Aluminum Zintl anion moieties within sodium aluminum clusters
Abstract
Through a synergetic combination of anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory based calculations, we have established that aluminum moieties within selected sodium-aluminum clusters are Zintl anions. Sodium–aluminum cluster anions, NamAln−, were generated in a pulsed arc discharge source. After mass selection, their photoelectron spectra were measured by a magnetic bottle, electron energy analyzer. Calculations on a select sub-set of stoichiometries provided geometric structures and full charge analyses for both cluster anions and their neutral cluster counterparts, as well as photodetachment transition energies (stick spectra), and fragment molecular orbital based correlation diagrams.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Feb 03, 2014
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.4862989
Entities
People
- Andrej Grubisic
- Anil K. Kandalam
- Boggavarapu Kiran
- Bryan W Eichhorn
- Gerd Ganteför
- Hansgeorg Schnöckel
- Haopeng Wang
- Kit H Bowen
- Mal-soon Lee
- Purusottam Jena
- Xiang Li
- Xinxing Zhang
- Yeon Jae Ko
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Johns Hopkins University
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- McNeese State University
- University of Maryland
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania