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Fielicke A. Probing the binding and activation of small molecules by gas-phase transition metal clusters via IR spectroscopy. Chem Soc Rev 2023. [PMID: 37162518 DOI: 10.1039/d2cs00104g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Isolated transition metal clusters have been established as useful models for extended metal surfaces or deposited metal particles, to improve the understanding of their surface chemistry and of catalytic reactions. For this objective, an important milestone has been the development of experimental methods for the size-specific structural characterization of clusters and cluster complexes in the gas phase. This review focusses on the characterization of molecular ligands, their binding and activation by small transition metal clusters, using cluster-size specific infrared action spectroscopy. A comprehensive overview and a critical discussion of the experimental data available to date is provided, reaching from the initial results obtained using line-tuneable CO2 lasers to present-day studies applying infrared free electron lasers as well as other intense and broadly tuneable IR laser sources.
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- André Fielicke
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Hou G, Faragó E, Buzsáki D, Nyulászi L, Höltzl T, Janssens E. Observation of the Reaction Intermediates of Methanol Dehydrogenation by Cationic Vanadium Clusters. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202011109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Gao‐Lei Hou
- Quantum Solid-State Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200D 3001 Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
- Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology Késmárk utca 28/A 1158 Budapest Hungary
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- Quantum Solid-State Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200D 3001 Leuven Belgium
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Hou G, Faragó E, Buzsáki D, Nyulászi L, Höltzl T, Janssens E. Observation of the Reaction Intermediates of Methanol Dehydrogenation by Cationic Vanadium Clusters. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:4756-4763. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Gao‐Lei Hou
- Quantum Solid-State Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200D 3001 Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry MTA-BME Computer Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary
- Furukawa Electric Institute of Technology Késmárk utca 28/A 1158 Budapest Hungary
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- Quantum Solid-State Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200D 3001 Leuven Belgium
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Lang SM, Bernhardt TM, Bakker JM, Yoon B, Landman U. Methanol C–O Bond Activation by Free Gold Clusters Probed via Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy. Z PHYS CHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1515/zpch-2018-1368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The activation of methanol (CD3OD and CD3OH) by small cationic gold clusters has been investigated via infrared multiphoton dissociation (IR-MPD) spectroscopy in the 615–1760 cm−1 frequency range. The C–O stretch mode around 925 cm−1 and a coupled CD3 deformation/C–O stretch mode around 1085 cm−1 are identified to be sensitive to the interaction between methanol and the gold clusters, whereas all other modes in the investigated spectral region remain unaffected. Based on the spectral shift of these modes, the largest C–O bond activation is observed for the mono-gold Au(CD3OD)+ cluster. This activation decreases with increasing the cluster size (number of gold atoms) and the number of adsorbed methanol molecules. Supporting density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that the C–O bond activation is caused by a methanol to gold charge donation, whereas the C–D and O–D bonds are not significantly activated by this process. The results are discussed with respect to previous experimental and theoretical investigations of neutral and cationic gold-methanol complexes focusing on the C–O stretch mode.
