Size of the hydrogen bond network in liquid methanol: a quantum cluster equilibrium model with extensive structure search
- 12 April 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Vol. 23 (15), 9166-9175
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cp00427a
Abstract
Studies have debated what is a favorable cluster size in liquid methanol. Applications of the quantum cluster equilibrium (QCE) model on a limited set of cluster structures have demonstrated the dominance of cyclic hexamers in liquid methanol. In this study, we examined the aforementioned question by integrating our implementation of QCE with a molecular-dynamics-based structural searching scheme. QCE simulations were performed using a database comprising extensively searched stable conformers of (MeOH)n for n = 2–14, which were optimized by B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) with and without the dispersion correction. Our analysis indicated that an octamer structure can contribute significantly to cluster probability. By reoptimizing selected conformers with high probability at the MP2 level, we found that the aforementioned octamer became the dominant species due to favorable vibrational free energy, which was attributed to modes of intermolecular vibration.Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST107-2628-M-001-002-MY4, MOST109-2113-M-001-040, MOST109-2639-M-009-001-ASP)
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