Issue 26, 2014

Non-linear infrared spectroscopy of the water bending mode: direct experimental evidence of hydration shell reorganization?

Abstract

The structure and dynamics of liquid water are further studied by investigating the bend vibrational mode of HDO/D2O and pure H2O via two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) and linear absorption. The experimental findings and theoretical calculations support a picture in which the HDO bend is localized and the H2O bend is delocalized. The HDO and H2O bends present a loss of the frequency–frequency correlation in subpicosecond time scale. While the loss of correlation for the H2O bend is likely to be associated with the vibrational dynamics of a delocalized transition, the loss of the correlation in the localized HDO bend appears to arise from the fluctuations/rearrangements of the local environment. Interestingly, analysis of the HDO 2D-IR spectra shows the presence of multiple overlapping inhomogeneous distributions of frequencies that interchange in a few picoseconds. Theoretical calculations allow us to propose an atomistic model of the observed vibrational dynamics in which the different inhomogeneous distributions and their interchange are assigned to water molecules with different hydrogen-bond states undergoing chemical exchange. The frequency shifts as well as the concentration of the water molecules with single and double hydrogen-bonds as donors derived from the theory are in good agreement with our experimental findings.

Graphical abstract: Non-linear infrared spectroscopy of the water bending mode: direct experimental evidence of hydration shell reorganization?

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Feb 2014
Accepted
12 May 2014
First published
12 May 2014

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014,16, 13172-13181

Non-linear infrared spectroscopy of the water bending mode: direct experimental evidence of hydration shell reorganization?

L. Chuntonov, R. Kumar and D. G. Kuroda, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 13172 DOI: 10.1039/C4CP00643G

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