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Originally published in Science Express on 16 December 2004
Science 7 January 2005:
Vol. 307. no. 5706, pp. 93 - 96
DOI: 10.1126/science.1106719
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Observation of Large Water-Cluster Anions with Surface-Bound Excess Electrons

J. R. R. Verlet,1 A. E. Bragg,1 A. Kammrath,1 O. Cheshnovsky,2 D. M. Neumark1,3*

Anionic water clusters have long been studied to infer properties of the bulk hydrated electron. We used photoelectron imaging to characterize a class of (H2O)n– and (D2O)n– cluster anions (n ≤ 200 molecules) with vertical binding energies that are significantly lower than those previously recorded. The data are consistent with a structure in which the excess electron is bound to the surface of the cluster. This result implies that the excess electron in previously observed water-cluster anions, with higher vertical binding energies, was internally solvated. Thus, the properties of those clusters could be extrapolated to those of the bulk hydrated electron.

1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
2 School of Chemistry, The Sacker Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Israel.
3 Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dneumark{at}berkeley.edu

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