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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 155, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0065477
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1764111]
- Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
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Protonated HCl dimer and trimer complexes were prepared and investigated using photodissociation spectroscopy and theoretical calculations, providing insights into their structures and anharmonic vibrations.
The protonated HCl dimer and trimer complexes were prepared by pulsed discharges in supersonic expansions of helium or argon doped with HCl and hydrogen. The ions were mass selected in a reflectron time-of-flight spectrometer and investigated with photodissociation spectroscopy in the IR and near-IR regions. Anharmonic vibrational frequencies were computed with VPT2 at the MP2/cc-pVTZ level of theory. The Cl-H stretching fundamentals and overtones were measured in addition to stretch-torsion combinations. VPT2 theory at this level confirms the proton-bound structure of the dimer complex and provides a reasonably good description of the anharmonic vibrations in this system. The trimer has a HCl-HClH+-ClH structure in which a central chloronium ion is solvated by two HCl molecules via hydrogen bonding. VPT2 reproduces anharmonic frequencies for this system, including several combinations involving core ion Cl-H stretches, but fails to describe the relative band intensities.
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