Vacuum UV studies of protonated serine clusters

Ori Licht, Maria Nihamkin, Mirit Anaby, Patrick Rousseau, Alexandre Giuliani, Aleksandar R. Milosavljević, Raj Singh, Vy T.T. Nguyen, Laurent Nahon, Yoni Toker

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Abstract

In a recent work, we have shown that photon absorption can cause a chemical bond to be created between the two monomers within a protonated serine dimer, a process known as intra-cluster bond formation, despite this process not occurring following thermal excitation via low energy collision-induced dissociation (LE-CID). Here we show further evidence for non-statistical photon-induced dissociation (PID) of the protonated serine dimer. In addition we discuss LE-CID and PID studies of the protonated serine octamer, showing that in this case as well, PID leads to non-statistical fragmentation and to the formation of two bonds between three neighboring monomers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number205101
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume56
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Sep 2023

Keywords

  • excited state dynamics
  • gas phase
  • intra cluster bond formation
  • molecular clusters
  • peptide bond formation

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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