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Bo Yang1, Panpan Ren1, Lu Xing1
1Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology for Advanced Batteries, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130012, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The hydrogen-bond (H-bond) dynamics and water structural transitions in aqueous ethylene glycol (EG) solution were investigated on the basis of concentration- and temperature-dependent two-dimensional Raman correlation spectroscopy (2D Raman-COS). At room temperature, EG-induced enhancement of the water structure when the EG/water molar ratio is less than 1:28 resulted from the hydrophobic effect around the methylene groups of EG. The decrease in the temperature caused an enhancement of the Raman peak at about 3200 cm-1, representing an increase in the orderliness of water molecules. Further analysis of the water-specific structures by 2D Raman-COS reveals that the strong H-bond structure preferentially responds to external perturbations and induces a weak H-bond structural transition in water. Finally, EG-induced water structural transitions were calculated by the density functional theory (DFT). Hopefully, 2D Raman-COS combined with DFT calculations would advance the study of solute-induced water structural transitions in water-organic chemistry.
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