CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
symmetrical DHB, SHB or WHB arrangements. Seven different structures having no<br />
imaginary frequency are obtained for I •− 2 .4H 2 O cluster and are displayed in Fig. 2.1-<br />
IV(A-G). Once again, the surface structure, IV-A where four H 2 O molecules form a H-<br />
bond cyclic network using one of its H atoms and the other H atoms are connected to I<br />
atoms is the most stable one. Structure IV-A consists of four WHB and four SHB<br />
arrangements. The least stable structure, IV-G, has two symmetrical double H-bonding<br />
(DHB) and two axial single H-bonding (SHB) arrangements with no inter water H-<br />
bonding (WHB). Structure IV-E has four symmetrical DHB keeping the angle between<br />
two successive O-I-I planes as 90 o . Structure IV-F with three DHB and one axial SHB<br />
arrangement is less stable than IV-A by 15.18 kcal/mol. Rest of the conformers have at<br />
least one DHB arrangement with different number of H 2 O systems in inter water H-<br />
bonding networks. It is clearly observed that the most stable structure has the maximum<br />
number of WHB arrangements and the relative stability of the conformers decreases with<br />
the decrease in the number of WHB arrangements.<br />
Similarly, the initial guess structures for penta-hydrate (I •− 2 .5H 2 O) cluster is<br />
designed based on the predicted minimum energy structures of I •− 2 .nH 2 O (n=1-4),<br />
keeping different numbers of symmetrical DHB, SHB or WHB arrangements. Geometry<br />
optimization with various initial guess structures for the penta-hydrate cluster, I •− 2 .5H 2 O<br />
yields seven minimum energy structures, having no imaginary frequency and the<br />
structures are displayed in Fig. 2.1-V(A-G). The most stable structure, V-A is the one<br />
where one solvent H 2 O molecule adds to the most stable structure of the tetra-hydrate<br />
cluster, I •− 2 .4H 2 O (IV-A) from the other side of H-bond network forming double<br />
hydrogen bonding between two I atoms and two H-atoms of H 2 O. Structure V-B is 4.47<br />
25