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- Sandra M. Lang
- Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 47 , 89069 Ulm , Germany
- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , GA 30332-0430, USA
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- Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Ulm , Albert-Einstein-Allee 47 , 89069 Ulm , Germany
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- Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory , Toernooiveld 7c , 6525 ED Nijmegen , The Netherlands
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , GA 30332-0430, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , GA 30332-0430, USA
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Truong NX, Savoca M, Harding DJ, Fielicke A, Dopfer O. Vibrational spectra and structures of neutral Si6X clusters (X = Be, B, C, N, O). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:22364-72. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03414g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Density-functional theory study of the reaction pathway for methanol demethanation on (n=3,4). Chem Phys Lett 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2011.03.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hirabayashi S, Okawa R, Ichihashi M, Kawazoe Y, Kondow T. Structures and reactions of methanol molecules on cobalt cluster ions studied by infrared photodissociation spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2009; 130:164304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3121503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Li YC, Yang CL, Sun MY, Li XX, An YP, Wang MS, Ma XG, Wang DH. Density Functional Theory Studies of Aun+(CH3OH)m (n = 3, 5, m = 1−5) Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:1353-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp808040v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Ying-Chun Li
- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, People’s Republic of China
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Hirabayashi S, Okawa R, Ichihashi M, Kondow T, Kawazoe Y. Detection of OH Stretching Mode of CH3OH Chemisorbed on Ni3+ and Ni4+ by Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2007; 111:7664-9. [PMID: 17602542 DOI: 10.1021/jp072548z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Structures of nickel cluster ions adsorbed with methanol, Ni3+ (CH3OH)m (m = 1-3) and Ni4+ (CH3OH)m (m = 1-4) were investigated by using infrared photodissociation (IR-PD) spectroscopy based on a tandem-type mass spectrometer, where they were produced by passing Ni3,4+ through methanol vapor under a multiple collision condition. The IR-PD spectra were measured in the wavenumber region between 3100 and 3900 cm-1. In each IR-PD spectrum, a single peak was observed at a wavenumber lower by approximately 40 cm-1 than that of the OH stretching vibration of a free methanol molecule and was assigned to the OH stretching vibrations of the methanol molecules in Ni3,4+ (CH3OH)m. The photodissociation was analyzed by assuming that Ni3,4+ (CH3OH)m dissociate unimolecularly after the photon energy absorbed by them is statistically distributed among the accessible modes of Ni3,4+ (CH3OH)m. In comparison with the calculations performed by the density functional theory, it is concluded that (1) the oxygen atom of each methanol molecule is bound to one of the nickel atoms in Ni3,4+ (defined as molecular chemisorption), (2) the methanol molecules in Ni3,4+ (CH3OH)m do not form any hydrogen bonds, and (3) the cross section for demethanation [CH4 detachment from Nin+ (CH3OH)] is related to the electron density distribution inside the methanol molecule.
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- Shinichi Hirabayashi
- East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan
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Boese AD, Schneider H, Glöss AN, Weber JM. The infrared spectrum of Au−∙CO2. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:154301. [PMID: 15945629 DOI: 10.1063/1.1875114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The Au-.CO2 ion-molecule complex has been studied by gas phase infrared photodissociation spectroscopy. Several sharp transitions can be identified as combination bands involving the asymmetric stretch vibrational mode of the CO2 ligand. Their frequencies are redshifted by several hundred cm(-1) from the frequencies of free CO2. We discuss our findings in the framework of ab initio and density-functional theory calculations, using anharmonic corrections to predict vibrational transition energies. The infrared spectrum is consistent with the formation of an aurylcarboxylate anion with a strongly bent CO2 subunit.
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- A Daniel Boese
- Institute of Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, P.O. Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Yadav RT, Ichihashi M, Kondow T. Origin of Size-Dependent Reactivity of Nickel Cluster Ions with Methanol. J Phys Chem A 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0400723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Ramkuber T. Yadav
- East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan, and Cluster Research Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute in East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan
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- East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan, and Cluster Research Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute in East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan
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- East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan, and Cluster Research Laboratory, Toyota Technological Institute in East Tokyo Laboratory, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., 717-86 Futamata, Ichikawa, Chiba 272-0001, Japan
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Jaeger T, Fielicke A, von Helden G, Meijer G, Duncan M. Infrared spectroscopy of water adsorption on vanadium cluster cations (Vx+; x=3–18). Chem Phys Lett 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.05.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Fossan KO, Uggerud E. Reactions of cationic iron clusters with ammonia, models of nitrogen hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. Dalton Trans 2004:892-7. [PMID: 15252474 DOI: 10.1039/b316600g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The gas phase reactivities of small cationic iron clusters, Fen+ (n = 1-20), towards ammonia were investigated using Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. Sequential addition of ammonia molecules to the clusters was observed to be the dominating process for n > 4. In the case of n = 4 we observed addition of ammonia accompanied by dehydrogenation. This reaction was modelled using hybrid density functional theory. Clusters with n < 4 do not react with ammonia. Clusters Fen+ (n = 1-20) react with neither N2 nor H2 at around 10(-8) mbar. When dinitrogen was seeded into the expanding helium, mixed clusters of the type FenNm+ were observed. These ions react with H2, either by addition, or by substitution of N2. The clusters with m = 1 were isolated in separate experiments and reacted with H2, which showed that mixed clusters with n = 5-13 add up to 5 molecules of dihydrogen in successive slow reactions.
