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Peter C Ford

Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Verified email at ucsb.edu
Cited by 30766

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter: Experiment summary after the first year of global mapping of Mars

…, DD Rowlands, O Aharonson, PG Ford… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument on the Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft, has measured the topography, surface roughness, and 1.064‐μm reflectivity of Mars …

Advanced CCD imaging spectrometer (ACIS) instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory

GP Garmire, MW Bautz, PG Ford… - X-Ray and Gamma …, 2003 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The ACIS instrument has been operating for three years in orbit, producing high quality scientific
data on a wide variety of X-ray emitting astronomical objects. Except for a brief period at …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrate and nitrite in biology, nutrition and therapeutics

…, P Cabrales, A Fago, M Feelisch, PC Ford… - Nature chemical …, 2009 - nature.com
Inorganic nitrate and nitrite from endogenous or dietary sources are metabolized in vivo to
nitric oxide (NO) and other bioactive nitrogen oxides. The nitrate-nitrite-NO pathway is …

Mechanistic aspects of the reactions of nitric oxide with transition-metal complexes

PC Ford, IM Lorkovic - Chemical reviews, 2002 - ACS Publications
It is now well established that nitric oxide (aka nitrogen monoxide) plays fundamental roles in
biochemical processes. 1, 2 Early concerns with the biology of NO were largely focused on …

Reactions of the bioregulatory agent nitric oxide in oxygenated aqueous media: Determination of the kinetics for oxidation and nitrosation by intermediates generated …

…, RW Nims, JE Saavedra, PC Ford - Chemical research in …, 1993 - ACS Publications
A recent discovery in mammalian biology has been the important physiological role that
nitric oxide plays in blood pressure regulation, neurotransmission, macrophage-in-duced …

Photochemical and photophysical properties of tetranuclear and hexanuclear clusters of metals with d10 and s2 electronic configurations

PC Ford, A Vogler - Accounts of chemical research, 1993 - ACS Publications
Although transition metal complex photochemistry and photophysics have occupied theinterest
of numerous investigators for severaldecades, relatively little attention has been paid to …

Autoxidation kinetics of aqueous nitric oxide

PC Ford, DA Wink, DM Stanbury - Febs Letters, 1993 - Elsevier
Reports on the kinetics of the autoxidation of aqueous nitric oxide are discussed. It is
concluded that the correct rate law is-d [NO]/dt= 4k aq [NO] 2 [O 2] with k aq= 2× 10 6 M− 2 …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for integrated services operation over diffserv networks

Y Bernet, P Ford, R Yavatkar, F Baker, L Zhang… - 2000 - rfc-editor.org
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Photophysical studies in solution of the tetranuclear copper (I) clusters Cu4I4L4 (L= pyridine or substituted pyridine)

KR Kyle, CK Ryu, PC Ford… - Journal of the American …, 1991 - ACS Publications
Reported are the emission and excitation spectra and emission lifetimes of a series of
tetranuclear copper (I) clusters of the type Cu4I4L4 (L= pyridine, substituted pyridine, or a …

Catalytic disassembly of an organosolv lignin via hydrogen transfer from supercritical methanol

…, TD Matson, ML Fettig, SL Scott, AV Iretskii, PC Ford - Green …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel approach to disassembling biomass-derived lignin into processible units is described.
This transformation is achieved in supercritical methanol, using a Cu-doped porous metal …