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Jin J, Wulf T, Jorewitz M, Heine T, Asmis KR. Vibrational spectroscopy of Cu +(H 2) 4: about anharmonicity and fluxionality. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:5262-5270. [PMID: 36723211 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05802b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
The vibrational spectra of the copper(I) cation-dihydrogen complexes Cu+(H2)4, Cu+(D2)4 and Cu+(D2)3H2 are studied using cryogenic ion trap vibrational spectroscopy in combination with quantum chemical calculations. The infrared photodissociation (IRPD) spectra (2500-7300 cm-1) are assigned based on a comparison to IR spectra calculated using vibrational second-order perturbation theory (VPT2). The IRPD spectra exhibit ≈60 cm-1 broad bands that lack rotational resolution, indicative of rather floppy complexes even at an ion trap temperature of 10 K. The observed vibrational features are assigned to the excitations of dihydrogen stretching fundamentals, combination bands of these fundamentals with low energy excitations as well as overtone excitations of a minimum-energy structure with Cs symmetry. The three distinct dihydrogen positions present in the structure can interconvert via pseudorotations with energy barriers less than 10 cm-1, far below the zero-point vibrational energy. Ab initio Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) simulations confirm the fluxional behavior of these complexes and yield an upper limit for the timeframe of the pseudorotation on the order of 10 ps. For Cu+(D2)3H2, the H2 and D2 loss channels yield different IRPD spectra indicating non-ergodic behavior.
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- Jiaye Jin
- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretisch Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 2, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretisch Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 2, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. .,Institute of Resource Ecology, Research Site Leipzig, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany.,Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, School of Science, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany.
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- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretisch Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 2, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institute of Resource Ecology, Research Site Leipzig, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany.,Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, School of Science, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany.
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- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institut für Physikalische und Theoretisch Chemie, Universität Leipzig, Linnéstr. 2, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
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Wagner JP, McDonald DC, Colley JE, Franke PR, Duncan MA. Infrared spectroscopy of the protonated HCl dimer and trimer. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:134302. [PMID: 34624978 DOI: 10.1063/5.0065477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The protonated HCl dimer and trimer complexes were prepared by pulsed discharges in supersonic expansions of helium or argon doped with HCl and hydrogen. The ions were mass selected in a reflectron time-of-flight spectrometer and investigated with photodissociation spectroscopy in the IR and near-IR regions. Anharmonic vibrational frequencies were computed with VPT2 at the MP2/cc-pVTZ level of theory. The Cl-H stretching fundamentals and overtones were measured in addition to stretch-torsion combinations. VPT2 theory at this level confirms the proton-bound structure of the dimer complex and provides a reasonably good description of the anharmonic vibrations in this system. The trimer has a HCl-HClH+-ClH structure in which a central chloronium ion is solvated by two HCl molecules via hydrogen bonding. VPT2 reproduces anharmonic frequencies for this system, including several combinations involving core ion Cl-H stretches, but fails to describe the relative band intensities.
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- J Philipp Wagner
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, 140 Cedar Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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Finney JM, DiRisio RJ, McCoy AB. Guided Diffusion Monte Carlo: A Method for Studying Molecules and Ions That Display Large Amplitude Vibrational Motions. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:9567-9577. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jacob M. Finney
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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DiRisio RJ, Jones CM, Ma H, Rousseau BJG. Viewpoints on the 2020 Virtual Conference on Theoretical Chemistry. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:8875-8883. [PMID: 33054223 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c08955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Ryan J DiRisio
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Institute for Molecular engineering, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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Leicht D, Rittgers BM, Douberly GE, Wagner JP, McDonald DC, Mauney DT, Tsuge M, Lee YP, Duncan MA. Infrared spectroscopy of H+(CO)2 in the gas phase and in para-hydrogen matrices. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:084305. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0019731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Leicht
- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
- Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
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