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Belleflamme F, Hutter J. Radicals in aqueous solution: assessment of density-corrected SCAN functional. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:20817-20836. [PMID: 37497572 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02517a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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We study self-interaction effects in solvated and strongly-correlated cationic molecular clusters, with a focus on the solvated hydroxyl radical. To address the self-interaction issue, we apply the DC-r2SCAN method, with the auxiliary density matrix approach. Validating our method through simulations of bulk liquid water, we demonstrate that DC-r2SCAN maintains the structural accuracy of r2SCAN while effectively addressing spin density localization issues. Extending our analysis to solvated cationic molecular clusters, we find that the hemibonded motif in the [CH3S∴CH3SH]+ cluster is disrupted in the DC-r2SCAN simulation, in contrast to r2SCAN that preserves the (three-electron-two-center)-bonded motif. Similarly, for the [SH∴SH2]+ cluster, r2SCAN restores the hemibonded motif through spin leakage, while DC-r2SCAN predicts a weaker hemibond formation influenced by solvent-solute interactions. Our findings demonstrate the potential of DC-r2SCAN combined with the auxiliary density matrix method to improve electronic structure calculations, providing insights into the properties of solvated cationic molecular clusters. This work contributes to the advancement of self-interaction corrected electronic structure theory and offers a computational framework for modeling condensed phase systems with intricate correlation effects.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Tripathi MK, Ramanathan V. Nature and Strength of Sulfur-Centered Hydrogen Bond in Methanethiol Aqueous Solutions. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:2265-2273. [PMID: 36867672 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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Methanethiol (M) and water (W) clusters like dimers (M1W1, M2, and W2), trimers (M1W2, M2W1, M3, and W3), and tetramers (M1W3, M2W2, M3W1, M4, and W4) were studied to assess the strength of sulfur-centered hydrogen bonding using different levels of theories, viz, HF, MP2, MP3, MP4, B3LYP, B3LYP-D3, CCSD, CCSD(T)-F12, and CCSD(T) along with aug-cc-pVNZ (where N = D, T, and Q) basis sets. Interaction energies were found to be in the range of -3.3 to -5.3 kcal/mol for the dimers, -8.0 to -16.7 kcal/mol for the trimers, and -13.5 to -29.5 kcal/mol for the tetramers at the B3LYP-D3/CBS limit level of theory. Normal modes of vibrations computed at the B3LYP/cc-pVDZ level of theory were seen to be in good agreement with the experimental values. Local energy decomposition calculations using the DLPNO-CCSD(T) level of theory indicated the domination of electrostatic interactions' contribution to the interaction energy in all cluster systems. Furthermore, atoms in molecules and natural bond orbital calculations both carried out at the B3LYP-D3/aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory aided in visualizing the hydrogen bonds besides proving a rationale for the strength of the hydrogen bonds and thereby the stability of these cluster systems.
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- Department of Chemistry, IIT(BHU) Varanasi, Varanasi, U.P. 221005 India
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Sun Y, Guo J, Wei F, Chen X, Li M, Li C, Xia S, Zhang G, You W, Cong X, Yu T, Wang S. Microbial functional communities and the antibiotic resistome profile in a high-selenium ecosystem. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 311:136858. [PMID: 36252903 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.136858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 10/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Enshi City, in the Hubei Province of China, is known as the world capital of selenium with the most abundant selenium resource. An important selenium hyperaccumulator plant, Cardamine violifolia, was found to naturally grow in this high-selenium ecosystem. However, relatively little is known about the impact of the selenium levels on microbial community and functional shifts in C. violifolia rhizosphere. Here, we tested the hypothesis that underground microbial diversity and function vary along a selenium gradient, including antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Comprehensive metagenomic analyses, such as taxonomic investigation, functional detection, and ARG annotation, showed that selenium, mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic, and available phosphorus and potassium were correlated with microbial diversity and function. Thaumarchaeota was exclusively dominant in the highest selenium concentration of mine outcrop, and Rhodanobacter and Nitrospira were predominant in the high-selenium ecosystem. The plant C. violifolia enriched a high concentration of selenium in the rhizosphere compared to those in the bulk soil, and it recruited Variovorax and Polaromonas in its rhizosphere. Microbial abundance showed a trend of increasing first and then decreasing from low to high selenium concentrations. Annotation of ARGs showed that the multidrug resistance genes adeF, mtrA, and poxtA, the aminoglycoside resistance gene rpsL, and the sulfonamide resistant gene sul2 were enriched in the high-selenium system. It was discovered that putative antibiotic resistant bacteria displayed obvious differences in the farmland and the soils with various selenium concentrations, indicating that a high-selenium ecosystem harbors the specific microbes with a higher capacity to enrich or resist selenium, toxic metals, or antibiotics. Taken together, these results reveal the effects of selenium concentration and the selenium hyperaccumulator plant C. violifolia on shaping the microbial functional community and ARGs. Metalloid selenium-inducible antibiotic resistance is worth paying attention to in future.
