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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chemical species may be different from those in the gas phase as well as the bulk. Bulk<br />
properties of a molecular system may emerge from the extrapolation of its clusters having<br />
sufficiently large size. Bulk properties of a solute in solution result from the combined<br />
effect of solute-solvent and solvent-solvent interactions. It cannot be obtained from the<br />
properties of the isolated solute species alone. To connect molecular properties of a<br />
chemical species to its bulk properties, one has to study clusters of sufficiently large size.<br />
Hence, studies on clusters help to understand how the properties of these solvated clusters<br />
evolve with the size and geometry. Size selected cluster study has been used to extract the<br />
bulk properties, like detachment energies of an excess electron using the empirical<br />
extrapolation model based on the continuum model. 9,33-34<br />
But this model fails to<br />
reproduce bulk detachment energy in many cases. 9,35 The present thesis also covers an<br />
attempt to develop a formalism to extract bulk detachment energies of the solvated anion<br />
from the knowledge of the finite size hydrated cluster of that anion.<br />
1.3. Theoretical Methodology<br />
1.3.1. Geometry Search<br />
The heart of the microsolvation study is the geometry of the microsolvated<br />
species (cluster). Many procedures are available to locate good minimum energy<br />
structure like conjugate gradient, steepest decent, Newton-Raphson, etc. At present<br />
pseudo Newton-Raphson (NR) method for geometry search along with Monte Carlo<br />
method based simulated annealing procedure for global minimum energy structure search<br />
procedure is discussed. The energy of a particular structure is calculated by self<br />
consistent field (SCF) method.<br />
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