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Moss OC, Schleif T, Messinger JP, Rullán Buxó AG, Greis K, Perez EH, Johnson MA. Hydrogen Tag Shifts as Vibrational Reporters for Positional Isomers of Formylphenides: Surprising Mobility of the Carbanion Center upon Collisional Decarboxylation of the Parent Benzoates. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:1969-1974. [PMID: 38346269 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Infrared photodissociation of weakly bound "mass tags" is widely used to determine the structures of ions by analyzing their vibrational spectra. Molecular hydrogen is a common choice for tagging in cryogenic radio-frequency ion traps. Although the H2 molecules can introduce distortions in the target species, we demonstrate an advantage of H2 tagging in the analysis of positional isomers adopted by the molecular anions derived from decarboxylation of formylbenzoates. Attachment of H2 to the carbanion centers of three such isomers yields distinct shifts in the H2 stretch, which can be used to determine the distribution of isomers in an unknown sample. Electronic structure calculations indicate that the position-dependent shifts are due to different reactivities of the carbanion sites with respect to an intracluster proton-transfer reaction with the H2 molecule. We exploit this spectroscopic method to quantify the surprisingly facile migrations of the anionic center that have been previously reported for phenide rearrangements.
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- Olivia C Moss
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Altensteinstraße 23A, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Miyazaki M, Ono M, Otsuka R, Dopfer O, Fujii M. Electronic and vibrational spectroscopies of aromatic clusters with He in a supersonic jet: The case of neutral and cationic phenol-Hen (n = 1 and 2). J Chem Phys 2023; 159:134303. [PMID: 37787127 DOI: 10.1063/5.0169716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023] Open
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Van der Waals clusters composed of He and aromatic molecules provide fundamental information about intermolecular interactions in weakly bound systems. In this study, phenol-helium clusters (PhOH-Hen with n ≤ 2) are characterized for the first time by UV and IR spectroscopies. The S1 ← S0 origin and ionization energy both show small but additive shifts, suggesting π-bound structures of these clusters, a conclusion supported by rotational contour analyses of the S1 origin bands. The OH stretching vibrations of the PhOH moiety in the clusters match with those of bare PhOH in both the S0 and D0 states, illustrating the negligible perturbation of the He atoms on the molecular vibration. Matrix shifts induced by He attachment are discussed based on the observed band positions with the help of complementary quantum chemical calculations. For comparison, the UV and ionization spectra of PhOH-Ne are reported as well.
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- Mitsuhiko Miyazaki
- Natural Science Division, Faculty of Core Research, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Ohtsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
- International Research Frontiers Initiative (IRFI), Institute of Innovation Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
- International Research Frontiers Initiative (IRFI), Institute of Innovation Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Singh A, Bergmeister S, Azhagesan A, Scheier P, Vilesov AF. Infrared spectroscopy of cations in helium nanodroplets. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2023; 94:093002. [PMID: 37695112 DOI: 10.1063/5.0163390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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Here, we describe our pulsed helium droplet apparatus for spectroscopy of molecular ions. Our approach involves the doping of the droplets of about 10 nm in diameter with precursor molecules, such as ethylene, followed by electron impact ionization. Droplets containing ions are irradiated by the pulsed infrared laser beam. Vibrational excitation of the embedded cations leads to the evaporation of the helium atoms in the droplets and the release of the free ions, which are detected by the quadrupole mass spectrometer. In this work, we upgraded the experimental setup by introducing an octupole RF collision cell downstream from the electron impact ionizer. The implementation of the RF ion guide increases the transmission efficiency of the ions. Filling the collision cell with additional He gas leads to a decrease in the droplet size, enhancing sensitivity to the laser excitation. We show that the spectroscopic signal depends linearly on the laser pulse energy, and the number of ions generated per laser pulse is about 100 times greater than in our previous experiments. These improvements facilitate faster and more reproducible measurements of the spectra, yielding a handy laboratory technique for the spectroscopic study of diverse molecular ions and ionic clusters at low temperature (0.4 K) in He droplets.
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- Amandeep Singh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Calvin A, Eierman S, Peng Z, Brzeczek M, Satterthwaite L, Patterson D. Single molecule infrared spectroscopy in the gas phase. Nature 2023; 621:295-299. [PMID: 37380028 PMCID: PMC10499601 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06351-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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Spectroscopy is a key analytical tool that provides valuable insight into molecular structure and is widely used to identify chemical samples. Tagging spectroscopy is a form of action spectroscopy in which the absorption of a single photon by a molecular ion is detected via the loss of a weakly attached, inert 'tag' particle (for example, He, Ne, N2)1-3. The absorption spectrum is derived from the tag loss rate as a function of incident radiation frequency. So far, all spectroscopy of gas phase polyatomic molecules has been restricted to large molecular ensembles, thus complicating spectral interpretation by the presence of multiple chemical and isomeric species. Here we present a novel tagging spectroscopic scheme to analyse the purest possible sample: a single gas phase molecule. We demonstrate this technique with the measurement of the infrared spectrum of a single gas phase tropylium (C7H7+) molecular ion. The high sensitivity of our method revealed spectral features not previously observed using traditional tagging methods4. Our approach, in principle, enables analysis of multicomponent mixtures by identifying constituent molecules one at a time. Single molecule sensitivity extends action spectroscopy to rare samples, such as those of extraterrestrial origin5,6, or to reactive reaction intermediates formed at number densities that are too low for traditional action methods.
