Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

• Hardman, Samantha J. O. and Katherine C. Thompson (2007) 'The fluorescence transition of 2-aminopurine in double- and single-stranded DNA' Int. J. Quantum Chem. 107(11): 2092-2099.
• Hardman, Samantha J. O. and Katherine C. Thompson (2006) 'The Influence of Base Stacking and Hydrogen Bonding on the Fluorescence of 2-Aminopurine and Pyrrolocytosine in Nucleic Acids' Biochemistry 45(30): 9145-9155, 2006. DOI: 10.1021/bi060479t
• Thompson, Katherine C. and Norimune Miyake (2005) 'Properties of a new fluorescent cytosine analogue, pyrrolo-cytosine', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 109(12): 6012-6019. DOI: 10.1021/jp046177n. (Download this open access article.)
• King, Martin D., Katherine C. Thompson and Andrew D. Ward (2004) 'Laser Tweezers Raman Study of Optically Trapped Aerosol Droplets of Seawater and Oleic Acid Reacting with Ozone: Implications for Cloud Droplet Properties', Journal of the American Chemical Society 126 (51), 16710-16711. DOI: 10.1021/ja044717o. (Download this open access article.)
• This paper was also featured in 'Ozone clouds the issue of climate change', article by Fred Pearce in New Scientist, 18 December 2004, No 2478, page 9.
• Beddows, David C.S., Robert J. Donovan, Roy M. Harrison, Mathew R. Heal, Robert P. Kinnersley, Martin D. King, David H. Nicholson and Katherine C. Thompson (2004) 'Correlations in the Chemical Composition of Rural Background Atmospheric Aerosol in the UK Determined in Real Time Using Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry', Journal of Environmental Monitoring 6: 124-133.
• King, Martin D. and Katherine C. Thompson (2003) 'Rate Constants for the Reaction of NO and HO2 with Peroxy Radicals Formed from the Reaction of OH, Cl or NO3 with Alkenes, Dienes and α,ß-Unsaturated Carbonyls', Atmospheric Environment, 37: 4517-4527.
• Thompson, Katherine C. and Paula Margey (2003) 'Hydrogen Bonded Complexes Between Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitric Acid, Nitrous Acid and Water with SiH3OH and Si(OH)4', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 5: 2970–2975.
• Thompson, Katherine C., Carlos E. Canosa-Mas and Richard P. Wayne (2002) 'Kinetics and Mechanism of the Reaction Between Atomic Chlorine and Dimethyl Selenide; Comparison with the Reaction Between Atomic Chlorine and Dimethyl Sulphide', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 4: 4133-4139.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Justin M. Duffy, Martin D. King, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (2002) 'The Atmospheric Chemistry of Methyl Salicylate — Reactions with Atomic Chlorine and with Ozone', Atmospheric Environment 36: 2201–2205.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Eimear S. N. Cotter, Justin Duffy, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (2001) 'The Reactions of Atomic Chlorine with Acrolein, Methacrolein amd Methyl Vinyl Ketone', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3:3075–3084.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Terry J. Dillon, Howard Sidebottom, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (2001) 'A Study of the OH-initiated Oxidation of Chlorinated Ethenes in the Gas-phase',  Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3: 542–550.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Sinéad Carr, Martin D. King, Dudley E. Shallcross, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (1999) 'A Kinetic Study of the Reactions of NO3 with Methyl Vinyl Ketone, Methacrolein, Acrolein, Methyl Acrylate and Methyl Methacrylate', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1: 4195–4202.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Hilary R. Hutton-Squire, Martin D. King, David J. Stewart, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Waynev (1999) 'Laboratory Kinetic Studies of the Reaction of Cl Atoms with Species of Biogenic Origin: Δ3‑Carene, Isoprene, Methacrolein and Methyl Vinyl Ketone',  Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, 34: 163–170.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Martin D. King, Philip J. Scarr, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (1999) 'An Experimental Study of the Gas-phase Reactions of the NO3 Radical with Three Sesquiterpenes: Isolongifolene, Alloisolongifolene and α-Neoclovene', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 1:2929–2933.

Non-peer-reviewed publications

• King, M.F., F.N. Fisher, K.C. Thompson and A.D. Ward (2004-2005) 'Reactions on atmospheric mineral aerosol', CCLRC Central Laser Facility Annual Report.
• King, M.F., F.N. Fisher, K.C. Thompson and A.D. Ward (2004-2005) 'Oxidation of organic films on atmospheric aerosol', CCLRC Central Laser Facility Annual Report.
• Biggs, Peter, Carlos E. Canosa-Mas, Martin D. King, Philip. Scarr, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (1999) 'Reactions Between NO3 and Monoalkenes: Experiments and Correlations' in P.M. Borrell and P. Borrell (eds) Transport and transformation of pollutants in the troposphere. Volume 1, , WIT Press, Southampton [ISBN 1 85312 678 0] pp. 93–97.

Book reviews

• Hester, R.E. and R.M. Harrison (eds) (1999) 'Air Pollution and Health', The Chemical Educator, 4: 80.
• Canosa-Mas, Carlos E., Eimear S. Cotter, Hilary R. Hutton-Squire, Martin D. King, David J. Stewart, Katherine C. Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (1999) 'Laboratory Studies of the Reactions of Cl Atoms with Species of Biogenic Origin' in K.-H. Becker and G. Angeletti (eds) Chemical mechanisms of atmospheric processes EUR 18765 European Communities [ISBN 92-828-5774-3] pp. 311-316.
• Biggs, Peter, Carlos E. Canosa-Mas, Sinéad Carr, Martin D. King, Katherine C.Thompson and Richard P. Wayne (1997) 'The Reaction of Methacrolein and Methyl Vinyl Ketone with the NO3 Radical' in P.M. Borrell, P. Borrell, K. Kelly, T. Cvita and W. Seiler (eds) Transport and transformation of pollutants in the troposphere. Volume 2, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, [ISBN 1 85312 498 2] pp. 515–519.