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Title: The many-body expansion for aqueous systems revisited: II. Alkali metal and halide ion – water interactions

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

We present a detailed study of the Many-Body Expansion (MBE) for alkali metal and halide ion-water interactions and quantify the effect of these ions on the strength of the surrounding aqueous hydrogen bonding environment. Building on our previous work on neutral water clusters [J. P. Heindel and S. S. Xantheas, J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 16 (11), 6843–6855 (2020)], we carry out the complete MBE for ion-water clusters, Z+/-(H2O)9, where Z = Li+, K+, Cs+, Cl-, Br-, I- and compare with the results for (H2O)10. The 2-B ion-water (I-W) interaction represents a larger percentage of the total cluster binding energy compared to a pure water cluster of the same size with the total 3-B term being smaller and of opposite sign (repulsive) whereas higher order terms are essentially negligible. The same oscillating behavior around zero for MBE terms higher than the 5-B with basis set that was reported for water clusters is also observed for the ion-water clusters considered with Basis Set Superposition Error (BSSE) corrections amending this like in the water cluster case. A remarkable, linear anti-correlation between the total 2-B ion-water and the total 2-B and 3-B water-water interactions is found, quantifying the effect of the different ions in disrupting and altering (weakening) the neighboring hydrogen bonded water network. Our results suggest a universal behavior of the two different families of ions (alkali metals and halides) for both the correlations of the various components of the total binding energies as well as the estimate of the 2-B BSSE correction which is reported to follow a common profile for ion-water and water-water interactions when cast in terms of reduced distances and energies. We expect our insights into the nature of BSSE will be important for future ab initio based, many-body molecular dynamics studies.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1788025
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-158867
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 17, Issue 4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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