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Sun Y, Cao Y, Wang Q, Li X, Sun S, Gu W, He J. Understanding the structures and interactions in gaseous mixtures of water-alcohol by high-resolution infrared spectroscopy. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 322:124790. [PMID: 38981286 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Revised: 07/01/2024] [Accepted: 07/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Interactions of water and chemical or bio-compound have a universal concern and have been extensively studied. For spectroscopic analysis, the complexity and the low resolution of the spectra make it difficult to obtain the spectral features showing the interactions. In this work, the structures and interactions in gaseous water and water-alcohol mixtures were studied using high-resolution infrared (HR-IR) spectroscopy. The spectral features of water clusters of different sizes, including dimer, trimer, tetramer and pentamer, were observed from the measured spectra of the samples in different volume concentrations, and the interactions of water and methanol/ethanol in the mixtures were obtained. In the analysis, a method based on principal component analysis was used to separate the overlapping spectra. In water-alcohol mixtures, when water is less, water molecules tend to interact with the OH groups on the exterior of the alcohol aggregate, and with the increase of water, a water cage forms around the aggregates. Furthermore, the ratio of the molecule number of methanol in the aggregate to that of water in the cage is around 1:2.3, and the ratio for ethanol is about 1:3.2.
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- Yan Sun
- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China.
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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- College of Energy and Environmental Engineering, Hebei Key Laboratory of Air Pollution Cause and Impact, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
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Burevschi E, Chrayteh M, Murugachandran SI, Loru D, Dréan P, Sanz ME. Water Arrangements upon Interaction with a Rigid Solute: Multiconfigurational Fenchone-(H 2O) 4-7 Hydrates. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:10925-10933. [PMID: 38588470 PMCID: PMC11027134 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Insight into the arrangements of water molecules around solutes is important to understand how solvation proceeds and to build reliable models to describe water-solute interactions. We report the stepwise solvation of fenchone, a biogenic ketone, with 4-7 water molecules. Multiple hydrates were observed using broadband rotational spectroscopy, and the configurations of four fenchone-(H2O)4, three fenchone-(H2O)5, two fenchone-(H2O)6, and one fenchone-(H2O)7 complexes were characterized from the analysis of their rotational spectra in combination with quantum-chemical calculations. Interactions with fenchone deeply perturb water configurations compared with the pure water tetramer and pentamer. In two fenchone-(H2O)4 complexes, the water tetramer adopts completely new arrangements, and in fenchone-(H2O)5, the water pentamer is no longer close to being planar. The water hexamer interacts with fenchone as the least abundant book isomer, while the water heptamer adopts a distorted prism structure, which forms a water cube when including the fenchone oxygen in the hydrogen bonding network. Differences in hydrogen bonding networks compared with those of pure water clusters show the influence of fenchone's topology. Specifically, all observed hydrates except one show two water molecules binding to fenchone through each oxygen lone pair. The observation of several water arrangements for fenchone-(H2O)4-7 complexes highlights water adaptability and provides insight into the solvation process.
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- PhLAM—Physique
des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, University of Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, King’s College London, London SE1 1DB, U.K.
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- PhLAM—Physique
des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, University of Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, King’s College London, London SE1 1DB, U.K.
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Zhang YY, Zheng H, Wang T, Jiang S, Yan W, Wang C, Zhao Y, Lu JB, Hu HS, Yang J, Zhang W, Wu G, Xie H, Li G, Jiang L, Yang X, Li J. Spectroscopic and Theoretical Identifications of Two Structural Motifs of (H 2O) 10 Cluster. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:3055-3060. [PMID: 38466221 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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Precise characterization of archetypal systems of aqueous hydrogen-bonding networks is essential for developing accurate potential functions and universal models of water. The structures of water clusters (H2O)n (n = 2-9) have been verified recently through size-specific infrared spectroscopy with a vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser (VUV-FEL) and quantum chemical studies. For (H2O)10, the pentagonal prism and butterfly motifs were proposed to be important building blocks and were observed in previous experiments. Here we report the size-specific infrared spectra of (H2O)10 via a joint experimental and theoretical study. Well-resolved spectra provide a unique signature for the coexistence of pentagonal prism and butterfly motifs. These (H2O)10 motifs develop from the dominant structures of (H2O)n (n = 8, 9) clusters. This work provides an intriguing prelude to the diverse structure of liquid water and opens avenues for size-dependent measurement of larger systems to understand the stepwise formation mechanism of hydrogen-bonding networks.
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- Yang-Yang Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Tan J, Wang X, Chu W, Fang S, Zheng C, Xue M, Wang X, Hu T, Guo W. Harvesting Energy from Atmospheric Water: Grand Challenges in Continuous Electricity Generation. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2211165. [PMID: 36708103 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202211165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Atmospheric water is ubiquitous on earth and extensively participates in the natural water cycle through evaporation and condensation. This process involves tremendous energy exchange with the environment, but very little of the energy has so far been harnessed. The recently emerged hydrovoltaic technology, especially moisture-induced electricity, shows great potential in harvesting energy from atmospheric water and gives birth to moisture energy harvesting devices. The device performance, especially the long-term operational capacity, has been significantly enhanced over the past few years. Further development; however, requires in-depth understanding of mechanisms, innovative materials, and ingenious system designs. In this review, beginning with describing the basic properties of water, the key aspects of the water-hygroscopic material interactions and mechanisms of power generation are discussed. The current material systems and advances in promising material development are then summarized. Aiming at the chief bottlenecks of limited operational time, advanced system designs that are helpful to improve device performance are listed. Especially, the synergistic effect of moisture adsorption and water evaporation on material and system levels to accomplish sustained electricity generation is discussed. Last, the remaining challenges are analyzed and future directions for developing this promising technology are suggested.
