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Spectroscopic Studies Of Gas-Phase Metal Cation Complexes With Alkanes And Ammonia, Muhammad Affawn Ashraf

Doctoral Dissertations

Understanding the non-covalent interaction between metals and small ligands such as methane and ammonia is of key importance because of their industrial and biological applications. However, these interactions are difficult to study and quantify in the bulk phase due to the interaction with neighboring molecules or atoms. Gas phase spectroscopy of mass-selected clusters is a powerful technique that overcomes this challenge by allowing clusters with known composition to be studied in the gas phase. In this thesis, we investigate the interaction between three types of small molecular ligands with metal and metal cluster ions, and answer questions about their geometries …