Ab Initio Study on Molecular and Thermodynamic Properties of Water: A Theoretical Prediction of pKw over a Wide Range of Temperature and Density
Ab Initio Study on Molecular and Thermodynamic Properties of Water: A Theoretical Prediction of pKw over a Wide Range of Temperature and Density
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水分子和热力学性质的从头算研究:大范围温度和密度下 pKw 的理论预测
DOI:
10.1021/jp9911806
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
F. Hirata
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作者:
Hirofumi Sato;F. Hirata
The ionic product of water (pKw) has been calculated in a wide range of temperature (0−600 °C) and density (0.6−1.4 g/cm3) by means of ab initio electronic structure theory combined with the extended reference interaction site model in statistical mechanics for molecular liquids (RISM-SCF/MCSCF). We consider the autoionization process (H2O + H2O ⇌ H3O+ + OH-) by regarding H2O, H3O+, and OH- as “solute” molecules in an aqueous solution and evaluate molecular geometries, electronic structure, solvation structure, and free energy components of these species as functions of thermodynamical conditions. The results for pKw obtained from the theory have shown a monotonical decrease with increasing density at all the temperatures investigated, in good accord with the experimental observation. The behavior is determined essentially by the difference in solvation free energies, Δμ(H3O+) + Δμ(OH-) − 2Δμ(H2O), associated with the reaction. The Δμ(OH-) shows the density dependence, which is entirely different from tha...