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Philips Kumar Rai1, Amit Kumar1, Pradeep Kumar1
1Department of Chemistry, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur 302017, India.
Abstract:
HO2• is a crucial radical in atmospheric chemistry, with applications ranging from HO2•/OH• interconversion to controlling the budget of various trace gases in the atmosphere. It is known that one of the potential sinks for HO2• is clouds and aerosols, though the mechanism is not clear to date. In the present study, using Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations, we have demonstrated that the dissociation of HO2• on the surface of a water droplet, as well as in the bulk phase, is a spontaneous process. In addition, we have computed the Gibbs free energy for the deprotonation of HO2• on both the surface and in the bulk, which suggests that deprotonation of HO2• on the surface occurs faster compared to the same in the bulk.
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