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- Jin Tan
- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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- Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education, State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Institute for Frontier Science of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China
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Liu YR, Jiang Y. Growth mechanism prediction for nanoparticles via structure matching polymerization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:1267-1273. [PMID: 38105690 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04702d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Exploring structural and component evolution remains a challenging scientific problem for nanoscience. We propose a novel approach called principle of minimization of structure matching polymerization (SMP) change to rapidly explore the global minimum structure on the potential energy surface (PES). The new method can map low-dimensional stable structures to high-dimensional local minima, and this will make it possible for us to study the growth mechanisms of nanoparticles. Some new lowest-energy structures were found by SMP methods for sulfuric acid (SA)-dimethylamine (DMA) systems relative to previous studies. Additionally, we found that the growth process of boron clusters is mainly that the small-size boron clusters are continuously added to large-size boron clusters by structure matching for Bn (n = 2-36) systems, Bm + Bk → Bn, where m + k = n and 1 ≤ k ≤ 3. The SMP approach can greatly improve the search efficiency of other unbiased global optimization algorithms, such as basin-hopping (BH) and genetic algorithm (GA), with an enhancement of up to 19- and 7-fold relative to traditional BH and GA algorithms for searching the global minima of Bn (n = 14-22) systems. The SMP approach is general and flexible and can be applied to different kinds of problems, such as material structure design, crystal structure prediction, and new drug generation.
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- Yi-Rong Liu
- Public Experimental Teaching Center, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, Sichuan 61700, China.
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- School of Vanadium and Titanium, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua, Sichuan 61700, China
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Tu Y, Zhou J, Lin S, Alshrah M, Zhao X, Chen G. Plausible photomolecular effect leading to water evaporation exceeding the thermal limit. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2312751120. [PMID: 37903260 PMCID: PMC10636307 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312751120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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We report in this work several unexpected experimental observations on evaporation from hydrogels under visible light illumination. 1) Partially wetted hydrogels become absorbing in the visible spectral range, where the absorption by both the water and the hydrogel materials is negligible. 2) Illumination of hydrogel under solar or visible-spectrum light-emitting diode leads to evaporation rates exceeding the thermal evaporation limit, even in hydrogels without additional absorbers. 3) The evaporation rates are wavelength dependent, peaking at 520 nm. 4) Temperature of the vapor phase becomes cooler under light illumination and shows a flat region due to breaking-up of the clusters that saturates air. And 5) vapor phase transmission spectra under light show new features and peak shifts. We interpret these observations by introducing the hypothesis that photons in the visible spectrum can cleave water clusters off surfaces due to large electrical field gradients and quadrupole force on molecular clusters. We call the light-induced evaporation process the photomolecular effect. The photomolecular evaporation might be happening widely in nature, potentially impacting climate and plants' growth, and can be exploited for clean water and energy technologies.
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- Yaodong Tu
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai200240, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA02139
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Yang B, Zhang Z, Liu P, Fu X, Wang J, Cao Y, Tang R, Du X, Chen W, Li S, Yan H, Li Z, Zhao X, Qin G, Chen XQ, Zuo L. Flatband λ-Ti 3O 5 towards extraordinary solar steam generation. Nature 2023; 622:499-506. [PMID: 37704732 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06509-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/15/2023]
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Solar steam interfacial evaporation represents a promising strategy for seawater desalination and wastewater purification owing to its environmentally friendly character1-3. To improve the solar-to-steam generation, most previous efforts have focused on effectively harvesting solar energy over the full solar spectrum4-7. However, the importance of tuning joint densities of states in enhancing solar absorption of photothermal materials is less emphasized. Here we propose a route to greatly elevate joint densities of states by introducing a flat-band electronic structure. Our study reveals that metallic λ-Ti3O5 powders show a high solar absorptivity of 96.4% due to Ti-Ti dimer-induced flat bands around the Fermi level. By incorporating them into three-dimensional porous hydrogel-based evaporators with a conical cavity, an unprecedentedly high evaporation rate of roughly 6.09 kilograms per square metre per hour is achieved for 3.5 weight percent saline water under 1 sun of irradiation without salt precipitation. Fundamentally, the Ti-Ti dimers and U-shaped groove structure exposed on the λ-Ti3O5 surface facilitate the dissociation of adsorbed water molecules and benefit the interfacial water evaporation in the form of small clusters. The present work highlights the crucial roles of Ti-Ti dimer-induced flat bands in enchaining solar absorption and peculiar U-shaped grooves in promoting water dissociation, offering insights into access to cost-effective solar-to-steam generation.
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- Bo Yang
- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
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- Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory for Anisotropy and Texture of Materials (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
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Jiang Y, Hu Z, Zhong C, Yang Y, Wang XB, Sun Z, Sun H, Liu Z, Peng P. Locking water molecules via ternary O-H⋯O intramolecular hydrogen bonds in perhydroxylated closo-dodecaborate. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:25810-25817. [PMID: 37724455 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03555g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/20/2023]
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A multitude of applications related to perhydroxylated closo-dodecaborate B12(OH)122- in the condensed phase are inseparable from the fundamental mechanisms underlying the high water orientation selectivity based on the base B12(OH)122-. Herein, we directly compare the structural evolution of water clusters, ranging from monomer to hexamer, oriented by functional groups in the bases B12H122-, B12H11OH2- and B12(OH)122- using multiple theoretical methods. A significant revelation is made regarding B12(OH)122-: each additional water molecule is locked into the intramolecular hydrogen bond B-O-H ternary ring in an embedded form. This new pattern of water cluster growth suggests that B-(H-O)⋯H-O interactions prevail over the competition from water-hydrogen bonds (O⋯H-O), distinguishing it from the behavior observed in B12H122- and B12H11OH2- bases, in which competition arises from a mixed competing model involving dihydrogen bonds (B-H⋯H-O), conventional hydrogen bonds (B-(H-O)⋯H-O) and water hydrogen bonds (O⋯H-O). Through aqueous solvation and ab initio molecular dynamics analysis, we further demonstrate the largest water clusters in the first hydrated shell with exceptional thermodynamic stability around B12(OH)122-. These findings provide a solid scientific foundation for the design of boron cluster chemistry incorporating hydroxyl-group-modified borate salts with potential implications for various applications.
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- Yanrong Jiang
- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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- College of Chemistry & Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
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- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
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- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China.
