TY - JOUR ID - pittir18238 UR - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/18238/ IS - 1-3 A1 - McCarthy, VN A1 - Jordan, KD Y1 - 2006/09/29/ N2 - In order to gain insight into the factors responsible for the different behavior of H2O and H2S with respect to hydrate formation, we have studied theoretically the (H2O)21 and (H2O)20 · H2S cluster systems. For each cluster, two isomers resulting from insertion of an H2O or H2S molecule into a dodecahedral (H2O)20 cage were examined. The calculations were performed using the density functional and RIMP2 methods. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JF - Chemical Physics Letters VL - 429 SN - 0009-2614 TI - Structure and stability of the (H2O)21 and (H2O)20 · (H2S) clusters: Relevance of cluster systems to gas hydrate formation SP - 166 AV - public EP - 168 ER -