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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biomolecular Research Center

Dr. Olga Mass started at Boise State University in 2013 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Biomolecular Research Center. She earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from North Carolina State University, and both an M.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the State Moscow Academy of Fine Chemistry Technology. Dr. Mass is a reviewer for various academic journals including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Inorganic Chemistry among others.

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Dr. Olga Mass started at Boise State University in 2013 and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Biomolecular Research Center. She earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from North Carolina State University, and both an M.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the State Moscow Academy of Fine Chemistry Technology. Dr. Mass is a reviewer for various academic journals including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Inorganic Chemistry among others.

Routes to Trans A,B-Substituted Bacteriochlorins (Jonathan S. Lindsey and Olga A. Mass) (2016)

Bacteriochlorin of Formula I: wherein R is H or silyl are described, along with compositions containing the same and methods of making and using the same.

Articles (16)

Exciton Delocalization in a Fully Synthetic DNA-Templated Bacteriochlorin Dimer (Olga A. Mass, Devan R. Watt, Lance K. Patten, et al.) Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2023)

A bacteriochlorophyll a (Bchla) dimer is a basic functional unit in the LH1 and LH2 photosynthetic pigment–protein antenna complexes of purple bacteria, where an ordered, close arrangement of Bchla pigments—secured by noncovalent bonding to a ...

Effect of Substituent Location on the Relationship Between the Transition Dipole Moments, Difference Static Dipole, and Hydrophobicity in Squaraine Dyes for Quantum Information Devices (Maia Ketteridge, Austin Biaggne, Ryan Rau, et al.) Molecules (2023)

Aggregates of organic dyes that exhibit excitonic coupling have a wide array of applications, including medical imaging, organic photovoltaics, and quantum information devices. The optical properties of a dye monomer, as a basis of dye ...

Molecular Dynamic Studies of Dye–Dye and Dye–DNA Interactions Governing Excitonic Coupling in Squaraine Aggregates Templated by DNA Holliday Junctions (German Barcenas, Austin Biaggne, Olga A. Mass, et al.) International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2023)

Dye molecules, arranged in an aggregate, can display excitonic delocalization. The use of DNA scaffolding to control aggregate configurations and delocalization is of research interest. Here, we applied Molecular Dynamics (MD) to gain an insight ...

Oblique Packing and Tunable Excitonic Coupling in DNA-Templated Squaraine Rotaxane Dimer Aggregates (Matthew S. Barclay, Christopher K. Wilson, Simon K. Roy, et al.) ChemPhotoChem (2022)

When molecules are aggregated such that their excited states form delocalized excitons, their spatial arrangement, or packing, can be coarsely controlled by templating and finely controlled by chemical substitution; however, challenges remain in controlling their ...

Photocrosslinking Probes Proximity of Thymine Modifiers Tethering Excitonically Coupled Dye Aggregates to DNA Holliday Junction (Shibani Basu, Keitel Cervantes-Salguero, Bernard Yurke, et al.) Molecules (2022)

A DNA Holliday junction (HJ) has been used as a versatile scaffold to create a variety of covalently templated molecular dye aggregates exhibiting strong excitonic coupling. In these dye-DNA constructs, one way to attach dyes ...

Influence of Hydrophobicity on Excitonic Coupling in DNA-Templated Indolenine Squaraine Dye Aggregates (Olga A. Mass, Christopher K. Wilson, German Barcenas, et al.) The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2022)

Control over the strength of excitonic coupling in molecular dye aggregates is a substantial factor for the development of technologies such as light harvesting, optoelectronics, and quantum computing. According to the molecular exciton model, the ...

Exciton Delocalization and Scaffold Stability in Bridged Nucleotide-Substituted, DNA Duplex-Templated Cyanine Aggregates (Simon K. Roy, Olga A. Mass, Donald L. Kellis, et al.) The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2021)

Molecular excitons play a foundational role in chromophore aggregates found in light-harvesting systems and offer potential applications in engineered excitonic systems. Controlled aggregation of chromophores to promote exciton delocalization has been achieved by covalently tethering ...

Excited-State Lifetimes of DNA-Templated Cyanine Dimer, Trimer, and Tetramer Aggregates: The Role of Exciton Delocalization, Dye Separation, and DNA Heterogeneity (Jonathan S. Huff, Daniel B. Turner, Olga A. Mass, et al.) The Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2021)

DNA-templated molecular (dye) aggregates are a novel class of materials that have garnered attention in a broad range of areas including light harvesting, sensing, and computing. Using DNA to template dye aggregation is attractive due ...

Bioactive Recombinant Human Oncostatin M for NMR-Based Screening in Drug Discovery (Olga A. Mass, Joseph Tuccinardi, Luke Woodbury, et al.) Scientific Reports (2021)

Oncostatin M (OSM) is a pleiotropic, interleukin-6 family inflammatory cytokine that plays an important role in inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer progression and metastasis. Recently, elevated OSM levels have been ...

First-Principles Studies of Substituent Effects on Squaraine Dyes (German Barcenas, Austin Biaggne, Olga A. Mass, et al.) RSC Advances (2021)

Dye molecules that absorb light in the visible region are key components in many applications, including organic photovoltaics, biological fluorescent labeling, super-resolution microscopy, and energy transport. One family of dyes, known as squaraines, has received ...

