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MYONG YONG CHOI AND SEUNG JUN LEE, Department of Chemistry (BK21) and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Korea; DIMITRY SKVORTSOV AND ANDREY F. VILESOV, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

(HCl)_m(H₂O)_n complexes have been formed in helium nanodroplets and studied via infrared laser spectroscopy in the H-Cl vibrational stretching mode region of 2300 -- 2900 cm^-1. Bands of small complexes up to m=3 and n=2 have been identified, and the assignment was confirmed via measurements of the pickup pressure dependence of the bands’ intensity. Bands of larger complexes have not been identified, indicating they contribute to a broad unresolved band in the range of 2500--2800 cm^-1. Structure of the (HCl)_m(H₂O)_n complexes is discussed.