A new type of hydrogen-bonding interaction in the diborane (B2H6)…π (benzene C6H6, 1,3-yclopentadiene C5H6, and cyclobutadiene C4H4) system is identified with the natural bond orbital and atoms-in-molecules analyses based on ab initio calculations. In comparison with the symmetric and asymmetric stretching vibrational modes of the bridging hydrogen atoms in free B2H6, the frequencies of the symmetric mode are red-shifted for B2H6…C6H6 and B2H6…C5H6 but blue-shifted for B2H6…C4H4. The frequency blue shifts of the asymmetric mode are found for all three complexes; the most significant blue shift is 14.73 cm-1 for the asymmetric mode in B2H6…C4H4. In these complexes, the electron-deficient three-center two-electron bond B-H1-B facing the π orbital is shortened, while the opposite B-H2-B bond is elongated.

Photoionization dynamics of β-alanine is studied by the trajectory simulations using the ab initio potential energy surface. Vertical photoionization in the spirit of the Franck-Condon principle is assumed both for the adiabatic and thermostatic simulations. Both intramolecular proton transfer and fragmentation while only the proton transfer are found in the thermostatic and adiabatic simulations, respectively, for the conformer having the intramolecular hydrogen bond N…H-O. The theoretical predictions are in line with the experimental observations available in the literatures. It is reported for the first time that the thermostatic temperatures strongly affect the fragmentation processes induced by photoionization.