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- Aaron Calvin
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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Beckmann R, Topolnicki R, Marx D. Deciphering the Impact of Helium Tagging on Flexible Molecules: Probing Microsolvation Effects of Protonated Acetylene by Quantum Configurational Entropy. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:2460-2471. [PMID: 36917575 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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Helium, the lightest and most weakly interacting noble gas, is well-known for its unsurpassed chemical inertness. In many applications of helium in experimental techniques, such as tagging, messenger, or nanodroplet isolation action spectroscopy of molecules or complexes, it is assumed that the interaction of helium with the respective species, and thus the resulting interaction-induced perturbation, is small enough not to affect their structure and dynamics. Here, we probe the impact of one up to many attached helium atoms on protonated acetylene─an important nonclassical carbocation subject to three-center two-electron bonding in its ground state structure─using highly accurate interaction potentials in conjunction with entropy-based higher-order nonlinear correlation analysis. In particular, using neural network potentials at CCSD(T) accuracy, we disclose the specific structural perturbations due to the tagging of C2H3+ with up to 20 He atoms at a temperature of 1 K. Analysis reveals that microsolvation by helium influences the structure of C2H3+ noticeably, while our investigation of the quantum configurational information entropy additionally shows that correlations between individual orientational degrees of freedom are affected as a function of cluster size. In particular, it is found that the most probable bridge-like structure of the ro-vibrational quantum ground state of C2H3+, which is nonplanar and trans-bent in contrast to the perfectly planar equilibrium structure, becomes increasingly more localized upon adding helium atoms. The remarkably nonlinear behavior of the angular correlations as a function of cluster size is traced back to the buildup of the quantum microsolvation shell that enhances anisotropy up to NHe = 6 while more and more isotropic solvation takes over beyond six. Our approach is general and thus sets the stage to investigate the salient effects on the structure of flexible molecules due to tagging beyond the specific case.
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- Richard Beckmann
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Dioscuri Center in Topological Data Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, Warsaw 00-656, Poland
- Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Wrocław, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Frederiks NC, Heaney DD, Kreinbihl JJ, Johnson CJ. The Competition between Hydrogen, Halogen, and Covalent Bonding in Atmospherically Relevant Ammonium Iodate Clusters. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:1165-1175. [PMID: 36595580 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Iodine-containing clusters are expected to be central to new particle formation (NPF) events in polar and midlatitude coastal regions. Iodine oxoacids and iodine oxides are observed in newly formed clusters, and in more polluted midlatitude settings, theoretical studies suggest ammonia may increase growth rates. Structural information was obtained via infrared (IR) spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations for a series of clusters containing ammonia, iodic acid, and iodine pentoxide. Structures for five of the smallest cationic clusters present in the mass spectrum were identified, and four of the structures were found to preferentially form halogen and/or covalent bonds over hydrogen bonds. Ammonia is important in proton transfer from iodic acid components and also provides a scaffold to template the formation of a halogen and covalent bonded backbone. The calculations executed for the two largest clusters studied suggested the formation of a covalent I3O8- anion within the clusters.
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- Nicoline C Frederiks
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, New York11794, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, New York11794, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, New York11794, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook, New York11794, United States
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Larsson HR, Schröder M, Beckmann R, Brieuc F, Schran C, Marx D, Vendrell O. State-resolved infrared spectrum of the protonated water dimer: revisiting the characteristic proton transfer doublet peak. Chem Sci 2022; 13:11119-11125. [PMID: 36320484 PMCID: PMC9517273 DOI: 10.1039/d2sc03189b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2023] Open
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The infrared (IR) spectra of protonated water clusters encode precise information on the dynamics and structure of the hydrated proton. However, the strong anharmonic coupling and quantum effects of these elusive species remain puzzling up to the present day. Here, we report unequivocal evidence that the interplay between the proton transfer and the water wagging motions in the protonated water dimer (Zundel ion) giving rise to the characteristic doublet peak is both more complex and more sensitive to subtle energetic changes than previously thought. In particular, hitherto overlooked low-intensity satellite peaks in the experimental spectrum are now unveiled and mechanistically assigned. Our findings rely on the comparison of IR spectra obtained using two highly accurate potential energy surfaces in conjunction with highly accurate state-resolved quantum simulations. We demonstrate that these high-accuracy simulations are important for providing definite assignments of the complex IR signals of fluxional molecules.
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- Henrik R Larsson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Merced CA 95343 USA
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA 91125 USA
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 229 D - 69120 Heidelberg Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 229 D - 69120 Heidelberg Germany
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Albertini S, Gruber E, Zappa F, Krasnokutski S, Laimer F, Scheier P. Chemistry and physics of dopants embedded in helium droplets. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2022; 41:529-567. [PMID: 33993543 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Helium droplets represent a cold inert matrix, free of walls with outstanding properties to grow complexes and clusters at conditions that are perfect to simulate cold and dense regions of the interstellar medium. At sub-Kelvin temperatures, barrierless reactions triggered by radicals or ions have been observed and studied by optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The present review summarizes developments of experimental techniques and methods and recent results they enabled.
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- Simon Albertini
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Laboratory Astrophysics Group of the MPI for Astronomy, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Erukala S, Feinberg AJ, Moon CJ, Choi MY, Vilesov AF. Infrared spectroscopy of ions and ionic clusters upon ionization of ethane in helium droplets. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:204306. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0091819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Helium droplets are unique hosts for isolating diverse molecular ions for infrared spectroscopic experiments. Recently, it was found that electron impact ionization of ethylene clusters embedded in helium droplets produces diverse carbocations containing three and four carbon atoms, indicating effective ion–molecule reactions. In this work, similar experiments are reported but with the saturated hydrocarbon precursor of ethane. In distinction to ethylene, no characteristic bands of larger covalently bound carbocations were found, indicating inefficient ion–molecule reactions. Instead, the ionization in helium droplets leads to formation of weaker bound dimers, such as (C2H6)(C2H4)+, (C2H6)(C2H5)+, and (C2H6)(C2H6)+, as well as larger clusters containing several ethane molecules attached to C2H4+, C2H5+, and C2H6+ ionic cores. The spectra of larger clusters resemble those for neutral, neat ethane clusters. This work shows the utility of the helium droplets to study small ionic clusters at ultra-low temperatures.
