Gas phase H/D exchange kinetics: DI versus D2O

The gas phase H/D exchange reactions of bradykinin (M + 3H)3+ ions with D2O and DI were monitored in a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. The H/D exchange kinetics of both chemical probes (D2O and DI) indicate the presence of two noninterconverting reactive gas phase ion populations of bradykinin (M + 3H)3+ at room temperature. The H/D exchange involving DI, however, generally proceeds faster than that involving D2O. The rate observations described here can be rationalized on the basis of the "relay mechanism" (see Campbell et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 12840-12854) recently proposed to account for H/D exchange between D2O and gaseous protonated polypeptides. The higher exchange rate with DI is believed to arise primarily as a result of its lower gas-phase acidity relative to that of D2O and, secondarily, as a result of the longer bond length of DI relative to that of OD in D2O.     

Radiolysis in H2O/D2O mixtures. Hydrogen production under LOCA simulation

The hydrogen isotope radiolytic yields, G(H₂), G(HD) and G(D₂) were determined in H₂O/D₂O mixtures under chemical conditions close to a LOCA in a PHWR like Atucha I Nuclear Station, that is 2·10^–3 MH₃BO₃ and p(H+D)=8.5±0.2. The total hydrogen radiolytic yield G(H₂+HD+D₂) as a function of the deuterium atom fraction goes through a flat maximum at about 0.58. This result in dicates that the 4% flammability limit for hydrogen in the reactor's containment with be reached sooner than what is expected assuming a linear combination of pure H₂ and D₂ radiolytic yields. Hydrogen radiolytic production in 10^–3 M KBr in H₂O/D₂O mixtures gives the same results as in the boric solutions suggesting a bimolecular B(OH) ₄ ^– +OH reaction. Identical isotope concentration factors were calculated for both solutions.     

Spin exchange of nitroxyl radicals in H2O and D2O

By means of continuous wave electron spin resonance (cw ESR) in the X and L bands, the spin exchange of series of different concentrations of the spin probes 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO), 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPOL), and 4-(trimethylamino)-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl iodide (CAT-1) in H(2)O and D(2)O have been examined. The rate constants k(e) of the spin exchange have been determined by complete spectra simulations, as well as directly from hyperfine line broadenings and concentration depending line shifts. The obtained results showed a good agreement. Their respective differences {k(e)(H(2)O) - k(e)(D(2)O)} could be determined for the first time. They reflect the different influence of the solvents on the spin dynamics but confirm the decrease of the reaction rate in D(2)O, caused by the higher degree of order in this liquid. The spectroscopic and kinetic results presented in this paper establish a further kind of isotopic effect.     

Isotopic exchange processes in cold plasmas of H2/D2 mixtures

Isotope exchange in low pressure cold plasmas of H(2)/D(2) mixtures has been investigated by means of mass spectrometric measurements of neutrals and ions, and kinetic model calculations. The measurements, which include also electron temperatures and densities, were performed in a stainless steel hollow cathode reactor for three discharge pressures: 1, 2 and 8 Pa, and for mixture compositions ranging from 100% H(2) to 100% D(2). The data are analyzed in the light of the model calculations, which are in good global agreement with the experiments. Isotope selective effects are found both in the surface recombination and in the gas-phase ionic chemistry. The dissociation of the fuel gas molecules is followed by wall recycling, which regenerates H(2) and D(2) and produces HD. Atomic recombination at the wall is found to proceed through an Eley-Rideal mechanism, with a preference for reaction of the adsorbed atoms with gas phase D atoms. The best fit probabilities for Eley-Rideal abstraction with H and D are: γ(ER H) = 1.5 × 10(-3), γ(ER D) = 2.0 × 10(-3). Concerning ions, at 1 Pa the diatomic species H(2)(+), D(2)(+) and HD(+), formed directly by electron impact, prevail in the distributions, and at 8 Pa, the triatomic ions H(3)(+), H(2)D(+), HD(2)(+) and D(3)(+), produced primarily in reactions of diatomic ions with molecules, dominate the plasma composition. In this higher pressure regime, the formation of the mixed ions H(2)D(+) and HD(2)(+) is favoured in comparison with that of H(3)(+) and D(3)(+), as expected on statistical grounds. The model results predict a very small preference, undetectable within the precision of the measurements, for the generation of triatomic ions with a higher degree of deuteration, which is probably a residual influence at room temperature of the marked zero point energy effects (ZPE), relevant for deuterium fractionation in interstellar space. In contrast, ZPE effects are found to be decisive for the observed distribution of monoatomic ions H(+) and D(+), even at room temperature. The final H(+)/D(+) ratio is determined to a great extent by proton (and deuteron) exchange, which favours the enhancement of H(+) and the concomitant decrease of D(+).     

