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Toward Elimination of Discrepancies between Theory and Experiment: Anharmonic Rotational-Vibrational Spectrum of Water in Solid Noble Gas Matrices.

ABSTRACT: Rotational-vibrational spectroscopy of water in solid noble gas matrices has been studied for many decades. Despite that, discrepancies persist in the literature about the assignment of specific bands. We tackle the involved rotational-vibrational spectrum of the water isotopologues H₂¹⁶O, HD¹⁶O, and D₂¹⁶O with an unprecedented combination of experimental high-resolution matrix isolation infrared (MI-IR) spectroscopy and computational anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy by vibrational configuration interaction (VCI) on high-level ab initio potential energy surfaces. With VCI, the average deviation to gas-phase experiments is reduced from >100 to ?1 cm^-1 when compared to harmonic vibrational spectra. Discrepancies between MI-IR and VCI spectra are identified as matrix effects rather than missing anharmonicity in the theoretical approach. Matrix effects are small in Ne (?1.5 cm^-1) and a bit larger in Ar (?10 cm^-1). Controversial assignments in Ne MI-IR spectra are resolved, for example, concerning the ?₃ triad in HDO. We identify new transitions, for example, the ?₂ 1₀₁ ? 1₁₀ transition in D₂O and H₂O or the ?₃ 0₀₀ ? 1₀₁ transition in D₂O, and reassign bands, for example, the band at 3718.9 cm^-1 that is newly assigned as the 1₁₀ ? 1₁₁ transition. The identification and solution of discrepancies for a well-studied benchmark system such as water prove the importance of an iterative and one-hand combination of theory and experiment in the field of high-resolution infrared spectroscopy of single molecules. As the computational costs involved in the VCI approach are reasonably low, such combined experimental/theoretical studies can be extended to molecules larger than triatomics.

SUBMITTER: Dinu DF

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6767348 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Toward Elimination of Discrepancies between Theory and Experiment: Anharmonic Rotational-Vibrational Spectrum of Water in Solid Noble Gas Matrices.

Dinu Dennis F DF Podewitz Maren M Grothe Hinrich H Liedl Klaus R KR Loerting Thomas T

The journal of physical chemistry. A 20190912 38

Rotational-vibrational spectroscopy of water in solid noble gas matrices has been studied for many decades. Despite that, discrepancies persist in the literature about the assignment of specific bands. We tackle the involved rotational-vibrational spectrum of the water isotopologues H216O, HD16O, and D216O with an unprecedented combination of experimental high-resolution matrix isolation infrared (MI-IR) spectroscopy and computational anharm ...[more]

PMID: 31433184

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