CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
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adical ( • OH) reacts with HCO 3¯ or CO 32¯ to form a transient species, which has a broad<br />
and strong absorption in the visible region with absorption maximum, λ max at 600 nm.<br />
This absorption maximum is assigned to the carbonate radical anion species, CO 3•¯, a<br />
specific one electron oxidising species. 60 In this chapter, results of chlorine dimer radical<br />
anion (Cl 2•¯) and carbonate radical anion species (CO 3•¯) are presented in detail.<br />
Simulated UV-Vis spectra of Cl 2•¯ and CO 3•¯ hydrated clusters are compared with the<br />
reported experimental transient optical absorption spectra of Cl 2•¯ and CO 3•¯ species in<br />
aqueous solution and electronic transitions responsible for the optical absorption spectra<br />
of Cl 2•¯(aq) and CO 3•¯ are also assigned based on studies of excited states.<br />
5.2. Theoretical Approach<br />
As it is discussed in chapter 2, quasi Newton Raphson based algorithm is applied<br />
to carry out geometry search in each of hydrated clusters with various initial structures<br />
designed systematically following bottom-up approach to find out the most stable<br />
equilibrium structure. This procedure involves the calculation of a multi-dimensional<br />
potential energy surface for these clusters and finding a minimum on the surface. The key<br />
issue in this search procedure is to guess a good initial geometry of the cluster, which<br />
might converge during the calculation to a local or the global minimum. It is to be noted<br />
that the adopted procedure for geometry search cannot guarantee to locate the global<br />
minimum. Thus simulated annealing combined with Monte-Carlo sampling method has<br />
also been applied to search for the global minimum energy structure for each size<br />
clusters. 36<br />
In this method, molecular coordinates have been displaced by a random<br />
amount and the energy of the system has been evaluated at the new structure. The new<br />
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