Infrared spectroscopy methanol clusters

Provencal R A ef a/1999 Infrared cavity ringdown spectroscopy of methanol clusters single donor hydrogen bonding J. Chem. Phys. 110 4258-67... 

Adsorption phenomena from solutions onto sohd surfaces have been one of the important subjects in colloid and surface chemistry. Sophisticated application of adsorption has been demonstrated recently in the formation of self-assembhng monolayers and multilayers on various substrates [4,7], However, only a limited number of researchers have been devoted to the study of adsorption in binary hquid systems. The adsorption isotherm and colloidal stabihty measmement have been the main tools for these studies. The molecular level of characterization is needed to elucidate the phenomenon. We have employed the combination of smface forces measmement and Fomier transform infrared spectroscopy in attenuated total reflection (FTIR-ATR) to study the preferential (selective) adsorption of alcohol (methanol, ethanol, and propanol) onto glass surfaces from their binary mixtures with cyclohexane. Om studies have demonstrated the cluster formation of alcohol adsorbed on the surfaces and the long-range attraction associated with such adsorption. We may call these clusters macroclusters, because the thickness of the adsorbed alcohol layer is about 15 mn, which is quite large compared to the size of the alcohol. The following describes the results for the ethanol-cycohexane mixtures [10],... 

Buch, U. and Huisken, F. (2000) Infrared spectroscopy of size-selected water and methanol clusters. Chem. Rev., 100, 3863-3890. 

R. A. Provencal, J. B. Paul, K. Roth, C. Chapo, R. N. Casaes, R. J. Saykally, G. S. Tschumper, and H. F. Schaefer III, Infrared cavity ringdown spectroscopy of methanol clusters Single donor hydrogen bonding. J. Chem. Phys. 110, 4258 4267 (1999). 

F. Huisken and M. Staemmler, Infrared spectroscopy of methanol clusters adsorbed on large Ar host clusters. J. Chem. Phys. 98, 7680 7691 (1993). 

Cavity ring down (CRD) spectroscopy, having proven to be a very sensitive method for detecting molecular species in a wide variety of environments, has also been applied to the mid infrared vibrational spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters of water " and alcohols.As a direct absorption method, it can be used to quantitatively measure important molecular properties, such as absorption cross sections and coefficients. Knowing these properties, as a function of cluster size and structure, is useful in making the connection to the condensed phase. The sensitive detection of methanol clusters, as shown in Fig. 13, is of considerable importance. These particular measurements nicely complement the action spectra of methanol clusters, detected by depletion of mass-detected signal via vibrational predissociation. 

Y. Liu, M. Weimann, and M. A. Suhm, Extension of panoramic cluster jet spectroscopy into the far infrared Low frequency modes of methanol and water clusters. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 3315 3319 (2004). 

Y. J. Hu, H. B. Fu, andE. R. Bernstein, Infrared plus vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy of neutral and ionic methanol monomers and clusters New experimental results. J. Chem. Phys. 125,... 

Iron clusters exhibit facile chemisorption toward methanol, the reaction proceeding with little or no cluster-size selectivity. An interesting feature of this system is that the chemisorption rate constants are nearly identical toward various isotopic sjjecies (CH3OH, CH30D,CD3 0H). If dissociation of a C—H or O—H bond was the initial step, then this should be manifested in an observable kinetic isotope effect. Thus the initial chemisorption step most likely involves the lone-pair orbital localized on the oxygen atom. More extensive studies of the chemistry of the Fe methanol system have been explored using infrared multiple-photon dissociation spectroscopy. These results are discussed in detail in Section Vlll. 

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