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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In this system the conformers of a particular size of cluster is in very close in energy and<br />
have near equal statistical contribution. Monte Carlo based simulated annealing<br />
procedure is applied to find out the global minimum energy structures. Solvent<br />
stabilization and interaction energies are also calculated. It is observed that both the<br />
solvent stabilization as well as interaction energy continuously increases with the<br />
successive addition of solvent CO 2 units as in the case of more polar solvents like NH 3 or<br />
H 2 O.<br />
Chapter 8: Development of an extrapolation model based on microscopic theory to<br />
predict bulk detachment energy of excess electron from finite size cluster results is<br />
discussed in this chapter. A new relation connecting the size dependence of electron<br />
detachment energy of finite size hydrated anionic clusters is derived based on a<br />
microscopic theory. The relation is tested over a large number of different types of<br />
clusters and an excellent agreement with experimental results is observed. More<br />
importantly, an extrapolation is shown to provide a route to obtain the bulk property and<br />
again an excellent agreement with the experimental results is observed where existing<br />
empirical law fails completely.<br />
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