Amou
Akhgarnusch
ab,
Wai Kit
Tang
c,
Han
Zhang‡
c,
Chi-Kit
Siu
*c and
Martin K.
Beyer
*ab
aInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany
bInstitut für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. E-mail: martin.beyer@uibk.ac.at
cDepartment of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China. E-mail: chiksiu@cityu.edu.hk
First published on 30th July 2016
The recombination reactions of gas-phase hydrated electrons (H2O)n˙− with CO2 and O2, as well as the charge exchange reaction of CO2˙−(H2O)n with O2, were studied by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry in the temperature range T = 80–300 K. Comparison of the rate constants with collision models shows that CO2 reacts with 50% collision efficiency, while O2 reacts considerably slower. Nanocalorimetry yields internally consistent results for the three reactions. Converted to room temperature condensed phase, this yields hydration enthalpies of CO2˙− and O2˙−, ΔHhyd(CO2˙−) = −334 ± 44 kJ mol−1 and ΔHhyd(O2˙−) = −404 ± 28 kJ mol−1. Quantum chemical calculations show that the charge exchange reaction proceeds via a CO4˙− intermediate, which is consistent with a fully ergodic reaction and also with the small efficiency. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations corroborate this picture and indicate that the CO4˙− intermediate has a lifetime significantly above the ps regime.
We have recently established a variant of nanocalorimetry which allows us to measure the thermochemistry of ion-molecule reactions of hydrated ions in a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer.24 We have tested this method for a series of reactions with hydrated electrons,27–29 the carbon dioxide radical anion,30–32 and hydrated metal ions.33–35 For hydrated electrons and the carbon dioxide radical anion, the method seems to work very well. Hydrated metal ions, on the other hand, often exhibit a very pronounced size dependence, which compromises the results of nanocalorimetry. For accurate results, three conditions must be fulfilled: (A) the reaction rate must be independent from cluster size, (B) the reaction rate must be independent from the internal energy content of the cluster, and (C) the reaction must be fully ergodic, i.e. the energy released during the reaction must be statistically distributed over all internal degrees of freedom of the water cluster.
In our initial work on nanocalorimetry,24 reactions of hydrated electrons (H2O)n˙− with CO2 and O2 as well as the core-switching reaction of CO2˙−(H2O)n with O2 were studied. Based on the results, the ergodicity assumption was questioned for the core switching reaction, implying a direct charge transfer from CO2˙− to O2 resulting in the formation of superoxide. In a recent review, however, Weber pointed out that due to the strong interaction between CO2 and superoxide, it is very likely that the charge transfer involves CO4˙− as an intermediate. Formation of this intermediate, however, implies that the charge transfer proceeds while there is strong coupling of the CO2 unit to the water cluster, while the non-ergodic picture put forward in our previous study implies that neutral CO2 is formed in the bent geometry of the anion, and would be evaporated vibrationally excited. In a nutshell, the presence of the CO4˙− intermediate means that the reaction is fully ergodic, in contrast to the conclusions from our previous study.24 This discrepancy prompted us to repeat the experiments with (H2O)n˙− reacting with CO2 and O2, as well as CO2˙−(H2O)n reacting with O2, to get more precise values for the hydration enthalpy of the product species and to check whether the release of CO2 in the core switching reaction is ergodic or not, condition (C). Starting with different initial cluster size distributions and working at different temperatures, we should also be able to test the validity of conditions (A) and (B). The insight gained from the size and temperature dependent experiments significantly enhances our understanding of the reaction dynamics of large water clusters.
The average cluster size NR and NP of reactant and product species, respectively, is calculated from these data. To extract thermochemical information, these values are fitted with a genetic algorithm with a set of differential equations:
dNR = −kf(NR − N0,R)dt | (1) |
dNP = −kf(NP − N0,P)dt + (NR − ΔNvap − NP)(kIR/IP)dt | (2) |
Quantum chemical calculations were performed with density functional theory at the M06-2X/6-311++G(d,p) level using the Gaussian09 suite of program.54 All energies were corrected with zero-point energy obtained from harmonic vibration analyses. Local minima and transition structures on the potential energy surface were confirmed with no and one imaginary frequency, respectively. The local minima structures associated with each transition structure were verified by the intrinsic reaction coordination method. Spin density distributions were evaluated at the same level of theory and shown using an isosurface with a value of 0.02 au.
