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Preparation and Characterization of the Halogen-Bonding Motif in the Isolated Cl-·IOH Complex with Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Spectroscopy

  • Santino J. Stropoli
  • , Thien Khuu
  • , Joseph P. Messinger
  • , Natalia V. Karimova
  • , Mark A. Boyer
  • , Itai Zakai
  • , Sayoni Mitra
  • , Anton L. Lachowicz
  • , Nan Yang
  • , Sean C. Edington
  • , R. Benny Gerber*
  • , Anne B. McCoy
  • , Mark A. Johnson
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In the presence of a halide ion, hypohalous acids can adopt two binding motifs upon formation of the ion-molecule complexes [XHOY]-(X, Y = Cl, Br, I): a hydrogen (HB) bond to the acid OH group and a halogen (XB) bond between the anion and the acid halogen. Here we isolate the X-bonded Cl-·IOH ion-molecule complex by collisions of I-·(H2O)nclusters with HOCl vapor and measure its vibrational spectrum by IR photodissociation of the H2-tagged complex. Anharmonic analysis of its vibrational band pattern reveals that formation of the XB complex results in dramatic lowering of the HOI bending fundamental frequency and elongation of the O-I bond (by 168 cm-1and 0.13 Å, respectively, relative to isolated HOI).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2750-2756
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume13
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Mar 2022

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