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- Kjell O Fossan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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Koretsky GM, Knickelbein MB, Rousseau R, Marx D. A Combined Infrared Photodissociation and Theoretical Study of the Interaction of Ethanol with Small Gold Clusters. J Phys Chem A 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0129636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- H Sato
- Laser Photochemistry Research Group, Department of Chemistry for Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Mi'e University, 1515 Kamihamacho, Tsu 514-8507, Japan.
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Jackson KA, Knickelbein M, Koretsky G, Srinivas S. The interaction of ammonia with small iron clusters: infrared spectra and density functional calculations of Fen(NH3)m and Fen(ND3)m complexes. Chem Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(00)00266-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Ichihashi M, Hanmura T, Yadav RT, Kondow T. Adsorption and Reaction of Methanol Molecule on Nickel Cluster Ions, Nin+(n= 3−11). J Phys Chem A 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0028610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rousseau R, Marx D. The interaction of gold clusters with methanol molecules: Ab initio molecular dynamics of Aun+CH3OH and AunCH3OH. J Chem Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1063/1.480719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dietrich G, Krückeberg S, Lützenkirchen K, Schweikhard L, Walther C. The interaction of gold clusters with methanol molecules: Infrared photodissociation of mass-selected Aun+(CH3OH)m. J Chem Phys 2000. [DOI: 10.1063/1.480718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Atoms and small molecules react with transition metal clusters in ways that are analogous to the physisorption and chemisorption reactions observed on the corresponding extended metal surface. However, often underlying these similarities are size-dependent variations in the reaction mechanisms and rates, the interpretation of which requires a detailed understanding of the structures of both the bare metal cluster substrates and the cluster-molecule complexes. Although polyatomic transition metal clusters cannot be characterized by the traditional methods of molecular spectroscopy, the combination of other physical and chemical probes can provide qualitative and semiquantitative structural information. These techniques, when combined with equilibrium geometries calculated using ab initio or semiempirical methods, provide a detailed picture of the structural origin of metal cluster reactivity and its variation with size.
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- M B Knickelbein
- Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
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Knickelbein MB, Koretsky GM, Jackson KA, Pederson MR, Hajnal Z. Hydrogenated and deuterated iron clusters: Infrared spectra and density functional calculations. J Chem Phys 1998. [DOI: 10.1063/1.477767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Rousseau R, Dietrich G, Krückeberg S, Lützenkirchen K, Marx D, Schweikhard L, Walther C. Probing cluster structures with sensor molecules: methanol adsorbed onto gold clusters. Chem Phys Lett 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(98)00926-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Kleiman V, Arrivo S, Melinger J, Heilweil E. Controlling condensed-phase vibrational excitation with tailored infrared pulses. Chem Phys 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(97)00367-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Knickelbein MB, Koretsky GM. Infrared Studies of the Interaction of Methanol with Cun, Agn, and Aun. J Phys Chem A 1998. [DOI: 10.1021/jp973381k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Koretsky GM, Knickelbein MB. The reactions of silver clusters with ethylene and ethylene oxide: Infrared and photoionization studies of Agn(C2H4)m, Agn(C2H4O)m and their deuterated analogs. J Chem Phys 1997. [DOI: 10.1063/1.474219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Kirkwood D, Stace A. Infrared and collision-induced fragmentation of iron ethoxide cations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1176(97)00024-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of Agn(C6H6)m and Agn(C6D6)m clusters: evidence of adsorption-induced symmetry reduction in benzene. Chem Phys Lett 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(97)00132-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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