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- Swetha Erukala
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
- Research Institute for Green Energy Convergence Technology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Core‐Facility Center for Photochemistry and Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry (BK21 FOUR), Research Institute of Natural Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Müller D, Dopfer O. Microsolvation of H 2O +, H 3O +, and CH 3OH 2+ by He in a cryogenic ion trap: structure of solvation shells. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:11222-11233. [PMID: 35481676 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01192a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Due to the weak interactions of He atoms with neutral molecules and ions, the preparation of size-selected clusters for the spectroscopic characterization of their structures, energies, and large amplitude motions is a challenging task. Herein, we generate H2O+Hen (n ≤ 9) and H3O+Hen (n ≤ 5) clusters by stepwise addition of He atoms to mass-selected ions stored in a cryogenic 22-pole ion trap held at 5 K. The population of the clusters as a function of n provides insight into the structure of the first He solvation shell around these ions given by the anisotropy of the cation-He interaction potential. To rationalize the observed cluster size distributions, the structural, energetic, and vibrational properties of the clusters are characterized by ab initio calculations up to the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level. The cluster growth around both the open-shell H2O+ and closed-shell H3O+ ions begins by forming nearly linear and equivalent OH⋯He hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) leading to symmetric structures. The strength of these H-bonds decreases slightly with n due to noncooperative three-body induction forces and is weaker for H3O+ than for H2O+ due to both enhanced charge delocalization and reduced acidity of the OH protons. After filling all available H-bonded sites, addition of further He ligands around H2O+ (n = 3-4) occurs at the electrophilic singly occupied 2pz orbital of O leading to O⋯He p-bonds stabilized by induction and small charge transfer from H2O+ to He. As this orbital is filled for H3O+, He atoms occupy in the n = 4-6 clusters positions between the H-bonded He atoms, leading to a slightly distorted regular hexagon ring for n = 6. Comparison between H3O+Hen and CH3OH2+Hen illustrates that CH3 substitution substantially reduces the acidity of the OH protons, so that only clusters up to n = 2 can be observed. The structure of the solvation sub-shells is visible in both the binding energies and the predicted vibrational OH stretch and bend frequencies.
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- David Müller
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
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Carlo MJ, Patrick AL. Infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and its potential for the clinical laboratory. J Mass Spectrom Adv Clin Lab 2022; 23:14-25. [PMID: 34993503 PMCID: PMC8713122 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmsacl.2021.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy is a powerful tool used to probe the vibrational modes-and, by extension, the structure-of an ion within an ion trap mass spectrometer. Compared to traditional FTIR spectroscopy, IRMPD spectroscopy has advantages including its sensitivity and its relative ability to handle complex mixtures. While IRMPD has historically been a technique for fundamental analyses, it is increasingly being applied in a more analytical fashion. Notable recent demonstrations pertinent to the clinical laboratory and adjacent interests include analysis of modified amino acids/residues and carbohydrates, structural elucidation (including isomeric differentiation) of metabolites, identification of novel illicit drugs, and structural studies of various biomolecules and pharmaceuticals. Improvements in analysis time, coupling to commercial instruments, and integration with separations methods are all drivers toward the realization of these analytical applications. Additional improvements in these areas, along with advances in benchtop tunable IR sources and increased cross-discipline collaboration, will continue to drive innovation and widespread adoption. The goal of this tutorial article is to briefly present the fundamentals and instrumentation of IRMPD spectroscopy, as an overview of the utility of this technique for helping to answer questions relevant to clinical analysis, and to highlight limitations to widespread adoption, as well as promising directions in which the field may be heading.
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Key Words
- 2-AEP, 2-aminoethylphosphonic acid
- 2P1EA, 2-phenyl-1-ethanolamine
- CIVP, cryogenic ion vibrational predissociation spectroscopy
- CLIO, Centre Laser Infrarouge d’Orsay
- DFT, density functional theory
- FA, fluoroamphetamine
- FEL, free electron laser
- FELIX, Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments
- FMA, fluoromethamphetamine
- FTICR, Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance
- GC–MS, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
- GSNO, S- nitro glutathione
- GlcNAc, n-Acetylglucosamine
- IR, infrared
- IR2MS3, infrared-infrared double-resonance multi-stage mass spectrometry
- IRMPD, infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD)
- IRMPD-MS, infrared multiple photon dissociation spectroscopy mass spectrometry
- IRPD, infrared predissociation spectroscopy
- IVR, intramolecular vibrational redistribution
- Infrared multiple photon dissociation spectroscopy
- LC, liquid chromatography
- LC-MS, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
- LC-MS/MS, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
- MDA, methylenedioxyamphetamine
- MDMA, methylenedioxymethamphetamine
- MMC, methylmethcathinone
- MS/MS, tandem mass spectrometry
- MSn, multi-stage mass spectrometry
- Mass spectrometry
- Metabolites
- NANT, N-acetyl-N-nitrosotryptophan
- OPO/A, optical parametric oscillator/amplifier
- PTM, post-translational modification
- Pharmaceuticals
- Post-translational modifications
- SNOCys, S-nitrosocysteine
- UV, ultraviolet
- UV-IR, ultraviolet-infrared
- Vibrational spectroscopy
- cw, continuous wave
- α-PVP, alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone
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- Matthew J. Carlo
- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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Davies JA, Yang S, Ellis AM. Infrared spectra of carbocations and CH 4+ in helium. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:27449-27459. [PMID: 34870649 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03138d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Infrared (IR) spectra of several hydrocarbon cations are reported, namely CH3+, CH4+, CH5+, CH5+(CH4) and C2H5+. The spectra were generated from weakly-bound helium-cation complexes formed by electron ionization of helium nanodroplets doped with a neutral hydrocarbon precursor. Spectroscopic transitions were registered by photoexcitation of the complexes coupled with mass spectrometric detection of the bare ions. For CH3+, we provide evidence showing that the helium-bound complexes contain 10-20 helium atoms (on average) and have a rotational temperature of ∼5 K. We show that this technique is well-suited to the study of highly symmetric or fluxional ionic species, as these intrinsic properties are preserved in the helium environment. This is in contrast to conventional tagging methods that use a single atom or molecule, which can change the point group or rigidity of the core ion and therefore the spectral profile. We demonstrate this for the highly fluxional molecular ion CH5+, whose spectrum in the current study matches that of the gas phase ion, whereas the fluxionality is lost when a methane tag is added. Finally, we present the first IR spectrum of methane cation, CH4+. The spectrum of this fundamental organic ion shows CH stretching bands consistent with a non-tetrahedral structure, a consequence of Jahn-Teller distortion.