Molecular dynamics simulations were performed with density functional theory at the revPBE level using the Quickstep module of the CP2K suite of programs.55 A triple-zeta Gaussian basis set augmented with diffuse functions plus the Goedecker–Teter–Hutter pseudopotential (with charge density cutoff of 280 Ry) for an auxiliary planewave basis set (TZV2P-MOLOPT-GTH) were used.56,57 Dispersion interaction was corrected with the Grimme D3 method (with Becke–Johnson damping).58–60 The chemical systems were placed at the center of a cubic simulation box with the lattice parameters of 18 × 18 × 18 Å3, corrected with the Martyna and Tuckerman Poisson solver.61 Equations of motion of the classical Newtonian mechanics for all atoms were integrated with a time step of 0.5 fs under either the micro-canonical ensemble (NVE) conditions or the canonical ensemble (NVT) conditions with the constant temperatures controlled by Nosé–Hoover thermostats.62
(H2O)n˙− + CO2 → CO2˙−(H2O)n−m + mH2O | (3) |
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Fig. 1 Mass spectra of the reaction (H2O)n˙− with CO2 at a temperature of 226 ± 2 K and a CO2 pressure of 6.0 × 10−9 mbar after nominal (a) 0 s, (b) 0.8 s, and (c) 4.0 s reaction delay. |
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Fig. 2 (a) Kinetics and (b), (c) nanocalorimetric fits of the reaction of (H2O)n˙− with CO2 at T = 226 ± 2 K and p = 6.0 × 10−9 mbar, see Fig. 1. Blue filled squares, (H2O)n˙−; red filled circle, CO2˙−(H2O)n−m; filled diamond, difference in the cluster size. |
We repeated the experiment at temperatures from 130 K to 298 K. Below 160 K, it became difficult to stabilize the CO2 pressure in the ICR cell, indicating that the reaction gas started to freeze out on the surfaces. As a consequence, the data sets exhibit a larger scattering of data points at low temperatures for CO2. The results of the kinetic and nanocalorimetric fits are summarized in Table 1. Interestingly, the absolute rate constants increase with temperature, while the Langevin rate63 for collisions of non-polar molecules with a point charge as part of average dipole orientation (ADO) theory64 is independent from temperature, illustrated in Fig. 3. Also the efficiency ΦADO = kabs/kADO is unrealistically high, reaching 150% at room temperature. Since it cannot be expected that water clusters with up to 130 molecules behave like a point charge, we employed two collision models that account for the finite size of the clusters, the hard-sphere ADO model (HSA) and the surface-charge capture (SCC) model.65 Both models reproduce the temperature dependence of the experimental data, and result in temperature-independent collision efficiencies of ΦHSA = 70% and ΦSCC = 30%, respectively. The actual collision efficiency lies somewhere in between. The origin of the temperature dependence lies in the finite size of water cluster. In the Langevin model, the rate increasing effect of the higher velocity exactly cancels out with the rate decreasing effect of a smaller impact parameter for ion-induced dipole capture. With the contribution of the geometric cross section in the HSA and SCC models, the velocity of the neutral collision partner becomes more important, resulting in more frequent collisions with increasing temperature.
CO2 + (H2O)n˙− | T/K | p m/10−9 mbar | k rel/s−1 | k abs/10−10 cm3 s−1 | ΔNvap |
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n = 62–130 | 298 | 2.8 | 0.20 | 10.7 | 2.7 |
n = 61–134 | 298 | 6.4 | 0.43 | 10.0 | 3.4 |
n = 40–92 | 298 | 6.0 | 0.37 | 9.2 | 2.3 |
n = 38–95 | 298 | 9.5 | 0.58 | 9.2 | 2.4 |
n = 42–107 | 298 | 5.8 | 0.35 | 9.2 | 2.1 |
n = 64–130 | 266 | 4.2 | 0.23 | 7.4 | 2.5 |
n = 58–132 | 266 | 4.5 | 0.23 | 7.0 | 2.1 |
n = 58–131 | 229 | 4.8 | 0.36 | 8.6 | 2.2 |
n = 58–132 | 226 | 6.0 | 0.45 | 8.5 | 2.2 |
n = 69–133 | 182 | 4.4 | 0.32 | 6.6 | 2.1 |
n = 37–90 | 181 | 4.2 | 0.32 | 7.0 | 2.6 |
n = 61–130 | 172 | 4.0 | 0.32 | 6.9 | 3.1 |
n = 53–127 | 130 | 6.1 | 0.60 | 6.5 | 2.2 |
The nanocalorimetry results range from ΔNvap = 2.1 to 3.4 evaporated water molecules, Table 1. A simultaneous fit of all data sets yields ΔNvap,sim(3) = 2.4 water molecules. Taking the average of all measured data sets, we obtain ΔNvap(3) = 2.46 ± 0.75, where twice the standard deviation is taken as a conservative estimate for the error. This translates into ΔEraw(3) = −107 ± 39 kJ mol−1. Thermal corrections as outlined previously24 are small, we can convert this nanocalorimetry result to ΔH298K(3) = −105 ± 39 kJ mol−1. Details of the conversion are given in the ESI.†
A similar series of experiments was performed for the uptake of molecular oxygen by hydrated electrons, reaction (4).
