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CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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CHAPTER 8<br />

A Generalized Microscopic Theory of Photodetachment<br />

Energy of Electron for Finite size Solvated Anionic Cluster:<br />

A Step Towards Bulk<br />

8.1. Introduction<br />

During the last few decades, several attempts have been made to extract bulk<br />

properties of a chemical species in a solvent from the knowledge of the properties of the<br />

small size solvated cluster. Bulk properties like solubility and UV-Vis spectra in aqueous<br />

solution are successfully extracted from the results based on microhydration study and<br />

presented in the previous chapters. Recently, with the advent of the supersonic<br />

expansions and nozzle beam techniques, solvation in small size ion embedded clusters<br />

has been amenable to the experimental observation 7-10, 23-32 . These experiments provide<br />

molecular level information on microsolvation and dependence of the vertical detachment<br />

energy (VDE) and adiabatic detachment energy (ADE) on the number of solvent<br />

molecules. Computer simulation based investigations also provide useful information on<br />

the solvation of the cluster of finite size as well as the cluster having sufficiently large<br />

size 81 . However, in many cases, the exact form of the interaction potential is not known<br />

for the complex hetero cluster. Therefore, the calculation of the solvation energy for<br />

finite as well as infinite size clusters (bulk) becomes problematic. Although ab initio<br />

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