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Yang X, Liu R, Xu R, Wang Z. Sequential flipping: the donor-acceptor exchange mechanism in water trimers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:21957-21963. [PMID: 37553960 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02666c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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The donor-acceptor exchange (DAE) is a significant hydrogen bond network rearrangement (HBNR) mechanism because it can lead to the change of the hydrogen bond direction. In this work, we report a new DAE mechanism found in water trimers that is realized by sequential flipping (SF) of all molecules rather than the well-known proton transfer (PT) process. Meanwhile, the SF process has a much smaller potential barrier (0.262 eV) than the previously predicted collective rotation process (about 1.7 eV), implying that the SF process is the main flipping process that can lead to DAE. Importantly, high-precision ab initio calculations show that SF-DAE can make the water ring to show a clear chiral difference from PT-DAE, which brings the prospect of distinguishing the two confusing processes based on circular dichroism spectra. The reaction rate analysis including quantum tunneling indicates an obvious temperature-dependent competitive relationship between the SF and PT processes; specifically, the SF process dominates above 65 K, while the PT process dominates below 65 K. Therefore, in most cases, the contribution for DAE mainly comes from the flipping process, rather than the PT process as previously thought. Our work enriches the understanding of the DAE mechanism in water trimers and provides a piece of the jigsaw that has been sought for the HBNR mechanism.
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- Xinrui Yang
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China.
- International Center for Computational Method & Software, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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Ito Y, Kominato M, Nakashima Y, Ohshimo K, Misaizu F. Fragment imaging in the infrared photodissociation of the Ar-tagged protonated water clusters H 3O +-Ar and H +(H 2O) 2-Ar. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:9404-9412. [PMID: 36928842 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00469d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/08/2023]
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Infrared photodissociation of protonated water clusters with an Ar atom, namely H3O+-Ar and H+(H2O)2-Ar, was investigated by an imaging technique for mass-selected ions, to reveal the intra- and intermolecular vibrational dynamics. The presented system has the advantage of achieving fragment ion images with the cluster size- and mode-selective photoexcitation of each OH stretching vibration. Translational energy distributions of photofragments were obtained from the images upon the excitation of the bound (νb) and free (νf) OH stretching vibrations. The energy fractions in the translational motion were compared between νbI and νfI in H3O+-Ar or between νbII and νfII in H+(H2O)2-Ar, where the labels "I" and "II" represent H3O+-Ar and H+(H2O)2-Ar, respectively. In H3O+-Ar, the νfI excitation exhibited a smaller translational energy than νbI. This result can be explained by the higher vibrational energy of νfI, which enabled it to produce bending (ν4) excited H3O+ fragments that should be favored according to the energy-gap model. In contrast to H3O+-Ar, the νbII excitation of an Ar-tagged H2O subunit and the νfII excitation of an untagged H2O subunit resulted in very similar translational energy distributions in H+(H2O)2-Ar. The similar energy fractions independent of the excited H2O subunits suggested that the νbII and νfII excited states relaxed into a common intermediate state, in which the vibrational energy was delocalized within the H2O-H+-H2O moiety. However, the translational energy distributions for H+(H2O)2-Ar did not agree with a statistical dissociation model, which implied another aspect of the process, that is, Ar dissociation via incomplete energy randomization in the whole H+(H2O)2-Ar cluster.
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- Yuri Ito
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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Jiang S, Zheng H, Yan W, Wang T, Wang C, Li S, Xie H, Li G, Zheng X, Fan H, Yang X, Jiang L. Capturing Hydrogen Radicals by Neutral Metal Hydroxides. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:2481-2486. [PMID: 36867598 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Capturing the hydrogen radical is of central importance in various systems ranging from catalysis to biology to astronomy, but it has been proven to be challenging experimentally because of its high reactivity and short lifetime. Here, neutral MO3H4 (M = Sc, Y, La) complexes were characterized by size-specific infrared-vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy. All these products were determined to be the hydrogen radical adducts in the form of H•M(OH)3. The results indicate that the addition of the hydrogen radical to the M(OH)3 complex is both thermodynamically exothermic and kinetically facile in the gas phase. Moreover, the soft collisions in the cluster growth channel with the helium expansion were found to be demanded for the formation of H•M(OH)3. This work highlights the pivotal roles played by the soft collisions in the formation of hydrogen radical adducts and also opens new avenues toward the design and chemical control of compounds.
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- Shuai Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Energy Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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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: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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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Zapata Trujillo JC, McKemmish LK. Model Chemistry Recommendations for Scaled Harmonic Frequency Calculations: A Benchmark Study. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:1715-1735. [PMID: 36753303 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c06908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Despite the widespread popularity of scaled harmonic frequency calculations to predict experimental fundamental frequencies in chemistry, sparse benchmarking is available to guide users on the appropriate level of theory and basis set choices (model chemistry) or deep understanding of expected errors. An updated assessment of the best approach for scaling to minimize errors is also overdue. Here, we assess the performance of over 600 popular, contemporary, and robust model chemistries in the calculation of scaled harmonic frequencies, evaluating different scaling factor types and their implications in the scaled harmonic frequencies and model chemistry performance. We can summarize our results into three main findings: (1) Using model-chemistry-specific scaling factors optimized for three different frequency regions (low (<1,000 cm-1), mid (1,000-2,000 cm-1), and high (>2,000 cm-1)) results in substantial improvements in the agreement between the scaled harmonic and experimental frequencies compared to other choices. (2) Larger basis sets and more robust levels of theory generally lead to superior performance; however, the particular model chemistry choice matters and poor choices lead to significantly reduced accuracies. (3) Outliers are expected in routine calculations regardless of the model chemistry choice. Our benchmarking results here do not consider the intensity of vibrational transitions; however, we draw upon previous benchmarking results for dipole moments that highlight the importance of diffuse functions (i.e., augmented basis sets) in high-quality intensity predictions. In terms of specific recommendations, overall, the highest accuracy model chemistries are double-hybrid density functional approximations with a non-Pople augmented triple-ζ basis set, which can produce median frequency errors down to 7.6 cm-1 (DSD-PBEP86/def2-TZVPD), which is very close to the error in the harmonic approximation, i.e., the anharmonicity error. Double-ζ basis sets should not be used with double-hybrid functionals as there is no improvement compared to hybrid functional results (unlike for double-hybrid triple-ζ model chemistries). Note that 6-311G* and 6-311+G* basis sets perform like a double-ζ basis set for vibrational frequencies. After scaling, all studied hybrid functionals with non-Pople triple-ζ basis sets will produce median errors of less than 15 cm-1, with the best result of 9.9 cm-1 with B97-1/def2-TZVPD. Appropriate matching of double-ζ basis sets with hybrid functionals can produce high-quality results, but the precise choice of functional and basis set is more important. The B97-1, TPSS0-D3(BJ), or ωB97X-D hybrid density functionals with 6-31G*, pc-1, or pcseg-1 are recommended for fast routine calculations, all delivering median errors of 11-12 cm-1. Note that dispersion corrections are not easily available for B97-1; given its strong performance here, we recommend these be added to major programs in coming updates.
