We use UV and infrared photodissociation spectroscopy to study monohydrated protonated guanine in a dual cryogenic ion trap spectrometer. The monohydrated complexes are formed through helium-mediated collisions between bare electrosprayed protonated guanine and low-pressure water vapor in a clustering trap maintained at 180 K, before being transferred to a quadrupole ion trap at 10 K. The spectrum of the monohydrated complex exhibits sharp vibronic transitions at the band origin and becomes broader and higher in intensity further in blue, which is very similar to protonated guanine but with a notable blue shift of ∼1850 cm (∼0.23 eV). The UV hole-burning experiments showed that the vibronic bands recorded in the region of the band origin belong to a single conformer under our experimental conditions. The IR photodissociation spectrum in the 3000-3600 cm range, with the aid of theoretical calculations (SCS-CC2/aug-cc-pVDZ), allowed us to assign the structure to the lowest energy N-O conformer.
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