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Structure and Vibrational Spectra of ArnH+ (n=2-3)
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Structure and Vibrational Spectra of ArnH+ (n=2-3)

Jake Acedera Tan and Jer-Lai Kuo
The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, Vol.124(38), pp.7726-7734
09/24/2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06016
PMID: 32876455
Web of Science ID: WOS:000575821700011

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Abstract

The structure and vibrational spectra of protonated Ar clusters ArnH+ (n = 2-3) are studied using potential energy surfaces at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level and basis set. Ar binding energies, as well as position isomerism in Ar3H+, were investigated. In our previous work, the spectra of Ar2H+ reveal a strong progression of combination bands, which involves the asymmetric Ar-H+ stretch with multiple quanta of the symmetric Ar-H+ stretch. In this work, insights on the origin of such progression were examined using an adiabatic model. In addition, contributions from mechanical and electrical anharmonicity on the progressions' intensities were also examined. Comparison of the calculated spectrum for the bare and Ar-tagged ions reveals that the reduction of the symmetry group, from D-ooh to either C-oov or C-2v, results in a richer vibrational structure in the 500-1700 cm(-1) region. When compared with previously reported action spectra (D. C. McDonald III, D. T. Mauney, D. Leicht, J. H. Marks, J. A. Tan, J.-L. Kuo, and M. A. Duncan, J. Chem. Phys., 2016, 145, 231,101), it appears that the position isomers, because of the binding of the weakly bound Ar messenger, are needed to account for the additional bands in the infrared photodissociation spectrum for Ar3H+. These findings demonstrate the active role of the messenger atom in relaxing some of the selection rules for the bare ion's vibrational transitions - resulting in an augmentation of the bands in the action spectrum.

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