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- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Li W, Pérez C, Steber AL, Schnell M, Lv D, Wang G, Zeng X, Zhou M. Evolution of Solute-Water Interactions in the Benzaldehyde-(H 2O) 1-6 Clusters by Rotational Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:4119-4128. [PMID: 36762446 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c11732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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The investigation on the preferred arrangement and intermolecular interactions of gas phase solute-water clusters gives insights into the intermolecular potentials that govern the structure and dynamics of the aqueous solutions. Here, we report the investigation of hydrated coordination networks of benzaldehyde-(water)n (n = 1-6) clusters in a pulsed supersonic expansion using broadband rotational spectroscopy. Benzaldehyde (PhCHO) is the simplest aromatic aldehyde that involves both hydrophilic (CHO) and hydrophobic (phenyl ring) functional groups, which can mimic molecules of biological significance. For the n = 1-3 clusters, the water molecules are connected around the hydrophilic CHO moiety of benzaldehyde through a strong CO···HO hydrogen bond and weak CH···OH hydrogen bond(s). For the larger clusters, the spectra are consistent with the structures in which the water clusters are coordinated on the surface of PhCHO with both the hydrophilic CHO and hydrophobic phenyl ring groups being involved in the bonding interactions. The presence of benzaldehyde does not strongly interfere with the cyclic water tetramer and pentamer, which retain the same structure as in the pure water cluster. The book isomer instead of cage or prism isomers of the water hexamer is incorporated into the microsolvated cluster. The PhCHO molecule deviates from the planar structure upon sequential addition of water molecules. The PhCHO-(H2O)1-6 clusters may serve as a simple model system in understanding the solute-water interactions of biologically relevant molecules in an aqueous environment.
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- Weixing Li
- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Songhu Rd. 2005, 200438 Shanghai, China
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Max-Eyth-Str. 1, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Songhu Rd. 2005, 200438 Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Songhu Rd. 2005, 200438 Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Songhu Rd. 2005, 200438 Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Songhu Rd. 2005, 200438 Shanghai, China
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Zheng H, Zhang YY, Wang T, Jiang S, Yan W, Wang C, Zhao Y, Hu HS, Yang J, Zhang W, Wu G, Dai D, Li G, Li J, Yang X, Jiang L. Spectroscopic snapshot for neutral water nonamer (H 2O) 9: Adding a H 2O onto a hydrogen bond-unbroken edge of (H 2O) 8. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:014301. [PMID: 36610966 DOI: 10.1063/5.0131217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Structural characterization of neutral water clusters is crucial to understanding the structures and properties of water, but it has been proven to be a challenging experimental target due to the difficulty in size selection. Here, we report the size-specific infrared spectra of confinement-free neutral water nonamer (H2O)9 based on threshold photoionization, using a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser. Distinct OH stretch vibrational fundamentals in the 3200-3350 cm-1 region are observed, providing unique spectral signatures for the formation of an unprecedented (H2O)9 structure evolved by adding a ninth water molecule onto a hydrogen bond-unbroken edge of the (H2O)8 octamer with D2d symmetry. This nonamer structure coexists with the five previously identified structures that can be viewed as derived by inserting a ninth water molecule into a hydrogen bond-broken edge of the D2d/S4 octamer. These findings provide key microscopic information for systematic understanding of the formation and growth mechanism of dynamical hydrogen-bonding networks that are responsible for the structure and properties of condensed-phase water.
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- Huijun Zheng
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Adsorption free energy of phenol onto coronene: Solvent and temperature effects. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 118:108375. [PMID: 36423517 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2022.108375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Molecular modeling can considerably speed up the discovery of materials with high adsorption capacity for wastewater treatment. Despite considerable efforts in computational studies, the molecular modeling of adsorption processes has several limitations in reproducing experimental conditions. Handling the environmental effects (solvent effects) and the temperature effects are part of the important limitations in the literature. In this work, we address these two limitations using the adsorption of phenol onto coronene as case study. In the proposed model, for the solvent effects, we used a hybrid solvation model, with n explicit water molecules and implicit solvation. We increasingly used n=1 to n=12 explicit water molecules. To account for the temperature effects, we evaluated the adsorption efficiency using the adsorption free energy for temperatures varying from 200 to 400K. We generated initial configurations using classical molecular dynamics, before further optimisation at the ωB97XD/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. Polarisable continuum solvation model (PCM) is used for the implicit solvation. The adsorption free energy is evaluated to be -1.3kcal/mol at room temperature. It has been found that the adsorption free energy is more negative at low temperatures. Above 360K, the adsorption free energy is found to be positive.
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- Alhadji Malloum
- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Maroua, PO BOX 46, Maroua, Cameroon.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, PO BOX 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Department of Chemistry, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Jiang Y, Cai Z, Yuan Q, Cao W, Hu Z, Sun H, Wang XB, Sun Z. Highly Structured Water Networks in Microhydrated Dodecaborate Clusters. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:11787-11794. [PMID: 36516831 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We report a combined photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical investigation of a series of size-selected hydrated closo-dodecaborate clusters B12X122-·nH2O (X = H, F, or I; n = 1-6). Distinct structural arrangements of water clusters from monomer to hexamer can be achieved by using different B12X122- bases, illustrating the evident solute specificity. Because B-H···H-O dihydrogen bonds are stronger than O···H-O hydrogen bonds in water, the added water molecules are arranged in a unified binding mode by forming highly structured water networks manipulated by B12H122-. As a comparison, the hydrated B12F122- clusters display similar water evolution for n values of 1 and 2 but different binding modes for larger clusters, while water networks in B12I122- share similarities with the free water clusters. This finding provides a consistent picture of the structural diversity of hydrogen bonding networks in microhydrated dodecaborates and a molecular-level understanding of microsolvation dynamics in aqueous borate chemistry.