(H2O)n˙− + O2 → O2˙−(H2O)n−m + mH2O | (4) |
O2 + (H2O)n˙− | T/K | p m/10−9 mbar | k rel/s−1 | k abs/10−10 cm3 s−1 | ΔNvap |
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n = 59–132 | 298 | 5.5 | 0.078 | 1.4 | 6.1 |
n = 56–133 | 298 | 6.0 | 0.098 | 1.6 | 6.5 |
n = 44–96 | 298 | 5.5 | 0.076 | 1.3 | 6.4 |
n = 36–82 | 298 | 6.1 | 0.090 | 1.4 | 5.5 |
n = 70–126 | 237 | 5.7 | 0.11 | 1.4 | 6.6 |
n = 59–123 | 176 | 7.4 | 0.19 | 1.5 | 6.6 |
n = 52–124 | 172 | 7.9 | 0.21 | 1.5 | 6.6 |
n = 52–125 | 171 | 7.7 | 0.21 | 1.5 | 6.6 |
n = 64–125 | 140 | 8.0 | 0.24 | 1.4 | 6.6 |
n = 66–128 | 136 | 5.2 | 0.12 | 1.0 | 6.1 |
n = 67–129 | 95 | 5.5 | 0.21 | 1.2 | 6.0 |
n = 69–131 | 86 | 8.0 | 0.31 | 1.1 | 6.3 |
Nanocalorimetry yields values ΔNvap = 6.0 to 6.6, Table 2. A simultaneous fit of all data sets yields ΔNvap,sim(4) = 6.4 evaporated water molecules, identical to the average of all measured values ΔNvap(4) = 6.40 ± 0.45, which corresponds to ΔEraw(4) = −277 ± 28 kJ mol−1 and ΔH298K(4) = −276 ± 28 kJ mol−1.
At last the core exchange reaction of CO2˙−(H2O)n with O2 is analyzed, reaction (5), with mass spectra and kinetic as well as nanocalorimetric fits shown in Fig. S4 and S5 (ESI†), respectively.
CO2˙−(H2O)n + O2 → O2˙−(H2O)n−m + CO2 + mH2O | (5) |
O2 + CO2˙−(H2O)n | T/K | p m/10−9 mbar | k rel/s−1 | k abs/10−10 cm3 s−1 | ΔNvap |
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n = 53–115 | 298 | 61 | 0.24 | 0.37 | 3.0 |
n = 51–114 | 298 | 9.4 | 0.041 | 0.42 | 3.3 |
n = 61–121 | 298 | 8.5 | 0.22 | 0.35 | 3.9 |
n = 53–115 | 231 | 8.6 | 0.056 | 0.49 | 3.2 |
n = 51–117 | 232 | 10 | 0.066 | 0.49 | 2.8 |
n = 61–121 | 167 | 8.5 | 0.073 | 0.47 | 3.7 |
n = 60–129 | 120 | 9.5 | 0.10 | 0.41 | 3.6 |
n = 58–121 | 107 | 9.9 | 0.12 | 0.41 | 3.4 |
n = 49–108 | 85 | 9.9 | 0.13 | 0.36 | 3.6 |
n = 53–106 | 84 | 9.9 | 0.13 | 0.37 | 3.5 |
Nanocalorimetry of individual data sets yields ΔNvap = 2.8 to 3.9 evaporated water molecules, Table 3. The simultaneous fit of all data sets results in ΔNvap,sim(5) = 3.4 evaporated water molecules, again identical to the average value of individual data sets ΔNvap(5) = 3.40 ± 0.63, which corresponds to ΔEraw(5) = −147 ± 29 kJ mol−1 and ΔH298K(5) = −146 ± 29 kJ mol−1.
