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Computation of Atmospheric Concentrations of Molecular Clusters from ab initio Thermochemistry
Published on: April 8, 2020
Theoretical calculation of structures and proton transfer in hydrated ammonia-hydrogen chloride clusters
Toshio Asada1, Seisuke Takitani, Shiro Koseki
1Department of Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai-city, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. asada@ms.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been performed to investigate the structures and quantum effects of the proton motion in NH(3):HCl:(H(2)O)(n) (n = 0-3) clusters using a MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. Three new stable structures and one transition-state structure are investigated for these clusters. The detailed analyses of the intermolecular interactions suggest that three-body interactions play an important role to determine the relative stability in each size of cluster. The quantum effects of the proton motion result in frequency shifts for proton-stretching modes. Our one-dimensional and two-dimensional models fairly closely reproduce the experimental proton-stretching vibrational frequency of the NH(3):HCl cluster. The most stable isomer for n = 1 has a proton-transfer structure, which is weakened by the quantum effects of the proton motion.
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