Understanding the vast array of metal hydroxide and oxide clusters formed in aqueous solutions is a long-standing challenge in geochemistry with broad consequences for the environment and high technology. The acid base chemistry of these aqueous metal hydroxo and oxo clusters in solution are poorly understood. Using both static and dynamic quantum models, an array of protonation states of select aluminum aqueous clusters were investigated. The deprotonated metal hydroxo cluster relative stabilities in a range of pH will give insight of cluster formation and selective synthesis.

Thermodynamic stability of aqueous metal clusters

248th National Meeting (2014)

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