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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 111, Issue 15, Pages 2889-2897Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp0659397
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Hydroxide ion hydration was studied in aqueous solutions of selected alkali metal hydroxides by means of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy of HDO isotopically diluted in H2O. The quantitative difference spectra procedure was applied for the first time to investigate such systems. It allowed removal of bulk water contribution and separation of the spectra of solute-affected HDO. The obtained spectral data were confronted with ab initio calculated structures of small gas-phase and polarizable continuum solvation model (PCM) solvated aqueous clusters, OH-(H2O)(n), n = 1-7, to establish the structural and energetic states of hydration spheres of the hydrated hydroxide anion. This was achieved by comparison of the calculated optimal geometries with the interatomic distances derived from HDO band positions. The energetic state of water in OH- hydration shells, as revealed by solute-affected HDO spectra, is similar to that of an isoelectronic F- anion. No evidence was found for the existence of stable hydroxide dimer, H3O2-, in an aqueous solution. Spectral data do confirm, however, existence of a weak interaction with a single water molecule at the hydrogen site of OH-.
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