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Professor John McGarvey

Prof. J.J. McGarvey

Professor J.J. McGarvey
BSc (Queen’s University of Belfast), 1961
PhD (Queen’s University of Belfast), 1964

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow

Tel:     + 44 (0) 28 9097 5450
Fax:    + 44 (0) 28 9097 6524
E-mail: j.mcgarvey@qub.ac.uk

Selected Publications

Beattie, J.R., Finnegan, S., Hamilton, R.W., Ali, Manir, Inglehearn, C.F., Stitt, A.W., McGarvey, J.J., Hocking, P.M., Curry, W.J.
Profiling Retinal Biochemistry in the MPDZ Mutant Retinal Dysplasia and Degeneration Chick: A Model of Human RP and LCA,
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2012, Vol. 53, 413-420

Beattie,J.R., Pawlak, A.M.,  McGarvey, J.J.,  Stitt, A.W.
Sclera as a surrogate marker for determining AGE-modifications in Bruch’s Membrane using a Raman Spectroscopy-based index of aging
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2011, 52, 1593-1598.

Beattie, J. R., Pawlak,A.M.,  Boulton, M.E.,  Zhang, J.,  Monnier, V.M., McGarvey, J.J., Stitt, A.W. Multiplex analysis of age-related protein and lipidmodifications in human Bruch’s membrane
The Faseb Journal,  2010, 24(12), 4816-4824.

Magee,N.D., Beattie, James R., Carland, C., Davis, R., McManus,K., Bradbury,I., Fennell, D.A., Hamilton,P.W., Ennis,M., McGarvey,J.J., Elborn, J.S.
Raman microscopy in the diagnosis and prognosis of surgically resected nonsmall cell lung cancer
Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2010, 15(2), 026015

Wolny,J.A., Paulsen,H., McGarvey,J.J., Diller, R., Schünemann, V., Toftlund,H. Fe(II) complex with the octadentate btpa ligand: a DFT study on a spin-crossover system that reveals two distinct high-spin states, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2009 DOI: 10.1039/b905328j

Magee, N.D., Villaumie, J.S., Marple, E., Ennis, M., Elborn, J.S., McGarvey, J.J. Ex-vivo diagnosis of lung cancer using a Raman miniprobe. J Phys Chem B, 2009, 113, 8137-8141.

Wolf, M. N., Gross, R., Schumann, C.,Wolny, J.A.,Schuenemann, V., Dossing, A.,Paulsen, H.,McGarvey, J.J., Diller, R.
Sub-picosecond time resolved infrared spectroscopy of high-spin state formation in Fe(II) spin crossover complexes Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008,  10, 4264-4273

Effect of signal intensity normalization on the multivariate analysis of spectral data in complex ‘real-world’ datasets: J. Renwick Beattie, Josephine V. Glenn, Michael E. Boulton, Alan W. Stitt and John J. McGarvey, J. Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 40, 429-435, (2009).

Josephine V. Glenn, J.V., Beattie, J.R.,  Barrett, Norma Frizzell, Suzanne R. Thorpe, Mike E Boulton, John J. McGarvey, and Alan W. Stitt
Confocal Raman microscopy can quantify advanced glycation end product (AGE) modifications in Bruch’s membrane leading to accurate, nondestructive prediction of ocular aging:: Faseb Journal  2007, Vol 21, 3542-3552

Beattie, J.R., Barrett, L.J., Malone, J.F., McGarvey, J.J., Nieuwenhuyzen, M. and Kett, V.L.
Investigation into the subambient behavior of aqueous mannitol solutions using temperature-controlled Raman microscopy, Eur.J.of Pharmaceutics & Biopharmaceutics,2007, 67, 569-578.

Henry, W., Coates, C.G., Brady, C., Ronayne, K.L., Matousek, P., Towrie,M., Botchway, S.M., Parker, A.W., Vos, J.G., Browne,W.R. and McGarvey, J.J., The Early Picosecond Photophysics of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes: A Tale of Two Timescales. J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 4537–4544

Pawlak, A.M., Beattie, J.R., Glenn, J.V., Stitt, A.W., and McGarvey, J.J., Raman spectroscopy of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), possible markers for progressive retinal dysfunction. J. Raman Spectroscopy, Vol 39, 1635-1642, (2008).