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- Yanmei Sun
- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China; Key Laboratory of Cosmetic, China National Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Sciences, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cosmetic, China National Light Industry, Beijing Technology and Business University, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China
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- Enshi Se-Run Health Tech Development Co., Ltd., Enshi, 445000, China
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- Enshi Se-Run Health Tech Development Co., Ltd., Enshi, 445000, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Resources Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710069, China.
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Huang Q, Matsuda Y, Eguchi R, Fujii A, Kuo J. Understanding Fermi resonances behind the complex vibrational spectra of the methyl groups in simple alcohol, thiol, and their ethers. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Qian‐Rui Huang
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science Tohoku University Sendai Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science Tohoku University Sendai Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science Tohoku University Sendai Japan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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Feng J, Huang Q, Nguyen H, Kuo J, Ebata T. Infrared–vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy of the C
H stretching vibrations of jet‐cooled aromatic azine molecules and the anharmonic analysis. J CHIN CHEM SOC-TAIP 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/jccs.202100366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Jun‐Ying Feng
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute for Molecular Science National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Hsinchu Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute for Molecular Science National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Hsinchu Taiwan
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Tripathi MK, Ramanathan V. Conformational stability and structural analysis of methanethiol clusters: a revisit. RSC Adv 2021; 11:29207-29214. [PMID: 35479559 PMCID: PMC9040644 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra04900c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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B3LYP/cc-pV(D/T/Q)Z and CCSD/cc-pVDZ levels of theory predict three minima for both dimers and trimers of methanethiol. Predictions at B3LYP/cc-pVDZ corroborates exceedingly well with the earlier reported experimental value but significantly differ from the previous computational predictions. Interaction energy between the molecules decreases with an increase in the size of the basis set for both the dimer and trimer. The dipole moment of methanethiol dimer gets reduced at the B3LYP/cc-pVDZ level of theory relative to all minima configurations, and the same is seen for trimer also. These new predictions are well supported by atoms in molecules (AIM), frontier molecular orbital (FMO), Mulliken charge (MC), and natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. B3LYP/cc-pV(D/T/Q)Z and CCSD/cc-pVDZ levels of theory predict three minima for both dimers and trimers of methanethiol.![]()
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- Manish Kumar Tripathi
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Feng JY, Lee YP, Zhu CY, Hsu PJ, Kuo JL, Ebata T. IR-VUV spectroscopy of pyridine dimers, trimers and pyridine-ammonia complexes in a supersonic jet. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:21520-21534. [PMID: 32955537 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03197f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The infrared spectra of the C-H stretching vibrations of (pyridine)m, m = 1-3, and the N-H stretching vibrations of (pyridine)m-(NH3)n, m = 1, 2; n = 1-4, complexes were investigated by infrared (IR)-vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy under jet-cooled conditions. The ionization potential (IP0) of the pyridine monomer was determined to be 74 546 cm-1 (9.242 eV), while its complexes showed only smooth curves of the ionization thresholds at ∼9 eV, indicating large structural changes in the ionic form. The pyridine monomer exhibits five main features with several satellite bands in the C-H stretching region at 3000-3200 cm-1. Anharmonic calculations including Fermi-resonance were carried out to analyze the candidates of the overtone and combination bands which can couple to the C-H stretching fundamentals. For (pyridine)2 and (pyridine)3, most C-H bands are blue-shifted by 3-5 cm-1 from those of the monomer. The structures revealed by random searching algorithms with density functional methods indicate that the π-stacked structure is most stable for (pyridine)2, while (pyridine)3 prefers the structures stabilized by dipole-dipole and C-Hπ interactions. For the (pyridine)m-(NH3)n complexes, the mass spectrum exhibited a wide range distribution of the complexes. The observed IR spectra in the N-H stretching vibrations of the complexes showed four main bands in the 3200-3450 cm-1 region. These features are very similar to those of (NH3)n complexes, and the bands are assigned to the anti-symmetric N-H stretching band (ν3), the symmetric N-H stretching (ν1) band, and the first overtone bands of the N-H bending vibrations (2ν4). The anharmonic calculations including the Fermi-resonance between ν1 and 2ν4 well reproduced the observed spectra.
