https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050057
Is NaI soluble in water clusters?
1
DRECAM/SPAM, CEA Saclay, 91911 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2
Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire du CNRS,
Bât. 213, Université de Paris Sud,
91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a christophe.jouvet@ppm.u-psud.fr
Received:
30
September
1997
Accepted:
30
October
1997
Published online: 15 January 1998
clusters (solvents being 
, 
or 
) have been studied by
resonance enhanced two photons ionization, leading to the detection of
clusters.
When water is the solvent, large clusters up to n> 50 can be
observed, whereas for and
no clusters larger than 10 could be evidenced. Because the first step in the ionization
process is the excitation from the ground solvated (
) ion pair state to a covalent excited
state, the differences in the cluster size distribution for different solvent may be interpreted as a
difference in cluster structures leading to a difference in the charge separation in the ground
state.
PACS: 36.40.Mr – Spectroscopy and geometrical structure of clusters / 31.70.Dk – Environmental and solvents effects
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