Metal ion solvation and metal-ligand interactions

Solvation of sodium atom and aggregates in ammonia clusters. Electronic and geometric structures of water cluster complexes with a group 1 metal atom: electron-hydrogen bond in the OH{e}HO structure. Determination of sequential metal ion-ligand binding energies by gas phase equilibria and theoretical calculations: application of results to biochemical processes. Doubly charged transition metal complexes in the gas phase. Microsolvation of coordinated divalent transition-metal ions: establishing a spectroscopic connection with the condensed phase. Zero electron kinetic energy photoelectron spectra of metal clusters and complexes. Stability, structure and optical properties of metal ion-doped noble gas clusters. Photodissociation spectroscopy as a probe of molecular dynamics: metal ion-ethylene interactions. Solvated metal ions and ion clusters, and the effect of ligands upon their reactivity. Transition metal monohydrides. The binding in neutral and cationic 3d and 4d transition-metal monoxides and sulfides.