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- Jun-Ying Feng
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute for Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
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Guo M, Wu H, Yang M, Luo Z. Acetone Dimer Hydrogenation under Vacuum Ultraviolet: An Intracluster Trimolecular Dissociation Mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:10739-10745. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b08833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Mengdi Guo
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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Xie M, Tsai HR, Fujii A, Lee YP. Effects of solvent molecules on hemi-bonded (CH 3SH) 2+: infrared absorption of [(CH 3SH) 2-X] + with X = H 2O, (CH 3) 2CO, or NH 3 and (CH 3SH) n+ (n = 3-6). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:16055-16063. [PMID: 31290887 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03158h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Three-electron two-center (3e-2c) hemi-bonds play important roles in the oxidation and electron transport of proteins and are implicated to be involved in some neurodegenerative diseases. Our previous investigations on infrared (IR) spectra of (CH3SH)2+ using vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization, infrared dissociation, and time-of-flight detection have shown that (CH3SH)2+ is (3e-2c)-bonded. To investigate the influence of the solvent molecules on the (3e-2c)-bonded (CH3SH)2+ in a supersonic jet, we added H2O or (CH3)2CO or NH3 or (CH3SH)n (n = 1-4) to (CH3SH)2+ and investigated their IR action spectra. The (3e-2c)-bonded (CH3SH)2+ ion core was maintained when a molecule of H2O or (CH3)2CO or CH3SH binds, indicating that the ion core is more stable than the hydrogen bond, whereas the (3e-2c)-bond became broken by a NH3 molecule because the proton transfer led to a more stable hydrogen-bonded structure. The spectral features of the SH-stretching modes of (CH3SH)n+ (n = 3-6) indicate that the (3e-2c)-bonded (CH3SH)2+ ion core is maintained and the first two additional CH3SH are H-bonded to the free SH groups of the ion core. For larger clusters with n = 5 and 6, the additional solvent molecules likely bind to the first solvation shell. These results show also that the (3e-2c)-bonded S∴S structure is more stable than the S∴O and S∴N structures in [(CH3SH)2-X]+ with X = H2O or (CH3)2CO or CH3SH or NH3.
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- Min Xie
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan and MOE Key Laboratory of Laser Life Science & Institute of Laser Life Science, College of Biophotonics, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Spectral Analysis and Functional Probes, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, 1001, Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan and Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan. and Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Lobo IA, Robertson PA, Villani L, Wilson DJD, Robertson EG. Thiols as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors and Donors: Spectroscopy of 2-Phenylethanethiol Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:7171-7180. [PMID: 30113835 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b06649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Evidence and understanding of sulfur-centered hydrogen bonding, especially where the donor is a thiol, lags far behind that for conventional OH interactions. To help address this deficiency, conformer specific IR spectra of 2-phenylethanethiol (PET) and associated 1:1 solvent complexes have been measured in SH, OH, and CH stretch regions using resonant-two-photon-ionization (R2PI) and IR-UV ion dip spectroscopic techniques. The aromatic and aliphatic CH stretch regions show signature differences between anti and gauche conformers. Supported by ab initio calculations, a PET-water cluster with an OH···S arrangement and a PET-diethyl ether cluster expressing an SH···O interaction were identified. The SH stretch band of the SH···O complex is red-shifted and undergoes significant intensity enhancement compared to the bare molecule, which is characteristic of hydrogen bonding. These findings offer insight into the nature of the thiol functional group as a potential hydrogen bond donor and acceptor.
