Liquid Water: From Symmetry Distortions to Diffusive Motion

被引:72
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作者
Agmon, Noam [1 ]
机构
[1] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Fritz Haber Res Ctr, Inst Chem, IL-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
基金
以色列科学基金会;
关键词
HYDROGEN-BOND NETWORK; MOLECULAR MOBILITY; DYNAMICS; CLUSTERS; COOPERATIVITY; MECHANISM; RELAXATION; DEPENDENCE; ACCEPTOR; DEFECTS;
D O I
10.1021/ar200076s
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Water deviates from tetrahedral symmetry on different scales, creating "defects" that are important for its dynamics. In this Account, I trace the manifestations of these distortions from the isolated molecule through gas-phase clusters to the liquid phase. Unlike the common depiction, an isolated water molecule has a nonsymmetric charge distribution: although its positive charge is localized at the hydrogens, the negative charge is smeared between the lone-pair sites. This creates a "negativity track" along which a positive charge may slide. Consequently, the most facile motion within the water dimer is a reorientation of the hydrogen-bond (HB) accepting molecule (known as an "acceptor switch"), such that the donor hydrogen switches from one lone pair to the other. Liquid water exhibits asymmetry between donor and acceptor HBs. Molecular dynamics simulations show that the water oxygens accepting HBs from the central molecule are spatially localized, whereas water hydrogens donating HBs to it are distributed along the negativity track. This asymmetry is manifested in a wider acceptor-versus donor-HB distribution. There is a higher probability for a water molecule to accept one (trigonal symmetry) or three HBs than to donate one or three HBs. A simple model can explain semiquantitatively how these distributions evolve by distorting perfectly tetrahedral water. Just two reactions are required: the dissociation of a HB between a double-donor donating to a double-acceptor, D-2 ... A(2), followed by a switching reaction in which a HB donor rotates its hydrogen between two double-acceptor molecules. The preponderance of D-2 ... A(2) dissociation events is in line with HB "anticooperativity", whereas positive cooperativity is exhibited by conditional HB distributions: a molecule with more acceptor bonds tends to have more donor bonds and vice versa. Quantum mechanically, such an effect arises from intermolecular charge transfer, but it is observed even for fixed-charge water models. Possibly, in the liquid state this is partly a collective effect, for example, a more ordered hydration shell that enhances the probability for both acceptor and donor HBs. The activation energy for liquid water self-diffusion is considerably larger than its HB strength, pointing to the involvement of collective dynamics. The remarkable agreement between the temperature dependence of the water self-diffusion coefficient and its Debye relaxation time suggests that both share the same mechanism, likely consisting of coupled rotation and translation with collective rearrangement of the environment. The auto-correlation function of a hydrogen-bonded water molecule pair is depicted quantitatively by the solution of the diffusion equation for reversible geminate recombination, up to long times where the ubiquitous t(-3/2) power law prevails. From the model, one obtains the HB dissociation and formation rate coefficients and their temperature dependence. Both have a similar activation enthalpy, suggesting rapid formation of HBs with alternate partners, perhaps by the HB switching reaction involving the trigonal site. A detailed picture of how small fluctuations evolve into large-scale molecular motions in water remains elusive. Nonetheless, our results demonstrate how the plasticity of water can be traced to its asymmetric charge distribution, with duality between tetrahedral and trigonal ligation states.
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