Soft landing of complex molecules on surfaces

GE Johnson, Q Hu, J Laskin - Annual Review of Analytical …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Soft and reactive landing of mass-selected ions onto surfaces has become a topic of
substantial interest due to its promising potential for the highly controlled preparation of …

Design and performance of a soft-landing instrument for fragment ion deposition

HY Samayoa-Oviedo, KA Behrend, S Kawa… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the development of a new high-flux electrospray ionization-based instrument for
soft landing of mass-selected fragment ions onto surfaces. Collision-induced dissociation is …

Quantum-mechanical calculations on molecular substructures involved in nanosystems

B Szefler, MV Diudea - Molecules, 2014 - mdpi.com
In this review article, four ideas are discussed:(a) aromaticity of fullerenes patched with
flowers of 6-and 8-membered rings, optimized at the HF and DFT levels of theory, in terms of …

Preparation of surface organometallic catalysts by gas‐phase ligand stripping and reactive landing of mass‐selected ions

GE Johnson, J Laskin - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Organometallic complexes immobilized on surfaces combine the high selectivity of
homogeneous catalysts with the ease of separation of catalyst from products attainable with …

Nonclassical fullerenes with a heptagon violating the pentagon adjacency penalty rule

LH Gan, JQ Zhao, Q Hui - Journal of computational chemistry, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nonclassical fullerenes with heptagon (s) and their derivatives have attracted increasing
attention, and the studies on them are performing to enrich the chemistry of carbon. Density …

Properties of non-IPR fullerene films versus size of the building blocks

D Löffler, S Ulas, SS Jester, P Weis… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective focuses on the cage size dependent properties of novel solid fullerene
nanofilms grown by soft-landing of mass-selected Cn+ (48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 62, 64, 66 and …

Synthesis and spectroscopy of Buckminsterfullerene cation C 60+ in a cryogenic ion trapping instrument

EK Campbell, J Rademacher, SMM Bana - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
The assignment of several diffuse interstellar bands in the near-infrared to C 60+ ions
present at high abundance in space has renewed interest in the astrochemical importance …

Derivatives and dimers of C50-D5h and C50-D3: A comparison of two closely related but quite differently behaving fullerenes

A Bihlmeier - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A density functional theory study on the reactivity of the energetically most stable C 50
isomers, C 50-D 5h and C 50-D 3, is presented. We explore the reactivity of both fullerenes …

Carbon multi-shell cages

MV Diudea, A Bende, CL Nagy - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex chemical compounds found as minerals or synthesized in labs evidenced a multi-
shell structure. Also, fullerenes aggregate, randomly or following a well-defined geometry, in …

Thermal Decomposition of the Fullerene Precursor C60H21F9 Deposited on Graphite

S Ulas, J Weippert, K Amsharov, M Jansen… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Specially fluorinated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (F-PAHs) are of interest as
precursors for transition metal catalyzed CVD growth of chiral-index pure single-walled …