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- Julia A Davies
- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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Erukala S, Feinberg A, Singh A, Vilesov AF. Infrared spectroscopy of carbocations upon electron ionization of ethylene in helium nanodroplets. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:084306. [PMID: 34470362 DOI: 10.1063/5.0062171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The electron impact ionization of helium droplets doped with ethylene molecules and clusters yields diverse CXHY + cations embedded in the droplets. The ionization primarily produces C2H2 +, C2H3 +, C2H4 +, and CH2 +, whereas larger carbocations are produced upon the reactions of the primary ions with ethylene molecules. The vibrational excitation of the cations leads to the release of bare cations and cations with a few helium atoms attached. The laser excitation spectra of the embedded cations show well resolved vibrational bands with a few wavenumber widths-an order of magnitude less than those previously obtained in solid matrices or molecular beams by tagging techniques. Comparison with the previous studies of free and tagged CH2 +, CH3 +, C2H2 +, C2H3 +, and C2H4 + cations shows that the helium matrix typically introduces a shift in the vibrational frequencies of less than about 20 cm-1, enabling direct comparisons with the results of quantum chemical calculations for structure determination. This work demonstrates a facile technique for the production and spectroscopic study of diverse carbocations, which act as important intermediates in gas and condensed phases.
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- Swetha Erukala
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Edington SC, Perez EH, Charboneau DJ, Menges FS, Hazari N, Johnson MA. Chemical Reduction of Ni II Cyclam and Characterization of Isolated Ni I Cyclam with Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy and Inert-Gas-Mediated High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6715-6721. [PMID: 34324319 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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NiII cyclam (cyclam = 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) is an efficient catalyst for the selective reduction of CO2 to CO. A crucial elementary step in the proposed catalytic cycle is the coordination of CO2 to a NiI cyclam intermediate. Isolation and spectroscopic characterization of this labile NiI species without solvent has proven to be challenging, however, and only partial IR spectra have previously been reported using multiple photon fragmentation of ions generated by gas-phase electron transfer to the NiII cyclam dication at 300 K. Here, we report a chemical reduction method that efficiently prepares NiI cyclam in solution. This enables the NiI complex to be transferred into a cryogenic photofragmentation mass spectrometer using inert-gas-mediated electrospray ionization. The vibrational spectra of the 30 K ion using both H2 and N2 messenger tagging over the range 800-4000 cm-1 were then measured. The resulting spectra were analyzed with the aid of electronic structure calculations, which show strong method dependence in predicted band positions and small molecule activation. The conformational changes of the cyclam ligand induced by binding of the open shell NiI cation were compared with those caused by the spherical, closed-shell LiI cation, which has a similar ionic radius. We also report the vibrational spectrum of a NiI cyclam complex with a strongly bound O2 ligand. The cyclam ligand supporting this species exhibits a large conformational change compared to the complexes with weakly bound N2 and H2, which is likely due to significant charge transfer from Ni to the coordinated O2.
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- Sean C Edington
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Khuu T, Yang N, Johnson MA. Vibrational spectroscopy of the cryogenically cooled O- and N-protomers of 4-Aminobenzoic acid: Tag effects, isotopic labels, and identification of the E,Z isomer of the O-protomer. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 457:116427. [PMID: 32982573 PMCID: PMC7511085 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2020.116427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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4-Aminobenzoic acid (4ABA) is a biologically relevant, small organic molecule with two protonation sites: the amino group (N-protomer) and the carboxyl group (O-protomer). The O-protomer is energetically preferred in the gas-phase, while the higher energy N-protomer can be trapped using aprotic solvents such as acetonitrile during electrospray ionization. Here, we focus on the structure of the O-protomer, which can occur in three low-lying isomeric forms that result from different orientations of the OH groups relative to the benzene ring. We report the vibrational spectra of both N- and O-protomers of the cryogenically cooled ions in the gas phase over the spectral range 800-4000 cm-1. The bands arising from the OH stretches are isolated from the nearby NH stretching fundamentals using isotopic labeling as well as by analysis of the shifts in these fundamentals upon attachment of D2 and N2 molecules to the OH groups of the O-protomer. The spectra of isomers derived from the different locations of the adducts were isolated using two-color, IR-IR photofragmentation spectroscopy. The docking motifs by which the O-protomer binds to another 4ABA molecule is also explored and found to feature a bifurcated arrangement involving attachment of both OH groups of the protonated head group to the carbonyl group of the neutral partner.
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- Thien Khuu
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520
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Tsybizova A, Paenurk E, Gorbachev V, Chen P. Perturbation of Pyridinium CIVP Spectra by N 2 and H 2 Tags: An Experimental and BOMD Study. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:8519-8528. [PMID: 32954731 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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In cryogenic ion vibrational predissociation (CIVP) spectroscopy, the influence of the tag on the spectrum is an important consideration. Whereas for small ions several studies have shown that the tag effects can be significant, these effects are less understood for large ions or for large numbers of tags. Nevertheless, it is commonly assumed that if the investigated molecular ion is large enough, the perturbations arising from the tag are small and can therefore be neglected in the interpretation. In addition, it is generally assumed that the more weakly bound the tag is, the less it perturbs the CIVP spectrum. Under these assumptions, CIVP spectra are claimed to be effectively IR absorption spectra of the free molecular ion. Having observed unexpected splittings in otherwise unproblematic CIVP spectra of some tagged ions, we report Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations that strongly indicate that mobility among the more weakly bound tags leads to the surprising splittings. We compared the behavior of two tags commonly used in CIVP spectroscopy (H2 and N2) with a large pyridinium cation. Our experimental results surprisingly show that under the appropriate circumstances, the more weakly bound tag can perturb the CIVP spectra more than the more strongly bound tag by not just shifting but also splitting the observed bands. The more weakly bound tag had significant residence times at several spectroscopically distinct sites on the molecular ion. This indicates that the weakly bound tag is likely to sample several binding sites in the experiment, some of which involve interaction with the reporter chromophore.
