IR spectroscopy of cationized aliphatic amino acids: Stability of charge-solvated structure increases with metal cation size

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 297, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 18-27

  Drayß, Miriam K ^a   Armentrout, P B ^b   Oomens, Jos ^c,d   Schäfer, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aliphatic amino acids; Computational modeling; IRMPD spectroscopy; Proline; Zwitterions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958098496     PISSN: 13873806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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