Interaction of aluminum(III) with water. An ab initio study

• Hydrated Al(3+) ions [Al(H(2)O)(n)](3+), n = 1-6, were examined with ab Initio self-consistent field (SCF) calculations. The relative contributions of two-, three-, and higher-body terms to the total interaction energy for an [Al(H(2)O)(6)](3+) complex were calculated The sum of all three-body contributions amounts to - 30% of the sum of all pair-additive contributions and is opposite in sign. The three-body energy contributions were also derived for two types of [Al(H(2)O)(2)](3+) complexes. in the first type, both water molecules reside in the first hydration shell of Al(3+) and in the second type there is one in the first shell and one in the second. Altogether 15,500 triplets were investigated and analytical two- and three-body potential energy functions were derived via a fitting procedure. (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)

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ion-water interaction

intermolecular potential functions

nonadditivity

ab initio calculations

aluminium (III)

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