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- Alexandra Tsybizova
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Verma D, Erukala S, Vilesov AF. Infrared Spectroscopy of Water and Zundel Cations in Helium Nanodroplets. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:6207-6213. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c05897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Deepak Verma
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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Brieuc F, Schran C, Uhl F, Forbert H, Marx D. Converged quantum simulations of reactive solutes in superfluid helium: The Bochum perspective. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:210901. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0008309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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- Fabien Brieuc
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Center for Solvation Science ZEMOS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Warnke S, Ben Faleh A, Pellegrinelli RP, Yalovenko N, Rizzo TR. Combining ultra-high resolution ion mobility spectrometry with cryogenic IR spectroscopy for the study of biomolecular ions. Faraday Discuss 2020; 217:114-125. [PMID: 30993271 PMCID: PMC6657637 DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00180d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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We explore the capability of SLIM-based IMS for isomer selectivity in combination with cryogenic, messenger-tagging IR spectroscopy.
Double-resonance spectroscopic schemes in combination with cryogenic ion traps are the go-to techniques when isomer-specific high-resolution spectra are required for analysis of molecular ions. Their limitation lies in the requirement for well-resolved, isomer-specific absorption bands as well as in the potentially time-consuming steps to identify each isomer. We present an alternative approach where isomeric species are readily separated using ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and selected prior to cryogenic spectroscopic analysis. To date, most IMS approaches suffer from relatively low resolution, however, recent technological developments in the field of travelling-wave ion mobility using structures for lossless ion manipulation (SLIM) permit the use of extremely long drift paths, which greatly enhances the resolution. We demonstrate the power of combining this type of ultra-high resolution IMS with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy by comparing mobility-resolved IR spectra of a disaccharide to those acquired using IR–IR double resonance. This new approach is especially promising for the investigation of larger molecules where spectral congestion interferes with double resonance techniques.
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- Stephan Warnke
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB ISIC LCPM, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Cirri A, Hernández HM, Johnson CJ. High Precision Electronic Spectroscopy of Ligand-Protected Gold Nanoclusters: Effects of Composition, Environment, and Ligand Chemistry. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:1467-1479. [PMID: 31916764 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b09164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Atomically precise gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are a class of nanomaterials valued for their electronic properties and diverse structural features. While the advent of X-ray crystallography of AuNCs has revealed their geometric structures with high precision, detailed electronic structure analysis is challenged by environmental, compositional, and thermal averaging effects present in electronic spectra of typical samples. To circumvent these challenges, we have adapted mass spectrometer-based electronic absorption spectroscopy techniques to acquire high-resolution electronic spectra of atomically precisely defined nanoclusters separated from a synthetic mixture. Here we discuss recent results using this approach to link the surface chemistry of triphenylphosphine-protected AuNCs to their electronic structure and expand on key elements of the experiment and the link between these gas-phase measurements and solution-phase behavior of AuNCs. Chemically derivatized Au8(P(p-X-Ph)3)72+ and Au9(P(p-X-Ph)3)83+ clusters, where X = -H, -CH3, or -OCH3, are used to derive systematic trends in the response of the electronic spectrum to the electron-donating character of the ligand shell. We find a linear relationship between the substituent Hammett parameter σp and the transition energy between both sets of clusters' highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals, a transition that is localized in the metal core within the limits of the superatomic model. The similarity of the mass-selective and solution-phase UV/vis spectra of Au9(PPh3)83+ indicates that the interpretation of these experiments is transferable to the condensed phase. He and N2 environments are introduced to a series of isovalent clusters as a subtle probe of discrete environmental effects over electronic structure. Strikingly, select bands in the UV/vis spectrum respond strongly to the identity of the environment, which we interpret as a state-selective indicator of interfacially relevant electronic transitions. Physically predictable trends such as these will aid in building molecular design principles necessary for the development of novel materials based on nanoclusters.
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- Anthony Cirri
- Department of Chemistry , Stony Brook University , 100 Nicolls Road , Stony Brook , New York 11794-3400 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Stony Brook University , 100 Nicolls Road , Stony Brook , New York 11794-3400 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Stony Brook University , 100 Nicolls Road , Stony Brook , New York 11794-3400 , United States
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Davies JA, Besley NA, Yang S, Ellis AM. Infrared spectroscopy of a small ion solvated by helium: OH stretching region of HeN−HOCO+. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:194307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5124137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Julia A. Davies
- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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Roithová J, Jašík J, Del Pozo Mellado JJ, Gerlich D. Electronic spectra of ions of astrochemical interest: from fast overview spectra to high resolution. Faraday Discuss 2019; 217:98-113. [PMID: 31016298 PMCID: PMC8639220 DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00196k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The combination of cryogenic ion traps with suitable light sources and standard tools of mass spectrometry has led to many innovative applications in previous years. This paper presents the combination of our versatile instrument with a supercontinuum laser for the rapid identification of ions that might be of special interest, e.g. as candidates for diffuse interstellar bands carriers. Using a linear wire quadrupole ion trap at 3 K, routine He-tagging, long irradiation times, and the brilliance and wide spectral range of a crystal fiber laser, mass selected ions have been exposed to spectral fluencies larger than 10 mJ (nm cm2)-1. These conditions result in an unsurpassed sensitivity, allowing us to find out within a few minutes and with nm accuracy, where photo absorption occurs with cross sections above 10-18 cm2. In this contribution, we present a variety of ions, probed between 420 and 720 nm. They have been generated by electron- or electrospray ionization of (polycyclic) aromatic hydrocarbons. For selected candidates, we recorded spectra with higher resolution and in the IR range. The anthracene dication has been selected to present a detailed analysis of our new results.
