PMID- 26142659 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20160503 LR - 20150914 IS - 1873-3557 (Electronic) IS - 1386-1425 (Linking) VI - 151 DP - 2015 Dec 5 TI - Femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy of hydrogen bonded structure in water and aqueous solutions. PG - 262-73 LID - S1386-1425(15)30040-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.saa.2015.06.115 [doi] AB - Femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (fsCARS) spectroscopy, together with perturbation theory based numerical calculation, is employed to study OH stretching (upsilonOH) of pure water and aqueous lithium chloride solutions. Vibrational OH stretching (upsilonOH) modes of aqueous solutions are Raman-excited by a pair of ultrashort, femtosecond laser pulses, and then probed through inelastic scattering of a third, time-delayed laser field. In order to overcome limited spectral resolution of fsCARS, numerical evaluation of the CARS signal through vibrational wave packet propagation was employed in order to confirm the position of distinctive OH stretching mode that is complicated by intramolecular and intermolecular vibrational coupling. Moreover, in order to come to a microscopic description of the observed CARS spectra for aqueous solutions, we have performed molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous lithium chloride solutions with varying concentrations at ambient conditions. To this end we have analyzed the equilibrium distributions of hydrogen bonds in the first solvation shells of the ions as well as in bulk water and also computed the average number of hydrogen bonds per water molecule. According to our experimental and theoretical results on time evolution of Raman OH stretching band of water, it can be inferred that the dissolved ions mainly influence hydrogen bond strength and structure of water molecules in the first hydration shell, the addition of lithium chloride primarily breaks the tetrahedral hydrogen bonding, promotes formation of the donor hydrogen bonding in water, and slightly increases the amount of free OH bonds. CI - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Zhu, Huaning AU - Zhu H AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. FAU - Li, Yang AU - Li Y AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. FAU - Vdovic, Silvije AU - Vdovic S AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; Institute of Physics, Bijenicka cesta 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. FAU - Long, Saran AU - Long S AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. FAU - He, Guiying AU - He G AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. FAU - Guo, Qianjin AU - Guo Q AD - Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China. Electronic address: guoqj@iccas.ac.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150629 PL - England TA - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc JT - Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy JID - 9602533 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering OT - Hydrogen bonded structure OT - Molecular dynamics simulations OT - Perturbation theory based numerical calculation EDAT- 2015/07/06 06:00 MHDA- 2015/07/06 06:01 CRDT- 2015/07/06 06:00 PHST- 2015/01/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/06/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/06/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/07/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/07/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/07/06 06:01 [medline] AID - S1386-1425(15)30040-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.saa.2015.06.115 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2015 Dec 5;151:262-73. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2015.06.115. Epub 2015 Jun 29.