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- Yanrong Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
- NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
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Zamir A, Rossich Molina E, Ahmed M, Stein T. Water confinement in small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:28788-28793. [PMID: 36382773 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04773j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The confinement of water molecules is vital in fields from biology to nanotechnology. The conditions allowing confinement in small finite polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are unclear, yet are crucial for understanding confinement in larger systems. Here, we report a computational study of water cluster confinement within PAHs dimers. Our results serve as a model for larger carbon allotropes and for understanding molecular interactions in confined systems. We identified size and structural motifs allowing confinement and demonstrated the motifs in various PAHs systems. We show that optimal OH⋯π interactions between water clusters and the PAH dimer permit optimal confinement to occur. However, the lack of such interactions leads to the formation of CH⋯O interactions, resulting in less ideal confinement. Confinement of layered clusters is also possible, provided that the optimal OH⋯π interactions are conserved.
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- Alon Zamir
- Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
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- Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
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Tracking water dimers in ambient nanocapsules by vibrational spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2212497119. [PMID: 36454753 PMCID: PMC9894256 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212497119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Nanoconfined few-molecule water clusters are invaluable systems to study fundamental aspects of hydrogen bonding. Unfortunately, most experiments on water clusters must be performed at cryogenic temperatures. Probing water clusters in noncryogenic systems is however crucial to understand the behavior of confined water in atmospheric or biological settings, but such systems usually require either complex synthesis and/or introduce many confounding external bonds to the clusters. Here, we show that combining Raman spectroscopy with the molecular nanocapsule cucurbituril is a powerful technique to sequester and analyze water clusters in ambient conditions. We observe sharp peaks in vibrational spectra arising from a single rigid confined water dimer. The high resolution and rich information in these vibrational spectra allow us to track specific isotopic exchanges inside the water dimer, verified with density-functional theory and kinetic population modeling. We showcase the versatility of such molecular nanocapsules by tracking water cluster vibrations through systematic changes in confinement size, in temperatures up to 120° C, and in their chemical environment.
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Perturbative vibration of the coupled hydrogen-bond (O:H-O) in water. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 310:102809. [PMID: 36356480 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2022.102809] [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: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Perturbation Raman spectroscopy has underscored the hydrogen bond (O:H-O or HB) cooperativity and polarizability (HBCP) for water, which offers a proper parameter space for the performance of the HB and electrons in the energy-space-time domains. The OO repulsive coupling drives the O:H-O segmental length and energy to relax cooperatively upon perturbation. Mechanical compression shortens and stiffens the O:H nonbond while lengthens and softens the HO bond associated with polarization. However, electrification by an electric field or charge injection, or molecular undercoordination at a surface, relaxes the O:H-O in a contrasting way to the compression with derivation of the supersolid phase that is viscoelastic, less dense, thermally diffusive, and mechanically and thermally more stable. The HO bond exhibits negative thermal expansivity in the liquid and the ice-I phase while its length responds in proportional to temperature in the quasisolid phase. The O:H-O relaxation modifies the mass densities, phase boundaries, critical temperatures and the polarization endows the slipperiness of ice and superfluidity of water at the nanometer scale. Protons injection by acid solvation creates the H↔H anti-HB and introduction of electron lone pairs derives the O:⇔:O super-HB into the solutions of base or H2O2 hydrogen-peroxide. The repulsive H↔H and O:⇔:O interactions lengthen the solvent HO bond while the solute HO bond contracts because its bond order loss. Differential phonon spectroscopy quantifies the abundance, structure order, and stiffness of the bonds transiting from the mode of pristine water to the perturbed states. The HBCP and the perturbative spectroscopy have enabled the dynamic potentials for the relaxing O:H-O bond. Findings not only amplified the power of the Raman spectroscopy but also substantiated the understanding of anomalies of water subjecting to perturbation.
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Structures and spectroscopic properties of K+(H2O)n with n = 1–10 clusters based on density functional theory. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zang X, Zhang Z, Jiang S, Zhao Y, Wang T, Wang C, Li G, Xie H, Yang J, Wu G, Zhang W, Shu J, Fan H, Yang X, Jiang L. Aerosol mass spectrometry of neutral species based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:16484-16492. [PMID: 35771196 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01733d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser (VUV-FEL) photoionization aerosol mass spectrometer (AMS) has been developed for online measurement of neutral compounds in laboratory environments. The aerosol apparatus is mainly composed of a smog chamber and a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS). The indoor smog chamber had a 2 m3 fluorinated ethylene propylene film reactor placed in a temperature- and humidity-controlled room, which was used to generate the aerosols. The aerosols were sampled via an inlet system consisting of a 100 μm orifice nozzle and aerodynamic lenses. The application of this VUV-FEL AMS to the α-pinene ozonolysis under different concentrations reveals two new compounds, for which the formation mechanisms are proposed. The present findings contribute to the mechanistic understanding of the α-pinene ozonolysis in the neighborhood of emission origins of α-pinene. The VUV-FEL AMS method has the potential for chemical analysis of neutral aerosol species during the new particle formation processes.
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- Xiangyu Zang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.,Zhang Dayu School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Road, Dalian 116024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for VOCs Pollution Control Materials & Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 380 Huaibei Village, Huairou District, Beijing 101408, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China. .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China.,Zhang Dayu School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Linggong Road, Dalian 116024, China.,Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, 1088 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.
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Wang C, Fu L, Yang S, Zheng H, Wang T, Gao J, Su M, Yang J, Wu G, Zhang W, Zhang Z, Li G, Zhang DH, Jiang L, Yang X. Infrared Spectroscopy of Stepwise Hydration Motifs of Sulfur Dioxide. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:5654-5659. [PMID: 35708351 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Experimental characterization of microscopic events and behaviors of SO2-H2O interactions is crucial to understanding SO2 atmospheric chemistry but has been proven to be very challenging due to the difficulty in size selection. Here, size-dependent development of SO2 hydrate structure and cluster growth in the SO2(H2O)n (n = 1-16) complexes was probed by infrared spectroscopy based on threshold photoionization using a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser. Spectral changes with cluster size demonstrate that the sandwich structure initially formed at n = 1 develops into cycle structures with the sulfur and oxygen atoms in a two-dimensional plane (n = 2 and 3) and then into three-dimensional cage structures (n ≥ 4). SO2 is favorably bound to the surface of larger water clusters. These stepwise features of SO2 hydration on various sized water clusters contribute to understanding the reactive sites and electrophilicity of SO2 on cloud droplets, which may have important atmospheric implications for studying the SO2-containing aerosol systems.