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- Jana Roithová
- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Hlavova 2030/8, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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- Department of Physics, University of Technology, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
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Baiardi A, Stein CJ, Barone V, Reiher M. Optimization of highly excited matrix product states with an application to vibrational spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:094113. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5068747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Alberto Baiardi
- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- ETH Zürich, Laboratorium für Physikalische Chemie, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Schwarz H, Asmis KR. Identification of Active Sites and Structural Characterization of Reactive Ionic Intermediates by Cryogenic Ion Trap Vibrational Spectroscopy. Chemistry 2019; 25:2112-2126. [PMID: 30623993 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Revised: 01/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cryogenic ion trap vibrational spectroscopy paired with quantum chemistry currently represents the most generally applicable approach for the structural investigation of gaseous cluster ions that are not amenable to direct absorption spectroscopy. Here, we give an overview of the most popular variants of infrared action spectroscopy and describe the advantages of using cryogenic ion traps in combination with messenger tagging and vibrational predissociation spectroscopy. We then highlight a few recent studies that apply this technique to identify highly reactive ionic intermediates and to characterize their reactive sites. We conclude by commenting on future challenges and potential developments in the field.
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- Helmut Schwarz
- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Wilhelm-Ostwald Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 2, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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Yang Y, Johnson CJ. Hydration motifs of ammonium bisulfate clusters of relevance to atmospheric new particle formation. Faraday Discuss 2019; 217:47-66. [DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00206a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have analyzed the binding motifs of water bound to a prototypical cluster containing three ammonium cations and two bisulfate anions using mass-selective vibrational spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations.
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- Yi Yang
- Department of Chemistry
- Stony Brook University
- Stony Brook
- USA
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- Oleg V. Boyarkin
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Uhl F, Marx D. Helium Tagging of Protonated Methane in Messenger Spectroscopy: Does It Interfere with the Fluxionality of CH5
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- Felix Uhl
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 44780 Bochum Germany
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Uhl F, Marx D. Helium Tagging of Protonated Methane in Messenger Spectroscopy: Does It Interfere with the Fluxionality of CH5
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- Felix Uhl
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 44780 Bochum Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 44780 Bochum Germany
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Duong CH, Yang N, Kelleher PJ, Johnson MA, DiRisio RJ, McCoy AB, Yu Q, Bowman JM, Henderson BV, Jordan KD. Tag-Free and Isotopomer-Selective Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Cryogenically Cooled H9O4+ Cation with Two-Color, IR–IR Double-Resonance Photoexcitation: Isolating the Spectral Signature of a Single OH Group in the Hydronium Ion Core. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:9275-9284. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b08507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Chinh H. Duong
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Computational Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Computational Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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Pereverzev AY, Kopysov VN, Boyarkin OV. Peptide Bond Ultraviolet Absorption Enables Vibrational Cold-Ion Spectroscopy of Nonaromatic Peptides. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:5262-5266. [PMID: 30157636 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Peptide-bond VUV absorption is inherent to all proteins and peptides. Although widely exploited in top-down proteomics for photodissociation, this absorption has never been spectroscopically characterized in the gas phase. We have measured VUV/UV photofragmentation spectrum of a single peptide bond in a cryogenically cold protonated dipeptide. Although the spectrum appears to be very broadband and structureless, vibrational pre-excitation of this and even larger cold peptides significantly increases the UV dissociation yield for some of their photofragments. We use this effect to extend the technique of IR-UV photofragmentation vibrational spectroscopy, developed for aromatic peptides, to nonaromatic ones and demonstrate measurements of conformation-specific and nonspecific IR spectra for di- to hexa-peptides.
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- Aleksandr Y Pereverzev
- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Station-6 , 1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Station-6 , 1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Moléculaire , École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Station-6 , 1015 Lausanne , Switzerland
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Thomas DA, Marianski M, Mucha E, Meijer G, Johnson MA, von Helden G. Ground‐State Structure of the Proton‐Bound Formate Dimer by Cold‐Ion Infrared Action Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201805436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Daniel A. Thomas
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory Yale University 225 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06520 USA
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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Thomas DA, Marianski M, Mucha E, Meijer G, Johnson MA, von Helden G. Ground‐State Structure of the Proton‐Bound Formate Dimer by Cold‐Ion Infrared Action Spectroscopy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:10615-10619. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201805436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Daniel A. Thomas
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory Yale University 225 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06520 USA
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4–6 14195 Berlin Germany
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Garand E. Spectroscopy of Reactive Complexes and Solvated Clusters: A Bottom-Up Approach Using Cryogenic Ion Traps. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:6479-6490. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b05712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Etienne Garand
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Fritsche L, Bach A, Miloglyadova L, Tsybizova A, Chen P. A 4 K FT-ICR cell for infrared ion spectroscopy. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2018; 89:063119. [PMID: 29960550 DOI: 10.1063/1.5026973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We present the design of the newly constructed cryogenic Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) ion trap for infrared ion spectroscopy. Trapped ions are collisionally cooled by the pulsed introduction of buffer gas into the cell. Using different buffer gases and cell temperatures, we record action spectra of weakly bound neutral gas-analyte complexes with an IR laser source. We show for the first time that ion-He complexes can be observed in an ICR cell at temperatures around 4 K. We compare the experimental vibrational spectra of Ag(PPh3)2+ obtained by tagging with different neutral gases: He, Ne, Ar, H2, and N2 to computed vibrational spectra. Furthermore, the conditions necessary for the formation of neutral tags within an ICR ion trap are studied.
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- Lukas Fritsche
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Kaiser A, Postler J, Ončák M, Kuhn M, Renzler M, Spieler S, Simpson M, Gatchell M, Beyer MK, Wester R, Gianturco FA, Scheier P. Isomeric Broadening of C 60+ Electronic Excitation in Helium Droplets: Experiments Meet Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:1237-1242. [PMID: 29470071 PMCID: PMC5857924 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 02/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Helium is considered an almost ideal tagging atom for cold messenger spectroscopy experiments. Although helium is bound very weakly to the ionic molecule of interest, helium tags can lead to shifts and broadenings that we recorded near 963.5 nm in the electronic excitation spectrum of C60+ solvated with up to 100 helium atoms. Dedicated quantum calculations indicate that the inhomogeneous broadening is due to different binding energies of helium to the pentagonal and hexagonal faces of C60+, their dependence on the electronic state, and the numerous isomeric structures that become available for intermediate coverage. Similar isomeric effects can be expected for optical spectra of most larger molecules surrounded by nonabsorbing weakly bound solvent molecules, a situation encountered in many messenger-tagging spectroscopy experiments.
