A Configurational Contribution to the Heat Capacity of Gaseous(HDO)2
Abstract(HDO)2 can form two isomeric species, HOD.OHD and DOH.OHD. The species are studied in terms of the Bopp-Jancsö-Heinzinger potential. The deuterium-bonded structure is stabilized in zero-point vibrational energy by about 0.77 kJ mol-1 over the hydrogen-bonded one. In gas-phase the exactly equal stability of both structures would however be reached at a temperature of 638 K. The thermodynamic functions of HOD.OHD and DOH.OHD are different and, moreover, they essentially differ from the (overall) functions belonging to the equilibrium mixture of both structures (which is understood as one pseudospecies). For the heat capacity at constant pressure it is shown that a maximum of the difference between the pseudospecies' overall value and the HOD.OHD value appears at a temperature of about 39 K, amounting to some 4.6 J K-1mol-1