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1. Dieter Cremer, Peder Svensson, Elfi Kraka, Zoran Konkoli, and Per Ahlberg: Exploration of the Potential Energy Surface of C9H9+ by ab initio Methods II. Is the 1,4-Bishomotropilium Cation a Bishomoaromatic Prototype,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 115, 7457-7464 (1993)
2. Elfi Kraka, Zoran Konkoli, and Dieter Cremer, Joseph Fowler and Henry F. Schaefer III Diflourodioxirane - An Unusual Cyclic Peroxide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118, 10595-10608 (1996)
3. Zoran Konkoli, Elfi Kraka, and Dieter Cremer The Unified Reaction Valley Approach. Mechanism of the reaction CH3+H2 CH4+H, J. Phys. Chem. A 101, 1742-1757 (1997).
4. Zoran Konkoli, Zhi He and Dieter Cremer On the role of single excitations in Quasi-degenerate Perturbation Theory, Theoret. Chem. Accounts 96, 71-74 (1997). One of the problems that are still close to my heart, though I do not see any solution to it: given that your wave function is of the multiconfiguration type (not single determinant) how to do perturbation theory? This paper showed that one has to be extremely careful.
5. Zoran Konkoli, Dieter Cremer, and Elfi Kraka Diabatic ordering of vibrational normal modes in reaction valley studies, J. Comput. Chem. 18, 1282-1294 (1997).
6. Zoran Konkoli and Dieter Cremer A new way of analysis vibrational spectra I. Derivation of Adiabatic internal modes, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 67, 1-9 (1998). First of the series of papers that tried to solve nuclear coordinate problem. What is really a C-H vibration mode? How to characterize it? How our intuition of nuclear motion relates to reality? 
7. Zoran Konkoli, Andreas J. Larsson, and Dieter Cremer A new way of analysis vibrational spectra II. Comparison of internal mode frequencies, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 67, 11-27 (1998). ibid, second paper
8. Zoran Konkoli and Dieter Cremer A new way of analysis vibrational spectra III. Characterization of normal vibrational modes in terms of internal vibrational modes, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 67, 29-40 (1998). ibid, third paper
9. Zoran Konkoli, Andreas J. Larsson, and Dieter Cremer A new way of analysis vibrational spectra IV. Application and testing of adiabatic modes within the concept of the characterization of normal modes, Int. J. Quant. Chem. 67, 41-55 (1998). ibid, fourht paper
10. Zoran Konkoli, Henrik Johannesson and Benjamin P. Lee Fluctuation Effects in Steric Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Phys. Rev. E 59, R3787 (1999). We studied diffusion controlled model A+A, A+B, B+B. Inspiration came from up to date work on steric effects (molecules need to have particular orientation in order to react). Field theory is used together with Monte Carlo simulation. We showed that system exhibits both d/2 and d/4 decays characteristic of A+A and A+B systems.
11. Zoran Konkoli and Henrik Johannesson Two-species reaction-diffusion system with equal diffusion constants: Anomalous density decay at large times, Phys. Rev E 62, 3276 (2000) Same as 10. but with non-equal initial concentrations. This worked showed how fluctuation dominated kinetics leads to complete break-down of classical (mean field) kinetics. According to classical kinetics ration nA/nB should saturate either to infinity or zero, while correct results is that this ratio should saturate to constant value.
12. Zoran Konkoli, John Hertz and Silvio Franz Random heteropolymer dynamics, . Phys. Rev. E 64, 051910 (2001) Is it possible to do a pencil-and-paper study of protein dynamics? We (like many before us) showed that it is. This was one of the first dynamic calculations (no replicas as in static calculation, just Langevin equation).
13. Tobias Ambjörnsson, Peter S. Apell, Zoran Konkoli, Edmund A. Di Marzio, John J. Kasianowicz Charged polymer membrane translocation, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 4063-4073 (2002). How does the long polymer move through a narrow hole? This question is extremely relevant for understanding intake of long molecules by the living cell.
14. Zoran Konkoli and John Hertz Embedding The Native State into the Random Heteropolymer Model: The Dynamic Approach, Phys. Rev. E 67, 051915 (2003). Second attmept to look at protein folding. This time with native state present. How to build a native state information into a protein model? We showed that glassy phase is hard to get rid off (even with largest possible value of free parameters). In light of this the fact that real proteins are not glassy becomes more puzzling...
15. Zoran Konkoli, A. Karlsson, O. Orwar The pair approach applied to kinetics in restricted geometries: strengths and weaknesses of the method, J. Phys. Chem B 107, 14077 (2003). Here we used many-body density funtion formalism developed by Kotomin-Kuzovkov to describe diffusion controlled reactions in small volumes. This is a pure method development paper. 
16. Zoran Konkoli Application of the Bogolyubov's theory of weakly non-ideal Bose gas on the A+A, A+B, B+B reaction-diffusion system, Phys. Rev. E 69, 11106 (2004). Another pure method development paper. Using long forgotten tehcnique (weakly non-ideal Bose gass theory, originally suggested by Ovchinikov among others)  to solve a field theory for typical diffusion-controlled reactions. I would call it "Russian school".
17. Mattias Karlsson, Max Davidson, Roger Karlsson, Anders Karlsson, Johan Bergenholtz, Zoran Konkoli, Aldo Jesorka, Tatsiana Lobovkina, Johan Hurtig, Marina Voinova, and Owe Orwar Biomimetic nanoscale reactors and networks, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 55, 613 (2004).
18. Anders Karlsson, Kristin Sott, Martin Markström, Max Davidson, Zoran Konkoli, and Owe Orwar Controlled Initiation of Enzymatic Reactions in Micrometer-Sized Biomimetic Compartments, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 1609 (2005).
19. Zoran Konkoli The interplay between chemical reactions and transport in structured spaces, Phys. Rev. E 72, 011917 (2005). This work is inspired by an attempt to understnad how structure of the underlying reaction container influences reaction dynamics (kinetics). Such study is relevant for understanding living cell biochemistry in general.
20. Ludvig Lizana and Zoran Konkoli Diffusive transport in networks built of containers and tubes, Phys. Rev. E 72, 026305 (2005). How to desribe diffusive transport in structured space? Do we need to solve diffusion equation all the time? Such approach would be unwise for large and complicated structures. Are there better alternatives? We showed that indeed there are...
21. Kristin Sott, Tatsiana Lobovkina, Ludvig Lizana, Michal Tokarz, Brigitte Bauer, Zoran Konkoli, and Owe Orwar Controlling enzymatic reactions by geometry in a biomimetic nanoscale network. Nano Lett. 6(2), 209 (2006). This is experimental follow up of theoretical paper no. 15. There we showed that theory of diffuson-controlled reactions can be used to describe real biochemical problem. (To my great surprise there are still people around who doubt this...)
22.  L. Lizana, Z. Konkoli, and O. Orwar Tunable Filtering of Chemical Signals in a Simple Nanoscale Reaction-Diffusion Network Accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. B; to appear in late April or early May 2007 issues. Study of biocomputing by diffusion controlled reactions. A first step in this direction where structured geometry is used together with transport. One can make things more complicated by adding reactions. 
23. Zoran Konkoli:  Diffusion-controlled reactions in small and structured spaces as a tool for describing living cell biochemistry, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 19(6): 065149 (2007). By invitation; special issue on Chemical Kinetics Beyond the Textbook: Fluctuations, Many-Particle Effects and Anomalous Dynamics
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