2026Dissociation and Cooling Dynamics of 2-cyanoindene
Monocations: Survival of Small PAHs in Harsh Interstellar Radiation Fields
Arun Subramani, James Flotte de Pouzols, Paul Martini, José E Navarro Navarrete,
Eleanor K Ashworth, James N Bull, Gustavo A Garcia, Laurent Nahon, Bérenger Gans, Ugo Jacovella, Corentin
Rossi, Henrik Cederquist, Henning T Schmidt, Henning Zettergren, Mark H Stockett
The Astrophysical Journal
2026Valence Threshold Photoionization Spectra of C 5 _5 H
and C 5 _5 H 2 _2 Isomers
Ugo Jacovella, Myriam Drissi, Bérenger Gans, Corentin Rossi, Gustavo A Garcia, Hai
Linh Le, Mengxu Jiang, Jean‐Claude Guillemin, Séverine Boyé‐Péronne, Jean‐Christophe Loison
ChemPhysChem
2026C5H6 formation in Dense Molecular Clouds
Ugo Jacovella, Jean-Christophe Loison, Corentin Rossi, Anne P Rasmussen, Roland
Thissen, Nandana Pattathadathil, Christian Alcaraz
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2026Formation of benzene and its derivatives in dense
molecular clouds
Jean-Christophe Loison, Ugo Jacovella, Corentin Rossi, Anne P Rasmussen, Roland
Thissen, Nandana Pattathadathil, Christian Alcaraz, Valentine Wakelam
2026Hydration of Phenylium: Oxonium or Carbenium Ion
Formation?
Corentin Rossi, Anne P Rasmussen, Jean‐christophe Loison, Bérenger Gans, Laura
Finazzi, Jos Oomens, Giel Berden, Roland Thissen, Nandana Pattathadathil, Christian Alcaraz, Ugo Jacovella
ChemistryEurope
2025iSELECTION: An Instrument to Study the Kinetics of
Isomer-Selected Gas-Phase Ion-Molecule Reactions
Corentin Rossi, Anne P. Rasmussen, Bérenger Gans, Juraj Jašík, Jan Žabka, Marc
Albaret, Hugo Bauduin, Christophe Charrière, Jean-Philippe Dugal, Jérôme Guigand, Catherine Le Bris, and Ugo
Jacovella
Chem. Methods, 2025, 00, e202500013
2025PDRs4All-XI. Detection of infrared CH+ and CH3+
rovibrational emission in the Orion Bar and disk d203-506: Evidence of chemical pumping
Marion Zannese, Benoît Tabone, Emilie Habart, Emmanuel Dartois, Javier R Goicoechea,
Laurent Coudert, Bérenger Gans, M-A Martin-Drumel, Ugo Jacovella, Alexandre Faure, Benjamin Godard,
Alexander GGM Tielens, R Le Gal, John H Black, Silvia Vicente, Olivier Berné, Els Peeters, Dries Van De
Putte, Ryan Chown, Ameek Sidhu, Ilane Schroetter, Amélie Canin, Olga Kannavou
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2025Infrared cooling in an anharmonic cascade framework:
2-cyanoindene, the smallest cyano-PAH identified in Taurus Molecular Cloud-1
Mark H Stockett, Vincent J Esposito, Eleanor K Ashworth, Ugo Jacovella, James N Bull
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
2025PDRs4All-XV. CH radical and H molecular ion in the
irradiated protoplanetary disk d203-506
I Schroetter, O Berné, Javier R Goicoechea, JH Black, Octavio Roncero, F Alarcon, P
Amiot, O Asvany, C Boersma, S Brünken, J Cami, L Coudert, E Dartois, A Fuente, B Gans, A Gusdorf, U
Jacovella, MA Martin Drumel, T Onaka, E Peeters, E Roueff, AGGM Tielens, M Zannese
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2025Evidence for Phenylium Reactivity under Interstellar
Relevant Conditions
Jean-Christophe Loison, Corentin Rossi, Nicolas Solem, Roland Thissen, Claire
Romanzin, Christian Alcaraz, Ugo Jacovella
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13290
2025Mid‐infrared Spectroscopy of Protonated Benzonitrile,
2‐Cyanonaphthalene, and 9‐Cyanoanthracene for Astrochemical Consideration
Anne P Rasmussen, Corentin Rossi, Bérenger Gans, Laura Finazzi, Jos Oomens, Giel
Berden, Ugo Jacovella
ChemPhysChem
2025Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space
Klavs Hansen, DA García-Hernández, EEB Campbell, Dogan Erbahar, Alicja Domaracka,
Cornelia Jäger, C Ewels, Polona Umek, Sun Kwok, E Peeters, J Cami, Greg C Sloan, P Ehrenfreund, H Linnartz,
A Manchado, Nick LJ Cox, J Bernard-Salas, EK Campbell, A Monreal-Ibero, BH Foing, J Smoker, M Elyajouri, A
Ebenbichler, J Th van Loon, J Bouwman, A Farhang, F Salama, C Joblin, G Mulas, U Jacovella, MA Gómez-Muñoz,
R Barzaga, T Huertas-Roldán, Hugh Mohan, Michał Bartkowski, Silvia Giordani, Gao-Lei Hou, JJ Díaz-Luis, J
Alcolea, D Tafoya, V Bujarrabal, N Došlić, T Došlić, E Catalano, M Yesiltas, P Ferrari, S Brünken, G Berden,
JM Bakker, J Oomens, B Redlich, A Pitanti, B Bertoni, L Vicarelli, P Lamberti, M Cojocari, G Fedorov, Yu
Svirko, P Kuzhir, M Hochlaf, M Mogren Al Mogren, Alexey Potapov, Eftal Gezer, H Zettergren, HT Schmidt, Mark
H Stockett, Eleanor K Ashworth, James N Bull, M Fárník, T Wakabayashi, L Ganner, M Kappe, E Gruber, C
Pardanaud, J Dezalay, JA Noble, K Tőkési, Z Li, XH Zhou, JM Gong, RG Zeng, ZJ Ding, Clayton S-C Yang, Feng
Jin, Sudhir Trivedi, Uwe Hommerich, Laszlo Nemes, Alan C Samuels, G Shmavonyan, L Misakyan, A Shmavonyan, I
Sciriha, S Suriyaprasanth, Dhanoj Gupta, DA Kalchevski, D Trifonov, S Kolev, T Milenov, Miguel A Caro,
SeyedAbdolreza Sadjadi, Quentin Andrew Parker, A Lombardi, Martin McCoustra, F Koch, I Schubert, C
Trautmann, ME Toimil-Molares, B Kerkeni, D Talbi, CP Hsu, G Ouerfelli, HH Chuang, Ko-Ju Chuang, Yu-Jung
Chen, E Villaver, M Manteiga
The European Physical Journal D 79 (8), 94, 2025
2025Direct Observation of a Fundamental Arylium Species
Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Singlet–Triplet Gap in Phenylium
Megan R Bentley, Ugo Jacovella, Jean-Christophe Loison, Myriam Drissi, Gustavo A
Garcia, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Peter R Franke, John F Stanton, Bérenger Gans
Journal of the American Chemical Society
2025Metal‐Induced Tuning of Fullerene Reactivity:
Application to Nucleophile Addition
Corentin Rossi, Anne P Rasmussen, Bérenger Gans, Ugo Jacovella
ChemPhysChem
2025An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Valence
Shell Electronic Structure of Nitromethane
Ivan Powis, Juliana Cuéllar-Zuquin, Angelo Giussani, Javier Segarra-Martí, Bérenger
Gans, Ugo Jacovella, John D Bozek, Stephen T Pratt, David MP Holland
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2025Possible Hydrocarbon Chemical Growth Routes from
l-C3H+ in Dense Molecular Clouds
Corentin Rossi, Giel Muller, Nicolas Solem, Roland Thissen, Claire Romanzin,
Christian Alcaraz, Jean-Christophe Loison, Ugo Jacovella
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
2025Rotationally-resolved VUV-photoelectron spectroscopy
of silylidyne radical
Hai Linh Le, Ilan Audoin, Ugo Jacovella, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Bérenger Gans
Molecular Physics
2024Ion spectroscopy in the context of the diffuse
interstellar bands: a case study with the phenylacetylene cation
Thomas E Douglas-Walker, Ewen K Campbell, Francis C Daly, Stéphane Douin, Bérenger
Gans, Ugo Jacovella, Colombe Maurice, Robin Odant, Julianna Palotás
ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
2024Resonant Auger decay of dissociating CH3I near the I
4d threshold
Stephen T Pratt, Ugo Jacovella, Bérenger Gans, John D Bozek, David MP Holland
The Journal of Chemical Physics
2024Exploring photoionization of gas-phase free radicals
with a widely tunable VUV laser at moderate spectral resolution
HL Le, NL Chen, M Jiang, C Le Bris, C Charrière, S Boyé-Péronne, J-C Loison, U
Jacovella, B Gans
Review of Scientific Instruments
2024New light on the imbroglio surrounding the C 8 H+ 6
isomers formed from ionized azulene and naphthalene using ion–molecule reactions
