Modeling molecular interactions in water: From pairwise to many-body potential energy functions

GA Cisneros, KT Wikfeldt, L Ojamäe, J Lu… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Almost 50 years have passed from the first computer simulations of water, and a large
number of molecular models have been proposed since then to elucidate the unique …

Spectroscopic snapshots of the proton-transfer mechanism in water

CT Wolke, JA Fournier, LC Dzugan, MR Fagiani… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The Grotthuss mechanism explains the anomalously high proton mobility in water as a
sequence of proton transfers along a hydrogen-bonded (H-bonded) network. However, the …

Monitoring water clusters “melt” through vibrational spectroscopy

SE Brown, AW Gotz, X Cheng, RP Steele… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Characterizing structural and phase transformations of water at the molecular level is key to
understanding a variety of multiphase processes ranging from ice nucleation in the …

Ion-mediated hydrogen-bond rearrangement through tunnelling in the iodide–dihydrate complex

P Bajaj, JO Richardson, F Paesani - Nature chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
A microscopic picture of hydrogen-bond structure and dynamics in ion hydration shells
remains elusive. Small ion–dihydrate molecular complexes are ideal systems with which to …

i-TTM model for ab initio-based ion–water interaction potentials. 1. Halide–water potential energy functions

DJ Arismendi-Arrieta, M Riera, P Bajaj… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
New potential energy functions (i-TTM) describing the interactions between halide ions and
water molecules are reported. The i-TTM potentials are derived from fits to electronic …

Probing the conformational landscape and thermochemistry of DNA dinucleotide anions via helium nanodroplet infrared action spectroscopy

DA Thomas, R Chang, E Mucha, M Lettow… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Isolation of biomolecules in vacuum facilitates characterization of the intramolecular
interactions that determine three-dimensional structure, but experimental quantification of …

Disentangling the Complex Vibrational Spectrum of the Protonated Water Trimer, H+(H2O)3, with Two-Color IR-IR Photodissociation of the Bare Ion and …

CH Duong, O Gorlova, N Yang… - The journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vibrational spectroscopy of the protonated water trimer provides a stringent constraint on the
details of the potential energy surface (PES) and vibrational dynamics governing excess …

Isolation of site-specific anharmonicities of individual water molecules in the I−·(H2O) 2 complex using tag-free, isotopomer selective IR-IR double resonance

N Yang, CH Duong, PJ Kelleher, MA Johnson… - Chemical Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We reveal the microscopic mechanics of iodide ion microhydration by recording the
isotopomer-selective vibrational spectra of the I−·(H 2 O)·(D 2 O), I−·(HOD)·(D 2 O), and …

Specific ion effects on hydrogen-bond rearrangements in the halide–dihydrate complexes

P Bajaj, D Zhuang, F Paesani - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Small aqueous ionic clusters represent ideal systems to investigate the microscopic
hydrogen-bonding structure and dynamics in ion hydration shells. In this context, halide …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared signatures of isomer selectivity and symmetry breaking in the Cs+ (H2O) 3 complex using many-body potential energy functions

M Riera, JJ Talbot, RP Steele, F Paesani - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A quantitative description of the interactions between ions and water is key to characterizing
the role played by ions in mediating fundamental processes that take place in aqueous …