Alternative Low‐Energy Mechanisms for Isotopic Exchange in Gas‐Phase D2O–H+(H2O)n Reactions

ChemPhysChem - Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 894-903 - 2006
Massimo Mella1, Alessandro Ponti2
1School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AB, UK, Fax: (+44) 29-208-74030
2Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy

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AbstractMolecular‐dynamics (MD) trajectories and high‐level ab initio methods have been used to study the low‐energy mechanism for D2O–H+(H2O)n reactions. At low collisional energies, MD simulations show that the collisional complexes are long‐lived and undergo fast monomolecular isomerization, converting between different isomers within 50–500 ps. Such processes, primarily involving water‐molecule shifts along a water chain, require the surmounting of very‐low‐energy barriers and present sizable non‐ Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus (RRKM) effects, which are interpreted as a lack of randomization of the internal kinetic energy. Interestingly, the rate of water shifts was found to increase upon increasing the size of the cluster. Based on these findings, we propose to incorporate the following steps into the mechanism for low‐energy isotopic scrambling these D2O–H+(H2O)n reactions: a) formation of the collisional complex [H+(H2O)nD2O]* in a vibro‐rotational excited state; b) incorporation of the heavy‐water molecule in the cluster core as HD2O+ by means of isomerization involving molecular shifts; c) displacement of solvation molecules from the first shell of HD2O+ inducing de‐deuteration (shift of a D+ to a neighbor water molecule); d) reorganization of the clusters and/or expulsion of one of the isotopic variants of water (H2O, HDO or D2O) from the periphery of the complex.

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