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Title: Mapping the temperature-dependent and network site-specific onset of spectral diffusion at the surface of a water cluster cage

Abstract

We explore the kinetic processes that sustain equilibrium in a microscopic, finite system. This is accomplished by monitoring the spontaneous, time-dependent frequency evolution (the frequency autocorrelation) of a single OH oscillator, embedded in a water cluster held in a temperature-controlled ion trap. The measurements are carried out by applying two-color, infrared-infrared photodissociation mass spectrometry to the D3O+·(HDO)(D2O)19isotopologue of the “magic number” protonated water cluster, H+·(H2O)21. The OH group can occupy any one of the five spectroscopically distinct sites in the distorted pentagonal dodecahedron cage structure. The OH frequency is observed to evolve over tens of milliseconds in the temperature range (90 to 120 K). Starting at 100 K, large “jumps” are observed between two OH frequencies separated by ~300 cm-1, indicating migration of the OH group from the bound OH site at 3,350 cm-1to the free position at 3,686 cm-1. Increasing the temperature to 110 K leads to partial interconversion among many sites. All sites are observed to interconvert at 120 K such that the distribution of the unique OH group among them adopts the form one would expect for a canonical ensemble. The spectral dynamics displayed by the clusters thus offer an unprecedented view into the molecular-level processes thatmore » drive spectral diffusion in an extended network of water molecules.« less

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Yale Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
OSTI Identifier:
1670503
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1679946; OSTI ID: 1679947; OSTI ID: 1679950
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-06ER15800; FG02-00ER15066; AC02-05CH11231; FG02-00ER15006; FA9550-17-1-0267
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 117 Journal Issue: 42; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; spectral diffusion; water; water cluster; large-amplitude motion; reaction kinetics

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Yang, Nan, Edington, Sean C., Choi, Tae Hoon, Henderson, Elva V., Heindel, Joseph P., Xantheas, Sotiris S., Jordan, Kenneth D., and Johnson, Mark A. Mapping the temperature-dependent and network site-specific onset of spectral diffusion at the surface of a water cluster cage. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.2017150117.
Yang, Nan, Edington, Sean C., Choi, Tae Hoon, Henderson, Elva V., Heindel, Joseph P., Xantheas, Sotiris S., Jordan, Kenneth D., & Johnson, Mark A. Mapping the temperature-dependent and network site-specific onset of spectral diffusion at the surface of a water cluster cage. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017150117
Yang, Nan, Edington, Sean C., Choi, Tae Hoon, Henderson, Elva V., Heindel, Joseph P., Xantheas, Sotiris S., Jordan, Kenneth D., and Johnson, Mark A. Tue . "Mapping the temperature-dependent and network site-specific onset of spectral diffusion at the surface of a water cluster cage". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017150117.
@article{osti_1670503,
title = {Mapping the temperature-dependent and network site-specific onset of spectral diffusion at the surface of a water cluster cage},
author = {Yang, Nan and Edington, Sean C. and Choi, Tae Hoon and Henderson, Elva V. and Heindel, Joseph P. and Xantheas, Sotiris S. and Jordan, Kenneth D. and Johnson, Mark A.},
abstractNote = {We explore the kinetic processes that sustain equilibrium in a microscopic, finite system. This is accomplished by monitoring the spontaneous, time-dependent frequency evolution (the frequency autocorrelation) of a single OH oscillator, embedded in a water cluster held in a temperature-controlled ion trap. The measurements are carried out by applying two-color, infrared-infrared photodissociation mass spectrometry to the D3O+·(HDO)(D2O)19isotopologue of the “magic number” protonated water cluster, H+·(H2O)21. The OH group can occupy any one of the five spectroscopically distinct sites in the distorted pentagonal dodecahedron cage structure. The OH frequency is observed to evolve over tens of milliseconds in the temperature range (90 to 120 K). Starting at 100 K, large “jumps” are observed between two OH frequencies separated by ~300 cm-1, indicating migration of the OH group from the bound OH site at 3,350 cm-1to the free position at 3,686 cm-1. Increasing the temperature to 110 K leads to partial interconversion among many sites. All sites are observed to interconvert at 120 K such that the distribution of the unique OH group among them adopts the form one would expect for a canonical ensemble. The spectral dynamics displayed by the clusters thus offer an unprecedented view into the molecular-level processes that drive spectral diffusion in an extended network of water molecules.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2017150117},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 42,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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