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Prosmiti R, González-Lezana T. Computational Modeling: Up-to-Date Approaches and Cutting-Edge Applications from Clusters, Nanostructures to Bulk Systems. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202400207. [PMID: 38837591 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202400207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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The contributions in this special theme collection, in honor to Prof. P. Villarreal, cover a broad variety of computational methodologies and experimental techniques, containing studies on gas phase, clusters and condensed phase systems.
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- Rita Prosmiti
- Instituto de Fìsica Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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García-Alfonso E, Barranco M, Halberstadt N, Pi M. Time-resolved solvation of alkali ions in superfluid helium nanodroplets. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:164308. [PMID: 38651804 DOI: 10.1063/5.0205951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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The sinking of alkali cations in superfluid 4He nanodroplets is investigated theoretically using liquid 4He time-dependent density functional theory at zero temperature. The simulations illustrate the dynamics of the buildup of the first solvation shell around the ions. The number of helium atoms in this shell is found to linearly increase with time during the first stages of the dynamics. This points to a Poissonian capture process, as concluded in the work of Albrechtsen et al. on the primary steps of Na+ solvation in helium droplets [Albrechtsen et al., Nature 623, 319 (2023)]. The energy dissipation rate by helium atom ejection is found to be quite similar between all alkalis, the main difference being a larger energy dissipated per atom for the lighter alkalis at the beginning of the dynamics. In addition, the number of helium atoms in the first solvation shell is found to be lower at the end of the dynamics than at equilibrium for both Li+ and Na+, pointing to a kinetic rather than thermodynamical control of the snowball size for small and strongly attractive ions.
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- Ernesto García-Alfonso
- Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité (LCAR), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Departament FQA, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité (LCAR), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Departament FQA, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Slama M, Laajimi M, Ghalla H, Ben El Hadj Rhouma M. Structures and stability of K + cation solvated in Ar n clusters. J Mol Graph Model 2024; 127:108692. [PMID: 38141268 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2023.108692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/25/2023]
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The solvation of K+ cation plays an important role in various phenomena such as biological procedures, geological time, and archaeological properties. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation and DFT method are employed to study the structural and energetic characteristics of the K + Arn (n = 1-14) clusters. The potential model (PM) and the Basin-Hopping (BH) method are the foundation of the MC simulation. The pairwise PM (PW-PM) is improved by introducing the N-body interactions via the polarizable potential model (PPM). On the other side, the DFT functional M05-2X, combined with the 6-311++G(3d2f,2p) basis set, and the Grimme dispersion correction GD3 was used to deeply investigate the geometrical properties and the relative stability of the K + Arn clusters. Starting from n = 12, a structural transition from square antiprism (SA) to icosahedron (ICOS) form is detected. Additionally, the PPM allows us to examine the largest sizes (n = 15-54). Herein, the first ICOS layers are found for n = 12 and 54 cluster sizes, respectively. The binding energy and the second energy difference as a function of cluster size are used to evaluate the relative stability of K + Arn clusters. The obtained data are in concordance with the available results in the literature.
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- Marwa Slama
- Laboratoire d'Études des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs (EMIR), Institut Préparatoire aux Études des Ingénieurs de Monastir, Monastir, 5000, Tunisia.
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- Quantum and Statistical Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Quantum and Statistical Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire d'Études des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs (EMIR), Institut Préparatoire aux Études des Ingénieurs de Monastir, Monastir, 5000, Tunisia
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Zunzunegui-Bru E, Gruber E, Lázaro T, Bartolomei M, Hernández MI, Campos-Martínez J, González-Lezana T, Bergmeister S, Zappa F, Scheier P, Pérez de Tudela R, Hernández-Rojas J, Bretón J. Observation of Multiple Ordered Solvation Shells in Doped Helium Droplets: The Case of He NCa 2. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:3126-3131. [PMID: 36952614 PMCID: PMC10084467 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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In this Letter, we report the experimental detection of likely the largest ordered structure of helium atoms surrounding a monatomic impurity observed to date using a recently developed technique. The mass spectrometry investigation of HeNCa2+ clusters, formed in multiply charged helium nanodroplets, reveals magic numbers at N = 12, 32, 44, and 74. Classical optimization and path integral Monte Carlo calculations suggest the existence of up to four shells surrounding the calcium dication which are closed with well-ordered Mozartkugel-like structures: He12Ca2+ with an icosahedron, the second at He32Ca2+ with a dodecahedron, the third at He44Ca2+ with a larger icosahedron, and finally for He74Ca2+, we find that the outermost He atoms form an icosidodecahedron which contains the other inner shells. We analyze the reasons for the formation of such ordered shells in order to guide the selection of possible candidates to exhibit a similar behavior.
