We have measured the infrared spectrum of H2O.HO in argon matrices at 11.5 +/- 0.5 K. We have also calculated the vibrational frequencies and intensities of the H2O.HO complex. As a result of these measurements and calculations, we have assigned a previously unassigned absorption band at 3442.1 cm-1 to the OH stretch in the radical complexed to the water molecule. This absorption originates from a complex that is situated in a different site within the argon matrix to those absorptions already assigned to this vibration at 3452.2 and 3428.0 cm-1. We observe a decrease in intensity of the OH radical stretching vibration of the H2O.HO complex upon isotopic substitution of D for H that agrees well with our calculations.
Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of H<sub>2</sub>OOO<sup>+</sup>
作者:Mingfei Zhou、Aihua Zeng、Yun Wang、Qingyu Kong、Zhi-Xiang Wang、Paul van Rague Schleyer
DOI:10.1021/ja037125z
日期:2003.9.1
This report presents the preparation and characterization of H2OOO+, an important intermediate in water-oxygen chemistry. The H2OOO+ cation was produced by co-deposition of H2O/Ar with radio frequency discharged O2/Ar at 4 K and was identified by four fundamental infrared absorptions. Quantum chemical calculations indicate a doublet ground state with a H2O-O2 hemi-bonded Cs structure.
Rotational Spectrum and Hydrogen Bonding of the H<sub>2</sub>O−HO Radical Complex
The first spectroscopic identification of the H2O-HO radical complex in the gas phase has been conducted by utilizing pulsed-discharge nozzle Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy. R-branch transitions in the Ka = 0 manifold appeared as in Hund's case (b), but extraordinarily large spin doubling implies a strong spin-orbit coupling between the electronic ground and low-lying excited states that correlate to the degenerate 2Pi state in free OH. The geometry of the complex is of C2v symmetry as a zero-point vibrational average, in which the OH radical acts as a proton donor to water. Precisely determined hyperfine coupling constants associated with hydrogen nuclei indicate a substantial rearrangement in unpaired electron distribution: there exists small but nonzero spin density on the H atoms in water.