Corentin Rossi, Giel Muller, Roland Thissen, Claire Romanzin, Christian Alcaraz,
Sandesh Gondarry, Paul M Mayer, Ugo Jacovella
Chemical Science
2023Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a
protoplanetary disk
Olivier Berné, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Ilane Schroetter, Javier R Goicoechea, Ugo
Jacovella, Bérenger Gans, Emmanuel Dartois, Laurent H Coudert, Edwin Bergin, Felipe Alarcon, Jan Cami,
Evelyne Roueff, John H Black, Oskar Asvany, Emilie Habart, Els Peeters, Amelie Canin, Boris Trahin,
Christine Joblin, Stephan Schlemmer, Sven Thorwirth, Jose Cernicharo, Maryvonne Gerin, Alexander Tielens,
Marion Zannese, Alain Abergel, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Christiaan Boersma, Emeric Bron, Ryan Chown, Sara
Cuadrado, Daniel Dicken, Meriem Elyajouri, Asunción Fuente, Karl D Gordon, Lina Issa, Olga Kannavou, Baria
Khan, Ozan Lacinbala, David Languignon, Romane Le Gal, Alexandros Maragkoudakis, Raphael Meshaka, Yoko
Okada, Takashi Onaka, Sofia Pasquini, Marc W Pound, Massimo Robberto, Markus Röllig, Bethany Schefter,
Thiébaut Schirmer, Ameek Sidhu, Benoit Tabone, Dries Van De Putte, Sílvia Vicente, Mark G Wolfire
Nature
2023Astronomical CH3+ rovibrational assignments-a
combined theoretical and experimental study validating observational findings in the d203-506 UV-irradiated
protoplanetary disk
P Bryan Changala, Ning L Chen, Hai L Le, Bérenger Gans, Kim Steenbakkers, Thomas
Salomon, Luis Bonah, Ilane Schroetter, Amélie Canin, Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Ugo Jacovella, Emmanuel
Dartois, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Christian Alcaraz, Oskar Asvany, Sandra Brünken, Sven Thorwirth, Stephan
Schlemmer, Javier R Goicoechea, Gaël Rouillé, Ameek Sidhu, Ryan Chown, Dries Van De Putte, Boris Trahin,
Felipe Alarcón, Olivier Berné, Emilie Habart, Els Peeters
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023Probing colossal carbon rings
Samuel JP Marlton, Jack T Buntine, Patrick Watkins, Chang Liu, Ugo Jacovella, Eduardo
Carrascosa, James N Bull, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2023Electronic spectroscopy of 1-cyanonaphthalene cation
for astrochemical consideration
Francis C Daly, Julianna Palotás, Ugo Jacovella, Ewen K Campbell
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023Monitoring the Light‐induced Isomerisation of the
Prototypical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons C10H8+ through Ion‐Molecule Reactions
Ugo Jacovella, Corentin Rossi, Claire Romanzin, Christian Alcaraz, Roland Thissen
ChemPhysChem
2023Searches for bridged bicyclic molecules in
space—norbornadiene and its cyano derivatives
Marie-Aline Martin-Drumel, Jean-Thibaut Spaniol, Helen Hölzel, Marcelino Agúndez,
Jose Cernicharo, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Ugo Jacovella
Faraday discussions
2023Refining the thermochemical properties of CF, SiF,
and their cations by combining photoelectron spectroscopy, quantum chemical calculations, and the Active
Thermochemical Tables approach
Ugo Jacovella, Branko Ruscic, Ning L Chen, Hai-Linh Le, Séverine Boyé-Péronne,
Sebastian Hartweg, Madhusree Roy Chowdhury, Gustavo A Garcia, Jean-Christophe Loison, Bérenger Gans
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2023Vacuum Ultraviolet Fingerprints as a New Way of
Disentangling Tropylium/Benzylium Isomers
Corentin Rossi, Bérenger Gans, Alexandre Giuliani, Ugo Jacovella
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2023High-resolution absorption spectroscopy of
room-temperature and jet-cooled ammonia between 59,000 and 93,000 cm− 1
