TY - JOUR AU - Krämer, Felix AU - Paradies, Jan AU - Fernández, Israel AU - Breher, Frank ID - 47589 JF - Nature Chemistry KW - General Chemical Engineering KW - General Chemistry SN - 1755-4330 TI - A crystalline aluminium–carbon-based ambiphile capable of activation and catalytic transfer of ammonia in non-aqueous media ER - TY - JOUR AB - AbstractThe solvation of ions changes the physical, chemical and thermodynamic properties of water, and the microscopic origin of this behaviour is believed to be ion-induced perturbation of water’s hydrogen-bonding network. Here we provide microscopic insights into this process by monitoring the dissipation of energy in salt solutions using time-resolved terahertz–Raman spectroscopy. We resonantly drive the low-frequency rotational dynamics of water molecules using intense terahertz pulses and probe the Raman response of their intermolecular translational motions. We find that the intermolecular rotational-to-translational energy transfer is enhanced by highly charged cations and is drastically reduced by highly charged anions, scaling with the ion surface charge density and ion concentration. Our molecular dynamics simulations reveal that the water–water hydrogen-bond strength between the first and second solvation shells of cations increases, while it decreases around anions. The opposite effects of cations and anions on the intermolecular interactions of water resemble the effects of ions on the stabilization and denaturation of proteins. AU - Balos, Vasileios AU - Kaliannan, Naveen Kumar AU - Elgabarty, Hossam AU - Wolf, Martin AU - Kühne, Thomas AU - Sajadi, Mohsen ID - 34300 IS - 9 JF - Nature Chemistry KW - General Chemical Engineering KW - General Chemistry SN - 1755-4330 TI - Time-resolved terahertz–Raman spectroscopy reveals that cations and anions distinctly modify intermolecular interactions of water VL - 14 ER - TY - JOUR AU - Franz, Martin AU - Chandola, Sandhya AU - Koy, Maximilian AU - Zielinski, Robert AU - Aldahhak, Hazem AU - Das, Mowpriya AU - Freitag, Matthias AU - Gerstmann, Uwe AU - Liebig, Denise AU - Hoffmann, Adrian Karl AU - Rosin, Maximilian AU - Schmidt, Wolf Gero AU - Hogan, Conor AU - Glorius, Frank AU - Esser, Norbert AU - Dähne, Mario ID - 24975 JF - Nature Chemistry SN - 1755-4330 TI - Controlled growth of ordered monolayers of N-heterocyclic carbenes on silicon ER - TY - JOUR AU - Preiß, Sebastian AU - Förster, Christoph AU - Otto, Sven AU - Bauer, Matthias AU - Müller, Patrick AU - Hinderberger, Dariush AU - Hashemi Haeri, Haleh AU - Carella, Luca AU - Heinze, Katja ID - 16322 JF - Nature Chemistry SN - 1755-4330 TI - Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear gold(II) complex ER -