Vibrational spectroscopic map, vibrational spectroscopy, and intermolecular interaction

CR Baiz, B Błasiak, J Bredenbeck, M Cho… - Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Vibrational spectroscopy is an essential tool in chemical analyses, biological assays, and
studies of functional materials. Over the past decade, various coherent nonlinear vibrational …

Vibrational probes: From small molecule solvatochromism theory and experiments to applications in complex systems

B Błasiak, CH Londergan, LJ Webb… - Accounts of chemical …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus The vibrational frequency of a chosen normal mode is one of the most
accurately measurable spectroscopic properties of molecules in condensed phases …

Vibrational stark effects of carbonyl probes applied to reinterpret IR and raman data for enzyme inhibitors in terms of electric fields at the active site

SH Schneider, SG Boxer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
IR and Raman frequency shifts have been reported for numerous probes of enzyme
transition states, leading to diverse interpretations. In the case of the model enzyme …

Vibrational solvatochromism of nitrile infrared probes: Beyond the vibrational Stark dipole approach

B Błasiak, AW Ritchie, LJ Webb, M Cho - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Systematic probing of local environments around biopolymers is important for understanding
their functions. Therefore, there has been growing interest in in situ measurements of …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of coherent two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy

TC Jansen, S Saito, J Jeon, M Cho - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional (2D) vibrational spectroscopy has emerged as one of the most important
experimental techniques useful to study the molecular structure and dynamics in condensed …

Frequency changes in terminal alkynes provide strong, sensitive, and solvatochromic Raman probes of biochemical environments

MG Romei, EV von Krusenstiern… - The Journal of …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The C≡ C stretching frequencies of terminal alkynes appear in the “clear” window of
vibrational spectra, so they are attractive and increasingly popular as site-specific probes in …

Solvent-independent anharmonicity for carbonyl oscillators

SH Schneider, HT Kratochvil, MT Zanni… - The Journal of …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The physical origins of vibrational frequency shifts have been extensively studied in order to
understand noncovalent intermolecular interactions in the condensed phase. In the case of …

Ion aggregation in high salt solutions: Ion network versus ion cluster

S Kim, H Kim, JH Choi, M Cho - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014‏ - pubs.aip.org
The critical aggregation phenomena are ubiquitous in many self-assembling systems. Ions
in high salt solutions could also spontaneously form larger ion aggregates, but their effects …

Experimental two-dimensional infrared spectra of methyl thiocyanate in water and organic solvents

JC Shirley, CR Baiz - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
Thiocyanates, nitriles, and azides represent a versatile set of vibrational probes to measure
the structure and dynamics in biological systems. The probes are minimally perturbative, the …

The mutual interactions of RNA, counterions and water–quantifying the electrostatics at the phosphate–water interface

BP Fingerhut - Chemical Communications, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The structure and dynamics of polyanionic biomolecules, like RNA, are decisively
determined by their electric interactions with the water molecules and the counterions in the …