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J-M Andanson1, J-C Soetens, T Tassaing
1Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Bordeaux 1 no 5803.351, Cours de la Libération, Talence, France.
Abstract:
We have investigated the state of aggregation in supercritical tert-butanol (T = 523 K,0.05 < rho < 0.4 g cm(-3)) by means of vibrational spectroscopies (infrared and Raman) and molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations. A quantitative band shape analysis of the spectra associated with the OH stretching mode of tert-butanol has been done using activities computed by ab initio calculations on small clusters. This allows us to determine the degree of hydrogen bonding and populations of oligomers. These latter quantities have been derived from MD simulations and very consistent results are found with experiments. These results show that hydrogen bond still exist in supercritical tert-butanol and that the fluid mainly consists of oligomers smaller than tetramers.
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