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Steber, Amanda Evangelisti, Luca Lobsiger, Simon Kisiel, Zbigniew Pate, Brooks H. Lesarri Gómez, Alberto Eugenio Pérez Cuadrado, Cristobal 2025-12-18T08:49:33Z 2025-12-18T08:49:33Z 2025 The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2025, vol. 16, n. 32, p. 8209-8215 1948-7185 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80757 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01767 8209 32 8215 The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 16 1948-7185 Producción Científica Characterizing the interactions between water and volatile anesthetics at a molecular level is crucial for understanding their mechanisms of action. We employed broadband molecular rotational spectroscopy (CP-FTMW) and extensive isotopic substitution experiments to generate and characterize the stepwise addition of up to four water molecules to the volatile anesthetic sevoflurane, a flexible molecule with multiple binding sites. The substantial amount of isotopic data enabled the conclusive derivation of accurate structural information. The observed structures contain the most stable conformer of the previously identified monomer, with water clusters favorably interacting with the molecule to form an open chain with up to three water molecules. Notably, two isomers were detected for the tetrahydrate, which exhibit a cyclic structure with either a clockwise or anticlockwise orientation, resembling that of the pure water tetramer. The four-water marks a transition where water–water interactions dominate over direct sevoflurane–water interactions driving the assembly of the water network. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y del Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (MICINN-FEDER, subvención n.º PID2021-125015NBI00) Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for the Consolidación Investigadora CNS2023-143801 The ERC for the CoG HydroChiral (Grant Agreement No 101124939) The MSCA fellowship 894433 - AstroSsearch and the Agencia Estatal de Investigación for a Ramón y Cajal contract. S.L. acknowledges the Swiss National Science Foundation grant PBBEP2-144907 application/pdf eng American Chemical Society info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2025 The Author(s) Atribución 4.0 Internacional Chemical structure Cluster chemistry Molecular interactions Molecular structure Molecules Noncovalent interactions 23 Química Rotational spectroscopy pinpoints the tetrahydrate as the onset of water self-aggregation in sevoflurane hydration info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5c01767 SI