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- Isabella A Lobo
- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , 3086 , Victoria Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , 3086 , Victoria Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , 3086 , Victoria Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , 3086 , Victoria Australia
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science , La Trobe University , Melbourne , 3086 , Victoria Australia
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Xie M, Shen Z, Wang D, Fujii A, Lee YP. Spectral Characterization of Three-Electron Two-Center (3e-2c) Bonds of Gaseous CH 3S∴S(H)CH 3 and (CH 3SH) 2+ and Enhancement of the 3e-2c Bond upon Protonation. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:3725-3730. [PMID: 29920092 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The three-electron two-center (3e-2c) bond plays an important role in structures and electron communication in biological systems involving cationic sulfur compounds. Although the nature of 3e-2c bonds and their theoretical formalism have attracted great interest, direct spectral identifications of 3e-2c-bound molecules are scarce. We observed the infrared spectra of the weakly 3e-2c-bound CH3S∴S(H)CH3 and the strongly 3e-2c-bound (CH3SH)2+ in a supersonic jet using infrared (IR) dissociation with vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization and time-of-flight detection. Protonation of CH3S∴S(H)CH3 to form [CH3(H)S∴S(H)CH3]+ significantly enhances the 3e-2c bond, characterized by a large red shift of the SH-stretching band with enhanced IR intensity, shortening of the calculated S-S distance from 3.00 to 2.86 Å, and a dissociation energy increased from ∼23 to 162 kJ mol-1.
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- Min Xie
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science , National Chiao Tung University , 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road , Hsinchu 30010 , Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science , National Chiao Tung University , 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road , Hsinchu 30010 , Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry , Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8578 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry , Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University , Sendai 980-8578 , Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science , National Chiao Tung University , 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road , 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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Xie M, Shen Z, Pratt ST, Lee YP. Vibrational autoionization of state-selective jet-cooled methanethiol (CH 3SH) investigated with infrared + vacuum-ultraviolet photoionization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:29153-29161. [PMID: 29085925 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp06433k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vibrational autoionization of Rydberg states provides key information about nonadiabatic processes above an ionization threshold. We employed time-of-flight mass detection of CH3SH+ to record vibrational-state selective photo-ionization efficiency (PIE) spectra of jet-cooled methanethiol (CH3SH) on exciting CH3SH to a specific vibrationally excited state with an infrared (IR) laser, followed by excitation with a tunable laser in the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) region for ionization. Autoionizing Rydberg states assigned to the ns, np, nd and nf series are identified. When IR light at 2601 (ν3, SH stretching mode) and 2948 cm-1 (ν2, CH3 symmetric stretching mode) was employed, the Rydberg series converged to the respective vibrationally excited (ν3 and ν2) states of CH3SH+. When IR light at 3014 cm-1 (overlapped ν1/ν9, CH3 antisymmetric stretching and CH2 antisymmetric stretching modes) was employed, Rydberg series converging to two vibrationally excited states (ν1 and ν9) of CH3SH+ were observed. When IR light at 2867 cm-1 (2ν10, overtone of CH3 deformation mode) and 2892 cm-1 (2ν4, overtone of CH2 scissoring mode) was employed, both Δν = -1 and Δν = -2 ionization transitions were observed; there is evidence for direct ionization from the initial state into the CH3SH+ (ν4+ = 1) continuum. In all observed IR-VUV-PIE spectra, the ns and nd series show intensity greater than the other Rydberg series, which is consistent with the fact that the highest-occupied molecular orbital of CH3SH is a p-like lone pair orbital on the S atom. The quantum yields for autoionization of various vibrational excited states are discussed. Values of ν1 = 3035, ν2 = 2884, ν3 = 2514, and ν9 = 2936 cm-1 for CH3SH+ derived from the converged limits agree satisfactorily with values observed for Ar-tagged CH3SH+ at 3026, 2879, 2502, and 2933 cm-1.
