Much interest has been evinced on the properties of weakly bound van der Waals
complexes of π-systems because of their utility in diverse fields (Figure 1). 1-14 Theoretical …

▪ Abstract This review provides a historical context for our understanding of the hydration
shell surrounding halide ions and illustrates how the cluster systems can be used, in …

Molecular clusters are nowadays preferred model systems to study both the energetics and
dynamics of molecules in a tailored molecular environment. 1-5 For the physical chemist …

▪ Abstract Weakly bound metal ion complexes are produced in molecular beams and studied
with mass-selected laser photodissociation spectroscopy. The metal ions Mg+ and Ca+ are …

In this article, the new and exciting techniques of infrared consequence spectroscopy
(sometimes called action spectroscopy) of gaseous ions are reviewed. These techniques …

Size-specific interaction of alkali metal ions with aromatic side chains has been proposed as
a mechanism for selectivity in some K+ channel proteins. Experiments on gas-phase cluster …

The hydrogen-bonded and free OH stretch modes of Cl-(H2O) n (n= 1− 5) have been
observed by vibrational predissociation spectroscopy in the 2.6− 3.2 μm region. Besides …

The evaporation of water from hydrated alkaline earth metal ions, produced by electrospray
ionization, was studied in a Fourier transform mass spectrometer. Zero-pressure-limit …

A combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the step-wise hydration of the
fluoride ion has been performed in order to characterize the details of its solvation at the …

We report here infrared spectra of protonated and lithiated valine with varying degrees of
hydration in the gas phase and interpret them with the help of DFT calculations at the …