Evidence for Reduced Hydrogen-Bond Cooperativity in Ionic Solvation Shells from Isotope-Dependent Dielectric
Roberto Cota1, Niklas Ottosson2, Huib J Bakker2
1Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Abstract:
We find that the reduction in dielectric response (depolarization) of water caused by solvated ions is different for H_{2}O and D_{2}O. This isotope dependence allows us to reliably determine the kinetic contribution to the depolarization, which is found to be significantly smaller than predicted by existing theory. The discrepancy can be explained from a reduced hydrogen-bond cooperativity in the solvation shell: we obtain quantitative agreement between theory and experiment by reducing the Kirkwood correlation factor of the solvating water from 2.7 (the bulk value) to ∼1.6 for NaCl and ∼1 (corresponding to completely uncorrelated motion of water molecules) for CsCl.
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