Prof. Dr. Martin Suhm

++49 - 551 - 39 3112 e-mail homepage (http://www.hbond.net) Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Institut für Physikalische Chemie Tammannstrasse 6 37077 Göttingen Germany

PCGG activities

Ongoing and Planned Research Group Interaction(s) within the Graduate School

• The Buck Group (size selection and mass spectrometry)
• The Botschwina Group (high level quantum chemistry)
• The Diederichsen Group (biomolecular models and synthesis)
• The Signorell Group (nanoparticles)
• The Abel Group (molecular recognition and isomerization)
• The Eckold Group (isomerism and Raman spectroscopy)

• Ragout-jet FTIR-spectroscopy of molecular model clusters
• IR- and Raman spectroscopy of biomolecules in solution

• ♦ S. Hesse, T. N. Wassermann, M. A. Suhm, Brightening and locking a weak and floppy N-H chromophore: The case of pyrrolidine, J. Phys. Chem. A, (in press 2010).
• ♦ Z. Xue, M.A. Suhm , Adding more weight to a molecular recognition unit: The low-frequency modes of carboxylic acid dimers , Mol. Phys., (in press 2010).
• ♦ M. Hippler, S. Hesse, M. A. Suhm , Quantum-chemical study and FTIR jet spectroscopy of CHCl₃ - NH₃ association in the gas phase, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., (in press 2010).
• ♦ M. Albrecht, J. Will, M. A. Suhm , Chiralitätserkennung bei Menthol und Neomenthol: bevorzugte Bildung homokonfigurierter Aggregate , Angew. Chem. 2010, 122, 6339-6342. (DOI: 10.1002/ange.201001565 )
• ♦ M. Albrecht, J. Will, M. A. Suhm , Chirality recognition in menthol and neomenthol aggregates: Multiple evidence for a homoconfigurational preference, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6203-6206. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201001565 )
• ♦ M. Albrecht, V. A. Soloshonok, L. Schrader, M. Yasumoto, M. A. Suhm, Chirality-dependent sublimation of a-(trifluoromethyl)-lactic acid: Relative vapor pressures of racemic, eutectic, and enantiomerically pure forms, and vibrational spectroscopy of isolated (S,S) and (S,R) dimers, J. Fluorine Chem. 2010, 131, 495-504. (Special issue: Self-Disproportionation of Enantiomers - Impact of Fluorine)
• ♦ J. J. Lee, S. Hesse, M. A. Suhm, Conformational instability upon dimerization: Prolinol , J. Mol. Struct. 2010, 976, 397-404.
  [ Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2010.03.052 ]
• ♦ T. N. Wassermann, M. A. Suhm , Ethanol monomers and dimers revisited: A Raman study of conformational preferences and argon nanocoating effects , J. Phys. Chem. A 2010, 114, 8223-8233 .
• ♦ A. Borba, M. Albrecht, A. Gómez-Zavaglia, M. A. Suhm, R. Fausto, Low Temperature Infrared Spectroscopy Study of Pyrazinamide: From the Isolated Monomer to the Stable Low Temperature Crystalline Phase, J. Phys. Chem. A 2010, 114, 151-161. (DOI: 10.1021/jp907466h )
• ♦ M. Albrecht, A. Borba, K. Le Barbu-Debus, B. Dittrich, R. Fausto, S. Grimme, A. Mahjoub, M. Nedic, U. Schmitt, L. Schrader, M. A. Suhm, A. Zehnacker-Rentien, J. Zischang , Chirality influence on the aggregation of methyl mandelate , New. J. Chem. 2010, 34, 1266-1285. (DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00142B )
• ♦ N. O. B. Lüttschwager, T. N. Wassermann, S. Coussan and M. A. Suhm, Periodic bond breaking and making in the electronic ground state on a sub-picosecond timescale: OH bending spectroscopy of malonaldehyde in the frequency domain at low temperature, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 8201-8207. (Themed issue "Chemical Dynamics of Large Amplitude Motion")
• ♦ R. W. Larsen, M. A. Suhm, The benefits of alternation and alkylation: Large amplitude hydrogen bond librational modes of alcohol trimers and tetramers, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 8152-8157. (DOI: 10.1039/b925578h)
• ♦ M. A. Suhm, Hydrogen Bond Dynamics in Alcohol Clusters , Adv. Chem. Phys. 2009, 142, 1-57.