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- Chong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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He Y, Jia L, Lu X, Wang C, Liu X, Chen G, Wu D, Wen Z, Zhang N, Yamauchi Y, Sasaki T, Ma R. Molecular-Scale Manipulation of Layer Sequence in Heteroassembled Nanosheet Films toward Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts. ACS NANO 2022; 16:4028-4040. [PMID: 35188374 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c09615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Flocculation or restacking of different kinds of two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets into heterostructure nanocomposites is of interest for the development of high-performance electrode materials and catalysts. However, lacking a molecular-scale control on the layer sequence hinders enhancement of electrochemical activity. Herein, we conducted electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly, employing oxide nanosheets (e.g., MnO2, RuO2.1, reduced graphene oxide (rGO)) and layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanosheets (e.g., NiFe-based LDH) to explore a series of mono- and bilayer films with various combinations of nanosheets and sequences toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The highest OER activity was attained in bilayer films of electrically conductive RuO2.1 nanosheets underlying catalytically active NiFe LDH nanosheets with mixed octahedral/tetrahedral coordination (NiFe LDHTd/Oh). At an overpotential of 300 mV, the RuO2.1/NiFe LDHTd/Oh film exhibited an electrochemical surface area (ECSA) normalized current density of 2.51 mA cm-2ECSA and a mass activity of 3610 A g-1, which was, respectively, 2 and 5 times higher than that of flocculated RuO2.1/NiFe LDHTd/Oh aggregates with a random appearance of a surface layer. First-principles density functional theory calculations and COMSOL Multiphysics simulations further revealed that the improved catalytic performance was ascribed to a substantial electronic coupling effect in the heterostructure, in which electrons are transferred from exposed NiFe LDHTd/Oh nanosheets to underneath RuO2.1. The study provides insight into the rational control and manipulation of redox-active surface layers and conductive underlying layers in heteroassembled nanosheet films at molecular-scale precision for efficient electrocatalysis.
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- Yuanqing He
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-8-26 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan
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- School of Materials, Sun Yat-sen University, Gongchang Road 66, Shenzhen 518107, China
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, P.R. China
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Kagami Memorial Research Institute for Materials Science and Technology, Waseda University, 2-8-26 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) and School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 2-8-26 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan
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Lu W, Mackie CJ, Xu B, Head-Gordon M, Ahmed M. A Computational and Experimental View of Hydrogen Bonding in Glycerol Water Clusters. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:1701-1710. [PMID: 35254809 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Polyol-water clusters provide a template to probe ionization and solvation processes of paramount interest in atmospheric and interstellar chemistry. We generate glycerol water clusters in a continuous supersonic jet expansion and interrogate the neutral species with synchrotron-based tunable vacuum ultraviolet photoionization mass spectrometry. A series of glycerol fragments (m/z 44, 61, 62, and 74) clustered with water are observed. A judicious combination of backing pressure, nozzle temperature, and water vapor pressure allows for tuning the mol % of glycerol. The recorded appearance energies of the water cluster series m/z 62 and 74 are similar to that observed in pure glycerol, while the m/z 61 series shows a dependence on cluster composition. Furthermore, this series also tracks the water concentration of the beam. Theoretical calculations on neutral and ionized clusters visualize the hydrogen bond network in these water clusters and provide an assessment of the number of glycerol-glycerol, glycerol-water, and water-water hydrogen bonds in the cluster, as well as their interaction energies. This method of bond counting and interaction energy assessment explains the changes in the mass spectrum as a function of mol % and offers a glimpse of the disruption of the hydrogen bond network in glycerol-water clusters. The calculations also reveal interesting barrierless chemical processes in photoionized glycerol water clusters that are either activated or do not occur without the presence of water. Examples include spontaneous intramolecular proton transfer within glycerol to form a distonic ion, nonactivated breaking of a C-C bond, and spontaneous proton transfer from glycerol to water. These results appear relevant to radiation-induced chemical processing of alcohol-water ices in the interstellar medium.
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- Wenchao Lu
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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de Medeiros CS, Ptak M, Gągor A, Sieradzki A. Structural phase transitions in novel hydrogen-bonded cyanide-based crystal of [C4H8NH2]2[(H3O)Co(CN)6]. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2021.132143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vogt E, Kjaergaard HG. Vibrational Spectroscopy of the Water Dimer at Jet-Cooled and Atmospheric Temperatures. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2022; 73:209-231. [PMID: 35044791 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-082720-104659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The vibrational spectroscopy of the water dimer provides an understanding of basic hydrogen bonding in water clusters, and with about one water dimer for every 1,000 water molecules, it plays a critical role in atmospheric science. Here, we review how the experimental and theoretical progress of the past decades has improved our understanding of water dimer vibrational spectroscopy under both cold and warm conditions. We focus on the intramolecular OH-stretching transitions of the donor unit, because these are the ones mostly affected by dimer formation and because their assignment has proven a challenge. We review cold experimental results from early matrix isolation to recent mass-selected jet expansion techniques and, in parallel, the improvements in the theoretical anharmonic models. We discuss and illustrate changes in the vibrational spectra of complexes upon increasing temperature, and the difficulties in recording and calculating these spectra. In the atmosphere, water dimer spectra at ambient temperature are crucial. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, Volume 73 is April 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Emil Vogt
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Laity PR, Holland C. Seeking Solvation: Exploring the Role of Protein Hydration in Silk Gelation. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27020551. [PMID: 35056868 PMCID: PMC8781151 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27020551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The mechanism by which arthropods (e.g., spiders and many insects) can produce silk fibres from an aqueous protein (fibroin) solution has remained elusive, despite much scientific investigation. In this work, we used several techniques to explore the role of a hydration shell bound to the fibroin in native silk feedstock (NSF) from Bombyx mori silkworms. Small angle X-ray and dynamic light scattering (SAXS and DLS) revealed a coil size (radius of gyration or hydrodynamic radius) around 12 nm, providing considerable scope for hydration. Aggregation in dilute aqueous solution was observed above 65 °C, matching the gelation temperature of more concentrated solutions and suggesting that the strength of interaction with the solvent (i.e., water) was the dominant factor. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy indicated decreasing hydration as the temperature was raised, with similar changes in hydration following gelation by freezing or heating. It was found that the solubility of fibroin in water or aqueous salt solutions could be described well by a relatively simple thermodynamic model for the stability of the protein hydration shell, which suggests that the affected water is enthalpically favoured but entropically penalised, due to its reduced (vibrational or translational) dynamics. Moreover, while the majority of this investigation used fibroin from B. mori, comparisons with published work on silk proteins from other silkworms and spiders, globular proteins and peptide model systems suggest that our findings may be of much wider significance.
