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All topologically distinct configurations of planar cyclic water clusters consisting of three to six molecules are calculated. The symmetry of configurations is analyzed using an additional operation of antisymmetry that changes the directions of all hydrogen bonds. It is concluded that the concept of antisymmetry and the presence of similar in properties but inequivalent “configurations-antipodes” reflects a new fundamental feature of water systems, namely, the internal molecular asymmetry.
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Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 83–88, January–February, 2007.
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Kirov, M.V. Antisymmetry and stability of water systems. I. Planar cyclic clusters. J Struct Chem 48, 81–87 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10947-007-0012-1
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