Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.112, No.13, 2962-2968, 2008
Microsolvation of hydrogen sulfide: Exploration of H2S center dot(H2O)(n) and SH-center dot H3O+(H2O)(n-1) (n=5-7) cluster structures on ab initio potential energy surfaces by the scaled hypersphere search method
The scaled hypersphere search method was applied to ab initio potential energy surfaces of the H2S center dot(H2O)(n)/SH-center dot H3O+center dot(H2O)(n-1) system with n = 5-7. Local minima databases including 121, 326, and 553 structures for n = 5-7, respectively, were obtained based on calculations at the MP2/6-311++G(3df,2p)//B3LYP/631+G** level. In these small cluster sizes, the SH-center dot H3O+center dot H2O)(n-1) type is still unstable relative to the H2S center dot(H2O)(n) type, and the global minima for H2S center dot(H2O)(n-1) are very similar to those of pure water clusters of (H2O)(n+1). Thermodynamic simulations based on the present databases showed a structure transition from the wellmixed (H2O)(n+1)-like global minimum at low temperatures to unmixed complexes between H2S and (H2O)(n) at high temperatures.