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- Eva Zunzunegui-Bru
- Instituto de Física Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, Madrid 28006, Spain
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, Madrid 28006, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, Madrid 28006, Spain
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
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- Departamento de Física and IUdEA, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, 38205, Tenerife, Spain
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- Departamento de Física and IUdEA, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, 38205, Tenerife, Spain
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Kollotzek S, Campos-Martínez J, Bartolomei M, Pirani F, Tiefenthaler L, Hernández MI, Lázaro T, Zunzunegui-Bru E, González-Lezana T, Bretón J, Hernández-Rojas J, Echt O, Scheier P. Helium nanodroplets as an efficient tool to investigate hydrogen attachment to alkali cations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 25:462-470. [PMID: 36477158 PMCID: PMC9768848 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03841b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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We report a novel method to reversibly attach and detach hydrogen molecules to positively charged sodium clusters formed inside a helium nanodroplet host matrix. It is based on the controlled production of multiply charged helium droplets which, after picking up sodium atoms and exposure to H2 vapor, lead to the formation of Nam+(H2)n clusters, whose population was accurately measured using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The mass spectra reveal particularly favorable Na+(H2)n and Na2+(H2)n clusters for specific "magic" numbers of attached hydrogen molecules. The energies and structures of these clusters have been investigated by means of quantum-mechanical calculations employing analytical interaction potentials based on ab initio electronic structure calculations. A good agreement is found between the experimental and the theoretical magic numbers.
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- Siegfried Kollotzek
- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain.
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- Departamento de Física and IUdEA, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Slama M, Habli H, Laajimi M, Ghalla H, Ben El Hadj Rhouma M. Microsolvation of lithium cation in xenon clusters: An octahedral growth pattern. J Mol Graph Model 2022; 116:108229. [PMID: 35671571 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2022] [Revised: 05/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The structural and energetic proprieties for the Li + Xen (n = 1-18) clusters are investigated using both Basin-Hopping combined with Potential Model description (BH-PM) and DFT methods. A structural transition from tetrahedral (4 coordination) form to octahedral (6 coordination) one is observed for n = 6. Above this size, all structures have an octahedral core. The cubic-face-centered arrangement for xenon atoms is detected for Li + Xe14. To the best of our knowledge, the Li + Xen (n = 1-18) clusters are studied in the present work for the first time using the DFT theoretical approach. The M062X functional combined with aug-cc-pVDZ (for Li) and def2-TZVP (for Xe) basis sets reproduces accurately the CCSD(T) potential energy curve of Li + Xe system. Atom-Centered Density Matrix Propagation (ADMP) molecular dynamic calculations have been carried. Moreover, we investigate the larger sizes n = 31-35, 44, and 55 for the first time using the BH-PM theoretical approach. The closing of the first and second octahedron shells are proved for the n = 6 and 34 sizes, respectively. The relative stabilities of the Li + Xen molecules are also studied by computing the total energy, the binding energy per atoms for each size n. Then, the second energy difference between the size n and its two near neighbors allows identifying the magic number series. Our present data are analyzed, discussed and compared with the available theoretical and experimental data.
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- Marwa Slama
- Université de Monastir, Institut Préparatoire aux Études des Ingénieurs de Monastir, Laboratoire d'Études des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs (EMIR), 5000 Monastir, Tunisia.