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- Min Xie
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
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Lee YF, Kelterer AM, Matisz G, Kunsági-Máté S, Chung CY, Lee YP. Infrared absorption of methanol-water clusters (CH 3OH) n(H 2O), n = 1-4, recorded with the VUV-ionization/IR-depletion technique. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:144308. [PMID: 28411595 DOI: 10.1063/1.4979558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We recorded infrared (IR) spectra in the CH- and OH-stretching regions of size-selected clusters of methanol (M) with one water molecule (W), represented as MnW, n = 1-4, in a pulsed supersonic jet using the photoionization/IR-depletion technique. Vacuum ultraviolet emission at 118 nm served as the source of ionization in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer to detect clusters MnW as protonated forms Mn-1WH+. The variations in intensities of Mn-1WH+ were monitored as the wavelength of the IR laser light was tuned across the range 2700-3800 cm-1. IR spectra of size-selected clusters were obtained on processing of the observed action spectra of the related cluster-ions according to a mechanism that takes into account the production and loss of each cluster due to IR photodissociation. Spectra of methanol-water clusters in the OH region show significant variations as the number of methanol molecules increases, whereas those in the CH region are similar for all clusters. Scaled harmonic vibrational wavenumbers and relative IR intensities predicted with the M06-2X/aug-cc-pVTZ method for the methanol-water clusters are consistent with our experimental results. For dimers, absorption bands of a structure WM with H2O as a hydrogen-bond donor were observed at 3570, 3682, and 3722 cm-1, whereas weak bands of MW with methanol as a hydrogen-bond donor were observed at 3611 and 3753 cm-1. For M2W, the free OH band of H2O was observed at 3721 cm-1, whereas a broad feature was deconvoluted to three bands near 3425, 3472, and 3536 cm-1, corresponding to the three hydrogen-bonded OH-stretching modes in a cyclic structure. For M3W, the free OH shifted to 3715 cm-1, and the hydrogen-bonded OH-stretching bands became much broader, with a weak feature near 3179 cm-1 corresponding to the symmetric OH-stretching mode of a cyclic structure. For M4W, the observed spectrum agrees unsatisfactorily with predictions for the most stable cyclic structure, indicating significant contributions from branched isomers, which is distinctly different from M5 of which the cyclic form dominates.
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- Yu-Fang Lee
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, NAWI Graz, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/I, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department of General and Physical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Ifjúság 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of General and Physical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Ifjúság 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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Bhuin RG, Sivaraman B, Lo JI, Sekhar BNR, Cheng BM, Pradeep T, Mason NJ. Communication: vacuum ultraviolet photoabsorption of interstellar icy thiols. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:231101. [PMID: 25527912 DOI: 10.1063/1.4903840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Following the recent identification of ethanethiol in the interstellar medium (ISM) we have carried out Vacuum UltraViolet (VUV) spectroscopy studies of ethanethiol (CH3CH2SH) from 10 K until sublimation in an ultrahigh vacuum chamber simulating astrochemical conditions. These results are compared with those of methanethiol (CH3SH), the lower order thiol also reported to be present in the ISM. VUV spectra recorded at higher temperature reveal conformational changes in the ice and phase transitions whilst evidence for dimer production is also presented.
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Affiliation(s)
- Radha Gobinda Bhuin
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- B-1, Indus-1, Atomic Molecular Physics Division, BARC at RRCAT, Indore 452013, India
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan
| | - Thalappil Pradeep
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India
| | - Nigel John Mason
- Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
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