Setting up the HyDRA blind challenge for the microhydration of organic molecules

TL Fischer, M Bödecker… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The procedure leading to the first HyDRA blind challenge for the prediction of water donor
stretching vibrations in monohydrates of organic molecules is described. A training set of 10 …

Quantum Tunneling: History and Mystery of Large Amplitude Motions over a Century

HVL Nguyen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Large amplitude motions (LAMs), most notably represented by proton tunneling, mark a
significant departure from small amplitude vibrations where protons merely oscillate around …

Annihilating actinic photochemistry of the pyruvate anion by one and two water molecules

W Cao, Z Hu, X Peng, H Sun, Z Sun… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photochemical behaviors of pyruvic acid in multiple phases have been extensively studied,
while those of its conjugate base, the pyruvate anion (CH3COCOO–, PA–) are less …

Mechanistic description of photochemical oligomer formation from aqueous pyruvic acid

RJ Rapf, RJ Perkins, BK Carpenter… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The aqueous phase photochemistry of pyruvic acid, an important oxidation product of
isoprene, is known to generate larger oligomeric species that may contribute to the formation …

The heavy atom substitution and semi-experimental equilibrium structures of 2-ethylfuran obtained by microwave spectroscopy

HVL Nguyen - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020 - Elsevier
The substitution rs and semi-experimental equilibrium re SE structures of the two conformers
of 2-ethylfuran were obtained using a combination of microwave spectroscopy and quantum …

Conformer-specific photolysis of pyruvic acid and the effect of water

SL Blair, AE Reed Harris, BN Frandsen… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The conformer-specific reactivity of gas-phase pyruvic acid following the S1 (nπ*)← S0
excitation at λmax= 350 nm (290–380 nm) and the effect of water are investigated for the two …

Sensing the Molecular Structures of Hexan‐2‐one by Internal Rotation and Microwave Spectroscopy

M Andresen, I Kleiner, M Schwell, W Stahl… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Using two molecular jet Fourier transform spectrometers, the microwave spectrum of hexan‐
2‐one, also called methyl n‐butyl ketone, was recorded in the frequency range from 2 to 40 …

A DFT study of the hydrogen bonded structures of pyruvic acid–water complexes

F Hammami, N Issaoui - Frontiers in Physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The molecular geometries of the possible conformations of pyruvic acid–water complexes
(PA-(H2O) n= 1–4) have been fully optimized at DFT/B3LYP/6-311G++ (d, p) levels of …

Absorption spectra of pyruvic acid in water: insights from calculations for small hydrates and comparison to experiment

D Shemesh, M Luo, VH Grassian… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Pyruvic acid is abundant in the atmosphere and in seawater, being a decay product of living
organisms. Although very small in size (10 atoms), pyruvic acid exhibits conformational …

On the rise: Experimental and computational vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy studies of pyruvic acid and its surface-active oligomer species at the air–water …

BP Gordon, FG Moore, LF Scatena… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
It is well known that atmospheric aerosol play important roles in the environment. However,
there is still much to learn about the processes that form aerosols, particularly aqueous …