Ammonia dimer: extremely fluxional but still hydrogen bonded

The long-standing question whether ammonia dimer is hydrogen bonded is solved by first-principles quantum mechanical calculations. The authors show that the dimer is extremely fluxional, but the probability of hydrogen-bonded configurations prevails.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aling Jing, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Ad van der Avoird
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28862-z