Abstract
A theoretical study of the (H2O)2 dimer has been carried out in which the lowest S1 and T1 excited electronic states of the dimer complex, the influence of hydrogen bond formation on the shift in the maximum of the absorption band, and the stability of the dimer complex in the ground and excited states have been examined. It was found that there is only a single global maximum for the system — a nonplanar dimer complex formed by a linear hydrogen bond. Cyclic and bifurcated structures are transition states which do not form stable configurations when electronically excited. For the structure having a minimum in the ground electronic state, two nondissociating S1 and T1 states were found with bond energies of 2.0 and 4.4 kcal/mole, respectively. Formation of hydrogen bonds leads to a shift in the absorption maximum to the blue region with respect to the monomer. The hydrogen bond was found to weaken in the excited electronic states of the dimer.
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