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CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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CO 3<br />

2¯ or HCO3¯ anion to form a transient species, which has a broad and moderately<br />

strong absorption in the visible region. This absorption maximum is assigned to the<br />

carbonate radical anion species, CO • 3 ⎯, again a specific one electron oxidising species.<br />

Nitrate anion (NO 3¯) is one of the most abundant species in acidic wastes as well as in<br />

the atmosphere. 40 It is known as the so-called terminal anion in the series of atmospheric<br />

reactions involving nitrogen and thus its study is of particular importance. The process of<br />

hydration involving nitrate anion in the atmosphere is very important, as water is present<br />

in the atmosphere in relatively large concentrations.<br />

Structure and energetics of Cl 2•¯.nH 2 O (n=1-5), NO 3¯.nH 2 O (n=1-5) and<br />

CO • 3 ⎯.H 2 O cluster is reported in literature. 24,32,41 But no report is available on higher<br />

clusters and on other systems in this series. In what follows, structural (growth motif) and<br />

energetics aspects of X. nH 2 O (X= Cl •− 2 , Br •− 2 , I •− 2 , CO •− −<br />

3 , NO 3 and CO 2− 3 ) clusters are<br />

presented in a systematic manner in this chapter.<br />

2.2. Theoretical Approach<br />

All the calculations have been carried out applying hybrid density functional,<br />

namely, Becke’s half-and-half (BHH) non-local exchange and Lee-Yang-Parr (LYP)<br />

non-local correlation functionals (BHHLYP) and Becke’s three parameter non-local<br />

exchange (B3) and Lee-Yang-Parr (LYP) non-local correlation functionals (B3LYP) with<br />

triple split valence, 6-311++G(d,p) set of basis function. This BHHLYP hybrid functional<br />

includes 50% Hartree-Fock exchange, 50% Slater exchange and the additional correlation<br />

effects of the LYP functional. 42 It is reported in the literature that BHHLYP functional<br />

performs well to describe such open shell doublet systems like halogen dimer radical<br />

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