TY - JOUR
T1 - Hydrogen bonding in the sulfuric acid-methanol-water system
T2 - A matrix isolation and computational study
AU - Rozenberg, Mark
AU - Loewenschuss, Aharon
AU - Nielsen, Claus J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2015/3/19
Y1 - 2015/3/19
N2 - Frozen core MP2 and DFT computations were carried out on possible configurations of 1:1 H2SO4·CH3OH and 1:1:1 H2SO4·CH3OH·H2O complexes. Minimum energy structures, stabilization energies, H-bond lengths and vibrational frequencies were calculated. The latter complex can exist in either sequential "linear" configurations involving four H-bonds or "cyclic" structures involving three H-bonds only. However, there is little difference in the energy of stabilization between these two possible forms, indicating a "cooperative effect" between the H-bonds in the latter. This effect is also evidenced by the calculated H-bond lengths. In the cyclic complex, the hydroxyl of either CH3OH or H2O may be the proton donor to the H-bond between them. Argon matrix isolation FTIR spectra of layers with various concentration ratios were recorded. In the hydroxyl stretch wavenumber regions several weak new bands were observed. Their position was found to fit best the cyclic structures. The observed red shifts exceed the corresponding calculated values. Together with the considerable observed bandwidths they are further manifestations of the cooperative effect between the H-bonds. The lower skeletal mode wavenumber regions show a number of sharper bands compatible with those previously reported for dimethyl sulfate and hydrogen methyl sulfate, indicating their formation in the vapor mixing region or at the solid matrix layer interface.
AB - Frozen core MP2 and DFT computations were carried out on possible configurations of 1:1 H2SO4·CH3OH and 1:1:1 H2SO4·CH3OH·H2O complexes. Minimum energy structures, stabilization energies, H-bond lengths and vibrational frequencies were calculated. The latter complex can exist in either sequential "linear" configurations involving four H-bonds or "cyclic" structures involving three H-bonds only. However, there is little difference in the energy of stabilization between these two possible forms, indicating a "cooperative effect" between the H-bonds in the latter. This effect is also evidenced by the calculated H-bond lengths. In the cyclic complex, the hydroxyl of either CH3OH or H2O may be the proton donor to the H-bond between them. Argon matrix isolation FTIR spectra of layers with various concentration ratios were recorded. In the hydroxyl stretch wavenumber regions several weak new bands were observed. Their position was found to fit best the cyclic structures. The observed red shifts exceed the corresponding calculated values. Together with the considerable observed bandwidths they are further manifestations of the cooperative effect between the H-bonds. The lower skeletal mode wavenumber regions show a number of sharper bands compatible with those previously reported for dimethyl sulfate and hydrogen methyl sulfate, indicating their formation in the vapor mixing region or at the solid matrix layer interface.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp505965z
DO - 10.1021/jp505965z
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AN - SCOPUS:84925061561
SN - 1089-5639
VL - 119
SP - 2271
EP - 2280
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
IS - 11
ER -