Molecular Interaction of (Ethanol)2−Water Heterotrimers
- 1 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
- Vol. 111 (33), 8250-8256
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jp073168g
Abstract
The potential energy surface of the (ethanol)2-water heterotrimers for the trans and gauche conformers of ethanol was studied using density functional theory. The same approximation was used for characterizing representative clusters of (ethanol)3, (methanol)3, and (methanol)2-water. Trimerization energies and enthalpies as well as the analysis of geometric parameters suggest that the structures with a cyclic pattern in the three hydrogen bonds of the type O-H---O (primary hydrogen bonds), where all molecules are proton donor-acceptor at the same time, are more stable than those with just two primary hydrogen bonds. Additionally, we propose the formation of "secondary hydrogen bonds" between hydrogen atoms of the methyl group of ethanol and the oxygen atom of water or other ethanol molecule (C-H---O), which were found to be weaker than the primary hydrogen bonds.Keywords
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