Publications

2018

Structural Motifs in Cold Ternary Ion Complexes of Hydroxyl-Functionalized Ionic Liquids: Isolating the Role of Cation-Cation Interactions

Fabian S. Menges, Helen J. Zeng, Patrick J. Kelleher, Olga Gorlova, Mark A. Johnson, Thomas Niemann, Anne Strate, and Ralf Ludwig

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 9, (11), pp. 2979–2984

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01130

Vibrational characterization of radical ion adducts between imidazole and CO₂

Stephanie M. Craig, Christopher J. Johnson, Duminda S. Ranasinghe, Ajith Perera, Rodney J. Bartlett, Michael R. Berman, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 122, (15), pp. 3805-3810

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01883

Autodetachment from Vibrationally Excited Vinylidene Anions

Jessalyn A. DeVine, Marissa L. Weichman, Changjian Xie, Mark C. Babin, Mark A. Johnson, Jianyi Ma, Hua Guo, and Daniel M. Neumark

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 9, (5), pp. 1058-1063

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00144

2017

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

Nan Yang, Chinh H. Duong, Patrick J. Kelleher, Anne B. McCoy, and Mark A. Johnson

Chem. Phys. Lett. (Invited Frontiers Article), Vol. 690, (16), pp. 159-171

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

Olga Gorlova, Stephanie M. Craig, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Chem. Phys. (Communication, selected as an Editor's Pick), Vol. 147, (23), pp. 231101

DOI Link: 10.1063/1.5009009

Preparation of labile Ni⁺(cyclam) cations in the gas phase using electron transfer reduction through ion-ion recombination in an ion trap and structural characterization with vibrational spectroscopy

Musleh U. Munshi,* Stephanie M. Craig,* Giel Berden, Jonathan Martens, Andrew F. DeBlase, David J. Forman, Scott A. McLuckey, Jos Oomens, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 8, (20), pp. 5047-5052

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02223

Trapping and structural characterization of the XNO₂·NO₃ˉ (X = Cl, Br, I) exit channel complexes in the water-mediated Xˉ + N₂O₅ reactions with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy

Patrick J. Kelleher, Fabian S. Menges, Joseph W. DePalma, Joanna K. Denton, Mark A. Johnson, Gary H. Weddle, Barak Hirshberg, R. Benny Gerber

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 8, (19), pp. 4710–4715

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02120

Disentangling the complex vibrational spectrum of the protonated water trimer, H⁺(H₂O)₃ with two-color IR-IR photodissociation of the bare ion and anharmonic VSCF/VCI theory

Chinh H. Duong,* Olga Gorlova,* Nan Yang, Patrick J. Kelleher, Mark A. Johnson, Anne B. McCoy, Qi Yu, Joel M. Bowman

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 8, (16), pp. 3782–3789

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b01599

Identification and Partial Structural Characterization of Mass Isolated Valsartan and its Metabolite with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Predissociation (CIVP) Spectroscopy

Olga Gorlova, Sean M. Colvin, Antonio Brathwaite, Fabian S. Menges, Stephanie M. Craig, Scott J. Miller and Mark A. Johnson

J. Am. Spec. Mass Spectrom., Vol. 28, (11), pp. 2414-2422

DOI Link: 10.1007/s13361-017-1767-z

Hidden Role of Intermolecular Proton Transfer in the Anomalously Diffuse Vibrational Spectrum of a Trapped Hydronium Ion

Stephanie M. Craig, Fabian S. Menges, Chinh H. Duong, Joanna K. Denton, Lindsey R. Madison, Anne B. McCoy, and Mark A. Johnson

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 114, (24), pp. E4706-E4713

DOI Link: 10.1073/pnas.1705089114

Applications of gas phase cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the CO₂, CO, N₂ and N₂O interactions with the open coordination site on a Ni(I) macrocycle using dual cryogenic ion traps

Stephanie M. Craig, Fabian S. Menges, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Mol. Spectrosc., Vol. 332, pp. 117-123

DOI Link: 10.1016/j.jms.2016.11.015

Coordination-Dependent Spectrosocpic Signatures of Divalent Metal Ion Binding to Carboxylate Head Groups: H₂-and He-Tagged Vibrational Spectra of M²⁺·RCO₂^– (M = Mg and Ca, R = -CD3, and -CD2CD3) Complexes

