H2O Monomer Research Articles

Pseudopotential calculations on hydrogen bonded systems : H2O, CH3OH and HCOOH dimers

The pseudopotential method is applied to the electronic structure determination of H2O, CH3OH and HCOOH monomers and dimers. The quantities computed are the dimerization energies, optimum geometries, charge distributions, dipole moments with their derivatives and force constants. All results compare well with those determined by all-electron calculations.

Anomalous Water not Polywater

A recent article1 by members of this laboratory confirmed several of Deryaguin's findings on “anomalous” water and also gave the results of our preliminary attempts to identify the entities responsible for the anomalous behaviour. More recently Lippincott et al.2 have reported the results of an infrared and Raman spectroscopic study of the “anomalous” water both in and out of the capillaries in which it had been formed. From their interpretation of the spectra they proposed that the material was a true high polymer consisting of H2O monomer units and termed the material “polywater”.