Jerker Mårtensson

Professor at Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jerker Mårtensson’s interest lies in organic synthesis, the relationship between molecular structures and properties, and the fate of the excited states of organic molecules. He runs projects directed toward synthesis of natural products and designed molecules that, subsequent synthesis, are explored with respect to their excited state properties. The aims of the projects are to understand the origin of the allergenic potency of sunscreens, to delineate design principles for safer sunscreens, and to develop new dyes for solar cells with improved efficiency due to singlet fission. He also runs a pedagogical project aimed at improving the teaching of chemical bonding.

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Showing 57 publications

2023

Bonding between π-Conjugated Polycations and Monolayer Graphene: Decisive Role of Anions

Steffen Brülls, Valentina Cantatore, Eric Tam et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Vol. 127 (4), p. 1917-1928
Journal article
2021

Two-colour photoswitching in photoresponsive inorganic thin films

Elin Sundin, Fredrik Johansson, Valeria Saavedra et al
Materials Advances. Vol. 2 (7), p. 2328-2333
Journal article
2021

Diphenylanthracene Dimers for Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion: Mechanistic Insights for Intramolecular Pathways and the Importance of Molecular Geometry

Axel Olesund, Victor Gray, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 143 (15), p. 5745-5754
Journal article
2020

Cyclopenta[ b]indole Derivative Inhibits Aurora B in Primary Cells

Andreas Ekebergh, Jerker Mårtensson, Christine Lingblom Ekebergh
ACS Omega. Vol. 5 (51), p. 33455-33460
Journal article
2020

Evidence for Electron Transfer between Graphene and Non-Covalently Bound pi-Systems

Steffen Brülls, Valentina Cantatore, Zhenping Wang et al
Chemistry - A European Journal. Vol. 26 (29), p. 6694-6702
Journal article
2020

Metal-Organic Frameworks with Hexakis(4-carboxyphenyl)benzene: Extensions to Reticular Chemistry and Introducing Foldable Nets

Francoise Mystere Amombo Noa, Erik Svensson Grape, Steffen Brülls et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 142 (20), p. 9471-9481
Journal article
2020

Singlet Fission and Electron Injection from the Triplet Excited State in Diphenylisobenzofuran-Semiconductor Assemblies: Effects of Solvent Polarity and Driving Force

Elin Sundin, Rasmus Ringström, Fredrik Johansson et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Vol. 124 (38 Josef Michl Festschrift), p. 20794-20805
Journal article
2019

Annihilation Versus Excimer Formation by the Triplet Pair in Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion

Chen Ye, Victor Gray, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 141 (24), p. 9578-9584
Journal article
2018

On-Tissue Chemical Derivatization of Catecholamines Using 4-(N-Methyl)pyridinium Boronic Acid for ToF-SIMS and LDI-ToF Mass Spectrometry Imaging

I. Kaya, Steffen Brülls, Johan Dunevall et al
Analytical Chemistry. Vol. 90 (22), p. 13580-13590
Journal article
2016

Teaching of chemical bonding: a study of Swedish and South African students' conceptions of bonding

Anders Nimmermark, Lars Öhrström, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Chemistry Education Research and Practice. Vol. 17 (4), p. 985-1005
Journal article
2015

Exploring a cascade Heck-Suzuki reaction based route to kinase inhibitors using design of experiments

Andreas Ekebergh, Christine Lingblom, Peter Sandin et al
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Vol. 13 (11), p. 3382-3392
Journal article
2015

On the photostability of scytonemin, analogues thereof and their monomeric counterparts

Andreas Ekebergh, Peter Sandin, Jerker Mårtensson
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. Vol. 14 (12), p. 2179-2186
Journal article
2014

Ketoprofen-Induced Formation of Amino Acid Photoadducts: Possible Explanation for Photocontact Allergy to Ketoprofen

I. Karlsson, Elin Persson, Andreas Ekebergh et al
Chemical Research in Toxicology. Vol. 27 (7), p. 1294-1303
Journal article
2014

Photophysics and ex vivo biodistribution of beta-cyclodextrin-meso-tetra(m-hydroxyphenyl)-porphyrin conjugate for biomedical applications

Vladimir Kirejev, A. R. Goncalves, C. Aggelidou et al
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. Vol. 13 (8), p. 1185-1191
Journal article
2012

Investigation of the Sunscreen Octocrylene's Interaction with Amino Acid Analogs in the Presence of UV Radiation

I. Karlsson, Elin Persson, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Photochemistry and Photobiology. Vol. 88 (4), p. 904-912
Journal article
2012

A Bioinspired Self Assembled Dimeric Porphyrin Pocket that Binds Electron Accepting Ligands

Karl Börjesson, Jakob Woller, Elham Parsa et al
Chemical Communications. Vol. 48 (12), p. 1793-1795
Journal article
2012

Total Synthesis of Nostodione A, a Cyanobacterial Metabolite

Andreas Ekebergh, Anna Börje, Jerker Mårtensson
Organic Letters. Vol. 14 (24), p. 6274-6277
Journal article
2011

