Neutron diffraction experiments with hydrogen isotope substitution on aqueous solutions of HCl and HBr have been performed at concentrations ranging from 1:17 to 1:83 solute per water molecules, at ambient conditions. Data are analyzed using the empirical potential structure refinement technique in order to extract information on both the ion hydration shells and the microscopic structure of the solvent. It is found that the influence of these solutes on the water structure is less concentration dependent than that of salts or hydroxides. Moreover protons readily form a strong H-bond with a water molecule upon solvation, at all proportions. The majority of them is also bonded via a longer bond to another water molecule, giving a prepeak in the gOwOw. At high solute concentration, the second water molecule may be substituted by the counterion. In particular at solute concentrations of the order of 1:17 or higher, all protons have an anion within a distance of 4.5 Å.

R., M., Sodo, A., Bruni, F., Ricci, M.A., A. K., S. (2009). Influence of concentration and anion size on hydration of H+ ions and water structure,. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL, 113, 4075-4081 [10.1021/jp805220j].

Influence of concentration and anion size on hydration of H+ ions and water structure,

SODO, ARMIDA;BRUNI, Fabio;RICCI, Maria Antonietta;
2009-01-01

Abstract

Neutron diffraction experiments with hydrogen isotope substitution on aqueous solutions of HCl and HBr have been performed at concentrations ranging from 1:17 to 1:83 solute per water molecules, at ambient conditions. Data are analyzed using the empirical potential structure refinement technique in order to extract information on both the ion hydration shells and the microscopic structure of the solvent. It is found that the influence of these solutes on the water structure is less concentration dependent than that of salts or hydroxides. Moreover protons readily form a strong H-bond with a water molecule upon solvation, at all proportions. The majority of them is also bonded via a longer bond to another water molecule, giving a prepeak in the gOwOw. At high solute concentration, the second water molecule may be substituted by the counterion. In particular at solute concentrations of the order of 1:17 or higher, all protons have an anion within a distance of 4.5 Å.
2009
R., M., Sodo, A., Bruni, F., Ricci, M.A., A. K., S. (2009). Influence of concentration and anion size on hydration of H+ ions and water structure,. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. B, CONDENSED MATTER, MATERIALS, SURFACES, INTERFACES & BIOPHYSICAL, 113, 4075-4081 [10.1021/jp805220j].
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