Anion photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations of bimetallic niobium–aluminum clusters NbAln−/0 (n = 3–12): identification of a half-encapsulated symmetric structure for NbAl12−-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Anion photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations of bimetallic niobium–aluminum clusters NbAl_n^−/0 (n = 3–12): identification of a half-encapsulated symmetric structure for NbAl₁₂⁻

Published:2023 Issue:8 Volume:25 Page:6498-6509
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Yan Shuai-Ting¹²,Long Zhen-Chao¹²,Xu Xi-Ling¹²^ORCID,Xu Hong-Guang¹²^ORCID,Zheng Wei-Jun¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Abstract

NbAl12− has a C3v symmetric half-encapsulated structure, which can be viewed as a NbAl6 regular hexagon over a bowl-shaped Al6 structure.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2023/CP/D2CP04978C

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