Investigation of Lithium Water Interactions in Acetonitrile Solutions Using Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Raman and Infrared Spectroscopies and Extended Huckel Molecular Orbital Calculations

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1989

Publication Source

Inorganic Chemistry

Abstract

Exchange of acetonitrile into and out of the coordination sphere of lithium ion is shown to be fast on the NMR time scale and slow on the vibrational time scale. Addition of water to solutions of lithium perchlorate in acetonitrile indicates that lithium is preferentially solvated by water and reveals that the solvation number of lithium ion is 4. Results from NMR, IR, Raman, and extended Hiickel molecular orbital calculations are used to discuss the LiC10,-H20-CH,CN system.

Inclusive pages

2764–2766

ISBN/ISSN

0020-1669

Comments

The authors wish to thank Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Aeropropulsion Laboratory for the support of this work (Contract No. F33615-8642-27 12). Raman instrumentation was purchased with partial support from the University of Dayton Research Council and the Ohio Board of Regents. The authors also wish to thank B. Russo, M. Takacs, and Y. Perez for their help in acquisition of chromatography and infrared data.

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Volume

28

Peer Reviewed

yes

Issue

14


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