Vibrational relaxation of azide ions in liquid-to-supercritical water
Martin Olschewski1, Stephan Knop, Jörg Lindner
1Abteilung für Molekulare Physikalische Chemie, Institut für Physikalische and Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Wegelerstrasse 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
Abstract:
The dynamics of vibrational energy relaxation (VER) of the aqueous azide anion was studied over a wide temperature (300 K ≤ T ≤ 663 K) and density (0.6 g cm(-3) ≤ ρ ≤ 1.0 g cm(-3)) range thereby covering the liquid and the supercritical phase of the water solvent. Femtosecond mid-infrared spectroscopy on the ν(3) band associated with the asymmetric stretching vibration of the azide anion was used to monitor the relaxation dynamics in a time-resolved fashion. The variation of the vibrational relaxation rate constant with temperature and density was found to be rather small. Surprisingly, the simple isolated binary collision model is able to fully reproduce the experimentally observed temperature and density dependence of the relaxation rate provided a local density correction around the vibrationally excited solute based on classical molecular dynamics simulations is used. The simulations further suggest that head-on collisions of the solvent with the terminal nitrogen atoms rather than side-on collisions with the central nitrogen atom of the azide govern the vibrational energy relaxation of this system. Finally, the importance of hydrogen bonding for the VER dynamics in this system is briefly discussed.
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