Combined IR and UV laser spectroscopic techniques in molecular beams merged with
theoretical approaches have proven to be an ideal tool to elucidate intrinsic structural …

The accurate characterization of prototypical bricks of life can strongly benefit from the
integration of high resolution spectroscopy and quantum mechanical computations. We …

The well-known correlation between structure and functionality has motivated generations of
scientists to intensively investigate the structural behaviour of peptide and protein systems …

A general strategy for the accurate computation of conformational and spectroscopic
properties of flexible molecules in the gas phase is applied to two representative …

Sugars are clearly of biochemical interest as cellular energy fuels, metabolic intermediates,
mediators of cellular interactions, or structural building blocks. Recently the interest in …

Rotational spectroscopy in combination with molecular beams and laser ablation (laser-
ablation molecular-beam Fourier transform microwave (LA-MB-FTMW) spectroscopy) has …

We explored the conformational landscape of the proteinogenic amino acid serine [CH2OH
CH (NH2) COOH] in the gas phase. Solid serine was vaporized by laser ablation, expanded …

The interplay of high-resolution rotational spectroscopy and quantum-chemical
computations plays an invaluable role in the investigation of biomolecule building blocks in …

A new computational strategy has been applied to the conformational and spectroscopic
properties in the gas phase of amino acids with very distinctive features, ranging from …

Susana Blanco, Juan C. López,* Santiago Mata, and JosØ L. Alonso g-Aminobutyric acid
(GABA) is arguably the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and …