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Observation of different reactivities of para and ortho-water towards trapped diazenylium ions.


ABSTRACT: Water is one of the most fundamental molecules in chemistry, biology and astrophysics. It exists as two distinct nuclear-spin isomers, para- and ortho-water, which do not interconvert in isolated molecules. The experimental challenges in preparing pure samples of the two isomers have thus far precluded a characterization of their individual chemical behavior. Capitalizing on recent advances in the electrostatic deflection of polar molecules, we separate the ground states of para- and ortho-water in a molecular beam to show that the two isomers exhibit different reactivities in a prototypical reaction with trapped diazenylium ions. Based on ab initio calculations and a modelling of the reaction kinetics using rotationally adiabatic capture theory, we rationalize this finding in terms of different rotational averaging of ion-dipole interactions during the reaction.

SUBMITTER: Kilaj A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974139 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Observation of different reactivities of para and ortho-water towards trapped diazenylium ions.

Kilaj Ardita A   Gao Hong H   Rösch Daniel D   Rivero Uxia U   Küpper Jochen J   Willitsch Stefan S  

Nature communications 20180529 1


Water is one of the most fundamental molecules in chemistry, biology and astrophysics. It exists as two distinct nuclear-spin isomers, para- and ortho-water, which do not interconvert in isolated molecules. The experimental challenges in preparing pure samples of the two isomers have thus far precluded a characterization of their individual chemical behavior. Capitalizing on recent advances in the electrostatic deflection of polar molecules, we separate the ground states of para- and ortho-water  ...[more]

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