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Vibrational spectra of formic acid and its dimer: II. Towards identifying structural motifs in atmospheric organic clustering.
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- Vibrational spectra of formic acid and its dimer: I. Spectroscopic accuracy through matrix-isolation IR spectroscopy and anharmonic computations.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2026Article
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This work constitutes part II of a series on vibrational spectroscopy of formic acid, focusing on the molecular interactions of its carboxyl group during dimerization. Such interactions drive the earliest steps of clustering in organic-mediated atmospheric new particle formation (NPF), and are difficult to access with the mass spectrometric methods typically used to study NPF. While theoretical thermochemistry provides binding free energies for various cluster conformers, these conformers have not been experimentally probed to date, and it is unclear which conformers ultimately participate in atmospheric organic clustering. Vibrational spectroscopy using matrix-isolation provides a route to experimentally investigate the conformers of small clusters. To identify simple conformers in the clustering of the carboxyl group, we use the model system of the formic acid monomer and dimer in cryogenic matrices in combination with
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