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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 144, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4945342
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/J021342/1]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2012-740]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J021342/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J021342/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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To explore how the ion-pair in a single salt molecule evolves with the addition of water, infrared (IR) spectra of complexes composed of NaCl and multiple water molecules have been recorded for the first time. The NaCl(H2O)(n) complexes were formed and probed in liquid helium nanodroplets, and IR spectra were recorded for n = 1 -> 4. The spectra for n = 1, 2, and 3 are consistent with formation of the lowest energy contact-ion pair structures in which each water molecule forms a single ionic hydrogen bond to an intact Na+ Cl- ion-pair. Alternative structures with hydrogen bonding between water molecules become energetically competitive for n = 4, and the IR spectrum indicates likely the coexistence of at least two isomers. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.
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