Joseph W. DePalma, Patrick J. Kelleher, Laís C. Tavares, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Vol. 8, pp. 484-488

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02964

2016

Spectroscopic Snapshots of the Proton-transfer Mechanism in Water

Conrad T. Wolke, Joseph A. Fournier, Laura C. Dzugan, Matias R. Fagiani, Tugldur T. Odbadrakh, Harald Knorke, Kenneth D. Jordan, Anne B. McCoy, Knut R. Asmis, and Mark A. Johnson

Science, Vol. 354, (6316), pp. 1131-1135

DOI Link: 10.1126/science.aaf8425

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

Fabian S. Menges, Stephanie M. Craig, Niklas Tötsch, Aaron Bloomfield, Subrata Ghosh, Hans-Jörg Krüger, and Mark A. Johnson

Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., Vol. 55, (4), pp. 1282-1285

DOI Link: 10.1002/anie.201507965

Characterization of the primary hydration shell of the hydroxide ion with H₂ tagging vibrational spectroscopy of the OH¯(H₂O)_n=2,3 and OD¯(D₂O)_n=2,3 clusters

Olga Gorlova, Joseph W. DePalma, Conrad T. Wolke, Antonio Brathwaite, Tuguldur T. Odbadrakh, Kenneth D. Jordan, Anne B. McCoy, Mark A. Johnson

J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 145, pp. 134304

DOI Link: 10.1063/1.4962912

Catalytic Oxygen Evolution from Mn Complexes with an Oxidation-Resistant N,N,O-donor Ligand

Thoe K. Michaelos, Hannah M. C. Lant, Liam S. Sharninghausen, Stephanie M. Craig, Fabian S. Menges, Brandon Q. Mercado, Gary W. Brudvig, Robert H. Crabtree

ChemPlusChem, Vol. 81, (10), pp. 1129-1132

DOI Link: 10.1002/cplu.201600353

Gas Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Protonated Water Pentamer: The Roll of Isomers and Nuclear Quantum Effects

Matias R. Fagiani, Harald Knorke, Tim K. Esser, Nadja Heine, Conrad T. Wolke, Sandy Gewinner, Wieland Schöllkopf, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot, Riccardo Spezia, Mark A. Johnson, Knut R. Asmis

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Vol. 18, (38), pp. 26743-26754

DOI Link: 10.1039/C6CP05217G

Alkali-Controlled C–H Cleavage or N–C Bond Formation by N₂-Derived Iron Nitrides and Imides

K. Cory MacLeod, Fabian S. Menges, Sean F. McWilliams, Stephanie M. Craig, Brandon Q. Mercado, Mark A. Johnson, and Patrick L. Holland

J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 138, (35), pp. 11185-11191

DOI Link: 10.1021/jacs.6b04984

Isotopomer-selective Spectra of a Single Intact H₂O Molecule in the Cs⁺(D₂O)₅H₂O Isotopomers: Going Beyond Pattern Recognition to Harvest the Structural Information Encoded in Vibrational Spectra

Conrad T. Wolke, Joseph A. Fournier, Evangelos Miliordos, Shawn M. Kathmann, Sotiris S. Xantheas, Mark A. Johnson

J. Chem. Phys., Vol. 144, pp. 074305

DOI Link: 10.1063/1.4941285

2015

Diffuse Vibrational Signature of a Single Proton Embedded in the Oxalate Scaffold, HO₂CCO₂^-

Conrad T. Wolke, Andrew F. DeBlase, Christopher M. Leavitt, Anne B. McCoy, and Mark A. Johnson

J. Phys. Chem. A, Vol. 119, (52), pp. 13018-13024

DOI Link: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10649

Cover Articles

Mechanism of a Halogen Exchange Reaction in Water: Catalysis by Aqueous Media

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.4c02228

Hydrogen Tag Shifts as Vibrational Reporters for Positional Isomers of Formylphenides: Surprising Mobility of the Carbanion Center Upon Collisional Decarboxylation of the Parent Benzoates

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03514

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

2018

Structural Motifs in Cold Ternary Ion Complexes of Hydroxyl-Functionalized Ionic Liquids: Isolating the Role of Cation-Cation Interactions

