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
JournalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume56
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Oct 2023

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Funding

This study was supported by the Minerva Center for Making Bonds by Fragmentation. This article is based upon work from COST action CA18212—Molecular Dynamics in the GAS phase (MD-GAS), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). R S acknowledges the Normandy Region and the European Union in the frame of the operational Program FEDER/FSE 2014-2020 (RIN MAGIC) and the support received by the French ANR agency (ANR-18-CE30-0021, ANR FRAPA). V T T N acknowledges NucPhys Master Degree and EACEA (Project Number: 610575-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB, Contract: 2019-2130) for support. We are grateful to the general staff of SOLEIL for smoothly running the facility and for providing beamtime under Project #20210498, and to J-F Gil for his help in installing the ion trap set-up on the DESIRS beamline. This work was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France, under Project ANR-08-BLAN-0065.

FundersFunder number
ANR-18-CE30-0021
European Commission
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency20210498, 610575-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB, 2019-2130
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Agence Nationale de la RechercheANR-08-BLAN-0065

    Keywords

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

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