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A 4 K FT-ICR cell for infrared ion spectroscopy
Lukas Fritsche1, Andreas Bach1, Larisa Miloglyadova1
1Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We present the design of the newly constructed cryogenic Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) ion trap for infrared ion spectroscopy. Trapped ions are collisionally cooled by the pulsed introduction of buffer gas into the cell. Using different buffer gases and cell temperatures, we record action spectra of weakly bound neutral gas-analyte complexes with an IR laser source. We show for the first time that ion-He complexes can be observed in an ICR cell at temperatures around 4 K. We compare the experimental vibrational spectra of Ag(PPh3)2+ obtained by tagging with different neutral gases: He, Ne, Ar, H2, and N2 to computed vibrational spectra. Furthermore, the conditions necessary for the formation of neutral tags within an ICR ion trap are studied.
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