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The influence of large-amplitude librational motion on the hydrogen bond energy for alcohol-water complexes

Andersen, J. ; Heimdal, Jimmy LU and Larsen, R. Wugt (2015) In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 17(37). p.23761-23769
Abstract
The far-infrared absorption spectra have been recorded for hydrogen-bonded complexes of water with methanol and t-butanol embedded in cryogenic neon matrices at 2.8 K. The partial isotopic substitution of individual subunits enabled by a dual inlet deposition procedure provides for the first time unambiguous assignments of the intermolecular high-frequency out-of-plane and low-frequency in-plane donor OH librational modes for mixed alcohol-water complexes. The vibrational assignments confirm directly that water acts as the hydrogen bond donor in the most stable mixed complexes and the tertiary alcohol is a superior hydrogen bond acceptor. The class of large-amplitude donor OH librational motion is shown to account for up to 5.1 kJ mol(-1)... (More)
The far-infrared absorption spectra have been recorded for hydrogen-bonded complexes of water with methanol and t-butanol embedded in cryogenic neon matrices at 2.8 K. The partial isotopic substitution of individual subunits enabled by a dual inlet deposition procedure provides for the first time unambiguous assignments of the intermolecular high-frequency out-of-plane and low-frequency in-plane donor OH librational modes for mixed alcohol-water complexes. The vibrational assignments confirm directly that water acts as the hydrogen bond donor in the most stable mixed complexes and the tertiary alcohol is a superior hydrogen bond acceptor. The class of large-amplitude donor OH librational motion is shown to account for up to 5.1 kJ mol(-1) of the destabilizing change of vibrational zero-point energy upon intermolecular OH center dot center dot center dot O hydrogen bond formation. The experimental findings are supported by complementary electronic structure calculations at the CCSD(T)-F12/aug-cc-pVTZ level of theory. (Less)
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  author       = {{Andersen, J. and Heimdal, Jimmy and Larsen, R. Wugt}},
  issn         = {{1463-9084}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{37}},
  pages        = {{23761--23769}},
  publisher    = {{Royal Society of Chemistry}},
  series       = {{Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics}},
  title        = {{The influence of large-amplitude librational motion on the hydrogen bond energy for alcohol-water complexes}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5cp04321b}},
  doi          = {{10.1039/c5cp04321b}},
  volume       = {{17}},
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