Vibrational characterization of radical ion adducts between imidazole and CO2

Autodetachment from Vibrationally Excited Vinylidene Anions

2017

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

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

Preparation of labile Ni+(cyclam) cations in the gas phase using electron transfer reduction through ion-ion recombination in an ion trap and structural characterization with vibrational spectroscopy

Trapping and structural characterization of the XNO2·NO3ˉ (X = Cl, Br, I) exit channel complexes in the water-mediated Xˉ + N2O5 reactions with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy

Disentangling the complex vibrational spectrum of the protonated water trimer, H+(H2O)3 with two-color IR-IR photodissociation of the bare ion and anharmonic VSCF/VCI theory

Identification and Partial Structural Characterization of Mass Isolated Valsartan and its Metabolite with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Predissociation (CIVP) Spectroscopy

Hidden Role of Intermolecular Proton Transfer in the Anomalously Diffuse Vibrational Spectrum of a Trapped Hydronium Ion

Applications of gas phase cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the CO2, CO, N2 and N2O interactions with the open coordination site on a Ni(I) macrocycle using dual cryogenic ion traps

Coordination-Dependent Spectrosocpic Signatures of Divalent Metal Ion Binding to Carboxylate Head Groups: H2-and He-Tagged Vibrational Spectra of M2+·RCO2– (M = Mg and Ca, R = -CD3, and -CD2CD3) Complexes

2016

Spectroscopic Snapshots of the Proton-transfer Mechanism in Water

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

Characterization of the primary hydration shell of the hydroxide ion with H2 tagging vibrational spectroscopy of the OH¯(H2O)n=2,3 and OD¯(D2O)n=2,3 clusters

Catalytic Oxygen Evolution from Mn Complexes with an Oxidation-Resistant N,N,O-donor Ligand

Gas Phase Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Protonated Water Pentamer: The Roll of Isomers and Nuclear Quantum Effects

Alkali-Controlled C–H Cleavage or N–C Bond Formation by N2-Derived Iron Nitrides and Imides

Isotopomer-selective Spectra of a Single Intact H2O Molecule in the Cs+(D2O)5H2O Isotopomers: Going Beyond Pattern Recognition to Harvest the Structural Information Encoded in Vibrational Spectra

2015

Diffuse Vibrational Signature of a Single Proton Embedded in the Oxalate Scaffold, HO2CCO2-

Vibrational characterization of radical ion adducts between imidazole and CO₂

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

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

Preparation of labile Ni⁺(cyclam) cations in the gas phase using electron transfer reduction through ion-ion recombination in an ion trap and structural characterization with vibrational spectroscopy

Trapping and structural characterization of the XNO₂·NO₃ˉ (X = Cl, Br, I) exit channel complexes in the water-mediated Xˉ + N₂O₅ reactions with cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy

Disentangling the complex vibrational spectrum of the protonated water trimer, H⁺(H₂O)₃ with two-color IR-IR photodissociation of the bare ion and anharmonic VSCF/VCI theory

Applications of gas phase cryogenic vibrational spectroscopy to characterize the CO₂, CO, N₂ and N₂O interactions with the open coordination site on a Ni(I) macrocycle using dual cryogenic ion traps

Coordination-Dependent Spectrosocpic Signatures of Divalent Metal Ion Binding to Carboxylate Head Groups: H₂-and He-Tagged Vibrational Spectra of M²⁺·RCO₂^– (M = Mg and Ca, R = -CD3, and -CD2CD3) Complexes

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

Characterization of the primary hydration shell of the hydroxide ion with H₂ tagging vibrational spectroscopy of the OH¯(H₂O)_n=2,3 and OD¯(D₂O)_n=2,3 clusters

Alkali-Controlled C–H Cleavage or N–C Bond Formation by N₂-Derived Iron Nitrides and Imides

Isotopomer-selective Spectra of a Single Intact H₂O Molecule in the Cs⁺(D₂O)₅H₂O Isotopomers: Going Beyond Pattern Recognition to Harvest the Structural Information Encoded in Vibrational Spectra

Diffuse Vibrational Signature of a Single Proton Embedded in the Oxalate Scaffold, HO₂CCO₂^-