Vibrational and electronic spectroscopy of 2-cyanoindene cations

TE Douglas-Walker, EK Ashworth… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2024 - ACS Publications
2-Cyanoindene is one of the few specific aromatic or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
molecules positively identified in Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1), a cold, dense …

Low-Energy Transformation Pathways between Naphthalene Isomers

G Salomon, N Tarrat, JC Schön, M Rapacioli - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The transformation pathways between low-energy naphthalene isomers are studied by
investigating the topology of the energy landscape of this astrophysically relevant molecule …

Reply to: The stabilization of cyanonaphthalene by fast radiative cooling

MH Stockett, JN Bull, H Cederquist, S Indrajith… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In our original article 1, we found that the dissociation of an ensemble of vibrationally hot 1-
cyanonaphthalene cations (1-CNN+, C10H7CN+) was quenched by radiative cooling after a …

New light on the imbroglio surrounding the C 8 H+ 6 isomers formed from ionized azulene and naphthalene using ion–molecule reactions

C Rossi, G Muller, R Thissen, C Romanzin… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Most polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can isomerize with internal energies near to
or below the dissociation threshold. The C10H+ 8 group of ions, made up of the …

Infrared cooling in an anharmonic cascade framework: 2-cyanoindene, the smallest cyano-PAH identified in Taurus Molecular Cloud-1

MH Stockett, VJ Esposito, EK Ashworth… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Infrared (IR) cooling of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules is a major radiative
stabilization mechanism of PAHs present in space and is the origin of the aromatic infrared …

Ion Spectroscopy in the Context of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands: A Case Study with the Phenylacetylene Cation

TE Douglas-Walker, EK Campbell… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Identification of the molecular carriers of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) requires gas phase
electronic spectra of suitable candidate structures. Recording the spectra of these in the …

Near-infrared absorption and radiative cooling of naphthalene dimers (C 10 H 8) 2

J Bernard, S Martin, A Al-Mogeeth, C Joblin… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The radiative cooling of naphthalene dimer cations,(C10H8) 2+ was studied experimentally
through action spectroscopy using two different electrostatic ion-beam storage rings …

Protomers of the green and cyan fluorescent protein chromophores investigated using action spectroscopy

EK Ashworth, J Dezalay, CRM Ryan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The photophysics of biochromophore ions often depends on the isomeric or protomeric
distribution, yet this distribution, and the individual isomer contributions to an action …

Photoelectron spectroscopy of deprotonated benzonitrile

EK Ashworth, JN Bull - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The recent discovery of cyano-substituted aromatic and two-ring polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbon molecules in Taurus Molecular Cloud-1 has prompted questions on how the …

In search of universalities in the dissociative photoionization of PANHs via isomerizations

K Ramanathan, M Selvaraj, M Cautero… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In search of the cause behind the similarities often seen in the fragmentation of PANHs,
vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photodissociation of two pairs of isomers quinoline–isoquinoline …