Publications

2023

Characterization of Oxidation Products from HOCl Uptake by Microhydrated Methionine Anions using Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Santino J. Stropoli, Kim Greis, Tim Schleif, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 127, (19), pp. 4269–4276

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.3c00509

Temperature- and Size-dependent, Water-Cluster-Mediated Long Range Proton Transfer in Microhydrated 4-Aminobenzoic Acid

Thien Khuu, Santino J. Stropoli, Abhijit Rana, Sean C. Edington, Tae Hoon Choi, Kenneth D. Jordan, and Mark A. Johnson

Submitted, Vol. N/A, (N/A), pp. N/A

Observation of Slow Eigen-Zundel Interconversion in H⁺(H₂O)₆ Clusters upon Isomer-Selective Vibrational Excitation and Buffer Gas Cooling in a Cryogenic Ion Trap

Thien Khuu, Abhijit Rana, Sean C. Edington, Nan Yang, Anne B. McCoy, Mark A. Johnson

J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., Vol. 34, (4), pp. 737-744

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.3c00007

Spectroscopic Characterization of Divalent Metal Docking Motif to Isolated Cyanobenzoate: Direct Observation of Tridentate Binding to Ortho-Cyanobenzoate and Implications for the CN Response

Ahmed Mohamed, Sean C. Edington, Maxim Secor, James R. Breton, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 137, (6, Special Issue Honoring Michael R. Berman), pp. 1413–1421

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c07658

High-resolution vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of I^- H₂O by single-mode CW infrared excitation in a 3D cryogenic ion trap

Payten Harville, Sean Edington, Olivia C. Moss, Meng Huang, Anne McCoy, Mark Johnson

Molecular Physics Issue Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dieter Gerlich, pp. e2174784

DOI Link: 10.1080/00268976.2023.2174784

2022

Effects of Microhydration on the Mechanisms of Hydrolysis and Cl^- Substitution in Reactions of N₂O₅ and Seawater

Laura M. McCaslin, Andreas W. Götz, Mark A. Johnson, and R. Benny Gerber

ChemPhysChem , Vol. 24, pp. e2022008

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202200819

Structures and Chemical Rearrangements of Benzoate Derivatives Following Gas Phase Decarboxylation

Evan H. Perez, Tim Schleif, Joseph P. Messinger, Anna G. Rullán Buxó, Olivia C. Moss, Kim Greis, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., Vol. 33, (10), pp. 1914-1920

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/jasms.2c00188

Microhydration of the metastable N-Protomer of 4-Aminobenzoic acid by condensation at 80K: H/D exchange without conversion to the more stable O-protomer

Thien Khuu, Santino J. Stropoli, Kim Greis, Nan Yang, Mark A. Johnson

J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 157, pp. 131102

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0119027

Character of the OH Bend–Stretch Combination Band in the Vibrational Spectra of the “Magic” Number H₃O⁺(H₂O)₂₀ and D₃O⁺(D₂O)₂₀ Cluster Ions

Nan Yang, Rachel M. Huchmala, Anne B. McCoy*, and Mark A. Johnson*

J. Phys. Chem. Let., Vol. 13, (34), pp. 8116-8121

DOI Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02318

Gas Phase Reactivity of Ozone with Lanthanide Ions (Sm⁺, Nd⁺) and Their Higher Oxides

Brendan Sweeny, Michael Heaven, Anton Lachowicz, Mark Johnson, Albert Viggiano, Nicholas Shuman, and Shaun Ard

J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. , Vol. 33, (8), pp. 1401-1410

DOI Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jasms.2c00058

Water Network Shape-Dependence of Local Interactions with the Microhydrated –NO₂⁻ and –CO₂⁻ Anionic Head Groups by Cold Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Sayoni Mitra, Joanna K. Denton, Patrick J. Kelleher, Timothy L. Guasco, Tae Hoon Choi, Kenneth D. Jordan and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A , Vol. 126, (16), pp. 2471-2479

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00721

Electronic and mechanical anharmonicities in the vibrational spectra of the H-bonded, cryogenically cooled X⁻∙HOCl (X=Cl, Br, I) complexes: Characterization of the strong anionic H-bond to an acidic OH group

Santino J. Stropoli, Thien Khuu, Mark A. Boyer, Natalia V. Karimova, Coire F. Gavin-Hanner, Sayoni Mitra, Anton L. Lachowicz, Nan Yang, R. Benny Gerber, Anne B. McCoy, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 156, pp. 174303

DOI Link: 10.1063/5.0083078

Preparation and Characterization of the Halogen Bonding Motif in the Isolated Cl⁻∙IOH Complex with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Santino J. Stropoli, Thien Khuu, Joseph P. Messinger, Natalia V. Karimova, Mark A. Boyer, Itai Zakai, Sayoni Mitra, Anton L. Lachowicz, Nan Yang, Sean C. Edington, R. Benny Gerber, Anne B. McCoy, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. , Vol. 13, (12), pp. 2750-2756

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00218

Vibrational signatures of HNO₃ acidity when complexed with microhydrated alkali metal ions, M⁺∙(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=5 (M=Li, K, Na, Rb, Cs), at 20 K

