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Water binding sites in 2-para- and 2-ortho-fluorophenylethanol: a high-resolution UV experiment and ab initio
R Karaminkov1, S Chervenkov, H J Neusser
1Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstr. 4, Garching D-85748, Germany.
Abstract:
The singly hydrated complexes of the flexible prototype molecules 2-para-fluorophenylethanol and 2-ortho-fluorophenylethanol have been investigated by combination of high-resolution resonance-enhanced two-photon ionization spectroscopy in a cold supersonic beam and quantum chemistry ab initio calculations. We have identified the conformational structures of the above complexes, which correspond to water binding to the most stable gauche monomer's conformers in both cases. No structural changes of the host molecules upon the attachment of a single water molecule have been found. For the 2-ortho-fluorophenylethanol-water complex we have observed an additional structure with one of the higher-in-energy gauche conformers of the monomer. This corroborates the assumption that the complexation with water stabilizes the higher-energy conformer of the monomer, precluding it from relaxation to the lowest-energy geometry.
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