  [ Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470475935.ch1 ]
• ♦ J. L. Wolf, M. A. Suhm, T. Zeuch, Suppressed Particle Formation by Kinetically Controlled Ozone Removal: Revealing the Role of Transient-Species Chemistry during Alkene Ozonolysis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2231-2235. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805189)
• ♦ J. L. Wolf, M. A. Suhm, T. Zeuch, Unterdrückte Partikelbildung durch kinetisch kontrollierten Ozonentzug: zur Bedeutung der Chemie kurzlebiger Spezies bei der Alkenozonolyse, Angewandte Chemie 2009, 121, 2265-2269. (DOI: 10.1002/ange.200805189)
• ♦ T. N. Wassermann, J. Thelemann, P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, The stiffness of a fully stretched polyethylene chain: A Raman jet spectroscopy extrapolation , J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 161108.
  [ Link: http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/131/161108/1 ]
• ♦ Z. Xue, M. A. Suhm, Probing the stiffness of the simplest double hydrogen bond: The symmetric hydrogen bond modes of jet-cooled formic acid dimer, J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 054301. (DOI: 10.1063/1.3191728)
• ♦ J. J. Lee, S. Höfener, W. Klopper, T. N. Wassermann, M. A. Suhm, Origin of the argon nanocoating shift in the OH stretching fundamental of n-propanol: a combined experimental and quantum chemical study, J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 10929-10938.
  [ Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp902194h ]
• ♦ S. Hesse, M. A. Suhm, On the low volatility of cyclic esters: an infrared spectroscopy comparison between dimers of γ-butyrolactone and methyl propionate, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009, 11, 11157 - 11170. (DOI: 10.1039/b915419a)
• ♦ S. Hesse, M. A. Suhm, Conformation and Aggregation of Proline Esters and Their Aromatic Homologs: Pyramidal vs. Planar RR'N-H in Hydrogen Bonds, Z. Phys. Chem. 2009, 223, 579-604.
• ♦ A. Zehnacker, M. Suhm, Chirality Recognition between Neutral Molecules in the Gas Phase, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 6970 - 6992.
• ♦ A. Zehnacker, M. Suhm, Chirality Recognition between Neutral Molecules in the Gas Phase, Angewandte Chemie 2008, 120, 7076 - 7100.
• ♦ T. Scharge, D Luckhaus, M. A. Suhm, Observation and Quantification of the Hydrogen Bond Effect on O-H Overtone Intensities in an Alcohol Dimer, Chem. Phys. 2008, 346, 167-175.
• ♦ M. Albrecht, P. Zielke, C. A. Rice, M. A. Suhm, Variations of bite angle and coupling patterns in double hydrogen bonds: The case of oxime dimers, J. Mol. Struct 2008, 880, 2-13. XVII Horizons in Hydrogen bond research issue (DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2007.09.027)
• ♦ M. Albrecht, C. A. Rice, M. Suhm, Elementary Peptide Motifs in the Gas Phase: FTIR Aggregation Study of Formamide, Acetamide, N-Methylformamide, and N-Methylacetamide, J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 7530-7542.
• ♦ I. Dauster, M. A. Suhm, U. Buck, T. Zeuch, Experimental and theoretical study of the microsolvation of sodium atoms in methanol clusters: differences and similarities to sodium-water and sodium-ammonia, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008, 10, 83-95.