Clinical and experimental studies of octocrylene's allergenic potency

I. Karlsson, Katrien Vanden Broecke, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Contact Dermatitis. Vol. 64 (6), p. 343-52
Journal article
2011

Oxidative Coupling as a Biomimetic Approach to the Synthesis of Scytonemin

Andreas Ekebergh, Isabella Karlsson, R. Mete et al
Organic Letters. Vol. 13 (16), p. 4458-4461
Journal article
2011

Tunneling through conjugated bridges in designed donor-bridge-acceptor molecules

Bo Albinsson, Mattias P Eng, Jerker Mårtensson
Charge and Exciton Transport through Molecular Wires, p. 95-132
Book chapter
2010

Excitation energy transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor systems

Bo Albinsson, Jerker Mårtensson
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Vol. 12 (27), p. 7338-7351
Journal article
2010

Functionalized Nanostructures: Redox-Active Porphyrin Anchors for Supramolecular DNA Assemblies

Karl Börjesson, Joanna Wiberg, Afaf El-Sagheer et al
ACS Nano. Vol. 4 (9), p. 5037-5046
Journal article
2009

Photodegradation of Dibenzoylmethanes: Potential Cause of Photocontact Allergy to Sunscreens

I. Karlsson, Lisa Hillerström, Anna-Lena Stenfeldt et al
Chemical Research in Toxicology. Vol. 22 (11), p. 1881-1892
Journal article
2009

Membrane-Anchored DNA Assembly for Energy and Electron Transfer

Karl Börjesson, John Tumpane, Thomas Ljungdahl et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 131 (8), p. 2831-2839
Journal article
2008

Porphyrin doping of Alq3 for electroluminescence

Måns Andreasson, Jerker Mårtensson, Thorvald Andersson
Current Applied Physics. Vol. 8, p. 163-166
Journal article
2008

Two competing mechanisms for the copper-free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction

Thomas Ljungdahl, T. Bennur, A. Dallas et al
Organometallics. Vol. 27 (11), p. 2490-2498
Journal article
2008

Long-range electron and excitation energy transfer in donor-bridge-acceptor systems

Bo Albinsson, Jerker Mårtensson
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews. Vol. 9 (3), p. 138-155
Journal article
2008

Characterization and Use of an Unprecedentedly Bright and Structurally Non-Perturbing Fluorescent DNA Base Analogue

Peter Sandin, Karl Börjesson, Hong Li et al
Nucleic Acids Research. Vol. 36 (1), p. 157-167
Journal article
2008

A spectroscopic study of self-assembled monolayer of porphyrin-functionalized oligo(phenyleneethynylene)s on gold: the influence of the anchor moiety

S. Watcharinyanon, Daniel Nilsson, E. Moons et al
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Vol. 10 (34), p. 5264-5275
Journal article
2008

A membrane anchored DNA-based energy/electron transfer assembly

Karl Börjesson, John Tumpane, Thomas Ljungdahl et al
Nucleic acids symposium series (2004) (52), p. 691-691
Journal article
2008

Characterization and use of tricyclic fluorescent nucleic acid base analogues

Karl Börjesson, Peter Sandin, Bo Albinsson et al
Nucleic acids symposium series (2004) (52), p. 3-4
Journal article
2008

Temperature dependence of electronic coupling through oligo-p-phenyleneethynylene bridges

Mattias P Eng, Jerker Mårtensson, Bo Albinsson
Chemistry - A European Journal. Vol. 14 (9), p. 2819-2826
Journal article
2007

Charge recombination versus charge separation in donor-bridge-acceptor systems

Joanna Wiberg, L. J. Guo, Karin Pettersson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 129 (1), p. 155-163
Journal article
2007

Characterization of self-assembled monolayers of oligo(phenyleneethynylene) derivatives of varying shapes on gold: Effect of laterally extended pi-systems

Daniel Nilsson, S. Watcharinyanon, Mattias P Eng et al
Langmuir. Vol. 23 (11), p. 6170-6181
Journal article
2006

Geometrically homogeneous series of covalently linked zinc/free-base porphyrin dimers of varying length; design, synthesis and characterization

Thomas Ljungdahl, Karin Pettersson, Bo Albinsson et al
European Journal of Organic Chemistry (14), p. 3087-3096
Journal article
2006

Interplay between Barrier Width and Height in Electron Tunneling: Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Based Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Systems

Karin Pettersson, Joanna Wiberg, Thomas Ljungdahl et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 110 (1), p. 319-326
Journal article
2006

Triplet excitation energy transfer in porphyrin-based donor-bridge-acceptor systems with conjugated bridges of varying length: An experimental and DFT study

Mattias P Eng, Thomas Ljungdahl, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Vol. 110 (13), p. 6483-6491
Journal article
2006

Singlet Energy Transfer in Porphyrin-Based Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Systems: Interaction between Bridge Length and Bridge Energy

Karin Pettersson, Alexander Kyrychenko, Elin Rönnow et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 110 (1), p. 310-318
Journal article
2005

Triplet photophysics of gold(III) porphyrins

Mattias P Eng, Thomas Ljungdahl, Joakim Andreasson et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 109 (9), p. 1776-1784
Journal article
2005

