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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 37, Pages 16772-16779Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp22154j
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- Institut Universitaire de France
- CALMIP
- CINES
- CNRS
- UPS
- EC2CO (CNRS/INSU)
- ECOS-ANUIES/CONACYT Mexican-French
- CONACYT [130931]
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The determination of the solvation shell of Hg(II)-containing molecules and especially the interaction between Hg(II) and water molecules is the first requirement to understand the transmembrane passage of Hg into the cell. We report a systematic DFT study by stepwise solvation of HgCl2 including up to 24 water molecules. In order to include pH and salinity effects, the solvation patterns of HgClOH, Hg(OH)(2) and HgCl3- were also studied using 24 water molecules. In all cases the hydrogen bond network is crucial to allow orbital-driven interactions between Hg(II) and the water molecules. DFT Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics simulations starting from the stable HgCl2-(H2O)(24) structure revealed that an HgCl2-(H2O)(3) trigonal bipyramid effective solute appears and then the remaining 21 water molecules build a complete first solvation shell, in the form of a water-clathrate. In the HgCl2, HgClOH, Hg(OH)(2)-(H2O)(24) optimized structures Hg also directly interacts with 3 water molecules from an orbital point of view (three Hg-O donor-acceptor type bonds). All the other interactions are through hydrogen bonding. The cluster-derived solvation energies of HgCl2, HgClOH and Hg(OH)(2) are estimated to be -34.4, -40.1 and -47.2 kcal mol(-1), respectively.
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