IRMPD spectra of Gly·NH4+ and proton-bound betaine dimer: Evidence for the smallest gas phase zwitterionic structures

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1641-1648

  Wu, Ronghu ^a   McMahon, Terry B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Betaine; Electronic structure calculation; Gas phase ion chemistry; Glycine; IRMPD spectroscopy; Zwitterionic structures

Indexed keywords

AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CARBOXYLATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTS; GAS DYNAMICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONS; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXYGEN; PROTEINS; PROTONS;

BETAINE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATION; GAS PHASE ION CHEMISTRY; GLYCINE; IRMPD SPECTROSCOPY; ZWITTERIONIC STRUCTURES;

GASES;

AMMONIA; BETAINE; GLYCINE; HOMODIMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INFRARED MULTIPLE PHOTON DISSOCIATION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT;

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; BETAINE; DIMERIZATION; GLYCINE; IONS; ISOMERISM; PROTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 57149104125     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1449     Document Type: Article

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