Pawlak, A.M., Glenn, J.V., Beattie, J.R., McGarvey, J.J. and Stitt, A.W., Advanced Glycation as a basis for understanding retinal aging and noninvasive risk prediction. Annals New York Acad. Of Sciences,2008, 1126, 59-66.

Beattie J.R., Maguire C., Gilchrist S., Barrett L. J., Cross C. E., Possmayer F., Ennis M., Elborn J. S., Curry W. J., McGarvey J. J., and Schock B. C., The use of Raman microscopy to determine and localize vitamin E in biological samples. The FASEB Journal, 2007, 21(3), 766-776.

Browne W.R., Henry W.P., Passaniti P., Gandolfi M.T., Ballardini R., O'Connor C.M., Brady C., Coates C.G., Vos J.G., McGarvey J.J. Resonance Raman and lifetime studies on regioselectively deuteriated ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes. Photochem. & Photobiolog. Sci. 2007, 6, 386-396

Kovacs M., Ronayne K.L., Browne W.R., Henry W., Vos J.G., McGarvey J.J., Horvath A. The effects of ligand substitution and deuteriation on the spectroscopic and photophysical properties of [Ru(LL)(CN)4]2- complexes. Photochem. & Photobiolog. Sci. 2007, 6, 444-453.

De Jong J.J.D., Browne W.R., Walko M., Lucas L.N., Barrett L.J., McGarvey J.J., van Esch J.H., Feringa B.L., Raman scattering and FT-IR spectroscopic studies on dithienylethene switches - towards non-destructive optical readout. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2006, 4, 2387-2392.

Taleb, A., Diamond, J., McGarvey, J.J., Beattie, J.R., Carla Toland, C., and Hamilton, P.W., Raman Microscopy for the Chemometric Analysis of Tumor Cells. J. Phys. Chem. (B) - 2006, 110, 19625-19631.

Ronayne, K.L., Paulsen, H., Höfer, A., Dennis, A.C., Wolny, J.A., Chumakov, A.I., Schünemann, V., Winkler, H., Spiering, H., Bousseksou, A., Gütlich, P., Trautwein, A.X., and McGarvey, J.J., Vibrational spectrum of the spin crossover complex [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] studied by IR and Raman spectroscopy, nuclear inelastic scattering and DFT calculations. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 4685-4693.

Browne, W.R., McGarvey, J.J., The Raman effect and its application to electronic spectroscopies in metal-centered species: Techniques and investigations in ground and excited states. Coord. Chem. Reviews, 2007, 251, 457-473.

Beattie, J.R., Brockbank, S., McGarvey, J.J., Curry, W.J., Effect of excitation wavelength on the Raman spectroscopy of the porcine photoreceptor layer from the area centralis. Molecular Vision 2005, 11, 825-832.

Bonhommeau, S., Molnar, G., Galet, A., Zwick, A., Real, J.A., McGarvey, J.J., Bousseksou, A., One shot laser pulse induced reversible spin transition in the spin-crossover complex [Fe(C4H4N2]{Pt(CN)4}] at room temperature. Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 4069-4073.

Browne, W.R., McGarvey, J.J., Raman scattering and photophysics in spin-state-labile d6 metal complexes. Coord. Chem. Reviews, 2006, 250, 1696-1709.

Browne, W.R., O’Boyle, N.M., Henry, W., Guckian, A.L., Horn, S., Fett, T., O’Connor, C.M., Duati, M., De Cola, L., Coates, C.G., Ronayne, K.L., McGarvey, J.J., and Vos, J.G., Ground- and Excited-State Electronic Structure of an Emissive Pyrazine-Bridged Ruthenium(II) Dinuclear Complex. J.Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 1229-1241

Guckian, A.L., Doering, M., Ciesielski, M., Walter, O., Hjelm, J., O'Boyle, N.M., Henry, W., Browne, W.R., McGarvey, J.J., Vos, J.G. Assessment of intercomponent interaction in phenylene bridged dinuclear ruthenium(II) and osmium(II) polypyridyl complexes. Dalton Trans., 2004, 23, 3943-3949

Brady, C., McGarvey, J.J., McCusker, J.K., Toftlund, H., and Hendrickson, D.N. Time-resolved relaxation studies of spin crossover systems in solution. Top. Curr Chem, 2004, 235, 1-22

