Infrared Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Bonds

Hippier M (2007) Quantum chemical study and infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded CHCI3— NH3 in the gas phase. J Chem Phys 127 084306... 

Mathews, D. M. and Sheets, R. W., Effect of surface adsorption on the determination by infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen bond energies in carboxylic acid dimers, J. Chem. Soc. A 2203-2206 (1969). 

T. S. Zwier, The Infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters chains, cycles, cubes, and three-dimensional networks, In Advances in Molecular Vibrations and Collision Dynamics, edited by J. M. Bowman (JAI, Greenwich, 1998), pp. 249-280. 

Giese K, Petkovic M, Naundorf H, Kiihn O (2006) Multidimensional qutmtum dynamics and infrared spectroscopy of hydrogen bonds. Phys Rep 430 211... 

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. 

Mich current interest in the spectroscopy of hydrogen bonded systems attaches to the question of how one might infer the shape of the potential function from the vibrational spectrum of the entity. In this connection Wood and his collaborators have recently made major contributions. They have examined the infrared and Raman spectra of a great number of cations of the form (bPB ), where B and B are nitrogen bases or perdeutero-nitrogen bases, and P is either hydrogen or deuterium. 

We focus our review on the dynamical properties of hydrogen bonds X-H Y which have been widely studied by means of infrared spectroscopy. Indeed, the infrared (IR) spectra of hydrogen bonds (H bonds) appeared to be a very useful tool because the broad stretching band vs (X-H - Y) is very informative, containing complete information on the electronic and consequently nuclear... 

Simultaneous infrared absorption in a mixture of CO2 and H2O the role of hydrogen-bonded aggregates. J. Quant. Spectroscopy and Rad. Transfer, 52 295, 1994. 

The acid, base, and neutral Lewis base fractions consist of polar molecules capable of hydrogen bonding and, therefore, of intermolecular association. These polar fractions, which constitute nearly two-thirds of the 675°C+ residuum, have high concentrations of heteroelements in comparison to the nonpolar aromatic and saturate hydrocarbons, as shown in Table IX for the residuum from a Russian crude oil. Infrared spectroscopy of the acid fraction revealed mostly pyrroles with phenols but only traces of... 

A very-high-pressure form, ice X, which was predicated to have a H atom located midway between every pair of hydrogen-bonded O atoms, was identified by infrared spectroscopy with a transition at 44 GPa. 

Graener H, Ye TQ, Laubereau A. Ultrafast dynamics of hydrogen bonds directly observed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy. I Chem Phys 1989 90 3413-3416. 

Infrared spectroscopy has the advantage that it can be applied to the same compound in all three states of matter. However, there still appears to be insufficient data from gas-phase studies of hydrogen-bonded complexes to permit a correlation between X-H stretching frequencies and bond lengths, so as to improve on the long-standing empirical Badger s Rule [158]. 

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