The mechanism of proton exchange: guided ion beam studies of the reactions, H(H2O)n+ (n=1-4)+D2O and D(D2O)n+ (n=1-4)+H2O

Reactions of protonated water clusters, H(H(2)O)(n) (+) (n=1-4) with D(2)O and their "mirror" reactions, D(D(2)O)(n) (+) (n=1-4) with H(2)O, are studied using guided-ion beam mass spectrometry. Absolute reaction cross sections are determined as a function of collision energy from thermal energy to over 10 eV. At low collision energies, we observe reactions in which H(2)O and D(2)O molecules are interchanged and reactions where H-D exchange has occurred. As the collision energy is increased, the H-D exchange products decrease and the water exchange products become dominant. At high collision energies, processes in which one or more water molecules are lost from the reactant ions become important, with simple collision-induced dissociation processes, i.e., those without H-D exchange, being dominant. Threshold energies of endothermic channels are measured and used to determine binding energies of the proton bound complexes, which are consistent with those determined by thermal equilibrium measurements and previous collision-induced dissociation studies. A kinetic scheme that relies only on the ratio of isomerization and dissociation rate constants successfully accounts for the kinetic energy dependence observed in the branching ratios for H-D and water exchange products in all systems. Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus theory and ab initio calculations confirm the feasibility and establish the details of this kinetic model.     

Freezing-point of mixtures of H 2 16 O and H 2 18 O

Freezing-point depression of mixtures of H ₂ ¹⁶ O and H ₂ ¹⁸ O were measured. The results showed that the freezing point of the mixture rose linearly with an increase in the molal concentration of H ₂ ¹⁸ O. The results suggested the formation of a solid solution of H ₂ ¹⁶ O and H ₂ ¹⁸ O by freezing, similar to that formed by H ₂ O–D ₂ O, and that H ₂ ¹⁸ O behaves as a different molecule than H ₂ ¹⁶ O.     

Photodissociation spectroscopy of Zn+(H2O) and Zn+(D2O)

We report on a study of the photodissociation spectroscopy of weakly bound Zn+(H2O) and Zn+(D2O) complexes. The work is supported by ab initio electronic structure calculations of the ground and low-lying excited energy surfaces. We assign two molecular absorption bands in the near UV correlating to Zn+ (4s-4p)-based transitions, and identify vibrational progressions associated with both intermolecular and intramolecular vibrational modes of the cluster. Partially resolved rotational structure is consistent with a C(2V) equilibrium complex geometry. Experimental spectroscopic constants are in very good agreement with ab initio theoretical predictions. Results are compared with previous work on main group and transition metal ion-H2O clusters.     

Raman spectroscopy study of species responsible for the fast proton conductivity in H2Sb4O11.3H2O

The Raman spectroscopy study of crystallized antimonic acid trihydrate powders in the 20–4000 cm⁻¹ confirme the explicit formula : (H₃O⁺)_2−x[Sb₄O_11−xOH_x]^−(2−x).(3+x−2)H₂O. Furthermore it emphasizes the presence of hydrogen bonds between either the SbOSb bridge and H₃O⁺ or the protonated Sb(OH)Sb bridge and H₂O.     

Ices of CO2/H2O mixtures. Reflection-absorption IR spectroscopy and theoretical calculations

Ice mixtures of CO2 and H2O are studied using Fourier transform reflection-absorption infrared (RAIR) spectroscopy. Mixtures are prepared by sequential deposition or co-deposition of the two components from the gas phase onto an Al plate kept at 87 K inside a low-pressure chamber. Two CO2 structures are found in most experiments: a crystalline form similar to pure CO2, which evaporates when warming at 105 K, and a noncrystalline species which remains embedded in amorphous water ice after warming. Significant spectral variations are found depending on the deposition method and the thickness of the solid. Features characteristic of the RAIR technique appear in the spectral regions of the normal modes of the bending and asymmetric stretching CO2 vibrations. Simulations using Fresnel theory and Mie scattering are carried out with acceptable agreement with the experimental spectra of solids of variable thickness, from approximately 1 microm to the limit of nanoparticles. Theoretical calculations of a pure CO2 crystal are performed. The relaxed geometry of the solid and its vibrational spectrum are determined and compared to the experimental results.     

