A microsolvation approach to the prediction of the relative enthalpies and free energies of hydration for ammonium ions |
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Authors: | G. N. Merrill G. D. Fletcher |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX, 78249-0698, USA;(2) Computational Science and Engineering Department, CCLRC, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4AD, UK |
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Abstract: | Hartree–Fock (HF) and second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2) calculations were used to investigate the structures and thermochemistry of methylammonium–water clusters (Me4-m NH m + (H2O) n , m=1–4, n=1–4). Water molecules were treated ab initio and with effective fragment potentials (EFP). In addition to a thorough phase-space search, the importance of basis set, electron correlation, and thermodynamic effects was systematically examined. Cluster structures resulted from hydrogen bond formation between the ammonium group and water molecules; upon saturation of the hydrogen bonding sites of the ammonium group, water molecules entered the second hydration shell. With only four water molecules, the experimental relative enthalpies of hydration were well reproduced at the HF level, while the MP2 relative free energies were in best agreement with experiment. Absolute energies of hydration were calculated using an empirical correction. These results strongly suggest that a HF-based microsolvation approach employing a small number of water molecules can be used to compute relative enthalpies of hydration. |
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Keywords: | Microsolvation Ab initio Methylammonium ions |
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