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CHEM01200604005 A. K. Pathak - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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CHAPTER 4<br />

Solubility of Halogen Gases in Water<br />

4.1. Introduction<br />

Molecular cluster acts as an intermediate state between isolated gaseous molecule<br />

and condensed phase bulk system. It is well known that in solution (bulk) many<br />

important properties of neutral and charged chemical species are often widely different<br />

from that in the isolated gas phase. The structure and energetics of the cluster of a<br />

chemical species may be different from both the gas phase as well as the bulk. Bulk<br />

properties of a solute in solution result from the combined effect of solute-solvent and<br />

solvent-solvent interactions. It cannot be obtained from the properties of the isolated<br />

solute species alone. Several efforts are being made to connect molecular cluster<br />

properties of a chemical species to its bulk properties. 9,33-35<br />

Halogen molecules, X 2 (X=Cl, Br & I) provided one of the early model systems<br />

for understanding solvent effects on molecular spectra because they are apparently simple<br />

molecules whose spectral bands shift substantially in different solvents. The halogens<br />

also act as a popular model system for studying nearest neighbour effects on<br />

spectroscopy with the advent of molecular beam studies of dimers and small clusters.<br />

However, a very little effort has been put to study microhydration of X 2 (X=Cl & Br)<br />

systems. 55-57<br />

The molecular interaction between a neutral solute and solvent water<br />

molecules as well as the hydrogen bonding interactions among the solvent water<br />

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