Initial hydration processes of magnesium chloride: size-selected anion photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio
Gang Feng1, Cheng-Wen Liu, Zhen Zeng
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. zhengwj@iccas.ac.cn.
Abstract:
To understand the initial hydration processes of MgCl2, we measured photoelectron spectra of MgCl2(H2O)n- (n = 0-6) and conducted ab initio calculations on MgCl2(H2O)n- and their neutral counterparts up to n = 7. A dramatic drop in the vertical detachment energy (VDE) was observed upon addition of the first water molecule to bare MgCl2-. This large variation in VDE can be associated with the charge-transfer-to-solvent (CTTS) effect occurring in the MgCl2(H2O)n- clusters, as hydration induces transfer of the excess electron of MgCl2- to the water molecules. Investigation of the separation of Cl--Mg2+ ion pair shows that, in MgCl2(H2O)n- anions, breaking of the first Mg-Cl bond occurs at n = 4, while breaking of the second Mg-Cl bond takes place at n = 6. For neutral MgCl2(H2O)n clusters, breaking of the first Mg-Cl bond starts at n = 7.
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