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- Alexander Kaiser
- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und
Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Yang N, Duong CH, Kelleher PJ, Johnson MA, McCoy AB. Isolation of site-specific anharmonicities of individual water molecules in the I−·(H2O)2 complex using tag-free, isotopomer selective IR-IR double resonance. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.09.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Manz C, Pagel K. Glycan analysis by ion mobility-mass spectrometry and gas-phase spectroscopy. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2017; 42:16-24. [PMID: 29107930 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2017.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Due to the existence of numerous isomers, the in-depth analysis of glycans represents a major challenge. Currently, the majority of glycans are analysed using mass spectrometry (MS)-based techniques, which can provide information on regioisomers but usually fail to differentiate stereoisomers. A promising approach to overcome this limitation is to implement ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) as an additional gas-phase separation dimension. This review highlights recent developments in which IM-MS was used as a tool for comprehensive glycan analysis or as rapid screening method for glycan feature analysis. Furthermore, we summarize a series of very recent investigations in which gas-phase spectroscopy is applied to study glycans and discuss the potential of the hyphenation between IM-MS and infrared (IR) spectroscopy as a future tool for glycomics and glycoproteomics.
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- Christian Manz
- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Duong CH, Gorlova O, Yang N, Kelleher PJ, Johnson MA, McCoy AB, Yu Q, Bowman JM. Disentangling the Complex Vibrational Spectrum of the Protonated Water Trimer, H +(H 2O) 3, with Two-Color IR-IR Photodissociation of the Bare Ion and Anharmonic VSCF/VCI Theory. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:3782-3789. [PMID: 28737922 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Vibrational spectroscopy of the protonated water trimer provides a stringent constraint on the details of the potential energy surface (PES) and vibrational dynamics governing excess proton motion far from equilibrium. Here we report the linear spectrum of the cold, bare H+(H2O)3 ion using a two-color, IR-IR photofragmentation technique and follow the evolution of the bands with increasing ion trap temperature. The key low-energy features are insensitive to both D2 tagging and internal energy. The D2-tagged D+(D2O)3 spectrum is reported for the first time, and the isotope dependence of the band pattern is surprisingly complex. These spectra are reproduced by large-scale vibrational configuration interaction calculations based on a new full-dimensional PES, which treat the anharmonic effects arising from large amplitude motion. The results indicate such extensive mode mixing in both isotopologues that one should be cautious about assigning even the strongest features to particular motions, especially for the absorptions that occur close to the intramolecular bending mode of the water molecule.
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- Chinh H Duong
- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Computational Science, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Cherry L. Emerson Center for Computational Science, Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Baiardi A, Stein CJ, Barone V, Reiher M. Vibrational Density Matrix Renormalization Group. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:3764-3777. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Alberto Baiardi
- Scuola Normale
Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratorium
für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Scuola Normale
Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Laboratorium
für Physikalische Chemie, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Pitsevich G, Malevich A, Kozlovskaya E, Shalamberidze E, Doroshenko I, Pogorelov V, Mahnach E, Sapeshko V, Balevicius V. MP4 study of the multimode coupling in protonated water dimer. J Mol Struct 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2017.03.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Pitsevich G, Malevich A, Kozlovskaya E, Mahnach E, Doroshenko I, Pogorelov V, Pettersson LGM, Sablinskas V, Balevicius V. MP4 Study of the Anharmonic Coupling of the Shared Proton Stretching Vibration of the Protonated Water Dimer in Equilibrium and Transition States. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:2151-2165. [PMID: 28187260 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b00536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The structure and harmonic and anharmonic IR spectra of the protonated water dimer (PWD) were calculated in C1, C2, and Cs symmetry at the MP4/acc-pVTZ level of theory. We found that structure and IR spectra are practically identical in C2 and C1 symmetry, demonstrating that an equilibrium C1 configuration of the PWD is not realized. Anharmonic coupling of the shared proton stretching vibration with all other modes in the PWD in C2 and Cs symmetry was the focus of this investigation. For this purpose, 28 two-dimensional potential energy surfaces (2D PES) were built at the MP4/acc-pVTZ level of theory and the corresponding vibrational Schrödinger equations were solved using the DVR method. Differences in the coupling of the investigated mode with other modes in the C2 and Cs configurations, along with some factors that determine the red- or blue-shift of the stretching vibration frequency, were analyzed. We obtained a rather reasonable value of the stretching frequency of the bridging proton (1058.4 cm-1) unperturbed by Fermi resonance. The Fermi resonance between the fundamental vibration ν7 and the combined vibration ν2 + ν6 of the same symmetry was analyzed through anharmonic second-order perturbation theory calculations, as well as by 3D PES constructed using Q2, Q6, and Q7 as normal coordinates. A significant (up to 50%) transfer of intensity from the fundamental vibration to the combined one was found. We have estimated the frequency of the bridging proton stretching vibration in the Cs configuration of the PWD based on calculations of the intrinsic anharmonicity and anharmonic double modes interactions at the MP4/acc-pVTZ level of theory (1261 cm-1).
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- G Pitsevich
- Department of Physical Optics, Belarusian State University , Nezavisimosti ave., 4, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
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- Department of Physical Optics, Belarusian State University , Nezavisimosti ave., 4, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
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- Department of Physical Optics, Belarusian State University , Nezavisimosti ave., 4, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
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- Department of Physical Optics, Belarusian State University , Nezavisimosti ave., 4, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
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- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , Volodymyrska str., 64\13, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , Volodymyrska str., 64\13, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University , S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University , Sauletekio al. 9-3, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University , Sauletekio al. 9-3, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Ziemkiewicz MP, Pluetzer C, Wojcik M, Loreau J, van der Avoird A, Nesbitt DJ. Near infrared overtone (vOH = 2 ← 0) spectroscopy of Ne–H2O clusters. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:104204. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4977061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Michael P. Ziemkiewicz
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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- Service de Chimie Quantique et Photophysique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 av. F.D. Roosevelt, CP 160/09, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Bouchet A, Klyne J, Ishiuchi SI, Fujii M, Dopfer O. Conformation of protonated glutamic acid at room and cryogenic temperatures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:10767-10776. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp08553a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Linear infrared spectroscopy of protonated glutamic acid in a cryogenic ion trap allows for the clear-cut and quantitative identification of the two conformers of this fundamental biomolecule.
