Rate and mechanisms for water exchange around Li (super +) (aq) from MD simulations

The solvent exchange rate of aqueous Li (super+) was determined by employing the reactive flux method in combination with very long molecular dynamics simulations based on effective three-body ion-water potentials. The mechanisms for the resulting exchange events were studied in considerable details and analyzed in terms of the five commonly discussed exchange classes, associative (A), dissociative (D), and interchange (I, I (sub a), I (sub d).