Deuterium exchange in the systems of H2O+/H2O and H3O+/H2O

The reactions of H₂O⁺, H₃O⁺, D₂O⁺, and D₃O⁺ with neutral H₂O and D₂O were studied by tandem mass spectrometry. The H₂O⁺ and D₂O⁺ ion reactions exhibited multiple channels, including charge transfer, proton transfer (or hydrogen atom abstraction), and isotopic exchange. The H₃O⁺ and D₃O⁺ ion reactions exhibited only isotope exchange. The variation in the abundances of all ions involved in the reactions was measured over a neutral pressure range from 0 to 2 × 10⁻⁵ Torr. A reaction scheme was chosen, which consisted of a sequence of charge transfer, proton transfer, and isotopic exchange reactions. Exact solutions to two groups of simultaneous differential equations were determined; one group started with the reaction of ionized water, and the other group started with the reactions of protonated water. A nonlinear least-squares regression technique was used to determine the rate coefficients of the individual reactions in the schemes from the ion abundance data. Branching ratios and relative rate coefficients were also determined in this manner.A delta chi-squared analysis of the results of the model fitted to the experimental data indicated that the kinetic information about the primary isotopic exchange processes is statistically the most significant. The errors in the derived values of the kinetic information of subsequent channels increased rapidly. Data from previously published selected ion flow tube (SIFT) study were analyzed in the same manner. Rigorous statistical analysis showed that the statistical isotope scrambling model was unable to explain either the SIFT or the tandem mass spectrometry data. This study shows that statistical analysis can be utilized to assess the validity of possible models in explaining experimentally observed kinetic behaviors.     

Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization and fragmentation of aminomonosaccharides in H2O and D2O

Aminomonosaccharides (glucosamine, galactosamine, and mannosamine) in H₂O and D₂O were ionized by atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) and their fragmentation patterns were investigated to identify them. All the aminomonosaccharides showed the same fragment ions but their relative ion intensities were different. Major product ions generated in H₂O were [M + H]⁺, [M + H – H₂O]⁺, and [2M + H – 3H₂O]⁺, while in D₂O were [M_D6 + D]⁺, [M_D6 + D – D₂O]⁺, and [2M_D6 + D – D₂O – 2HDO]⁺. At a high fragmentor voltage above 120 V, the relative ion intensities of the major product ions showed different trends according to the aminomonosaccharides. For the use of H₂O as solvent and eluent, the order of the ion intensity ratio of [M + H – H₂O]⁺/[2M + H – 3H₂O]⁺ was galactosamine > mannosamine > glucosamine. When using D₂O as solvent and eluent, the order of the ion intensity ratios of [M_D6 + D – D₂O]⁺/[M_D6 + D]⁺ and [2M_D6 + D – D₂O – 2HDO]⁺/[M_D6 + D]⁺ was mannosamine > galactosamine > glucosamine. It was found that glucosamine, galactosamine, and mannosamine could be distinguished by the specific trends of the major product ion ratios in H₂O and D₂O. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Vibrationally induced proton transfer in F- (H2O) and F- (D2O)

Vibrational predissociation spectra of the F(-)(H(2)O) x Ar and F(-)(D(2)O) x Ar complexes are observed over a range of 600 to 3800 cm(-1), which include bands attributed to the fundamentals as well as the first two overtones of the vibrations primarily associated with the shared hydrogen. This information allows us to characterize both the extended potential surface confining the anionic H-bonded hydrogen and the degree to which this motion is coupled to the motions of other atoms in the complex. We analyze these new data with reduced dimensional treatments using explicit potential energy and electric dipole moment surfaces. The often employed one-dimensional treatment with fixed OF distance does not even qualitatively account for the observed isotope dependent level structures, but a simple extension to two dimensions, corresponding to the OF distance and the shared proton position, accurately recovers the observed spectra. The resulting two-dimensional wave functions are used to evaluate the extent of proton transfer in each vibrational level. The main conclusion of this work is that vibrational excitation of the shared proton can be regarded as optically driven, intracluster proton transfer.     

Mass spectrometric separation and quantitation of overlapping isotopologues. H2O/HOD/D2O and H2Se/HDSe/D2Se mixtures

Three conceptually different mathematical methods are presented for accurate mass spectrometric determination of H2O/HOD/D2O and H2Se/HDSe/D2Se concentrations from mixtures. These are alternating least-squares, weighted two-band target entropy minimization, and a statistical mass balance model. The otherwise nonmeasurable mass spectra of partially deuterated isotopologues (HOD and HDSe) are mathematically constructed. Any recorded isotopologue mixture mass spectra are then deconvoluted by least-squares into their components. This approach is used to study the H2O/D2O exchange reaction, and is externally validated gravimetrically. The H2O/D2O exchange equilibrium constant is also measured from the deconvoluted 70 eV electron impact GC/MS data (K = 3.85 +/- 0.03).     

Infrared spectroscopy and effective modes analysis of the protonated water dimer H+(H2O)2 at room temperature under H/D substitution

We study the vibrational properties of the protonated water dimer and its deuterated forms at room temperature. Molecular dynamics simulations within the empirical valence bond (EVB) model are used to generate the vibrational spectra that are interpreted using the effective modes analysis (EMA). Quantum effects are taken into account through an effective parametrization of the EVB model. EMA allows for the assignment of the bands in the 1000 - 2000?cm(-1) region of the protonated water dimer from the molecular dynamics trajectory. It is then found that although this system is very anharmonic the two main bands in this spectral region arise from a linear coupling between the asymmetric OH(+)O stretch and asymmetric bend of the two water molecules. This mixing explains the simulated band shifts upon isotopic substitution of the central proton or of the hydrogens of the two water molecules.     

Crystallization kinetics and excess free energy of H2O and D2O nanoscale films of amorphous solid water

Temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS) are used to investigate the crystallization kinetics and measure the excess free energy of metastable amorphous solid water films (ASW) of H(2)O and D(2)O grown using molecular beams. The desorption rates from the amorphous and crystalline phases of ASW are distinct, and as such, crystallization manifests can be observed in the TPD spectrum. The crystallization kinetics were studied by varying the TPD heating rate from 0.001 to 3 K/s. A coupled desorption-crystallization kinetic model accurately simulates the desorption spectra and accurately predicts the observed temperature shifts in the crystallization. Isothermal crystallization studies using RAIRS are in agreement with the TPD results. Furthermore, highly sensitive measurements of the desorption rates were used to determine the excess free energy of ASW near 150 K. The excess entropy obtained from these data is consistent with there being a thermodynamic continuity between ASW and supercooled liquid water.     

Studies on ion exchange equilibria and kinetics: V. UO 2 2+ −Na+−H+ ternary cation exchange kinetics

The kinetics of particle-diffusion controlled ion exchange in the ternary system of cations UO ₂ ²⁺ –Na⁺–H⁺–001×7 strong acidic resin has been studied. In the [R–H⁺]/(Na⁺+UO ₂ ²⁺ ) system, the change of the amount of Na⁺ in the resin phase with time showed a high peak. In the [R–Na⁺]/(H⁺+UO ₂ ²⁺ ) system, the change of the amount of H⁺ in the resin phase with time also showed a high peak. In the [R₂–UO ₂ ²⁺ ]/(H⁺+Na⁺) system, the change of amount of H⁺ in the resin phase with time showed merely a small peak. This kinetic character of the ternary ion exchange system in the finite solution volume has been analyzed according to the Nerst-Planck equation, and on the whole, the trend of the experimental results is consistent with the resulting numerical solution of the set of Nerst-Planck equations.     

Stimulated Raman spectra of H2O and D2O

SRS of the valence band of liquid H₂O and D₂O are obtained using a nanosecond pulse from a Q-switched ruby laser. The SRS contours obtained are in overall agreement with those of earlier workers using picosecond pulses and help clarify the results of one of the published works. The broad SRS bands are less likely to be attributed to self-focusing in water, but to the stimulation of overlapping components.