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Theoretical Description of Water from Single-Molecule to Condensed Phase: a Review of Recent Progress on Potential Energy Surfaces and Molecular Dynamics. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2201005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Xu S, Wu L, Li Z. Nucleation of Water Clusters in Gas Phase: A Computational Study Based on Neural Network Potential and Enhanced Sampling ※. ACTA CHIMICA SINICA 2022. [DOI: 10.6023/a22010003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Hydrogen bond networks of ammonia clusters: What we know and what we don’t know. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Xu BB, Zhou M, Ye M, Yang LY, Wang HF, Wang XL, Yao YF. Cooperative Motion in Water-Methanol Clusters Controls the Reaction Rates of Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Reactions. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:10940-10947. [PMID: 34281341 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c02128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Detailed information about the influences of the cooperative motion of water and methanol molecules on practical solid-liquid heterogeneous photocatalysis reactions is critical for our understanding of photocatalytic reactions. The present work addresses this issue by applying operando nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, in conjunction with density functional theory (DFT) calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations, to investigate the dynamic behaviors of heterogeneous photocatalytic systems with different molar ratios of water to methanol on rutile-TiO2 photocatalyst. The results demonstrate that methanol and water molecules are involved in the cooperative motions, and the cooperation often takes the form of methanol-water clusters that govern the number of methanol molecules reaching to the active sites of the photocatalyst per unit time, as confirmed by the diffusion coefficients of the methanol molecule calculated in the binary methanol-water solutions. Nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy experiments reveal that the clusters are formed by the hydrogen bonding between the -OH groups of CH3OH and H2O. The formation of such methanol-water clusters is likely from an energetic standpoint in low-concentration methanol, which eventually determines the yields of methanol reforming products.
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- Bei-Bei Xu
- Physics Department & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Centre for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Physics Department & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
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- iHuman Institute, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Centre for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Physics Department & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
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- Physics Department & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, North Zhongshan Road 3663, Shanghai 200062, People's Republic of China
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Jia Y, Wu H, Zhao X, Zhang H, Geng L, Zhang H, Li SD, Luo Z, Hansen K. Interactions between water and rhodium clusters: molecular adsorption versus cluster adsorption. NANOSCALE 2021; 13:11396-11402. [PMID: 34160532 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr02372a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Understanding metal-water interactions and hydrogen-bonding in water droplets is important but highly challenging. Various transition metals may serve as effective coordination centers to water; however, not in all cases is water bonded to a metal center as single molecules. We report here the observations of gas-phase rhodium clusters and their interactions with water. A series of rhodium-water clusters, Rhn±,0(H2O)m (n = 3-30, m = 1-5), with isotope labels were detected by mass spectrometry after exposure to different water concentrations, among which Rh8+(H2O)4 and Rh9+(H2O)3 were prominent in the mass distributions, showing a size-dependent preference of water adsorption on rhodium clusters. Comprehensive density functional theory calculations reveal that the lowest energy structure of Rh9+(H2O)3 possesses a hydrogen-bonded cyclic (H2O)3 water trimer on the top of a tri-capped Rh9+ trigonal prism. The tri-capped Rh9+ trigonal prism and the cyclic (H2O)3 water trimer match in sizes, charge distributions, and orbital symmetries to form effective electrostatic cluster-cluster interactions. In contrast, Rh8+(H2O)4 contains four water molecules separately attached to a bi-capped octahedron, Rh8+, at four corners via single-molecule adsorption. The difference between covalent molecular adsorption and electrostatic cluster-cluster interaction in these two proto-typical rhodium hydrates is further demonstrated by detailed natural bonding orbital, electrostatic surface potential, and charge decomposition analyses.
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- Yuhan Jia
- 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. and 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.
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- Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, 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.
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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.
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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. and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, 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. and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Centre for Joint Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300072, China
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Hartweg S, Garcia GA, Nahon L. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Water Dimer Reveals Unpredicted Vibrational Structure. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:4882-4887. [PMID: 34028282 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrogen bonds and proton transfer reactions can be considered as being at the very heart of aqueous chemistry and of utmost importance for many processes of biological relevance. Nevertheless, these processes are not yet well understood, even in seemingly simple model systems like small water clusters. We present a study of the photoelectron spectrum of the water dimer, revealing previously unresolved vibrational structure with 10-30 meV (80-242 cm-1) typical splitting, in disagreement with a previous theoretical photoionization study predicting an apparent main vibrational progression with an ∼130 meV spacing [Kamarchik et al.; J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 194311]. The observed vibrational structure and its deviation from the theoretical prediction is discussed in terms of known difficulties with calculations of strongly coupled anharmonic systems involving large amplitude motions. Potential contributions of the nonzero vibrational energy of the neutral water dimer at a finite experimental internal temperature are addressed. The internal temperature is estimated from the breakdown diagram associated with the dissociative ionization of the water dimer to be around to 130 K. This analysis also provides two additional, independently measured values for the 0 K appearance energy of the hydronium ion (H3O+) from dissociative ionization of the water dimer.
