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INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF LARGE-SIZED PHENOL-WATER CLUSTERS PhOH-(H₂O)_n (~10 \leq n \leq ~50).

TORU HAMASHIMA, KENTA MIZUSE AND ASUKA FUJII, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578,Japan.

We report infrared spectra of moderately size-selected phenol-(H₂O)_n-1 (~10 \leq n \leq ~50), which have essentially the same network structures as (H₂O)_n. The spectra in the OH stretching region are observed. Detailed analyses of these spectra aided by density functional theory calculations reveal the development process of the hydrogen bond network.