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Overview

Michel Mons is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science, with specific research interests in materials chemistry, molecular biology, spectroscopy, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

Their work covers several main topics including chemical synthesis and analysis, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, advanced chemical physics studies, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, and crystallography and molecular interactions.

Michel Mons has published research in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Science
  • Molecules
  • Chemical Communications
  • Chemistry - A European Journal

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Neutral Peptides in the Gas Phase: Conformation and Aggregation Issues, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Conformation control through concurrent N-H⋯S and N-H⋯OC hydrogen bonding and hyperconjugation effects, 2020, Chemical Science
  • N-H⋯X interactions stabilize intra-residue C5 hydrogen bonded conformations in heterocyclic α-amino acid derivatives, 2021, Chemical Science
  • Intrinsic folding of the cysteine residue: competition between folded and extended forms mediated by the -SH group, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Selenium in Proteins: Conformational Changes Induced by Se Substitution on Methionine, as Studied in Isolated Model Peptides by Optical Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry, 2022, Molecules

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Michel Mons' research, with frequent coauthors including Valérie Brenner, Eric Gloaguen, David J. Aitken, Venkateswara Rao Mundlapati, and Sylvie Robin.

Best Publications

  • Excited states dynamics of DNA and RNA bases: characterization of a stepwise deactivation pathway in the gas phase.

    Clélia Canuel;Michel Mons;François Piuzzi;Benjamin Tardivel

  • Probing the competition between secondary structures and local preferences in gas phase isolated peptide backbones

    Wutharath Chin;François Piuzzi;Iliana Dimicoli;Michel Mons

  • Tautomerism of the DNA Base Guanine and Its Methylated Derivatives as Studied by Gas-Phase Infrared and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

    Michel Mons;Iliana Dimicoli;Francois Piuzzi;Benjamin Tardivel

  • Unraveling non-covalent interactions within flexible biomolecules: from electron density topology to gas phase spectroscopy

    R. Chaudret;B. De Courcy;J. Contreras-García;Eric Gloaguen

  • Ultraviolet spectroscopy and tautomerism of the DNA base guanine and its hydrate formed in a supersonic jet

    F Piuzzi;M Mons;I Dimicoli;B Tardivel

  • Quantum Effects in the Threshold Photoionization and Energetics of the Benzene−H2O and Benzene−D2O Complexes: Experiment and Simulation

    Alexa Courty;Michel Mons;Iliana Dimicoli;François Piuzzi

  • Resonant two‐photon ionization spectra of the external vibrational modes of the chlorobenzene‐, phenol‐, and toluene‐rare gas (Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) van der Waals complexes

    Michel Mons;Jacques Le Calvé;François Piuzzi;Iliana Dimicoli

  • A simple laser vaporization source for thermally fragile molecules coupled to a supersonic expansion: application to the spectroscopy of tryptophan

    François Piuzzi;Iliana Dimicoli;Michel Mons;Benjamin Tardivel

  • Intra- and Intermolecular π-Type Hydrogen Bonding in Aryl Alcohols: UV and IR-UV Ion Dip Spectroscopy

    Michel Mons;and Evan G. Robertson;John P. Simons

  • Strength of NH···S Hydrogen Bonds in Methionine Residues Revealed by Gas-Phase IR/UV Spectroscopy

    Himansu S. Biswal;Himansu S. Biswal;Eric Gloaguen;Eric Gloaguen;Yohan Loquais;Yohan Loquais;Benjamin Tardivel;Benjamin Tardivel

  • Near-UV resonant two-photon ionization spectroscopy of gas phase guanine: evidence for the observation of three rare tautomers.

    Michel Mons;François Piuzzi;Iliana Dimicoli;Leonid Gorb

  • Competition between local conformational preferences and secondary structures in gas-phase model tripeptides as revealed by laser spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry

    Wutharath Chin;Michel Mons;Jean-Pierre Dognon;François Piuzzi

  • Microsolvation of the benzene molecule by argon atoms: spectroscopy and isomers

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  • Gas Phase Formation of a 310-Helix in a Three-Residue Peptide Chain: Role of Side Chain-Backbone Interactions as Evidenced by IR−UV Double Resonance Experiments

    Wutharath Chin;François Piuzzi;Jean-Pierre Dognon;Iliana Dimicoli

  • EXPERIMENTAL FEMTOSECOND PHOTOIONIZATION OF NAI

    C. Jouvet;S. Martrenchard;D. Solgadi;C. Dedonder-Lardeux

  • Infrared Ion Dip Spectroscopy of a Noradrenaline Analogue: Hydrogen Bonding in 2-Amino-1-phenylethanol and Its Singly Hydrated Complex

    Richard J. Graham;Romano T. Kroemer;Michel Mons;Evan G. Robertson

  • Secondary structures of short peptide chains in the gas phase: double resonance spectroscopy of protected dipeptides.

    Wutharath Chin;Jean-Pierre Dognon;Clélia Canuel;François Piuzzi

  • Gas phase hydrogen-bonded complexes of aromatic molecules: Photoionization and energetics

    Michel Mons;Iliana Dimicoli;François Piuzzi

  • Angular correlation between photofragment velocity and angular momentum measured by resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization detection

    Michel Mons;Iliana Dimicoli

  • Spectroscopic Evidence for Gas-Phase Formation of Successive β-Turns in a Three-Residue Peptide Chain

    Wutharath Chin;Isabelle Compagnon;Jean-Pierre Dognon;Clélia Canuel

  • Ionization, Energetics, and Geometry of the Phenol−S Complexes (S = H2O, CH3OH, and CH3OCH3)

    Alexa Courty;Michel Mons;Iliana Dimicoli;François Piuzzi

  • Excited state dynamics of DNA and RNA bases: Characterization of a stepwise deactivation pathway in the gas phase

    C. Canuel;I. Dimicoli;M. Elhanine;M. Mons

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Jouvet
Christophe Jouvet Aix-Marseille University
Gerard Meijer
Gerard Meijer Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
David W. Pratt
David W. Pratt University of Vermont
Jerzy Leszczynski
Jerzy Leszczynski Jackson State University
Gert von Helden
Gert von Helden Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Leonid Gorb
Leonid Gorb Jackson State University
Jack Simons
Jack Simons University of Utah
Jean-Philip Piquemal
Jean-Philip Piquemal Sorbonne University
Régis Guillot
Régis Guillot University of Paris-Saclay
Pavel Hobza
Pavel Hobza Czech Academy of Sciences

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