• ♦ A. Borba, M. Albrecht, A. Gómez-Zavaglia, L. Lapinski, M. J. Nowak, M. A. Suhm, R. Fausto, Dimer formation in nicotinamide and picolinamide in the gas and condensed phases probed by infrared spectroscopy, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008, 10, 7010-7021. (DOI: 10.1039/b810002k)
• ♦ M. Nedic, T. N. Wassermann, Z. Xue, P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, Raman spectroscopic evidence for the most stable water/ethanol dimer and for the negative mixing energy in cold water/ethanol trimers, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008, 10, 5953-5956. (DOI: 10.1039/b811154e)
• ♦ I. Dauster, C. A. Rice, P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, N-H...pi interactions in pyrroles: systematic trends from the vibrational spectroscopy of clusters, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2008, 10, 2827-2825.
• ♦ T. Scharge, T. N. Wassermann, M. A. Suhm, Weak hydrogen bonds make a difference: Dimers of jet-cooled halogenated ethanols, Z. Phys. Chem. 2008, 222, 1407-1452.
• ♦ T. N. Wassermann, C. A. Rice, M. A.Suhm, D. Luckhaus, Hydrogen bonding lights up overtones in pyrazoles, J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 127, 234309.
• ♦ R. W. Larsen, P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, Hydrogen-bonded OH stretching modes of methanol clusters: A combined IR and Raman isotopomer study, J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126, 194307.
• ♦ C. A. Rice, I. Dauster, M. A. Suhm, Infrared spectroscopy of pyrrole-2-carboxaldehyde and its dimer: A planar beta-sheet peptide model?, J. Chem. Phys. 2007, 126, 134313.
• ♦ T. N. Wassermann, P. Zielke, J. J. Lee, C. Cézard, M. A. Suhm, Structural preferences, argon nanocoating, and dimerization of n-alkanols as revealed by OH stretching spectroscopy in supersonic jets, J. Phys. Chem. A 2007, 111, 7437-7448.
  [ Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp071008z ]
• ♦ P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, Raman jet spectroscopy of formic acid dimers: Low frequency vibrational dynamics and beyond, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2007, 9, 4528-4534. (DOI: 10.1039/b706094g)
• ♦ T. Scharge, C. Cézard, P. Zielke, A. Schütz, C. Emmeluth, M. A. Suhm, A peptide co-solvent under scrutiny: Self-aggregation of 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2007, 9, 4472-4490.
• ♦ T. B. Adler, N. Borho, M. Reiher, M. A. Suhm, Chirality-Induced Switch in Hydrogen-Bond Topology: Tetrameric Methyl Lactate Clusters in the Gas Phase, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 3440-3445. (DOI: 10.1002/anie.200600380)
  [ Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200600380 ]
• ♦ R. W. Larsen, M. A. Suhm, Cooperative organic hydrogen bonds: The librational modes of cyclic methanol clusters, J. Chem. Phys. 2006, 125, 154314. (DOI: 10.1063/1.2358349)
  [ Link: http://link.aip.org/link/?JCP/125/154314 ]
• ♦ T. Scharge, C. Emmeluth, T. Häber, M. A. Suhm, Competing hydrogen bond topologies in 2-fluoroethanol dimer, J. Mol. Struct. 2006, 786, 86-95. Matrix 2005 issue (DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2005.09.022)
• ♦ M. Weimann, M. Fárník, M. A. Suhm, M. E. Alikhani, J. Sadlej, Cooperative and anticooperative mixed trimers of HCl and methanol, J. Mol. Struct. 2006, 790, 18-26. Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research issue
• ♦ C. Cézard, C. A. Rice, M. A. Suhm, OH-stretching redshifts in bulky hydrogen bonded alcohols: Jet spectroscopy and modeling, J. Phys. Chem. A 2006, 110, 9839-9848.