Competition between superexchange-mediated and sequential electron transfer in a bridged donor-acceptor system

Mikael Winters, Karin Pettersson, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Chem. Eur. J.. Vol. 11 (2), p. 562-573
Journal article
2005

Controlling excitation energy and electron transfer by tuning the electronic coupling

Bo Albinsson, Jerker Mårtensson
Energy Harvesting Materials, p. 187-218
Book chapter
2004

Intersystem Crossing versus Electron Transfer in Porphyrin-Based Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Systems: Influence of a Paramagnetic Species

Karin Pettersson, K. Kilsa, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 126 (21), p. 6710-6719
Journal article
2003

Photoinduced hole transfer from the triplet state in a porphyrin-based donor-bridge-acceptor system

Joakim Andreasson, Gerdenis Kodis, Thomas Ljungdahl et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 107 (42), p. 8825-8833
Journal article
2002

The gold porphyrin first excited singlet state

Joakim Andreasson, G. Kodis, S. Lin et al
Photochemistry and Photobiology. Vol. 76 (1), p. 47-50
Journal article
2002

Sterically induced conformational relaxation and structure of meso-diaryloctaalkyl porphyrins in the excited triplet state: Experimental and DFT studies

Alexander Kyrychenko, Joakim Andreasson, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry B Materials. Vol. 106 (48), p. 12613-12622
Journal article
2002

Temperature and viscosity dependence of the triplet energy transfer process in porphyrin dimers

Joakim Andreasson, Alexander Kyrychenko, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. Vol. 1 (2), p. 111-119
Journal article
2001

Bridge-dependent electron transfer in porphyrin-based donor-bridge-acceptor systems

Kristine Kilså, Johan Kajanus, A. N. Macpherson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 123 (13), p. 3069-3080
Journal article
2001

Årets nobelpris i kemi till katalytisk syntes av spegelbildsmolekyler

Lars Öhrström, Gunnar Westman, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Magasin Chalmers (3)
Magazine article
2001

Control of electron transfer in supramolecular systems

Kristine Kilså, A. N. Macpherson, T. Gillbro et al
Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. Vol. 57 (11), p. 2213-2227
Journal article
2001

Enhanced intersystem crossing in donor/acceptor systems based on zinc/iron or free-base/iron porphyrins

Kristine Kilså, Johan Kajanus, Sven Larsson et al
Chemistry - A European Journal. Vol. 7 (10), p. 2122-2133
Journal article
2000

Efficient non-radiative deactivation and conformational flexibility of meso-diaryloctaalkylporphyrins in the excited triplet state

Joakim Andreasson, Hanna Zetterqvist, Johan Kajanus et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 104 (41), p. 9307-9314
Journal article
2000

Triplet energy transfer in porphyrin dimers: Comparison between pi- and sigma-chromophore bridged systems

Joakim Andreasson, Johan Kajanus, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 122 (40), p. 9844-9845
Journal article
1999

Mediated electronic coupling: Singlet energy transfer in porphyrin dimers enhanced by the bridging chromophore

Kristine Kilså, Johan Kajanus, Jerker Mårtensson et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry B Materials. Vol. 103 (34), p. 7329-7339
Journal article
1999

Synthesis of bis(phenylethynyl)arylene-linked diporphyrins designed for studies of intramolecular energy transfer

Johan Kajanus, S. B. van Berlekom, Bo Albinsson et al
Synthesis (7), p. 1155-1162
Journal article
1997

Mediated energy transfer in covalently linked porphyrin dimers

Kristine Kilså-Jensen, S. B. vanBerlekom, Johan Kajanus et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Vol. 101 (12), p. 2218-2220
Journal article

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Showing 6 research projects

2020–2022

Singlet fission in self-assembly materials

Henrik Sundén Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerker Mårtensson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Maria Abrahamsson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Formas

4 publications exist
2019–

Self-assembly singlet fission for solar cell applications

Henrik Sundén Chemistry and Biochemistry
Maria Abrahamsson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jerker Mårtensson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chalmers

2018–

Towards new more efficient solar cell materials

Jerker Mårtensson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Chalmers

2017–2020

Mot bättre behandlingar för malignt melanom i hud och ögon

Jerker Mårtensson Chemistry and Biochemistry
Familjen Erling-Perssons stiftelse

2013–2015

Photon Fission & Fusion: Beyond the Limits of Conventional Solar Energy Technologies

Bo Albinsson Physical Chemistry
Björn Sandén Environmental Systems Analysis
Fredrik Johansson Organic Chemistry
Duncan Kushnir Environmental Systems Analysis
Damir Dzebo Physical Chemistry
Maria Abrahamsson Physical Chemistry
Kasper Moth-Poulsen Polymer Technology
Victor Gray Polymer Technology
Jerker Mårtensson Organic Chemistry
Swedish Energy Agency

2012–2014

Design and synthesis of molecular architectures with tailord excited state deactivation channels

Jerker Mårtensson Organic Chemistry
Swedish Research Council (VR)

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