MOLECULAR AUTOAGREGATION: SPECTROSCOPY AND DYNAMICS OF WEAKLY LINKED COMPLEXES

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Valladolid Province (NUTS ES418); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 67,518; EU co-financing EUR 33,759 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2016-01-01 to 2019-06-30. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): LONG-RANGE INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS (VAN DER WAAKS FORCES AND HYDROGEN BOND) GOVERN A PLETHORA OF MOLECULAR AGGREGATION PROCESSES OF FUNDAMENTAL INTEREST IN BIOLOGY, ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES THE STUDY OF THESE WEAK FORCES THROUGH THE CHARACTERISATION OF INTERMOLECULAR AGGREGATES OF INCREASING COMPLEXITY THROUGH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH THAT COMBINES: 1) HIGH-RESOLUTION LASER AND MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES, 2) DYNAMIC TEMPORAL METHODS WITH FEMTOSECOND RESOLUTION AND 3) COMPUTATIONAL MODELING. THE PROPOSED EXPERIMENTS WILL EXAMINE THE AGGREGATION OF MODEL COMPOUNDS AND MOLECULES OF BIOCHEMICAL INTERES (XANTHINE AND DNA BASES, AMONG OTHERS) IN SUPERSONIC EXPANSIONS, COMPARING THE RESULTS WITH THE PREDICTIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. OBSERVATIONS WILL CONSIDERABLY EXPAND PREVIOUS RESULTS ON NEUTRAL MOLECULAR AGGREGATES, COVERING AT LEAST MOLECULAR SIZES BETWEEN DIMERS AND OCTAMERS. THE RESULTS OF THE PROJECT WILL ILLUSTRATE THE INTRA/INTERMOLECULAR FACTORS THAT CONTROL THE STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MOLECULAR AGGREGATION. IN ADDITION, NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN INSTRUMENTATION, INCLUDING NEW TECHNIQUES IN NANO-FEMTOSECOND LASER SPECTROSCOPY AND TRIPLE RESONANCE MICROWAVE EXPERIMENTS, WILL IMPROVE THE EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES OF OUR TEAM. THEORICAL METHODS INCUIRE MOLECULAR MECHANICS, QUANTUM MECHANICAL, MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND HYBRID METHODS MC/MM.

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project "Molecular Autoaggregation" focuses on studying weak intermolecular interactions, such as van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonds, through a multidisciplinary approach. It was co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 67,518 from 2016 to 2019 in Valladolid Province, Spain. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.