Conveners
Wednesday PM: Wednesday
- Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber-Institut)
Transition metal clusters are frequently used as model systems for low coordinated sites of extended surfaces and their study can provide valuable insights into the mechanisms of surface reactions. In many cases, however, there is still a lack of information on their structures and the relationship between structure and chemical behaviour [1]. Using vibrational spectroscopy of gas-phase...
In solution and at room temperature, UV-Vis spectra of similar molecules are generally broad, strongly overlapping, and barely distinguishable. IR spectra, on the other hand, typically show species-specific features. This specificity is exploited by vibrationally exciting one species with a narrow band (10 – 20 cm$^{-1}$) IR pulsed laser. During the vibrational lifetime, a second non-resonant...
The installation at FELIX of a new quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer (Bruker Amazon ETD) equipped with extensive MS/MS capabilities including Electron Transfer Dissociation (ETD) has opened new venues in the spectroscopic exploration of ion chemistry. We will give an overview of a number of recent, partially unpublished results. The sensitive ion source and the extensive MS/MS and MSn...
