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Gert von Helden is affiliated with the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Organic Chemistry, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics including Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis, Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Advanced Chemical Physics Studies, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Quantum and superfluid helium dynamics, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Gerard Meijer, Kevin Pagel, Kim Greis, Carla Kirschbaum, and Sandy Gewinner.

Key publication venues where their research has appeared repeatedly are:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Notable recent papers by Gert von Helden include:

  • Remote Participation during Glycosylation Reactions of Galactose Building Blocks: Direct Evidence from Cryogenic Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Unravelling the structural complexity of glycolipids with cryogenic infrared spectroscopy, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Direct Experimental Characterization of the Ferrier Glycosyl Cation in the Gas Phase, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Probing the conformational landscape and thermochemistry of DNA dinucleotide anions via helium nanodroplet infrared action spectroscopy, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Unveiling Glycerolipid Fragmentation by Cryogenic Infrared Spectroscopy, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Carbon cluster cations with up to 84 atoms: structures, formation mechanism, and reactivity

    G. Von Helden;Ming-Teh Hsu;N. Gotts;M. T. Bowers

  • Structures of carbon cluster ions from 3 to 60 atoms: Linears to rings to fullerenes

    Gert von Helden;Ming‐Teh Hsu;Paul R. Kemper;Michael T. Bowers

  • Gas-phase infrared multiple photon dissociation spectroscopy of mass-selected molecular ions

    Jos Oomens;Boris G. Sartakov;Gerard Meijer;Gert von Helden

  • Experimental evidence for the formation of fullerenes by collisional heating of carbon rings in the gas phase

    Gert von Helden;Nigel G. Gotts;Michael T. Bowers

  • Conformation of macromolecules in the gas phase: use of matrix-assisted laser desorption methods in ion chromatography.

    Gert von Helden;Thomas Wyttenbach;Michael T. Bowers

  • Effect of the long-range potential on ion mobility measurements

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Gert von Helden;Joseph J. Batka;Douglas Carlat

  • Gas-phase ion chromatography: transition metal state selection and carbon cluster formation.

    Michael T. Bowers;Paul R. Kemper;Gert von Helden;Petra A. M. van Koppen

  • Free electron laser-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry facility for obtaining infrared multiphoton dissociation spectra of gaseous ions

    Jose J. Valle;John R. Eyler;Jos Oomens;David T. Moore

  • Laboratory Infrared Spectroscopy of Cationic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules

    Jos Oomens;A. G. G. M. Tielens;Boris G. Sartakov;Gert von Helden

  • Infrared spectroscopy of phenylalanine Ag(I) and Zn(II) complexes in the gas phase.

    Nick C. Polfer;Jos Oomens;David T. Moore;Gert von Helden

  • Phase shift cavity ring down absorption spectroscopy

    Richard Engeln;Gert von Helden;Giel Berden;Gerard Meijer

  • Inclusion of a MALDI ion source in the ion chromatography technique: conformational information on polymer and biomolecular ions

    Gert von Helden;Thomas Wyttenbach;Michael T. Bowers

  • An infrared spectroscopy approach to follow β-sheet formation in peptide amyloid assemblies

    Jongcheol Seo;Waldemar Hoffmann;Waldemar Hoffmann;Stephan Warnke;Xing Huang

  • Protomers of Benzocaine: Solvent and Permittivity Dependence

    Stephan Warnke;Jongcheol Seo;Jasper Boschmans;Frank Sobott

  • Isomers of Small Carbon Cluster Anions: Linear Chains with up to 20 Atoms

    Gert von Helden;Paul R. Kemper;Nigel G. Gotts;Michael T. Bowers

  • Gas-phase infrared photodissociation spectroscopy of cationic polyaromatic hydrocarbons

    Jos Oomens;André J. A. van Roij;Gerard Meijer;Gert von Helden

  • Gold cluster carbonyls: saturated adsorption of CO on gold cluster cations, vibrational spectroscopy, and implications for their structures.

    André Fielicke;Gert von Helden;Gerard Meijer;David B . Pedersen

  • Structure determination of isolated metal clusters via far-infrared spectroscopy

    André Fielicke;Andrei Kirilyuk;Christian Ratsch;Jörg Behler

  • Titanium Carbide Nanocrystals in Circumstellar Environments

    G. Von Helden;A. G. G. M. Tielens;D. Van Heijnsbergen;M. A. Duncan

  • Conformations of alkali ion cationized polyethers in the gas phase: polyethylene glycol and bis[(benzo-15-crown-5)-15-ylmethyl] pimelate

    Thomas Wyttenbach;Gert von Helden;Michael T. Bowers

  • Charge-state resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy of a gas-phase protein

    Jos Oomens;Nick Polfer;David T. Moore;Lex van der Meer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Meijer
Gerard Meijer Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Kevin Pagel
Kevin Pagel Freie Universität Berlin
Michael T. Bowers
Michael T. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Jos Oomens
Jos Oomens Radboud University
André Fielicke
André Fielicke Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Peter H. Seeberger
Peter H. Seeberger Max Planck Society
Beate Koksch
Beate Koksch Freie Universität Berlin
Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Michael A. Duncan
Michael A. Duncan University of Georgia
Benoit Simard
Benoit Simard National Research Council Canada

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