INTERACTION OF GOLD ATOM WITH CLUSTERS OF WATER: FEW COMPUTATIONAL MISE-EN-SCENES WITH HYDROGEN BONDING MOTIF

The present work outlines the fair relationship of the computational model with the experiments on anion photoelectron spectroscopy for the gold - water complexes [Au(H2O)(1 <= n <= 2)](-) that is established between the auride anion Au- and water monomer and dimer thanks to the nonconventional hydrogen bond where Au- casts as the nonconventional proton acceptor. This work also extends the computational model to the larger complexes [Au(H2O)(3 <= n <= 5)](-) where gold considerably thwarts the shape of water clusters and even particularly breaks their conventional hydrogen bonding patterns. The fascinating phenomenon of the lavish proton acceptor character of Au- to form at least six hydrogen bonds with molecules of water is computationally unveiled in the present work for the first time.