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- Aude Bouchet
- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Berlin
- Germany
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Berlin
- Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
- Institute of Innovation Research
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama
- Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science
- Institute of Innovation Research
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Yokohama
- Japan
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- Institut für Optik und Atomare Physik
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Berlin
- Germany
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Gerlich D, Jašík J, Andris E, Navrátil R, Roithová J. Collisions of FeO
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with H
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and He in a Cryogenic Ion Trap. Chemphyschem 2016; 17:3723-3739. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Dieter Gerlich
- Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic
- Department of Physics University of Technology 09107 Chemnitz Germany
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague 12843 Prague 2 Czech Republic
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Talbot JJ, Cheng X, Herr JD, Steele RP. Vibrational Signatures of Electronic Properties in Oxidized Water: Unraveling the Anomalous Spectrum of the Water Dimer Cation. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:11936-45. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b07182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Justin J. Talbot
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
- Henry
Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
- Henry
Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
- Henry
Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
- Henry
Eyring Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Utah, 315 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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Dahms F, Costard R, Pines E, Fingerhut BP, Nibbering ETJ, Elsaesser T. The Hydrated Excess Proton in the Zundel Cation H5
O2
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: The Role of Ultrafast Solvent Fluctuations. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201602523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Fabian Dahms
- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie; Max Born Strasse 2A 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie; Max Born Strasse 2A 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; Ben Gurion University of the Negev; P.O.B. 653 Beersheva 84105 Israel
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie; Max Born Strasse 2A 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie; Max Born Strasse 2A 12489 Berlin Germany
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie; Max Born Strasse 2A 12489 Berlin Germany
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Dahms F, Costard R, Pines E, Fingerhut BP, Nibbering ETJ, Elsaesser T. The Hydrated Excess Proton in the Zundel Cation H5 O2 (+) : The Role of Ultrafast Solvent Fluctuations. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:10600-5. [PMID: 27374368 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201602523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The nature of the excess proton in liquid water has remained elusive after decades of extensive research. In view of ultrafast structural fluctuations of bulk water scrambling the structural motifs of excess protons in water, we selectively probe prototypical protonated water solvates in acetonitrile on the femtosecond time scale. Focusing on the Zundel cation H5 O2 (+) prepared in room-temperature acetonitrile, we unravel the distinct character of its vibrational absorption continuum and separate it from OH stretching and bending excitations in transient pump-probe spectra. The infrared absorption continuum originates from a strong ultrafast frequency modulation of the H(+) transfer vibration and its combination and overtones. Vibrational lifetimes of H5 O2 (+) are found to be in the sub-100 fs range, much shorter than those of unprotonated water. Theoretical results support a picture of proton hydration where fluctuating electrical interactions with the solvent and stochastic thermal excitations of low-frequency modes continuously modify the proton binding site while affecting its motions.
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- Fabian Dahms
- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beersheva, 84105, Israel
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489, Berlin, Germany.
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- Max Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Max Born Strasse 2A, 12489, Berlin, Germany.
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Roithová J, Gray A, Andris E, Jašík J, Gerlich D. Helium Tagging Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy of Reactive Ions. Acc Chem Res 2016; 49:223-30. [PMID: 26821086 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
The interrogation of reaction intermediates is key for understanding chemical reactions; however their direct observation and study remains a considerable challenge. Mass spectrometry is one of the most sensitive analytical techniques, and its use to study reaction mixtures is now an established practice. However, the information that can be obtained is limited to elemental analysis and possibly to fragmentation behavior, which is often challenging to analyze. In order to extend the available experimental information, different types of spectroscopy in the infrared and visible region have been combined with mass spectrometry. Spectroscopy of mass selected ions usually utilizes the powerful sensitivity of mass spectrometers, and the absorption of photons is not detected as such but rather translated to mass changes. One approach to accomplish such spectroscopy involves loosely binding a tag to an ion that will be removed by absorption of one photon. We have constructed an ion trapping instrument capable of reaching temperatures that are sufficiently low to enable tagging by helium atoms in situ, thus permitting infrared photodissociation spectroscopy (IRPD) to be carried out. While tagging by larger rare gas atoms, such as neon or argon is also possible, these may cause significant structural changes to small and reactive species, making the use of helium highly beneficial. We discuss the "innocence" of helium as a tag in ion spectroscopy using several case studies. It is shown that helium tagging is effectively innocent when used with benzene dications, not interfering with their structure or IRPD spectrum. We have also provided a case study where we can see that despite its minimal size there are systems where He has a huge effect. A strong influence of the He tagging was shown in the IRPD spectra of HCCl(2+) where large spectral shifts were observed. While the presented systems are rather small, they involve the formation of mixtures of isomers. We have therefore implemented two-color experiments where one laser is employed to selectively deplete a mixture by one (or more) isomer allowing helium tagging IRPD spectra of the remaining isomer(s) to be recorded via the second laser. Our experimental setup, based on a linear wire quadrupole ion trap, allows us to deplete almost 100% of all helium tagged ions in the trap. Using this special feature, we have developed attenuation experiments for determination of absolute photofragmentation cross sections. At the same time, this approach can be used to estimate the representation of isomers in a mixture. The ultimate aim is the routine use of this instrument and technique to study a wide range of reaction intermediates in catalysis. To this end, we present a study of hypervalent iron(IV)-oxo complexes ([(L)Fe(O)(NO3)](+)). We show that we can spectroscopically differentiate iron complexes with S = 1 and S = 2 according to the stretching vibrations of a nitrate counterion.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jana Roithová
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
| | - Erik Andris
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
| | - Juraj Jašík
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
| | - Dieter Gerlich
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic
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