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- Université de Monastir, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique et Statistique, Avenue de l'Environnement 5019 Monastir, Tunisia; Université de Sousse, Institut Supérieur des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie de Sousse, Rue ibn Khaldun, Cité Taffala, 4003 Sousse, Tunisia
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- Université de Monastir, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique et Statistique, Avenue de l'Environnement 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
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- Université de Monastir, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Laboratoire de Physique Quantique et Statistique, Avenue de l'Environnement 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
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- Université de Monastir, Institut Préparatoire aux Études des Ingénieurs de Monastir, Laboratoire d'Études des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs (EMIR), 5000 Monastir, Tunisia
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Zunzunegui-Bru E, Gruber E, Bergmeister S, Meyer M, Zappa F, Bartolomei M, Pirani F, Villarreal P, González-Lezana T, Scheier P. Helium structures around SF 5+ and SF 6+: novel intermolecular potential and mass spectrometry experiments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:2004-2014. [PMID: 35022639 PMCID: PMC8790812 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04725f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Helium clusters around the recently experimentally observed sulphur hexafluoride SF6+ and sulphur pentafluoride SF5+ ions are investigated using a combined experimental and theoretical effort. Mass spectrometry ion yields are obtained and the energetics and structure of the corresponding HeN–SF6+ and HeN–SF5+ clusters are analyzed using path integral molecular dynamics calculations as a function of N, the number of He atoms, employing a new intermolecular potential describing the interaction between the dopant and the surrounding helium. The new force field is optimized on benchmark potential energy ab initio calculations and represented by improved Lennard-Jonnes analytical expressions. This procedure improves the previous potentials employed in similar simulations for neutral SF6 attached to helium nanodroplets. The theoretical analysis explains the characteristic features observed in the experimental ion yields which suggest the existence of stable configurations at specific sizes. The structure of the He atoms around SF5+ and SF6+ is investigated both experimentally and theoretically.![]()
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- Eva Zunzunegui-Bru
- Instituto de Física Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Universitá di Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Technikerstraße 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Rock CA, Arradondo SN, Tschumper GS. Solvation of Isoelectronic Halide and Alkali Metal Ions by Argon Atoms. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:10524-10531. [PMID: 34851634 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c08069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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This work systematically examines the interactions of alkali metal cations and their isoelectronic halide counterparts with up to six solvating Ar atoms (M+Arn and X-Arn, where M = Li, Na, K, and Rb; X = H, F, Cl, and Br; and n = 1-6) via full geometry optimizations with the MP2 method and robust, correlation-consistent quadruple-ζ (QZ) basis sets. 116 unique M+Arn and X-Arn stationary points have been characterized on the MP2/QZ potential energy surface. To the best of our knowledge, approximately two dozen of these stationary points have been reported here for the first time. Some of these new structures are either the lowest-energy stationary point for a particular cluster or energetically competitive with it. The CCSD(T) method was employed to perform additional single-point energy computations upon all MP2/QZ-optimized structures using the same basis set. CCSD(T)/QZ results indicate that internally solvated structures with the ion at/near the geometric center of the cluster have appreciably higher energies than those placing the ion on the periphery. While this study extends the prior investigations of M+Arn clusters found within the literature, it notably provides one of the first thorough characterizations of and comparisons to the corresponding negatively charged X-Arn clusters.
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- Carly A Rock
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677-1848, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland 21620-1438, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677-1848, United States
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Ca + Ions Solvated in Helium Clusters. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26123642. [PMID: 34203679 PMCID: PMC8232145 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26123642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We present a combined experimental and theoretical investigation on Ca+ ions in helium droplets, HeNCa+. The clusters have been formed in the laboratory by means of electron-impact ionization of Ca-doped helium nanodroplets. Energies and structures of such complexes have been computed using various approaches such as path integral Monte Carlo, diffusion Monte Carlo and basin-hopping methods. The potential energy functions employed in these calculations consist of analytical expressions following an improved Lennard-Jones formula whose parameters are fine-tuned by exploiting ab initio estimations. Ion yields of HeNCa+ -obtained via high-resolution mass spectrometry- generally decrease with N with a more pronounced drop between N=17 and N=25, the computed quantum HeNCa+ evaporation energies resembling this behavior. The analysis of the energies and structures reveals that covering Ca+ with 17 He atoms leads to a cluster with one of the smallest energies per atom. As new atoms are added, they continue to fill the first shell at the expense of reducing its stability, until N=25, which corresponds to the maximum number of atoms in that shell. Behavior of the evaporation energies and radial densities suggests liquid-like cluster structures.