Sayoni Mitra, Thien Khuu,Tae Hoon Choi, Rachel M. Huchmala, Kenneth D. Jordan, Anne B. McCoy and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A (ACS Editor's Pick), Vol. 126, (10), pp. 1640–1647

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10352

2021

On the hydrogen oxalate binding motifs onto dinuclear coinage metal phosphine complexes

Björn Kwasigroch, Thien Khuu, Evan H. Perez, Joanna K. Denton, Erik Schneider, Annika Steiner, Marvin Theisen; Sebastian Kruppa, Patrick Weis, Manfred Kappes, Christoph Riehn, Mark A. Johnson, and Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg

Chem. Eur. J., Vol. 27, (56), pp. 13894-14138

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202102768

Applications of Lasers in Mass Spectrometry

Timothy L. Guasco and Mark A. Johnson

Emerging Trends in Chemical Applications of Lasers, Vol. N/A, pp. N/A

DOI Link: DOI: 10.1021/bk-2021-1398.ch013

Determination of the SmO⁺ bond energy by threshold photodissociation of the cryogenically cooled ion

Anton Lachowicz, Evan Perez, Nicholas S. Shuman, Shaun G. Ard, Albert A. Viggiano, P. B. Armentrout, Joshua Goings, Prachi Sharma, Xiaosong Li, and Mark Johnson

J. Chem. Phys. (Editor's Pick), Vol. 155, (17), pp. 174303

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0068734

Chemical reduction of Ni^II cyclam and characterization of isolated Ni^I cyclam with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy and inert-gas-mediated high-resolution mass spectrometry

Sean C. Edington, Evan H. Perez, David J. Charboneau, Fabian S. Menges, Nilay Hazari, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 125, (31), pp. 6715–6721

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05016

Size-Dependent Onset of Nitric Acid Dissociation in Cs⁺(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=0-11 Clusters at 20 K

Sayoni Mitra, Nan Yang, Laura M. McCaslin, R. Benny Gerber, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 12, (13), pp. 3335-3342

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00235

Demystifying the Diffuse Vibrational Spectrum of Aqueous Protons Through Cold Cluster Spectroscopy

Helen J. Zeng and Mark A. Johnson

Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., Vol. 72, (29), pp. 1-25

DOI Link: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-061020- 053456

Cover Articles

Effects of Microhydration on the Mechanisms of Hydrolysis and Cl^- Substitution in Reactions of N₂O₅ and Seawater

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202200819

Water Network Shape-Dependence of Local Interactions with the Microhydrated –NO₂⁻ and –CO₂⁻ Anionic Head Groups by Cold Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00721

Preparation and Characterization of the Halogen Bonding Motif in the Isolated Cl⁻∙IOH Complex with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00218

Vibrational signatures of HNO₃ acidity when complexed with microhydrated alkali metal ions, M⁺∙(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=5 (M=Li, K, Na, Rb, Cs), at 20 K

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c10352

Size-Dependent Onset of Nitric Acid Dissociation in Cs⁺(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=0-11 Clusters at 20 K

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00235

Isolating the Contributions of Specific Network Sites to the Diffuse Vibrational Spectrum of Interfacial Water With Isotopomer-Selective Spectroscopy of Cold Clusters

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07795

Ionic Liquid Clusters Generated from Electrospray Thrusters: Cold Ion Spectroscopic Signatures of Size-Dependent Acid−Base Interactions

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07595

Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Cryogenically Cooled O- and N-Protomers of 4-Aminobenzoic Acid: Tag Effects, Isotopic Labels, and Identification of the E,Z Isomer of the O-Protomer

DOI Link: 10.1016/j.ijms.2020.116427

Spectroscopic Signatures of Mode-Dependent Tunnel Splitting in the Iodide-Water Binary Complex

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00853

Integration of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

DOI Link: 10.1007/s13361-019-02238-y

Tag-Free and Isotopomer-Selective Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Cryogenically Cooled H₉O₄⁺ Cation with Two-Color, IR-IR Double-Resonance: Isolating the Spectral Signature of a Single OH Group in the Hydronium Ion Core

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b08507

Isolation of the site-specific anharmonicities of individual water molecules in the Iˉ∙(H₂O)₂ complex using tag‐free, isotopomer selective IR‐IR double resonance

DOI Link: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.09.042

Spectroscopic characterization of a strongly interacting C₍₂₎H group on the EMIM⁺ cation in the (EMIM⁺)₂Xˉ, (X = BF₄, Cl, Br, and I) ternary building blocks of ionic liquids

DOI Link: 10.1063/1.5009009

Capture of CO₂ by a Cationic Ni^I Complex in the Gas Phase and Characterization of the Bound Activated CO₂ Molecule through Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Predissociation Spectroscopy

DOI Link: 10.1002/anie.201507965

Snapshots of Proton Accommodation at a Microscopic Water Surface: Understanding the Vibrational Spectral Signatures of the Charge Defect in Cryogenically Cooled H⁺(H₂O)_n=2-28 Clusters

