Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of the unpaired electron in sodium-doped water, methanol, ammonia, and dimethyl ether clusters is presented. The experimental observations and the complementary calculations are consistent with surface electrons for the cluster size range studied. Evidence against internally solvated electrons is provided by the photoelectron angular distribution. The t...

Vanadium oxide cluster anions (V(x)O(y)(-), x = 2-3; y = 3-7) are produced by laser ablation and reacted with water in a fast flow reactor. A time-of-flight mass spectrometer is used to detect the cluster distribution before and after the reactions. Reaction channels of molecular hydrogen elimination (for V(2,3)O(3)(-)), water association (for V(2)O(5)(-) and V(3)O(6,7)(-)) and the coexistence ...

The title compound (NH(4))(4)[Mo(8)O(24)(O(2))(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·4H(2)O, consists of an octa-molybdate cluster with a crystallographic centre of symmetry. The clusters pack in a cubic close packing arrangement defining channels containing water mol-ecules and ammonium cations, which exhibit hydrogen bonding with neighbouring clusters. Hydrogen bonding also exists between the coordinated water mol-e...

Among all of the freezing transitions, that of water into ice is probably the most relevant to biology, physics, geology, or atmospheric science. In this work, we investigate homogeneous ice nucleation by means of computer simulations. We evaluate the size of the critical cluster and the nucleation rate for temperatures ranging between 15 and 35 K below melting. We use the TIP4P/2005 and the TI...

Helium droplets were co-doped with C60 and ammonia, water or carbon dioxide and the resulting cluster size distributions of the produced cationic complexes are presented. Mass spectra obtained by electron ionization were recorded with high mass resolution of m/m ~ 6000 (FWHM). Series of C60(H2O)n, C60(NH3)n and C60(CO2)n complexes for n up to 20 molecules attached to the C60 were observed amon...

Interaction energies of a water molecule with a model Cu(111) surface were investigated using the cluster model approach and high-level ab initio methods. Potential energy scans were calculated for a Cu10 model cluster and a water molecule with a second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) method using a RECP/6-31+G* basis set and counterpoise correction (CP) for the basis set superposition error (BSSE)....

In water, single electrons can cluster with water molecules to form a quasiparticle that oscillates in size, behavior could influence the equilibration speed of chemical reactions system. &nbsp

Infrared laser action spectroscopy is used to characterize divalent calcium ions solvated by up to 69 water molecules. The spectrum for Ca(2+)(H2O)12 indicates that in the predominant structure, eight inner-shell water molecules solvate the metal ion and donate one hydrogen bond to one of four second-shell, double-acceptor water molecules. Eight-coordinate solvation is consistent with results f...