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Qiao M, Wang M, Meng X, Zhu H, Zhang Y, Ji Z, Zhao Y, Liu J, Wang S, Guo X, Wang J, Bi J, Zhang P, Di Tommaso D, Li F, Yuan J. Fine Analysis of the Component Effect on the Microstructure of LiCl Solution. J Mol Liq 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.121238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Liu H, Zhou Y, An D, Wang G, Zhu F, Yamaguchi T. Structure of Aqueous KNO 3 Solutions by Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering and Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:5866-5875. [PMID: 35895329 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The structure of aqueous KNO3 solutions was studied by wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) and density functional theory (DFT). The interference functions were subjected to empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR) modeling to extract the detailed hydration structure information. In aqueous KNO3 solutions with a concentration from 0.50 to 2.72 mol·dm-3, water molecules coordinate K+ with a mean coordination number (CN) from 6.6 ± 0.9 to 5.8 ± 1.2, respectively, and a K-OW(H2O) distance of 2.82 Å. To further describe the hydration properties of K+, a hydration factor (fh) was defined based on the orientational angle between the water O-H vector and the ion-oxygen vector. The fh value obtained for K+ is 0.792, 0.787, 0.766, and 0.765, and the corresponding average hydration numbers (HN) are 5.2, 5.1, 4.8, and 4.5. The reduced HN is compensated by the direct binding of oxygen atoms of NO3- with the average CN from 0.3 ± 0.7 to 2.6 ± 1.7, respectively, and the K-ON(NO3-) distance of 2.82 Å. The average number of water molecules around NO3- slightly reduces from 10.5 ± 1.5 to 9.6 ± 1.7 with rN-OW = 3.63 Å. K+-NO3- ion association is characterized by K-ON and K-N pair correlation functions (PCFs). A K-N peak is observed at 3.81 Å as the main peak with a shoulder at 3.42 Å in gK-N(r). This finding indicates that two occupancy sites are available for K+, i.e., the edge-shared bidentate (BCIP) and the corner-shared monodentate (MCIP) contact ion pairs. The structure and stability of the KNO3(H2O)10 cluster were investigated by a DFT method and cross-checked with the results from WAXS.
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- Hongyan Liu
- Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources; Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province; Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources; Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province; Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810008, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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- Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources; Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province; Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810008, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources; Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province; Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810008, China
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- Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources; Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province; Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, Qinghai 810008, China.,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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Wang G, Zhou Y, Toshio Y, Liu H, Zhu F, Wu Z. Structure of Aqueous CaCl2 Solutions by X-ray Scattering and Density Functional Theory. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024422140242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Yu X, Cao Y, Li Y, Cui J, Sun C. Substituent effect induced the distinctive ESIPT reaction and photophysical property of N-salycilidene-5-chloroaminopyridine. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.131923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Oshchepkov A, Braesch G, Rostamikia G, Bonnefont A, Janik M, Chatenet M, Savinova E. Insights into the borohydride electrooxidation reaction on metallic nickel from operando FTIRS, on-line DEMS and DFT. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Zhou Y, Yamaguchi T, Zhang W, Ikeda K, Yoshida K, Zhu F, Liu H. The structural elucidation of aqueous H 3BO 3 solutions by DFT and neutron scattering studies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:17160-17170. [PMID: 32696778 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02306j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The micro-structure of aqueous boric acid (H3BO3) solutions is of broad interest in earth sciences, geochemistry, material science, as well as chemical engineering. In the present study, the structure of aqueous H3BO3 solutions was studied via neutron scattering with 2H and 11B isotope labelling combined with empirical potential structure refinement (EPSR) modelling. In aqueous H3BO3 solutions, B(OH)3 is the dominant borate species. Density function theory (DFT) calculations show that the boron hydroxyl has a lower electrostatic potential (ESP), which makes B(OH)3 a relatively weakly hydrated, compared with the bulk water. In the 0.95 mol L-1 H3BO3 solution at 298 K (saturated), ∼18 water molecules enter the hydration sphere of B(OH)3 with the hydration distance (B-O(W)) of 3.75 Å, while only 4.23 of them hydrate with H3BO3 as the hydrogen bond (H-bond) acceptor or H-bond donor. Both neutron scattering and DFT calculations for 2B(OH)3·6H2O clusters at the ωB97XD/6-311++g(3df,3pd) basis level show that B(OH)3 forms molecular clusters in bidentate contact molecular pairs (BCMP), mono-dentate molecular pairs (MCMP), solvent-shared molecular pairs (SMP), and parallel solvent-shared molecular pairs (PSMP) in aqueous solutions. Their relative contents are both concentration- and temperature-sensitive. BCMP with the B-B distance of ∼4.1 Å is the dominant molecular pair in the aqueous solutions. Relatively less content and van der Waals interactions stabilized PSMP, with a B-B distance of ∼3.6 Å between the two parallel layers, which is a crucial species for the crystallization of H3BO3 from aqueous solution.
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- Yongquan Zhou
- CAS, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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- CAS, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China.
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- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
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- CAS, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China.
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- CAS, Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake Resources, Key Laboratory of Salt Lake Resources Chemistry of Qinghai Province, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China.
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