Tuchagues, J.P., Bousseksou, A., Molnar, G., McGarvey, J.J., Varret, F. The role of molecular vibrations in the spin crossover phenomenon. Top. Curr Chem, 2004, 235 85-103

Toftlund, H., McGarvey, JJ Iron(II) spin crossover systems with multidentate ligands. Top. Curr Chem, 2004, 233, 151-166

Keyes, T.E., Evrard, B., Vos, J.G., Brady, C., McGarvey, J.J., Jayaweera, P. Electronic and photophysical properties of a novel phenol bound dinuclear ruthenium complex: evidence for a luminescent mixed valence state. Dalton Trans., 2004, 15, 2341-2346

Dennis, A.C., McGarvey, J.J., Woolfson, A.D., McCafferty, D.F., Moss, G.P. A Raman spectroscopic investigation of bioadhesive tetracaine local anaesthetic formulations. Int. J. Pharm., 2004, 1-2, 43-50

Brady, C., Callaghan, P.L., Ciunik, Z., Coates, C.G., Dossing, A., Hazell, A., McGarvey, J.J., Schenker, S., Toftlund, H., Trautwein, A.X., Winkler, H., Wolny, J.A. Molecular structure and vibrational spectra of spin-crossover complexes in solution and colloidal media: Resonance Raman and time-resolved resonance Raman studies. Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 4289-4299.

Molnar, G., Kitazawa, T., Dubrovinsky, L., McGarvey, J.J., Bousseksou, A. Pressure tuning Raman spectroscopy of the spin crossover coordination polymer Fe(C5H5 N)2 [Ni(CN)4] J. Phys: Condens. Matter, 2004, 14, S1129-S1136

Dyer, J., Blau, W.J., Coates, C.G., Creely, C.M., Gavey, J.D., George, M.W., Grills, D.C., Hudson, S., Kelly, J.M., Matousek, P., McGarvey, J.J., McMaster, J., Parker, A.W., Towrie, M., Weinstein, J.A. The photophysics of fac-[Re(CO)3 (dppz)(py)]+ in CH3CN: a comparative picosecond flash photolysis, transient infrared, transient resonance Raman and density functional theoretical study. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2003, 5, 542-554

Molnar, G., Niel, V., Real, J.A., Dubrovinsky, L., Bousseksou, A., McGarvey, J.J. Raman spectroscopic study of pressure effects on the spin-crossover coordination polymers Fe(pyrazine)[M(CN)4]. 2H2O (M = Ni, Pd, Pt). First observation of a piezo-hysteresis loop at room temperature. J.Phys. Chem. B, 2003, 14, 3149-3155

Browne, W.R., Coates, C.G., Brady, C., Matousek, P., Towrie, M., Botchway, S.W., Parker, A.W., Vos, J.G., McGarvey, J.J. Isotope effects on the picosecond time-resolved emission spectroscopy of tris(2,2 '-bipyridine)ruthenium (II). J.Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 7, 1706-1707

Molnar, G., Bousseksou, A., Zwick, A., McGarvey, J.J. The spin-crossover phenomenon in the solid state: Do domains play a role? A micro-Raman study. Chem. Phys. Lett., 2003, 5-6, 593-598

Molnar, G., Niel, V., Gaspar, A.B., Real, J.A., Zwick, A., Bousseksou, A., McGarvey, J.J. Vibrational spectroscopy of cyanide-bridged, iron(II) spin-crossover coordination polymers: Estimation of vibrational contributions to the entropy change associated with the spin transition. J.Phys. Chem. B, 2002, 38, 9701-9707

Ujj, L., Coates, C.G., Kelly, J.M., Kruger, P.E., McGarvey, J.J., Atkinson, G.H. Picosecond coherent vibrational spectroscopy (CARS) of a DNA-intercalating Ru complex. J.Phys. Chem. B, 2002, 18, 4854-4862

Moliner, N., Salmon, L., Capes, L., Munoz, M.C., Letard, J.F., Bousseksou, A., Tuchagues, J.P., McGarvey, J.J., Dennis, A.C., Castro, M., Burriel, R., Real, J.A. Thermal and optical switching of molecular spin states in the {FeL[H2B(pz)2]2 } spin-crossover system (L = bpy, phen). J.Phys. Chem. B, 2002, 16, 4276-4283