Stephen T Pratt, Ugo Jacovella, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Michael NR Ashfold, Denis
Joyeux, Nelson De Oliveira, David MP Holland
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
2023Tunable photoionization chemical monitoring
(TPI‐CM)—A means to probe molecular ion structures and monitor unimolecular processes through bimolecular
ion–molecule reactions: Past, present, and future
Corentin Rossi, Christian Alcaraz, Roland Thissen, Ugo Jacovella
Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry
2023Effect of protonation on the UV/VUV photostability of
cyano-substituted anthracene and phenanthrene
Ugo Jacovella, Alexandre Giuliani, Christopher S Hansen, Adam J Trevitt, Laurent
Nahon, Giuliano Malloci, Giacomo Mulas
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2022An ion mobility mass spectrometer coupled with a
cryogenic ion trap for recording electronic spectra of charged, isomer-selected clusters
Jack T Buntine, Eduardo Carrascosa, James N Bull, Ugo Jacovella, Mariah I Cotter,
Patrick Watkins, Chang Liu, Michael S Scholz, Brian D Adamson, Samuel JP Marlton, Evan J Bieske
Review of Scientific Instruments
2022Ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet photo-processing
of protonated benzonitrile (C6H5CNH+)-A plausible pathway to larger interstellar aromatics
Ugo Jacovella, Jennifer A Noble, Alexandre Guliani, Christopher S Hansen, Adam J
Trevitt, Julie Mouzay, Isabelle Couturier-Tamburelli, Nathalie Pietri, Laurent Nahon
Astronomy & Astrophysics
2022Disentangling Electronic Spectra of Linear and Cyclic
Hydrogenated Carbon Cluster Cations, C2n+1H+ (n = 3–10)
Samuel JP Marlton, Jack T Buntine, Chang Liu, Patrick Watkins, Ugo Jacovella, Eduardo
Carrascosa, James N Bull, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2022Structural Elucidation of C6H4+. Using Chemical
Reaction Monitoring: Charge Transfer Versus Bond Forming Reactions
Ugo Jacovella, Corentin Rossi, Claire Romanzin, Christian Alcaraz, Roland Thissen
ChemPhysChem
2022Photo-induced 6π-electrocyclisation and
cycloreversion of isolated dithienylethene anions
Jack T Buntine, Eduardo Carrascosa, James N Bull, Giel Muller, Ugo Jacovella,
Christopher R Glasson, George Vamvounis, Evan J Bieske
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2022UV/VUV photoprocessing of protonated
N-hetero(poly)acenes
Ugo Jacovella, Christopher S Hansen, Alexandre Giuliani, Adam J Trevitt, Laurent
Nahon
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2021Electronic spectra of positively charged carbon
clusters—C2n+ (n= 6–14)
Jack T Buntine, Mariah I Cotter, Ugo Jacovella, Chang Liu, Patrick Watkins, Eduardo
Carrascosa, James N Bull, Luke Weston, Giel Muller, Michael S Scholz, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Chemical Physics
2020Photo-and collision-induced isomerization of a
charge-tagged norbornadiene–quadricyclane system
Ugo Jacovella, Eduardo Carrascosa, Jack T Buntine, Nicolai Ree, Kurt V Mikkelsen,
Martyn Jevric, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2020Electronic spectrum of the tropylium cation in the
gas phase
Ugo Jacovella, Michael S Scholz, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2020Electronic Spectrum and Photodissociation Chemistry
of the 1-Butyn-3-yl Cation, H3CCHCCH+
Giel Muller, Ugo Jacovella, Katherine J Catani, Gabriel da Silva, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2019Valence-Shell Photoionization of C4H5: The
2-Butyn-1-yl Radical
Helgi R Hrodmarsson, J-C Loison, Ugo Jacovella, David MP Holland, Séverine
Boyé-Péronne, Bérenger Gans, Gustavo A Garcia, Laurent Nahon, Stephen T Pratt
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2019Unveiling New Isomers and Rearrangement Routes on the
