Competition between Water-Water Hydrogen Bonds and Water-π Bonds in Pyrene-Water Cluster Anions. 2024

Heinrich Salzmann, and Anne P Rasmussen, and Joel D Eaves, and J Mathias Weber
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, United States.

We present infrared spectra and density functional theory calculations of hydrated pyrene anion clusters with up to four water molecules. The experimental spectra were acquired by using infrared Ar messenger photodissociation spectroscopy. Water molecules form clusters on the surface of the pyrene, forming hydrogen bonds with the π-system. The structures of the water clusters and their interaction with the π-system are encoded in OH stretching vibrational modes. We find that the interactions between water molecules are stronger than the interactions between water molecules and the π-system. While all clusters show multiple conformers, three- and four-membered rings are the lowest energy structures in the larger hydrates.

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