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

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, MO(4)H(6) and M(2)...

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Autores principales: Wang, Tiantong, Li, Shangdong, Yan, Wenhui, Jiang, Shuai, Xie, Hua, Li, Gang, Jiang, Ling
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Publicado: RSC 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10662163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38024292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3na00873h
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author Wang, Tiantong
Li, Shangdong
Yan, Wenhui
Jiang, Shuai
Xie, Hua
Li, Gang
Jiang, Ling
author_facet Wang, Tiantong
Li, Shangdong
Yan, Wenhui
Jiang, Shuai
Xie, Hua
Li, Gang
Jiang, Ling
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description 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, MO(4)H(6) and M(2)O(6)H(7) (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 MO(4)H(6) and M(2)O(6)H(7) complexes were found to have H˙M(OH)(3)(H(2)O) and M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)) structures, respectively. A combination of experiments and theory revealed that the formation of H˙M(OH)(3)(H(2)O) and M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)) is both thermodynamically exothermic and kinetically facile in the gas phase. The results indicated that upon the addition of water to H˙M(OH)(3), the feature of the hydrogen radical is retained. In the processes from mononuclear H˙M(OH)(3) to binuclear M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)), the active hydrogen atom undergoes the evolution from hydrogen radical → bridging hydrogen → metal hydride → hydrogen bond, which is indicative of a reduced reactivity. The present system serves as a model for clarifying the solvation and size effects on the reactions between water and neutral rare-earth metals and offers a general paradigm for systematic studies on a broad class of the reactions between small molecules and metals at the nanoscale.
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spelling pubmed-106621632023-10-26 Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals Wang, Tiantong Li, Shangdong Yan, Wenhui Jiang, Shuai Xie, Hua Li, Gang Jiang, Ling Nanoscale Adv Chemistry 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, MO(4)H(6) and M(2)O(6)H(7) (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 MO(4)H(6) and M(2)O(6)H(7) complexes were found to have H˙M(OH)(3)(H(2)O) and M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)) structures, respectively. A combination of experiments and theory revealed that the formation of H˙M(OH)(3)(H(2)O) and M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)) is both thermodynamically exothermic and kinetically facile in the gas phase. The results indicated that upon the addition of water to H˙M(OH)(3), the feature of the hydrogen radical is retained. In the processes from mononuclear H˙M(OH)(3) to binuclear M(2)(μ(2)-OH)(2)(η(1)-OH)(3)(η(1)-OH(2)), the active hydrogen atom undergoes the evolution from hydrogen radical → bridging hydrogen → metal hydride → hydrogen bond, which is indicative of a reduced reactivity. The present system serves as a model for clarifying the solvation and size effects on the reactions between water and neutral rare-earth metals and offers a general paradigm for systematic studies on a broad class of the reactions between small molecules and metals at the nanoscale. RSC 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10662163/ /pubmed/38024292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3na00873h Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
spellingShingle Chemistry
Wang, Tiantong
Li, Shangdong
Yan, Wenhui
Jiang, Shuai
Xie, Hua
Li, Gang
Jiang, Ling
Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title_full Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title_fullStr Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title_full_unstemmed Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title_short Infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
title_sort infrared spectroscopic study of solvation and size effects on reactions between water molecules and neutral rare-earth metals
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10662163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38024292
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d3na00873h
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