• ♦ C. Emmeluth, V. Dyczmons, M. A. Suhm, Tuning the Hydrogen Bond Donor / Acceptor Isomerism in Jet-Cooled Mixed Dimers of Aliphatic Alcohols, J. Phys. Chem. A 2006, 110, 2906-2915. Jürgen Troe Festschrift (DOI: 10.1021/jp0540407)
• ♦ T. Scharge, T. Häber, M. A. Suhm, Quantitative Chirality Synchronization in Trifluoroethanol Dimers, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 4664-4667. (DOI: 10.1039/b609868a)
• ♦ N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, K. Le Barbu-Debus, A. Zehnacker, Intra- vs. Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding: Dimers of alpha-Hydroxyesters with Methanol, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 4449-4460. (DOI: 10.1039/b609725a)
• ♦ P. Zielke, M. A. Suhm, Concerted proton motion in hydrogen-bonded trimers: A spontaneous Raman scattering perspective, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8(24), 2826-2830. (DOI: 10.1039/b605926k)
• ♦ T. N. Wassermann, D. Luckhaus, S. Coussan, M. A. Suhm, Proton tunneling estimates for malonaldehyde vibrations from supersonic jet and matrix quenching experiments, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 2344-2348. (DOI: 10.1039/b602319n)
• ♦ M. Fárník, M. Weimann, Ch. Steinbach, U. Buck, N. Borho, Th. Adler, M. A. Suhm, Size-selected methyl lactate clusters: Fragmentation and spectroscopic fingerprints of chiral recognition, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8(10), 1148-1158.
  [ Link: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b514117f ]
• ♦ N. Seurre, K. Le Barbu-Debus, F. Lahmani, A. Zehnacker, N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Chiral Recognition between lactic acid derivatives and an aromatic alcohol in a supersonic expansion: electronic and vibrational spectroscopy, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2006, 8, 1007-1016.
  [ Link: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b514091a ]
• ♦ J. P. Devlin, M. Fárník, M. A. Suhm, V. Buch, Comparative FTIR Spectroscopy of HX Adsorbed on Solid Water: Ragout-Jet Water Clusters vs. Ice Nanocrystal Arrays, J. Phys. Chem. 2005, 109(6), 955-958.
• ♦ C. Emmeluth, V. Dyczmons, T. Kinzel, P. Botschwina, M. A. Suhm, M. Yáñez, Combined jet relaxation and quantum chemical study of the pairing preferences of ethanol, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2005, 7(5), 991-997. (DOI: 10.1039/B417870J)
• ♦ C. A. Rice, N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Dimerization of pyrazole in slit jet expansions, Z. Phys. Chem. 2005, 219(3), 379-388.
• ♦ N. Seurre, K. Le Barbu-Debus, F. Lahmani, N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, A. Zehnacker, Chiral Recognition in Jet-Cooled Complexes, Aust. J. Chem. 2004, 57, 1149-1152.
  [ Link: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/51.htm ]
• ♦ Y. Liu, C. A. Rice, M. Suhm, Torsional Isomers in Methylated Aminoethanols: A Jet- FTIR Study, Can. J. Chem. 2004, 82(6), 1006-1012. (Herzberg Issue)
• ♦ A. V. Bochenkova, M. A. Suhm, A. A. Granovsky, A. V. Nemukhin, Hybrid diatomics-in-molecules-based quantum mechanical molecular mechanical approach applied to the modeling of structures and spectra of mixed molecular clusters Ar_n(HCl)_m and Ar_n(HF)_m, J. Chem. Phys. 2004, 120, 3732-3743.
• ♦ T. Häber, R. Kevorkiants, W. Thiel, M. A. Suhm, The performance of the semi-empirical AM1 method on small and nanometer-sized N₂O clusters, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 4939-4949. (DOI: 10.1039/b409258a)
• ♦ D. Hermsdorf, A. Bonnamy, M. A. Suhm, R. Signorell, Infrared spectra of phenanthrene particles generated by pulsed rapid expansion of CO₂ solutions, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 4652-4657. (DOI: 10.1039/B406193D)
• ♦ Y. Liu, M. A. Suhm, P. Botschwina, Supersonic jet FTIR and quantum chemical investigations of ammonia/acetylene clusters, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 4642-4651. (DOI: 10.1039/b408919g)
• ♦ M. Fárník, C. Steinbach, M. Weimann, U. Buck, N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Size-selective vibrational spectroscopy of methyl glycolate clusters: comparison with ragout-jet FTIR spectroscopy, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 4614-4620. (DOI: 10.1039/b408506j)
• ♦ Y. Liu, M. Weimann, M. A. Suhm, Extension of panoramic cluster jet spectroscopy into the far infrared: Low frequency modes of methanol and water clusters, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 3315-3319.