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Fuchs TM, Gleditzsch M, Schäfer R. Local coordination numbers of up to 19 in gadolinium–tin alloy nanoclusters. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:164308. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0027772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Thomas M. Fuchs
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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González-Lezana T, Echt O, Gatchell M, Bartolomei M, Campos-Martínez J, Scheier P. Solvation of ions in helium. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2020.1794585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Tomás González-Lezana
- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas IFF-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas IFF-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas IFF-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Brieuc F, Schran C, Uhl F, Forbert H, Marx D. Converged quantum simulations of reactive solutes in superfluid helium: The Bochum perspective. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:210901. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0008309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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- Fabien Brieuc
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Center for Solvation Science ZEMOS, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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Nunzi F, Pannacci G, Tarantelli F, Belpassi L, Cappelletti D, Falcinelli S, Pirani F. Leading Interaction Components in the Structure and Reactivity of Noble Gases Compounds. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25102367. [PMID: 32443725 PMCID: PMC7287633 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25102367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The nature, strength, range and role of the bonds in adducts of noble gas atoms with both neutral and ionic partners have been investigated by exploiting a fine-tuned integrated phenomenological–theoretical approach. The identification of the leading interaction components in the noble gases adducts and their modeling allows the encompassing of the transitions from pure noncovalent to covalent bound aggregates and to rationalize the anomalous behavior (deviations from noncovalent type interaction) pointed out in peculiar cases. Selected adducts affected by a weak chemical bond, as those promoting the formation of the intermolecular halogen bond, are also properly rationalized. The behavior of noble gas atoms excited in their long-life metastable states, showing a strongly enhanced reactivity, has been also enclosed in the present investigation.
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- Francesca Nunzi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy; (G.P.); (F.T.); (D.C.)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto, I-06123 Perugia, Italy;
- Correspondence: (F.N.); (F.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy; (G.P.); (F.T.); (D.C.)
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy; (G.P.); (F.T.); (D.C.)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto, I-06123 Perugia, Italy;
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- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto, I-06123 Perugia, Italy;
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy; (G.P.); (F.T.); (D.C.)
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Perugia, via G. Duranti 93, 06215 Perugia, Italy;
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, via Elce di Sotto 8, I-06123 Perugia, Italy; (G.P.); (F.T.); (D.C.)
- Istituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (CNR-SCITEC), via Elce di Sotto, I-06123 Perugia, Italy;
- Correspondence: (F.N.); (F.P.)
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Laajimi M, Mtiri S, Ghalla H. Structure and stability of sodium-doped helium snowballs through DFT calculations. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-2556-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Guimarães MN, M. de Almeida M, Marques JMC, Prudente FV. A thermodynamic view on the microsolvation of ions by rare gas: application to Li+ with argon. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:10882-10892. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01283a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Parallel tempering Monte Carlo calculations on the Li+Arn microsolvation clusters have shown that the two peaks appearing in the heat capacity curve as a function of temperature correspond to the melting of the second and first solvation shells.
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- M. N. Guimarães
- Instituto de Física
- Universidade Federal da Bahia
- 40170-115 Salvador
- Brazil
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- Instituto de Física
- Universidade Federal da Bahia
- 40170-115 Salvador
- Brazil
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- CQC
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Coimbra
- 3004-535 Coimbra
- Portugal
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- Instituto de Física
- Universidade Federal da Bahia
- 40170-115 Salvador
- Brazil
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Kranabetter L, Bersenkowitsch NK, Martini P, Gatchell M, Kuhn M, Laimer F, Schiller A, Beyer MK, Ončák M, Scheier P. Considerable matrix shift in the electronic transitions of helium-solvated cesium dimer cation Cs 2He. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:25362-25368. [PMID: 31702748 PMCID: PMC7116336 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04790e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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We investigate the photodissociation of helium-solvated cesium dimer cations using action spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. The spectrum of Cs2He+ shows three distinct absorption bands into both bound and dissociative states. Upon solvation with further helium atoms, considerable shifts of the absorption bands are observed, exceeding 0.1 eV (850 cm-1) already for Cs2He10+, along with significant broadening. The shifts are highly sensitive to the character of the excited state. Our calculations show that helium atoms adsorb on the ends of Cs2+. The shifts are particularly pronounced if the excited state orbitals extend to the area occupied by the helium atoms. In this case, Pauli repulsion leads to a deformation of the excited state orbitals, resulting in the observed blue shift of the transition. Since the position of the weakly bound helium atoms is ill defined, Pauli repulsion also explains the broadening.
