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3 November 2011
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Headline news:
In a collaboration between the Elsaesser/Nibbering (MBI)
and Levinger (Colorado State University, USA) teams the vibrational
energy migration pathways in phospholipid reverse micelles
are investigated with ultrafast mid-IR pump-probe spectroscopy.
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paper
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One sentence summary:
The key role of hydration for mediating ultrafast energy migration
and dissipation in phospholipids self-assembled into reverse
micelles is exemplified by determination of the rate of resonant
excitation transfer between phosphate groups and by introducing
a water pool as a confined heat sink for excess energy. |
More details
on page of subproject 1
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Contact: Thomas Elsaesser
Contact: Erik T. J.
Nibbering
Contact: Nancy
E. Levinger
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Nancy and René discussing the results on the phospholipid
reverse micelles
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External funding by:

National Science Foundation (Grant CHE 0628260)
European Research Council Advanced Grant under the European
Union´s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC
grant agreement no. 247051
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29 September 2011
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Headline news:
In a collaboration between the Nibbering (MBI) and Batista
(Yale University, USA) teams the solvent-induced OH stretching
frequency shifts of a prototypical photoacid dissolved in
nonpolar/weakly polar solvents are explained in a combined
transient IR spectroscopic and quantum chemical calculational
study. |
Link to original paper
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One sentence summary:
The vibrational frequency shifts of the OH-stretching mode
of uncomplexed 2-naphthol observed with femtosecond IR spectrosocpy
in the electronic ground and excited states are explained
using a perturbative solute-solvent interaction model and
parametrized by (TD-)DFT quantum chemcial calculations. |
More details
on page of subproject 2
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Contact: Erik T. J.
Nibbering
Contact: Victor S.
Batista
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Skype conference with the Yale group.
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External funding by:

National Science Foundation (Grant CHE 0911520)

Fonds Québecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les
Technologies
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12 May 2011
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Headline news:
In a joint collaboration between the Elsaesser/Nibbering
(MBI) and Temps (Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel)
teams the N-H stretching spectroscopy of Guanosine-Cytidine
base pairs is unraveled. |
Link to original
paper (Published in the Shaul
Mukamel Festschrift)
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One sentence summary:
Linear FT-IR and 2D-IR photon echo spectroscopy provide insight
into the dynamics and couplings of the N-H stretching manifold
of GC base pairs in solution. |
More details
on page of subproject 1
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Contact: Erik T. J.
Nibbering
Contact: Thomas Elsaesser
Contact: Friedrich
Temps
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External funding by:
European Research Council under the European Union´s
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement
no. 247051
German Science Foundation
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5 May 2011
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Headline news:
In a joint collaboration between the MBI and the Freie
Universität Berlin the complexation chemistry of 2-chloro-4-nitrophenol
with acetate in dichloromethane has been surveyed in a combined
UV/NMR heterospectral correlation approach with unsurpassed
detail. |
Link to original
paper
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One sentence summary:
Two-dimensional heterospectral UV/NMR correlation spectroscopy
provides insight into the composition of hydrogen-bonded complexes
in dichloromethane solution. |
More details
on page of subproject 1
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Contact: Peter M.
Tolstoy
Contact: Erik
T. J. Nibbering
Contact: Thomas Elsaesser
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External funding by:
European Research Council under the European Union´s
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement
no. 247051 |
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10 February 2011
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Headline news:
2D-IR photon echo spectroscopy on DNA oligomers monitor
individual line broadening and vibrational energy transfer
of the NH-stretching modes of the DNA bases. |
Link to original
paper
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One sentence summary:
Ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy of the NH-stretching bands of
adenine–thymine base pairs in DNA oligomers enable to
distinguish different line broadening as well as energy transfer.. |
More details
on page of subproject 1
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Contact: Thomas Elsaesser
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External funding by:
European Research Council under the European Union´s
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement
no. 247051 |
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