C7H8+ Potential Energy Surface
Ugo Jacovella, Gabriel da Silva, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2019Electronic Spectra of Diacetylene Cations (HC4H+)
Tagged with Ar and N2
Giel Muller, Katherine J Catani, Michael S Scholz, Ugo Jacovella, Nastasia I
Bartlett, Evan J Bieske
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2019Electronic Spectra of the Triacetylene Cation (HC6H+)
and Protonated Triacetylene (HC6H2+) Tagged with Ar
Ugo Jacovella, Giel Muller, Katherine J Catani, Nastasia I Bartlett, Evan J Bieske
Australian Journal of Chemistry
2018Structure and dynamics of the radical cation of
ethane arising from the Jahn–Teller and pseudo-Jahn–Teller effects
Ugo Jacovella, Christopher J Stein, Michel Grütter, Leon Freitag, Clément Lauzin,
Markus Reiher, Frédéric Merkt
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2018Jahn-Teller effect and large-amplitude motion in CH4+
studied by high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy of CH4
Ugo Jacovella, Hans Jakob Wörner, Frédéric Merkt
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy
2018High-resolution photoelectron spectrum of the origin
band of the X̃+ 2E ← X̃ 1A1 ionising transition of propyne
Ugo Jacovella, Frédéric Merkt
Molecular Physics
2017Spin–orbit interaction and Renner–Teller effect in
HCCCCH+ studied by high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy
Ugo Jacovella, Frédéric Merkt
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
2017Photoelectron angular distributions from rotationally
resolved autoionizing states of N2
Alexander M Chartrand, Elizabeth F McCormack, Ugo Jacovella, David MP Holland,
Berenger Gans, Xiaofeng Tang, Gustavo A García, Laurent Nahon, Stephen T Pratt
The Journal of chemical physics
2016Infrared spectroscopy of molecular ions in selected
rotational and spin-orbit states
Ugo Jacovella, Josef A Agner, Hansjürg Schmutz, Johannes Deiglmayr, Frédéric Merkt
The Journal of chemical physics
2015Threshold ionization spectroscopy of H2O, HDO and D2O
and low-lying vibrational levels of HDO+ and D2O+
Clément Lauzin, Ugo Jacovella, Frédéric Merkt
Molecular physics
2015A near-threshold shape resonance in the valence-shell
photoabsorption of linear alkynes
Ugo Jacovella, David MP Holland, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Bérenger Gans, N de Oliveira,
K Ito, Denis Joyeux, LE Archer, Robert R Lucchese, Hong Xu, Stephen T Pratt
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
2015High-resolution vacuum-ultraviolet photoabsorption
spectra of 1-butyne and 2-butyne
U Jacovella, DMP Holland, S Boyé-Péronne, B Gans, N de Oliveira, D Joyeux, LE Archer,
RR Lucchese, Hong Xu, ST Pratt
The Journal of chemical physics
2015Internal rotation, spin–orbit coupling, and
low-frequency vibrations in the ground state of CH3–CC–CH+ 3 and CD3–CC–CD+ 3
Ugo Jacovella, Bérenger Gans, Frédéric Merkt
Molecular Physics
2014High-resolution photoabsorption spectrum of
jet-cooled propyne
U Jacovella, DMP Holland, S Boyé-Péronne, D Joyeux, LE Archer, N de Oliveira, L
Nahon, RR Lucchese, Hong Xu, ST Pratt
The Journal of chemical physics
2013On the adiabatic ionization energy of the propargyl
radical
Ugo Jacovella, Bérenger Gans, Frédéric Merkt
The Journal of chemical physics
2012Near-threshold shape resonance in the photoionization
of 2-butyne
Hong Xu, U Jacovella, B Ruscic, ST Pratt, RR Lucchese
The Journal of Chemical Physics
2012Rydberg states of cyanoacetylene investigated by
(3 + 1) REMPI spectroscopy in the 77,000–90,000 cm−1 energy range
Luiz A Vieira Mendes, Séverine Boyé-Péronne, Ugo Jacovella, Jacques Liévin, Dolores
Gauyacq
Molecular Physics