π-Hydrogen Bonding of Aromatics on the Surface of Aerosols: Insights from Ab Initio and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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• 作者：Ya-Juan Feng ; Teng Huang ; Chao Wang ; Yi-Rong Liu ; Shuai Jiang ; Shou-Kui Miao ; Jiao Chen ; Wei Huang
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 14, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：27
• 页码：6667-6673
• 全文大小：387K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5207

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Molecular level insight into the interaction between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and aerosols is crucial for improvement of atmospheric chemistry models. In this paper, the interaction between adsorbed toluene, one of the most significant VOCs in the urban atmosphere, and the aqueous surface of aerosols was studied by means of combined molecular dynamics simulations and ab initio quantum chemistry calculations. It is revealed that toluene can be stably adsorbed on the surface of aqueous droplets via hydroxyl−π hydrogen bonding between the H atoms of the water molecules and the C atoms in the aromatic ring. Further, significant modifications on the electrostatic potential map and frontier molecular orbital are induced by the solvation effect of surface water molecules, which would affect the reactivity and pathway of the atmospheric photooxidation of toluene. This study demonstrates that the surface interactions should be taken into consideration in the atmospheric chemical models on oxidation of aromatics.