The dipole moment of water in the first hydration shell of a monovalent ion

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (21) ◽  
pp. 2407-2411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter K. Ross

The mean dipole moment of the water molecules in contact with a monovalent ion is estimated. The first hydration shell of a spherical ion is assumed to contain either four or six coordinated water molecules, while the water molecules outside this shell are replaced by a continuous medium whose dielectric constant is that corresponding to bulk water at 25 °C. It is found that the dipole moment induced in the attached water molecules is comparable with its permanent dipole moment.

1968 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 597 ◽  
Author(s):  
DK Ross

The interaction energy of a monovalent ion in an aqueous medium at 25�C is determined. It is also found that the water molecules in the first hydration shell of the ion have a mean dipole moment far in excess of their permanent dipole moments. Thus, for example, the increase in the dipole moment of the attached water molecules. due to the presence of an ion is about 60% for the small four-coordinated Li+ ion and about 30% for the larger four-coordinated 1- ion. Calculations are also carried out on the assumption that the ions are six coordinated.


1981 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 1076-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Radnai ◽  
G. Pálinkás ◽  
Gy I. Szász ◽  
K. Heinzinger

Indications from a molecular dynamics simulation of a 2.2 molal LiI solution of the existence of a second hydration shell of Li+ have been checked by an x-ray investigation of the same solution. The scattering data are analysed via partial structure functions and radial distribution functions which have been obtained from a model fitted to the total structure function. Experiment and simulation agree on first neighbor ion-water distances. An octahedral arrangement of six water molecules in the first hydration shell of Li+ and additional twelve water molecules in the second shell have been verified by the experiment.


1983 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gy. I. Szász ◽  
K. Heinzinger

Abstract A molecular dynamics simulation of a 2.2 molal aqueous CsF solution has been performed employing the ST2 water model. The basic periodic cube with a sidelength of 18.50 Å contained 200 water molecules, and 8 ions of each kind, corresponding to an experimental density of 1.26 g/cm3. The simulation extended over 6.5 ps with an average temperature of 307 K. The structure of the solution is discussed by means of radial distribution functions and the orientation of the water molecules. The computed hydration numbers in the first shell of Cs+ and F- are 7.9 and 6.8, respectively; the corresponding first hydration shell radii are 3.22 A and 2.64 A, respectively. Values for the hydration shell energies and the heat of solution have been calculated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (9) ◽  
pp. 134-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dominic Fortes ◽  
Matthias J. Gutmann

MgSeO4·7H2O is isostructural with the analogous sulfate, MgSO4·7H2O, consisting of isolated [Mg(H2O)6]2+octahedra and [SeO4]2−tetrahedra, linked by O—H...O hydrogen bonds, with a single interstitial lattice water molecule. As in the sulfate, the [Mg(H2O)6]2+coordination octahedron is elongated along one axis due to the tetrahedral coordination of the two apical water molecules; these have Mg—O distances of ∼2.10 Å, whereas the remaining four trigonally coordinated water molecules have Mg—O distances of ∼2.05 Å. The mean Se—O bond length is 1.641 Å and is in excellent agreement with other selenates. The unit-cell volume of MgSeO4·7H2O at 10 K is 4.1% larger than that of the sulfate at 2 K, although this is not uniform; the greater part of the expansion is along theaaxis of the crystal.


The parameters of dielectric dispersion at radio frequencies in aqueous solutions of horse and sperm whale myoglobin have been measured as functions of protein concentration, solution conductivity and temperature. From these dependences it is shown that, of the likely interpretations, the mechanism of molecular rotation is best able to account for the observed dispersion. The results are consistent with a dipole moment of around 150D for the myoglobin molecule and a hydration shell of about two water molecules thickness. This value of dipole moment is shown to be in good agreement with that obtained from calculations based on the known crystal structure.


Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Jolivet

Water has an exceptional ability to dissolve minerals. It is safe and chemically stable, and it remains liquid over a wide temperature range. Thus, it is the best solvent and reaction medium for both laboratory and industrial purposes. Water is able to dissolve ionic and ionocovalent solids because of the high polarity of the molecule (dipole moment μ = 1.84 Debye) as well as the high dielectric constant of the liquid (ε = 78.5 at 25°C). This high polarity allows water to exhibit a strong solvating power: that is, the ability to fix onto ions as a result of electrical dipolar interactions. Water is also an ionizing liquid able to polarize an ionocovalent molecule. For example, the solvolysis phenomenon increases the polarization of the HCl molecule in aqueous solution. Finally, owing to the high dielectric constant of the liquid, water is a dissociating solvent that can decrease the electrostatic forces between solvated cations and anions, allowing their dispersion as H+solvated and Cl−solvated through the liquid. (The attractive force F between charges q and q′ separated by the distance r is given by Coulomb’s law, F = qq′/εr2.) These characteristics are rarely found together in common liquids. The dipole moment of the ethanol molecule (μ = 1.69 Debye) is close to that of water, but the dielectric constant of ethanol is much lower (ε = 24.3). Ethanol is a good solvating liquid, but a poor dissociating one; consequently, it is considered a bad solvent of ionic compounds. Dissolution in water of an ionic solid such as sodium chloride is limited to dipolar interactions with Na+ and Cl− ions and their dispersion in the liquid as solvated ions, regardless of the pH of the solution. Cations with higher charge, especially cations of transition metals, retain a fixed number of water molecules, thereby forming a true coordination complex [M(OH2)N]z+ with a well-defined geometry. In addition to the dipolar interactions, water molecules behave as true ligands because they are Lewis bases exerting an electron σ-donor effect on the empty orbitals of the cation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 650-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Latévi M. Lawson Daku

LS and HS Fe–O radial distribution functions and running coordination numbers for aqueous [Fe(tpy)2]Cl2: in both spin states, the first hydration shell of [Fe(tpy)2]2+ consists in a chain of ∼15 hydrogen-bonded water molecules wrapped around the ligands.


1995 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 247-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Neilson ◽  
S. Ansell ◽  
J. Wilson

Abstract The following paper comprises a survey of the role neutron scattering methods have played to help understand the origins of the diverse properties of electrolyte solutions which contain transition metal cations. It is seen how neutron diffraction and isotopic substitution is able to resolve the local structure around contrasting ions, such as Cr3+ , Ni2+, Fe3+ , Fe2+, Cu2+, without recourse to sophisticated modelling procedures. Quasielastic neutron scattering (QNS) provides insight into the dynamics of the protons in solution. The results enable one to distinguish between cations whose water molecules are coordinated on time scales larger than 5 x 10-9 s, shorter than 10-10s, or intermediate between those two limits. QNS also provides information on the existence of a second relatively short-lived hydration shell distinct from the bulk water.


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