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- Lorenz Kranabetter
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria. and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Martini P, Kranabetter L, Goulart M, Rasul B, Gatchell M, Scheier P, Echt O. Atomic Gold Ions Clustered with Noble Gases: Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, and Xenon. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:9505-9513. [PMID: 31621319 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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High-resolution mass spectra of helium droplets doped with gold and ionized by electrons reveal HenAu+ cluster ions. Additional doping with heavy noble gases results in NenAu+, ArnAu+, KrnAu+, and XenAu+ cluster ions. The high stability predicted for covalently bonded Ar2Au+, Kr2Au+, and Xe2Au+ is reflected in their relatively high abundance. Surprisingly, the abundance of Ne2Au+, which is predicted to have zero covalent bonding character and no enhanced stability, features a local maximum, too. The predicted size and structure of complete solvation shells surrounding ions with essentially nondirectional bonding depends primarily on the ratio σ* of the ion-ligand versus the ligand-ligand distance. For Au+ solvated in helium and neon, the ratio σ* is slightly below 1, favoring icosahedral packing in agreement with a maximum observed in the corresponding abundance distributions at n = 12. HenAu+ appears to adopt two additional solvation shells of Ih symmetry, containing 20 and 12 atoms, respectively. For ArnAu+, with σ* ≈ 0.67, one would expect a solvation shell of octahedral symmetry, in agreement with an enhanced ion abundance at n = 6. Another anomaly in the ion abundance at Ar9Au+ matches a local maximum in its computed dissociation energy.
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- Paul Martini
- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
- Department of Physics , University of Sargodha , 40100 Sargodha , Pakistan
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
- Department of Physics , Stockholm University , 106 91 Stockholm , Sweden
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
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- Institut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck , Technikerstr. 25 , A-6020 Innsbruck , Austria
- Department of Physics , University of New Hampshire , Durham , New Hampshire NH 03824 , United States
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Bartolomei M, González-Lezana T, Campos-Martínez J, Hernández MI, Pirani F. Complexes of Alkali Metal Cations and Molecular Hydrogen: Potential Energy Surfaces and Bound States. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:8397-8405. [PMID: 31490073 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Complexes between metal cations and molecular hydrogen are systems quite amenable for precise spectroscopic and theoretical studies, and at the same time, they are relevant for applications in hydrogen storage and astrochemistry. In this work, we report new intermolecular potential energy surfaces and rovibrational states calculations for complexes involving molecular hydrogen and alkaline metal cations, M+-H2 (M+ = Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+). The intermolecular potentials, formulated in an internally consistent way to emphasize differences in the properties of the systems, are represented by simple analytical expressions whose parameters have been optimized from comparison with accurate ab initio calculations. Properties of the low-lying bound states-binding energies, frequencies, and rotational constants-are compared with previous measurements or computations and an overall good agreement is achieved, supporting the reliability of the present formulation. Variations of these properties as a function of the cation size and isotopic substitution, with a proper sequence of ortho and para rotational levels, are also discussed.
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- Massimiliano Bartolomei
- Instituto de Física Fundamental , Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IFF-CSIC) , Serrano 123 , 28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental , Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IFF-CSIC) , Serrano 123 , 28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental , Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IFF-CSIC) , Serrano 123 , 28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Instituto de Física Fundamental , Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IFF-CSIC) , Serrano 123 , 28006 Madrid , Spain
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie , Universitá di Perugia , 06123 Perugia , Italy
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