As described by Lee and Castleman,66 stepwise hydration energies of ions become independent from the ion already with a few water molecules. Extrapolating this idea to the bulk, this means we can identify the values ΔH298K(3–5) with the enthalpy of the corresponding reaction in bulk aqueous solution at room temperature. In this way, we can derive the hydration enthalpies of the radical anions CO2˙− and O2˙− applying Hess' law, Tables 4 and 5, respectively. This yields ΔhydH(CO2˙−) = −334 ± 44 kJ mol−1 and ΔhydH(O2˙−) = −404 ± 28 kJ mol−1.
Reaction | Source | k abs/cm3 s−1 at 298 K | ΔNvap | ΔrH/kJ mol−1 | ΔhydH/kJ mol−1 |
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a Referenced to ΔhydH(H+) = −1090 kJ mol−1. b Ref. 24. c Ref. 22. d Ref. 21. e Estimated reaction enthalpy from ref. 21 combined with the electron hydration enthalpy from ref. 74, referenced to ΔhydH(H+) = −1090 kJ mol−1. f Estimated by Posey et al., ref. 21, based on data from ref. 76 and 66. g Ref. 23. | |||||
(3) CO2 + (H2O)n˙− | This work | 9.8 × 10−10 | 2.46 ± 0.75 | −105 ± 39 | −334 ± 44a |
Höckendorf et al.b | 1.0 × 10−9 | 1.0 ± 0.2 | −39 ± 9 | −268 ± 27 | |
Arnold et al.c | 7.6 × 10−10 | 1.3 | |||
Posey et al.d | — | 3 | −105.2e | −333.8f | |
Balaj et al.g | 2–3 | ||||
(4) O2 + (H2O)n˙− | This work | 1.4 × 10−10 | 6.40 ± 0.45 | −276 ± 28 | −404 ± 28a |
Höckendorf et al. | 5.4 × 10−10 | 5.8 ± 0.2 | −247 ± 20 | −375 ± 30 | |
Arnold et al. | 2.5 × 10−10 | 5.0 | |||
Posey et al. | — | 7 | −317e | −445.8f | |
Balaj et al. | 5–6 | ||||
(5) O2 + CO2˙−(H2O)n | This work | 3.7 × 10−11 | 3.40 ± 0.63 | −146 ± 29 | |
Höckendorf et al. | 4.1 × 10−11 | 3.5 ± 0.2 | −149 ± 14 | ||
Balaj et al. | 3–4 |
The situation is different for O2, which, as outlined before,22 faces spin restrictions. The triplet ground state of O2 and the doublet of the hydrated electron form an energetically accessible doublet and an inaccessible quartet product state. The statistical weight of the accessible doublet state is 1/3. The observed rate, however, is significantly lower than one third of the collision rate, and lower than previously reported, see Table 6. The deviation from our own previous work is probably due to a malfunction of the pressure gauge in the previously published experiment.24 The deviation of 40% from the results of Arnold et al.22 are almost within the error limits of the pressure calibration. However, the different cluster sizes used may also contribute. It is conceivable that in the relatively large clusters used in the present study, the O2 molecule has a smaller chance of colliding with the cluster in the right place to interact with the localized hydrated electron. Without mass selection, however, this remains speculative.
The even lower rate of the exchange reaction (5) together with the clearly negative temperature dependence is very intriguing. Here, the agreement with our earlier study is very good, probably because the exchange reaction in the earlier study was measured after maintenance work on the ion gauge. This reaction faces the same spin restrictions as the reaction of O2 with hydrated electrons, yet it is a factor of four slower, with efficiencies of only 2–3% at room temperature. This suggests that the initial step of the reaction is formation of a hydrated CO4˙− complex. Since O2 does not interact strongly with neutral water molecules, it rapidly evaporates if it collides with the water cluster remotely from CO2˙−. The low rate of reaction (5) is most likely a steric effect in the formation of the CO4˙− intermediate.
