| Mindless chemistry PP Bera, KW Sattelmeyer, M Saunders, HF Schaefer, PR Schleyer The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110 (13), 4287-4290, 2006 | 182 | 2006 |
| Prebiotic astrochemistry and the formation of molecules of astrobiological interest in interstellar clouds and protostellar disks SA Sandford, M Nuevo, PP Bera, TJ Lee Chemical reviews 120 (11), 4616-4659, 2020 | 158 | 2020 |
| (G–H)•–C and G–(C–H)• radicals derived from the guanine·cytosine base pair cause DNA subunit lesions PP Bera, HF Schaefer III Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (19), 6698-6703, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| Thymine and other prebiotic molecules produced from the ultraviolet photo-irradiation of pyrimidine in simple astrophysical ice analogs CK Materese, M Nuevo, PP Bera, TJ Lee, SA Sandford Astrobiology 13 (10), 948-962, 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| Identifying the molecular origin of global warming PP Bera, JS Francisco, TJ Lee The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113 (45), 12694-12699, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| PDRs4All: A JWST early release science program on radiative feedback from massive stars PI Team, O Berné, É Habart, E Peeters, A Abergel, EA Bergin, ... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 134 (1035), 054301, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| The deprotonated guanine-cytosine base pair MC Lind, PP Bera, NA Richardson, SE Wheeler, HF Schaefer III Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (20), 7554-7559, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Mechanism for the abiotic synthesis of uracil via UV-induced oxidation of pyrimidine in pure H2O ices under astrophysical conditions PP Bera, M Nuevo, SN Milam, SA Sandford, TJ Lee The Journal of chemical physics 133 (10), 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Low temperature formation of nitrogen-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PANHs)—barrierless routes to dihydro (iso) quinolines DSN Parker, T Yang, BB Dangi, RI Kaiser, PP Bera, TJ Lee The Astrophysical Journal 815 (2), 115, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Photosynthesis and photo-stability of nucleic acids in prebiotic extraterrestrial environments SA Sandford, PP Bera, TJ Lee, CK Materese, M Nuevo Photoinduced Phenomena in Nucleic Acids II: DNA Fragments and …, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| Evidence for the formation of pyrimidine cations from the sequential reactions of hydrogen cyanide with the acetylene radical cation AM Hamid, PP Bera, TJ Lee, SG Aziz, AO Alyoubi, MS El-Shall The journal of physical chemistry letters 5 (19), 3392-3398, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Mechanisms of the Formation of Adenine, Guanine, and Their Analogues in UV-Irradiated Mixed NH3:H2O Molecular Ices Containing Purine PP Bera, T Stein, M Head-Gordon, TJ Lee Astrobiology 17 (8), 771-785, 2017 | 32 | 2017 |
| Are isomers of the vinyl cyanide ion missing links for interstellar pyrimidine formation? PP Bera, TJ Lee, HF Schaefer The Journal of chemical physics 131 (7), 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Design strategies to minimize the radiative efficiency of global warming molecules PP Bera, JS Francisco, TJ Lee Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (20), 9049-9054, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Mechanisms for the formation of thymine under astrophysical conditions and implications for the origin of life PP Bera, M Nuevo, CK Materese, SA Sandford, TJ Lee The Journal of chemical physics 144 (14), 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Hydrocarbon growth via ion-molecule reactions: computational studies of the isomers of C 4 H 2+, C 6 H 2+ and C 6 H 4+ and their formation paths from acetylene and its fragments PP Bera, R Peverati, M Head-Gordon, TJ Lee Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17 (3), 1859-1869, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Periodane: a wealth of structural possibilities revealed by the kick procedure PP Bera, PR Schleyer, HF Schaefer III International journal of quantum chemistry 107 (12), 2220-2223, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| Association mechanisms of unsaturated C2 hydrocarbons with their cations: Acetylene and ethylene PP Bera, M Head-Gordon, TJ Lee Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 (6), 2012-2023, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Photochemistry and Photophysics of n-Butanal, 3-Methylbutanal, and 3,3-Dimethylbutanal: Experimental and Theoretical Study JM Tadic, GK Moortgat, PP Bera, M Loewenstein, EL Yates, TJ Lee The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116 (24), 5830-5839, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| Initiating molecular growth in the interstellar medium via dimeric complexes of observed ions and molecules PP Bera, M Head-Gordon, TJ Lee Astronomy & Astrophysics 535, A74, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
Timothy J. LeeNASA Ames Research CenterVerified email at nasa.gov