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- Sebastian Hartweg
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Jiang S, Su M, Yang S, Wang C, Huang QR, Li G, Xie H, Yang J, Wu G, Zhang W, Zhang Z, Kuo JL, Liu ZF, Zhang DH, Yang X, Jiang L. Vibrational Signature of Dynamic Coupling of a Strong Hydrogen Bond. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:2259-2265. [PMID: 33636082 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Elucidating the dynamic couplings of hydrogen bonds remains an important and challenging goal for spectroscopic studies of bulk systems, because their vibrational signatures are masked by the collective effects of the fluctuation of many hydrogen bonds. Here we utilize size-selected infrared spectroscopy based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser to unmask the vibrational signatures for the dynamic couplings in neutral trimethylamine-water and trimethylamine-methanol complexes, as microscopic models with only one single hydrogen bond holding two molecules. Surprisingly broad progression of OH stretching peaks with distinct intensity modulation over ∼700 cm-1 is observed for trimethylamine-water, while the dramatic reduction of this progression in the trimethylamine-methanol spectrum offers direct experimental evidence for the dynamic couplings. State-of-the-art quantum mechanical calculations reveal that such dynamic couplings are originated from strong Fermi resonance between the stretches of hydrogen-bonded OH and several motions of the solvent water/methanol, such as translation, rocking, and bending, which are significant in various solvated complexes commonly found in atmospheric and biological systems.
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- Shukang Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Modeling and Computation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
- CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, No. 10, 2nd Yuexing Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518507, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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León I, Montero R, Longarte A, Fernández JA. Revisiting the Spectroscopy of Water Dimer in Jets. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:1316-1320. [PMID: 33535759 PMCID: PMC9157493 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Laser spectroscopy in jets is one of the main sources of structural data from molecular aggregates. Consequently, numerous and sophisticated experimental systems have been developed to extract precise information, which is usually interpreted in the light of quantum mechanical calculations. However, even with the most sophisticated experiments, it is sometimes difficult to interpret the experimental results. We present here the example of water dimer and how after almost 70 years, the assignment of its mass-resolved IR spectrum still generates controversy that extends toward the mechanism of ionization of water aggregates.
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- Iker León
- Grupo
de Espectroscopía Molecular (GEM), Edificio Quifima, Unidad Asociada CSIC, Universidad de Valladolid, 47005 Valladolid, Spain
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- SGIKER
Laser Facility, University of the Basque
Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena s/n, Leioa 48940, Spain
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Li G, Wang C, Zheng HJ, Wang TT, Xie H, Yang XM, Jiang L. Infrared spectroscopy of neutral clusters based on a vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2021. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2101018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Gang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy and Materials, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Wang C, Li Q, Kong X, Zheng H, Wang T, Zhao Y, Li G, Xie H, Yang J, Wu G, Zhang W, Dai D, Zhou M, Yang X, Jiang L. Observation of Carbon-Carbon Coupling Reaction in Neutral Transition-Metal Carbonyls. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:1012-1017. [PMID: 33470826 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Neutral titanium-metal carbonyl complexes with the chemical formula Ti(CO)n (n = 4-7) are produced in the gas phase by the reactions of titanium atoms with carbon monoxide in a pulsed laser vaporization-supersonic expansion source. Their infrared absorption spectra in the carbonyl stretching frequency region are measured by infrared plus vacuum ultraviolet (IR+VUV) two-color ionization spectroscopy based on a tunable VUV free electron laser. Infrared spectroscopy in conjunction with quantum chemical calculations confirm that all of these complexes have unexpected titanium ketenylidene OTiCCO(CO)n-2 structures. Bonding analysis indicates that the OTiCCO core structure can be described by the bonding interactions between a TiO+ cation in the doublet ground state and a doublet ground state of CCO-. The results reveal that the C-O bond breaking and C-C bond formation proceed efficiently in the reactions between laser-vaporized titanium atoms and carbon monoxide.
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- Chong Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anyang Normal University, Anyang 455000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Fischer TL, Wagner T, Gottschalk HC, Nejad A, Suhm MA. A Rather Universal Vibrational Resonance in 1:1 Hydrates of Carbonyl Compounds. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:138-144. [PMID: 33315407 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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When the lower frequency OH stretching fundamental of a water molecule is shifted to the 3500 cm-1 spectral range by the solvation of a carbonyl compound, in this case a ketone, its infrared intensity is shared with a dark state. It is shown by chemical and isotope substitution for more than a dozen systems that the location of this resonance is remarkably substitution-independent. Harmonic and anharmonic model calculations support its assignment to a combination of the water bending overtone and in-plane water libration. This previously unrecognized intramolecular-intermolecular coupling in single solvent water has a strength of 7-10 cm-1. It may have been sporadically observed before in a few other carbonyl compounds such as amides, without any previous exploration of its potential universality. The resulting generic picosecond energy redistribution channel for aqueous solutions may represent a slow counterpart and doorway model of what happens on a subpicosecond time scale when the hydrogen bonds become stronger, such as in carboxylic acid dimers or protonated water clusters.
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- Taija L Fischer
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Malloum A, Conradie J. Structures of water clusters in the solvent phase and relative stability compared to gas phase. Polyhedron 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2020.114856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Infrared spectroscopic study of hydrogen bonding topologies in the smallest ice cube. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5449. [PMID: 33116144 PMCID: PMC7595032 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19226-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The water octamer with its cubic structure consisting of six four-membered rings presents an excellent cluster system for unraveling the cooperative interactions driven by subtle changes in the hydrogen-bonding topology. Despite prediction of many distinct structures, it has not been possible to extract the structural information encoded in their vibrational spectra because this requires size-selectivity of the neutral clusters with sufficient resolution to identify the contributions of the different isomeric forms. Here we report the size-specific infrared spectra of the isolated cold, neutral water octamer using a scheme based on threshold photoionization using a tunable vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser. A plethora of sharp vibrational bands features are observed. Theoretical analysis of these patterns reveals the coexistence of five cubic isomers, including two with chirality. The relative energies of these structures are found to reflect topology-dependent, delocalized multi-center hydrogen-bonding interactions. These results demonstrate that even with a common structural motif, the degree of cooperativity among the hydrogen-bonding network creates a hierarchy of distinct species. The implications of these results on possible metastable forms of ice are speculated. Spectroscopic studies of water clusters provide insight into the hydrogen bond structure of water and ice. The authors measure infrared spectra of neutral water octamers using a threshold photoionization technique based on a tunable vacuum-UV free electron laser, identifying two cubic isomers in addition to those previously observed.
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Lee VGM, Vetterli NJ, Boyer MA, McCoy AB. Diffusion Monte Carlo Studies on the Detection of Structural Changes in the Water Hexamer upon Isotopic Substitution. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:6903-6912. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c05686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Victor G. M. Lee
- 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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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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