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b04355

Modes of Activation of Organometallic Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water and C-H Oxidation

DOI Link: 10.1021/ic402390t

Vibrational manifestations of strong non-Condon effects in the H₃O⁺·X₃(X = Ar, N₂, CH4, H2O) complexes: A possible explanation for the intensity in the “association band” in the vibrational spectrum of water

DOI Link: 10.1039/C2CP24110B

Publications

2023

Characterization of Oxidation Products from HOCl Uptake by Microhydrated Methionine Anions using Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Temperature- and Size-dependent, Water-Cluster-Mediated Long Range Proton Transfer in Microhydrated 4-Aminobenzoic Acid

Observation of Slow Eigen-Zundel Interconversion in H+(H2O)6 Clusters upon Isomer-Selective Vibrational Excitation and Buffer Gas Cooling in a Cryogenic Ion Trap

Spectroscopic Characterization of Divalent Metal Docking Motif to Isolated Cyanobenzoate: Direct Observation of Tridentate Binding to Ortho-Cyanobenzoate and Implications for the CN Response

High-resolution vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of I- H2O by single-mode CW infrared excitation in a 3D cryogenic ion trap

2022

Effects of Microhydration on the Mechanisms of Hydrolysis and Cl- Substitution in Reactions of N2O5 and Seawater

Structures and Chemical Rearrangements of Benzoate Derivatives Following Gas Phase Decarboxylation

Microhydration of the metastable N-Protomer of 4-Aminobenzoic acid by condensation at 80K: H/D exchange without conversion to the more stable O-protomer

Character of the OH Bend–Stretch Combination Band in the Vibrational Spectra of the “Magic” Number H3O+(H2O)20 and D3O+(D2O)20 Cluster Ions

Gas Phase Reactivity of Ozone with Lanthanide Ions (Sm+, Nd+) and Their Higher Oxides

Water Network Shape-Dependence of Local Interactions with the Microhydrated –NO2− and –CO2− Anionic Head Groups by Cold Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Electronic and mechanical anharmonicities in the vibrational spectra of the H-bonded, cryogenically cooled X−∙HOCl (X=Cl, Br, I) complexes: Characterization of the strong anionic H-bond to an acidic OH group

Preparation and Characterization of the Halogen Bonding Motif in the Isolated Cl−∙IOH Complex with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Vibrational signatures of HNO3 acidity when complexed with microhydrated alkali metal ions, M+∙(HNO3)(H2O)n=5 (M=Li, K, Na, Rb, Cs), at 20 K

2021

On the hydrogen oxalate binding motifs onto dinuclear coinage metal phosphine complexes

Applications of Lasers in Mass Spectrometry

Determination of the SmO+ bond energy by threshold photodissociation of the cryogenically cooled ion

Chemical reduction of NiII cyclam and characterization of isolated NiI cyclam with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy and inert-gas-mediated high-resolution mass spectrometry

Size-Dependent Onset of Nitric Acid Dissociation in Cs+(HNO3)(H2O)n=0-11 Clusters at 20 K

Demystifying the Diffuse Vibrational Spectrum of Aqueous Protons Through Cold Cluster Spectroscopy

Observation of Slow Eigen-Zundel Interconversion in H⁺(H₂O)₆ Clusters upon Isomer-Selective Vibrational Excitation and Buffer Gas Cooling in a Cryogenic Ion Trap

High-resolution vibrational predissociation spectroscopy of I^- H₂O by single-mode CW infrared excitation in a 3D cryogenic ion trap

Effects of Microhydration on the Mechanisms of Hydrolysis and Cl^- Substitution in Reactions of N₂O₅ and Seawater

Character of the OH Bend–Stretch Combination Band in the Vibrational Spectra of the “Magic” Number H₃O⁺(H₂O)₂₀ and D₃O⁺(D₂O)₂₀ Cluster Ions

Gas Phase Reactivity of Ozone with Lanthanide Ions (Sm⁺, Nd⁺) and Their Higher Oxides

Water Network Shape-Dependence of Local Interactions with the Microhydrated –NO₂⁻ and –CO₂⁻ Anionic Head Groups by Cold Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Electronic and mechanical anharmonicities in the vibrational spectra of the H-bonded, cryogenically cooled X⁻∙HOCl (X=Cl, Br, I) complexes: Characterization of the strong anionic H-bond to an acidic OH group

Preparation and Characterization of the Halogen Bonding Motif in the Isolated Cl⁻∙IOH Complex with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

Vibrational signatures of HNO₃ acidity when complexed with microhydrated alkali metal ions, M⁺∙(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=5 (M=Li, K, Na, Rb, Cs), at 20 K

Determination of the SmO⁺ bond energy by threshold photodissociation of the cryogenically cooled ion

Chemical reduction of Ni^II cyclam and characterization of isolated Ni^I cyclam with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy and inert-gas-mediated high-resolution mass spectrometry

Size-Dependent Onset of Nitric Acid Dissociation in Cs⁺(HNO₃)(H₂O)_n=0-11 Clusters at 20 K