Reactions (3)–(5) are connected with a thermochemical cycle, eqn (6). Comparing the two sides of the equation, we get agreement within error limits, eqn (7) and (8). This self-consistency of the results, which is reached in the present study, is another positive test for the validity of the results and the method.
ΔrH(3) + ΔrH(5) = ΔrH(4) | (6) |
ΔrH(3) + ΔrH(5) = −105 ± 39 − 146 ± 29 kJ mol−1 = −251 ± 49 kJ mol−1 | (7) |
ΔrH(4) = −276 ± 28 | (8) |
In our previous study, eqn (6) was not fulfilled, which led us to the conclusion that the exchange reaction of CO2˙−(H2O)n with O2, reaction (5), had a significant non-ergodic component. We suggested that the CO2 product was vibrationally excited. The present, more reliable results do no longer support this interpretation. Since (7) and (8) agree within error limits, the results are completely consistent with a fully ergodic reaction (5). The ergodicity assumption (C) seems to be valid. No dependence on temperature or initial cluster size distribution is apparent from the results, Tables 1–3, suggesting that also assumptions (A) and (B) are valid.
For n = 5, as shown in Fig. 4, the reaction begins with an interaction between the doublet CO2˙− and the triplet O2 and forms an intermediate complex i5I(q) with a binding energy of 10 kJ mol−1. A single-point calculation on the geometry of i5I(q) at doublet spin state predicted i5I(d) in which the spin of CO2˙− is anti-parallel with that of O2. The relative energy of i5I(d) (−11 kJ mol−1, including zero-point energy correction obtained from a harmonic vibration analysis giving one imaginary frequency) is almost iso-energetic with i5I(q). It should be noted that for technical reasons, the geometry of the intermediate complex i5I can only be optimized on the quartet surface, while the reaction may start on either the quartet or the doublet surface, depending on the orientation of the CO2˙− spin relative to the spin of O2. It is quite reasonable to expect that the anti-parallel spin state can readily result, without any barrier, in a radical recombination reaction to yield CO4˙−(H2O)5 (i5II) with a relative energy of −178 kJ mol−1. If all spins are parallel, the radical recombination in i5I is also predicted to be facile via a transition state with a relative energy of around 6 kJ mol−1, estimated roughly from the crossing between the quartet and doublet surfaces of CO4˙−(H2O)5 with respect to the distance of the forming C–O bond (Fig. S7, ESI†). These results support that CO4˙− is an intermediate for the exchange reaction between CO2˙− and O2 and the spin restriction of the initial radical recombination is not likely a limiting factor. The distance of the newly formed C–O bond in i5II is 1.527 Å. This reaction slightly alters the OCO angle of the CO2 from 135° to 137°. In CO4˙−, the spin is mainly located at a π*-orbital of the ˙OO– moiety leaving the anionic charge mainly on the two oxygen atoms of the –CO2− moiety, which is then stabilized by solvation. A subsequent heterolytic cleavage of the C–O bond of CO4˙− can occur via a transition structure (i5ts), with a relative energy of −143 kJ mol−1 and the C–O distance and OCO angle being 2.190 Å and 164°, resulting in O2˙− and CO2 in i5IV or i5V. Eliminating CO2 from the intermediates gives the final product O2˙−(H2O)5 (p5) + CO2. The overall exchange reaction is exothermic by 138 kJ mol−1.
