• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Cooling, Spectroscopy and Non‐Sticking of trans‐Stilbene and Nile Red
  • Beteiligte: Piskorski, Julia; Patterson, David; Eibenberger, Sandra; Doyle, John M.
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2014
  • Erschienen in: ChemPhysChem
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402502
  • ISSN: 1439-4235; 1439-7641
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>We create and study <jats:italic>trans</jats:italic>‐Stilbene and Nile Red in a cryogenic (7 K) cell with a low density helium buffer gas. No molecule–helium cluster formation is observed, indicating limited atom–molecule sticking in this system. We place an upper limit of 5 % on the population of clustered He–<jats:italic>trans</jats:italic>‐Stilbene, consistent with a measured He–molecule collisional residence time of less than 1 μs. With its very low energy torsional modes, <jats:italic>trans</jats:italic>‐Stilbene is less rigid than any molecule previously buffer‐gas‐cooled into the Kelvin regime. We also report cooling and gas phase visible spectroscopy of Nile Red, a much larger molecule. Our data suggest that buffer gas cooling will be feasible for a variety of small biological molecules.</jats:p>