Rotaxane Rings Promote Oblique Packing and Extended Lifetimes in DNA-Templated Molecular Dye Aggregates (Matthew S. Barclay, Simon K. Roy, Jonathan S. Huff, et al.) Communications Chemistry (2021)

Molecular excitons play a central role in natural and artificial light harvesting, organic electronics, and nanoscale computing. The structure and dynamics of molecular excitons, critical to each application, are sensitively governed by molecular packing. Deoxyribonucleic ...

Exciton Delocalization in Indolenine Squaraine Aggregates Templated by DNA Holliday Junction Scaffolds (Olga A. Mass, Christopher K. Wilson, Simon K. Roy, et al.) The Journal of Physical Chemistry B: Liquids, Chemical, and Dynamical Processes in Solution, Spectroscopy in Solution (2020)

Exciton delocalization plays a prominent role in the photophysics of molecular aggregates, ultimately governing their particular function or application. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a compelling scaffold in which to template molecular aggregates and promote exciton ...

Synthesis of Tailored Hydrodipyrrins and Their Examination in Directed Routes to Bacteriochlorins and Tetradehydrocorrins (Shaofei Zhang, Muthyala Nagarjuna Reddy, Olga Mass, et al.) New Journal of Chemistry (2017)

The chemistry of reduced tetrapyrroles is less developed than that of the fully unsaturated (porphyrin) analogues, yet is of comparable importance given the natural roles of hydroporphyrins (e.g., chlorophylls, bacteriochlorophylls) and contracted hydroporphyrins (cobalamin). The ...

Synthesis and Spectral Properties of meso-Arylbacteriochlorins, Including Insights into Essential Motifs of their Hydrodipyrrin Precursors (Muthyala Nagarjuna Reddy, Shaofei Zhang, Han-Je Kim, et al.) Molecules (2017)

Synthetic bacteriochlorins—analogues of bacteriochlorophylls, Nature’s near-infrared absorbers—are attractive for diverse photochemical studies. meso-Arylbacteriochlorins have been prepared by the self-condensation of a dihydrodipyrrin–carbinol or dihydrodipyrrin–acetal following an Eastern-Western (E-W) or Northern-Southern (N-S) joining process. The bacteriochlorins ...

Strong Coupling of Localized Surface Plasmons to Excitons in Light-Harvesting Complexes (Olga A. Mass) Nano Letters (2016)

Gold nanostructure arrays exhibit surface plasmon resonances that split after attaching light harvesting complexes 1 and 2 (LH1 and LH2) from purple bacteria. The splitting is attributed to strong coupling between the localized surface plasmon ...

Regioselective β-Pyrrolic Electrophilic Substitution of Hydrodipyrrin–Dialkylboron Complexes Facilitates Access to Synthetic Models for Chlorophyll f (Mengran Liu, Marcin Ptaszek, Olga Mass, et al.) New Journal of Chemistry (2014)

Substituents in ring A of chlorophylls can exert profound effects on spectral properties. A de novo route to synthetic chlorins employs a tetrahydrodipyrrin reactant containing pyrrole and pyrroline rings. Complexation of the tetrahydrodipyrrin with a dialkylboron motif ...

Includes conference presentations and guest lectures

Incorporation of Guided-Inquiry Experiments into the Boise State Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1 Curriculum (D. L. Warner, Olga A. Mass, E. Brown, et al.) 2016 Summit for Transforming STEM Teaching in Higher Education (2016)

Synthetic Methodology to Address What Makes Chlorophylls Green (Olga A. Mass) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boise State University (2012)

New Route to Diverse 5-Substituted Bacteriochlorins (Olga A. Mass and J. S. Lindsey) 241st National Meeting of American Chemical Society (2011)

De Novo Route to Synthetic Analogs of Bacteriochlorophyll (Olga A. Mass, M. Ptaszek and J. S. Lindsey) 239th National Meeting of American Chemical Society (2010)

Synthesis and Spectral Properties of the Hydrocarbon Skeleton of Chlorophylls (Olga A. Mass, M. Taniguchi, M. Ptaszek, et al.) 239th National Meeting of American Chemical Society (2010)

Metastatic Breast Cancer and the Road to Drug Discovery (Briana R. Grantham, Lisa Warner, Luke Woodbury, et al.) 2020 Undergraduate Research Showcase (2020)

It is projected that 271,270 people in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. Of those people with metastatic breast cancer, only 27% will live to see the 5-year mark. The ...

The Expression and Purification of a Bioactive Inflammatory Cytokine for Structural and Drug Discovery Applications (Brittany R. Rushing, Briana R. Grantham, Luke Woodbury, et al.) 2020 Undergraduate Research Showcase (2020)

It is projected that 271,270 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. Of those people with metastatic breast cancer, only 27% will live to see the 5-year mark. The pleiotropic ...

Production of Recombinant Inflammatory Cytokines for Structure-based Drug Discovery of Anti-breast Cancer Agents (Rebecca K. Torres, Olga A. Mass, Kelsey Skluzacek, et al.) Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research