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Electrochemical Detection of Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effect on Extracellular Electron Transport in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
Published on: April 16, 2018
Isotope Effect in D
Sarvesh Kumar1, Masamitsu Hoshino2, Boutheïna Kerkeni3,4
1Atomic and Molecular Collisions Laboratory, CEFITEC, Department of Physics, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Abstract:
H2O/D2O negative ion time-of-flight mass spectra from electron transfer processes at different collision energies with neutral potassium yield OH-/OD-, O-, and H-/D-. The branching ratios show a relevant energy dependence with an important isotope effect in D2O. Electronic state spectroscopy of water has been further investigated by recording potassium cation energy loss spectra in the forward scattering direction at an impact energy of 205 eV (lab frame), with quantum chemical calculations for the lowest-lying unoccupied molecular orbitals in the presence of a potassium atom supporting most of the experimental findings. The DO-D bond dissociation energy has been determined for the first time to be 5.41 ± 0.10 eV. The collision dynamics revealed the character of the singly excited (1b2-1) molecular orbital and doubly excited states in such K-H2O and K-D2O collisions.
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