• ♦ N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Tailor-made aggregates of alpha-hydroxy esters in supersonic jets, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2004, 6, 2885-2890.
  [ Link: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b315765b ]
• ♦ M. Fárník, M. Weimann, M. A. Suhm, Acidic protons before take-off: A comparative jet Fourier transform infrared study of small HCl- and HBr-solvent complexes, J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 118, 10120-10136.
• ♦ N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Self-organization of lactates in the gas phase, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2003, 1, 4351-4358.
  [ Link: http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=b308580e ]
• ♦ M. Kunzmann, S. Bauerecker, M. A. Suhm, R. Signorell, Spectroscopic characterization of N₂O aggregates: from clusters to the particulate state, Spectrochim. Acta Part A 2003, 59, 2855-2865.
• ♦ N. Borho, M. A. Suhm, Glycidol dimer: anatomy of a molecular handshake, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2002, 4, 2721-2732.

• Talk: April 22 2009 Intermolecular Interactions, hydrogen bonding (Introductory Lecture SS 2009 - Molecular Models)
• Talk: April 02 2009 Introduction (13th Workshop)
• Talk: Sept 15 2008 Welcome & Introduction (Joint Workshop of the "Physical & Chemical Graduate School Göttingen" and the "Dahlem Research School of Molecular Science" (12th Workshop))
• Talk: April 07 2008 Introduction (11th Workshop)
• Talk: Sept 17 2007 Opening remarks (10th Workshop)
• Talk: Jul 11 2007 Hydrogen bonding in alcohol clusters (Introductory Lecture SS 2007 - Molecular Models)
• Talk: April 25 2007 Intermolecular Interactions, hydrogen bonding (Introductory Lecture SS 2007 - Molecular Models)
• Talk: Mar 19 2007 Opening Remarks (9th Workshop)
• Talk: Jan 31 2007 Planning the Marseille Workshop (Seminar WS 2006/2007)
• Talk: Oct 09 2006 Overview over GRK 782 (Eighth Workshop 2006)
• Organization: Jan 18 2006 Discussion of the forthcoming workshops (Seminar WS 2005/2006)
• Talk: Jun 15 2005 FTIR Spectroscopy (Introductory Lecture SS 2005 - "Building Blocks")
• Talk: April 20 2005 Intermolecular Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding (Introductory Lecture SS 2005 - "Building Blocks")
• Talk: Jul 16 2003 Clusters as solvents (Introductory Lecture SS 2003)
• Talk: Jun 18 2003 FTIR-Spectroscopy in solution (Introductory Lecture SS 2003)
• Talk: April 10 2002 Intermolecular interactions, hydrogen bonding (Introductory Lecture SS 2002)

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• Suhm200405.pdf: 1396877 Byte Lecture Notes on "Intermolecular Interactions, Hydrogen Bonding", held 20.04.05
• Suhm150605.pdf: 595475 Byte Lecture Notes on "FTIR Spectroscopy", held 15.06.05
• Suhm250407.pdf: 1194290 Byte Lecture Notes on "Intermolecular Interactions, hydrogen bonding", held 25.04.07
• Suhm110707.pdf: 6855001 Byte Lecture Notes on "Hydrogen bonding in alcohol clusters", held 11.07.07
• Suhm220409.pdf: 935851 Byte Lecture Notes on "Intermolecular Interactions, hydrogen bonding", held 22.04.09