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CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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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 />

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