

Ground-state and optical spectrum of metallophthalocyanine radical anions from low-temp...

  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • April 1992