Dioxygen binding and activation at metal centers are of major importance in a wide range of
catalytic and biological processes. Metal oxides and dioxygen complexes are potential …

Resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy has several advantages over the normal Raman
spectroscopy (RS) widely used for in situ characterization of solid catalysts and catalytic …

The location of Brønsted‐acid sites (bridging OH groups, b‐OH) at different crystallographic
positions of zeolite catalysts influences their reactivity due to varying confinement. Selecting …

Gas‐phase investigations of judiciously doped oxide clusters permit to address fundamental
challenges related to, for example, the low‐temperature oxidation of CO or the selective …

A corner stone in the study of the size‐dependent properties of cluster ions in the gas phase
is their structural characterization. Over the last 10 years, significant progress has been in …

Gas-phase cluster reactivity experiments, combined with theoretical calculations, provide
insight into how factors such as size, stoichiometry and charging effects influence reactions …

This article summarizes the methodological progress that has been made in the vibrational
spectroscopy of isolated polynuclear metal oxide clusters, with particular emphasis on free …

Structural information for neutral magnesium oxide clusters has been obtained by a
comparison of their experimental vibrational spectra with predictions from theory.(MgO) n …

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations are applied to study the structure and bonding
properties of groups 3–7 transition metal oxide clusters M x= 1–3 O yq and Sc x= 4–6 O yq …

Evidence obtained by guided-ion-beam mass spectrometry experiments and density
functional theory calculations indicates that by adding one oxygen atom with a full octet of …