Similar DFT analysis was also performed for the radical recombination between CO2˙−(H2O)10 and O2. The reaction energies and some selected geometries are summarized in Table 7 and Fig. 5 (and Fig. S8, ESI†), respectively. Three structures for the reactant CO2˙−(H2O)10 (r10-x, where x = a, b and c) were considered. They were analogs of the low-energy fused cubic structure of the neutral water cluster (H2O)12,68–70 from which two adjacent water molecules were replaced by CO2˙−. In general, the fused cubic structures are lower in energy than the less-ordered liquid-like structures (Table S1, ESI†). As the smaller size of n = 5, O2 can form a weakly bound complex with CO2˙−(H2O)10 (i10I-x(q) in Fig. S8, ESI†) also with binding energies of around 10 kJ mol−1. With appropriate spin orientation, that is the spin of CO2˙− is anti-parallel to that of O2 (i10I-x(d) in Fig. S8, ESI†), CO4˙−(H2O)10 can also be formed with C–O bond lengths of 1.51 (i10II-a), 1.52 (i10II-b) and 1.48 Å (i10II-c) as shown in Fig. 5. Their relative energies are similar with values ranging in −170 to −158 kJ mol−1. The transition structures associated with the heterolytic C–O bond cleavage of CO4˙− for the studied geometries are −127 kJ mol−1 (i10ts-a), −130 kJ mol−1 (i10ts-b) and −138 kJ mol−1 (i10ts-c). It is interesting to note that the descending energy order of these transition structures (i10ts-a > i10ts-b > i10ts-c) are negatively correlated with the extents of the heterolytic bond cleavage with the C–O distance and OCO angle increasing from 2.06 Å and 159° (i10ts-c) to 2.09 Å and 164° (i10ts-b) then to 2.35 Å and 169° (i10ts-a). The structure of i10ts-c has lower energy probably because the resulting O2˙− is internally solvated and thus better stabilized by hydrogen bonds, hence favoring the charge exchange reaction via the heterolytic C–O bond cleavage of the CO4˙− intermediate. The exchanged O2˙− products are then further stabilized upon solvent reorganization from i10III-x (−149 to −130 kJ mol−1) to i10IV-x (−169 to −160 kJ mol−1). Eliminating CO2 results in p10-x. The overall reaction energies for n = 10 are exothermic by 140–145 kJ mol−1, which are close to the value for n = 5 of 138 kJ mol−1. The theoretical reaction energies are independent of cluster size and are also in excellent agreement with the nanocalorimetric value of −147 ± 29 kJ mol−1.
x = a, b or c | a | b | c |
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r10-x + O2 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
i10I-x | −10 | −3 | −1 |
i10II-x | −170 | −164 | −158 |
i10ts-x | −127 | −130 | −138 |
i10III-x | −130 | −138 | −149 |
i10IV-x | −166 | −169 | −160 |
p10-x + CO2 | −142 | −145 | −140 |
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Fig. 5 Some selected geometries for the exchange reaction CO2˙−(H2O)10 + O2 → O2˙−(H2O)10 + CO2. The spin densities were plotted with iso-values of 0.02 (yellow surfaces). |
Such reaction energy redistribution is expected to be more efficient in the clusters with the size range of n = 50–130. The effects of better thermobath were estimated with MD simulations under the NVT conditions at a temperature of 100 K using the initial geometries, [O2, CO2˙−(H2O)10], and their atomic velocities same as those used for the NVE runs as shown in Fig. 6. For these NVT simulations, the CO4˙− intermediate was also produced and remained intact in the entire 5 ps duration for all (but one) trajectories (ESI,† Fig. S11). Elevating the temperature to 300 K also under the NVT conditions, the CO4˙− intermediate again dissociated to the exchanged products O2˙− and CO2. A similar set of NVT MD simulations at 100 K were also performed with initial geometries and atomic velocities taken from the ten NVE trajectories each at a point where the initially formed CO4˙− intermediate was dissociating. As predicted, the complexes with exchanged products, [CO2, O2˙−(H2O)10], were formed. In the MD approach under the NVT conditions, the reaction energies of [O2, CO2˙−(H2O)10] to [CO4˙−(H2O)10] then to [CO2, O2˙−(H2O)10] were determined from the differences of their average potential energies, which are −152 ± 3 kJ mol−1 and −142 ± 9 kJ mol−1, respectively (the error bars are the standard deviations of the values from all trajectories). Our theoretical examinations, based on both geometry optimizations and molecular dynamics simulations, suggest that CO4˙−(H2O)n is formed as a short-lived intermediate during the exchange reaction of CO2˙−(H2O)n with O2.
Footnotes |
† Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Details on the conversion from ΔEraw to ΔH298K. Mass spectra, fits and rates for reactions (4) and (5). Analysis of the quartet and doublet potential energy surface crossing of CO4˙−(H2O)5. Additional relative energies of CO2˙−(H2O)10 for optimized structures. Geometries for the exchange reaction CO2˙−(H2O)10 + O2 → O2˙−(H2O)10 + CO2. Additional trajectories under the NVE and NVT conditions. Cartesian coordinates for all reported structures. Movies for one NVE and one NVT trajectory. See DOI: 10.1039/c6cp03324e |
‡ Current address: Laboratory of New Fiber Materials and Modern Textile, Growing Base for State Key Laboratory, Qingdao University, 308 Ningxia Road, Qingdao, 266071, P. R. China. |
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