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Investigation of the Structural and Dynamical Properties of Cu+ in Liquid Ammonia: A Quantum Mechanical Charge Field (QMCF) Molecular Dynamics Study
https://doi.org/10.22146/ijc.26809 Wahyu Dita Saputri(1), Karna Wijaya(2), Ria Armunanto(3*)
(1) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
(2) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
(3) Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Sekip Utara, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia
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Abstract
A quantum mechanical charge field (QMCF) molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been carried out to describe the structural and dynamical properties of Cu+ ion in liquid ammonia. The first and second shells were treated by ab initio quantum mechanics at the Hartree−Fock (HF) level with the DZP-Dunning basis set for ammonia and LANL2DZ ECP basis set for Cu. The system was equilibrated for 4 ps, then the trajectory data was collected every fifth step for 20 ps at 235.15 K. The structural analysis showed that in the first solvation shell, Cu+ is solvated by 4 ammonia molecules forming a stable structure of tetrahedral with Cu-N bond length of 2.15 Å, whereas in the second solvation shell there are 29 ammonia molecules that have an average distance of 4.79 Å to Cu+ ion. Mean residence time of 3.06 ps was observed for the ammonia ligand in the second solvation shell indicating for a highly unstable structure of the solvation shell. The obtained structure of the first solvation shell from this simulation is in excellent agreement with experimental data.
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