Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals.

ABSTRACT: Elucidating the solvation and size effects on the reactions between water and neutral metals is crucial for understanding the microscopic mechanism of the catalytic processes but has been proven to be a challenging experimental target due to the difficulty in size selection. Here, MO₄H₆ and M₂O₆H₇ (M = Sc, Y, La) complexes were synthesized using a laser-vaporization cluster source and characterized by size-specific infrared-vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy combined with quantum chemical calculations. The MO₄H₆ and M₂O₆H₇ complexes were found to have H˙M(OH)₃(H₂O) and M₂(μ₂-OH)₂(η¹-OH)₃(η¹-OH

SUBMITTER: Wang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662163 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature