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Spectral signatures of excess-proton waiting and transfer-path dynamics in aqueous hydrochloric acid solutions.

ABSTRACT: The theoretical basis for linking spectral signatures of hydrated excess protons with microscopic proton-transfer mechanisms has so far relied on normal-mode analysis. We introduce trajectory-decomposition techniques to analyze the excess-proton dynamics in ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations of aqueous hydrochloric-acid solutions beyond the normal-mode scenario. We show that the actual proton transfer between two water molecules involves for relatively large water-water separations crossing of a free-energy barrier and thus is not a normal mode, rather it is characterized by two non-vibrational time scales: Firstly, the broadly distributed waiting time for transfer to occur with a mean value of 200-300 fs, which leads to a broad and weak shoulder in the absorption spectrum around 100 cm^-1, consistent with our experimental THz spectra. Secondly, the mean duration of a transfer event of about 14 fs, which produces a rather well-defined spectral contribution around 1200 cm^-1 and agrees in location and width with previous experimental mid-infrared spectra.

SUBMITTER: Brunig FN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9304333 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Spectral signatures of excess-proton waiting and transfer-path dynamics in aqueous hydrochloric acid solutions.

Brünig Florian N FN Rammler Manuel M Adams Ellen M EM Havenith Martina M Netz Roland R RR

Nature communications 20220721 1

The theoretical basis for linking spectral signatures of hydrated excess protons with microscopic proton-transfer mechanisms has so far relied on normal-mode analysis. We introduce trajectory-decomposition techniques to analyze the excess-proton dynamics in ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations of aqueous hydrochloric-acid solutions beyond the normal-mode scenario. We show that the actual proton transfer between two water molecules involves for relatively large water-water separations crossin ...[more]

PMID: 35864099

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Spectral signatures of excess-proton waiting and transfer-path dynamics in aqueous hydrochloric acid solutions.

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Spectral signatures of excess-proton waiting and transfer-path dynamics in aqueous hydrochloric acid solutions.

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