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An Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Setup to Investigate the Reactive Species Formation
Published on: November 3, 2016
Experimental and theoretical study of the atmospherically important O2-H2O complex
Jewel A G Gomes1, John L Gossage, Harimadhav Balu
1Gill Chair of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lamar University, P.O. Box 10022, Beaumont TX 77710, USA. gomesja@hal.lamar.edu
Abstract:
The theoretically predicted water-oxygen van der Waals adduct has been experimentally confirmed by vibrational characterization using matrix isolation spectroscopic studies at 10 K. Vibrational bands for asymmetric and symmetric OH-stretching for this adduct have been found at 3728 cm(-1) and 3639 cm(-1), respectively. Theoretical calculations performed with Gaussian 98 software at the MP2/6-311++G(2d,2p) level of theory support the alternative structure of the hydrated complex proposed by this study.
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