Dioxygen binding and activation at metal centers are of major importance in a wide range of
catalytic and biological processes. Metal oxides and dioxygen complexes are potential …

A novel experimental technique is described in which radiation from a free electron laser is
used to measure infrared spectra of gas-phase cluster ions via vibrational predissociation of …

This article summarizes the methodological progress that has been made in the vibrational
spectroscopy of isolated polynuclear metal oxide clusters, with particular emphasis on free …

The size-dependent properties of transition metal oxide clusters have been intensely studied
not only because of interest in this peculiar state of matter, but also because of their …

The vibrational spectroscopy of the mono-and divanadium oxide cluster cations VO 1− 3+
and V 2 O 2− 6+ is studied in the region from 600 to 1600 wave numbers by infrared …

Bare vanadium-oxide and-hydroxide cluster cations (V m O n H o+, m= 2− 4, n= 1− 10, o= 0,
1) were generated by electrospray ionization in order to examine their intrinsic reactivity …

Ion-cyclotron resonance mass-spectrometric experiments are used to examine the reactions
of small cationic vanadium clusters V n+ and vanadium-oxide clusters V n O m+(n≤ 5, m≤ …

Neutral vanadium oxide clusters are studied by photoionization time-of-flight (TOF) mass
spectroscopy, electronic spectroscopy, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations …

The competitive structural isomers of the Mo 2 O y−∕ Mo 2 O y (⁠ y= 2⁠, 3, and 4) clusters
are investigated using a combination of anion photoelectron (PE) spectroscopy and density …

Transition-metal oxide clusters of the form M n O m+(M= V, Nb, Ta) are produced by laser
vaporization in a pulsed nozzle cluster source and detected with time-of-flight mass …