The research was supported by the Israel Science foundation Grant No 257-01 and the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grants 2000-333 and 2004-401 and James Franck German Israeli Program. B.G. was supported by NSF through the EMSI at UC Irvine (Grant No 0431312) and CRC project 0209719.
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Critical Size for Intracluster Proton Transfer from Water to an Anion†
Article first published online: 10 JUL 2008
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800542
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Wolf, I., Shapira, A., Giniger, R., Miller, Y., Gerber, R. Benny. and Cheshnovsky, O. (2008), Critical Size for Intracluster Proton Transfer from Water to an Anion. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47: 6272–6274. doi: 10.1002/anie.200800542
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 29 JUL 2008
- Article first published online: 10 JUL 2008
- Manuscript Received: 1 FEB 2008
Funded by
- Israel Science foundation. Grant Number: 257-01
- United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). Grant Numbers: 2000-333, 2004-401
- James Franck German Israeli Program
- NSF. Grant Number: 0431312
- CRC. Grant Number: 0209719
Keywords:
- ab initio calculations;
- clusters;
- photoelectron spectroscopy;
- proton transfer;
- water chemistry
Bigger is better: Proton transfer in the electronic ground state for (C6H5NH−)⋅ (H2O)n has been investigated by photoelectron spectroscopy. At a critical size of n=3, one proton of a water molecule is captured by the deprotonated aniline to form solvated OH− (see picture). These experimental observations are supported by ab initio calculations that establish the greater stability of the solvated OH− anion for n≥3.