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Adsorption of C2–C5 alcohols on ice: A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study

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In this paper, we report grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations performed to characterize the adsorption of four linear alcohol molecules, comprising between two and five carbon atoms (namely, ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol, and n-pentanol) on crystalline ice in a temperature range typical of the Earth’s troposphere. The adsorption details analyzed at 228 K show that, at low coverage of the ice surface, the polar head of the adsorbed molecules tends to optimize its hydrogen bonding with the surrounding water, whereas the aliphatic chain lies more or less parallel to the ice surface. With increasing coverage, the lateral interactions between the adsorbed alcohol molecules lead to the reorientation of the aliphatic chains that tend to become perpendicular to the surface; the adsorbed molecules pointing thus their terminal methyl group up to the gas phase. When compared to the experimental data, the simulated and measured isotherms show a very good agreement, although a small temperature shift between simulations and experiments could be inferred from simulations at various temperatures. In addition, this agreement appears to be better for ethanol and n-propanol than for n-butanol and n-pentanol, especially at the highest pressures investigated, pointing to a possible slight underestimation of the lateral interactions between the largest alcohol molecules by the interaction potential model used. Nevertheless, the global accuracy of the approach used, as tested under tropospheric conditions, opens the way for its use in modeling studies also relevant to another (e.g., astrophysical) context.
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hal-03691928 , version 1 (06-10-2022)

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Julien Joliat, Sylvain Picaud, Antoine Patt, Pal Jedlovszky. Adsorption of C2–C5 alcohols on ice: A grand canonical Monte Carlo simulation study. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022, 156 (22), pp.224702. ⟨10.1063/5.0096013⟩. ⟨hal-03691928⟩
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