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Chen WJ, Choi HW, Cavanagh J, Yuan DF, Wang LS. Electronic Control of the Position of the Pb Atom on the Surface of B 8 Borozene in the PbB 8 Cluster. J Phys Chem A 2024. [PMID: 38676655 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c01282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
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Spontaneous symmetry-breaking is common in chemical and physical systems. Here, we show that by adding an electron to the C7v PbB8 cluster, which consists of a planar B8 disk with the Pb atom situated along the C7 axis, the Pb atom spontaneously moves to the off-axis position in the PbB8- anion. Photoelectron spectroscopy of PbB8- reveals a broad ground-state transition and a large energy gap, suggesting a highly stable closed-shell PbB8 borozene complex and a significant geometry change upon electron detachment. Quantum chemistry calculations indicate that the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital of the C7v PbB8 cluster is a degenerate π orbital mainly consisting of the Pb 6px and 6py atomic orbitals. Occupation of one of the 6p orbitals spontaneously break the C7v symmetry in the anion due to the Jahn-Teller effect. The large amplitude of the position change of Pb in PbB8- relative to PbB8 is surprising owing to bonding interactions between the Pb 6p orbital with the π orbital of the B8 borozene.
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- Wei-Jia Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Science at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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Đorđević S, Radenković S. Electronic structure, stability, and aromaticity of M 2B 6 (M = Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba): an interplay between spin pairing and electron delocalization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:5833-5841. [PMID: 35225998 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04791d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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It has been shown in previous studies that the Be2B6 complex exhibits a triplet ground state with double aromaticity. In this work, the stability, electronic structure, and aromaticity of the homologous series M2B6 (M = Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba) were examined and compared to those of Be2B6. At the CCSD(T)/def2-TZVP//B3LYP/def2-TZVP level of theory, the target molecules were found to be more stable in the singlet than in the triplet spin state. Magnetically induced current densities and multicentre delocalization index (MCI) were employed to assess the aromatic character of the studied complexes. Both employed methods agree that M2B6 (M = Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba) are π aromatic and σ nonaromatic in the singlet ground state, and double aromatic in the triplet state. It was demonstrated that the electron counting rules of aromaticity cannot be used to correctly predict the aromaticity and relative stability of the examined molecules in different spin states.
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- Slađana Đorđević
- University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
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- University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Science, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia.
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Chen WJ, Zhang YY, Li WL, Choi HW, Li J, Wang LS. AuB 8-: an Au-borozene complex. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:3134-3137. [PMID: 35171151 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc07303f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Photoelectron spectroscopy and quantum chemistry studies are used to investigate the structure and bonding of AuB8-. Global minimum sturctural searches show that AuB8- possesses a chair-like structure, which can be viewed as Au+ bonded to the edge of the doubly-aromatic B82- borozene, Au+[η2-B82-]. Chemical bonding analyses reveal that the AuB8- is a novel borozene complex with unique Au-borozene bonding.
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- Wei-Jia Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. .,Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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Sharipov AS, Loukhovitski BI. Small atomic clusters: quantum chemical research of isomeric composition and physical properties. Struct Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-019-01417-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Armstrong A, Zhang H, Reber AC, Jia Y, Wu H, Luo Z, Khanna SN. Al Valence Controls the Coordination and Stability of Cationic Aluminum–Oxygen Clusters in Reactions of Aln+ with Oxygen. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7463-7469. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Albert Armstrong
- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States
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Arasaki Y, Takatsuka K. Chemical bonding and nonadiabatic electron wavepacket dynamics in densely quasi-degenerate excited electronic state manifold of boron clusters. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:114101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5094149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Yasuki Arasaki
- Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, 606-8103 Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, 606-8103 Kyoto, Japan
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Geometry and bonding of small binary boron-aluminum clusters BnAln (n = 1–7): Electron donation and interlocking aromaticity. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.10.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Tian Y, Wei D, Jin Y, Barroso J, Lu C, Merino G. Exhaustive exploration of MgBn (n = 10–20) clusters and their anions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:6935-6941. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00201d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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An unexpected tubular-shaped MgB18 cluster is identified for the first time in alkaline-earth metal-doped boron clusters.
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- Yonghong Tian
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
- Yangtze University
- Jingzhou 434023
- China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
- Yangtze University
- Jingzhou 434023
- China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
- Yangtze University
- Jingzhou 434023
- China
- Department of Physics
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados
- Mérida
- Mexico
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering
- Yangtze University
- Jingzhou 434023
- China
- Department of Physics
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados
- Mérida
- Mexico
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Mojica-Sánchez JP, Flores-Moreno R, Pineda-Urbina K, Gómez-Sandoval Z. Exploring the Structure, Energetic, and Magnetic Properties of Neutral Small Lithium Clusters Doped with Yttrium: Supermagnetic Atom Research. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:11252-11261. [PMID: 31459233 PMCID: PMC6645110 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Density functional theory calculations based on magnetic and energetic stability criteria were performed to study a series of yttrium-doped lithium neutral clusters. A relativistic approximation was employed to properly describe the energy and multiplicity of the given clusters' fundamental states. The interaction of the 4d-Y atomic orbitals with the sp-Li states had an important role in the magnetic and energetic behavior of the selected systems. The spin density was concentrated over the yttrium atom regardless of the size of the cluster. Li7Y is a new stable superatom due to its enhanced magnetic properties.
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- Juan Pablo Mojica-Sánchez
- Facultad
de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad
de Colima, Carretera Colima-Coquimatlán km 9, Coquimatlán, Colima Col. C.P. 28400, México
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- Departamento
de Química, Grupo de Estructura de la Materia, Universidad Guadalajara, Blvd. Marcelino García Barragán 1421, Guadalajara, Jalisco C.P. 44430, México
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- Facultad
de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad
de Colima, Carretera Colima-Coquimatlán km 9, Coquimatlán, Colima Col. C.P. 28400, México
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- Facultad
de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad
de Colima, Carretera Colima-Coquimatlán km 9, Coquimatlán, Colima Col. C.P. 28400, México
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Wang YJ, Feng LY, Guo JC, Zhai HJ. Dynamic Mg2B8Cluster: A Nanoscale Compass. Chem Asian J 2017; 12:2899-2903. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201701310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Revised: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Ying-Jin Wang
- Nanocluster Laboratory; Institute of Molecular Science; Shanxi University; Taiyuan 030006 P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry; Xinzhou Teachers University; Xinzhou Shanxi 034000 P. R. China
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- Nanocluster Laboratory; Institute of Molecular Science; Shanxi University; Taiyuan 030006 P. R. China
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- Nanocluster Laboratory; Institute of Molecular Science; Shanxi University; Taiyuan 030006 P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry; Xinzhou Teachers University; Xinzhou Shanxi 034000 P. R. China
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- Nanocluster Laboratory; Institute of Molecular Science; Shanxi University; Taiyuan 030006 P. R. China
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Mai DTT, Duong LV, Tai TB, Nguyen MT. Electronic Structure and Thermochemical Parameters of the Silicon-Doped Boron Clusters BnSi, with n = 8-14, and Their Anions. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:3623-33. [PMID: 27128361 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b00847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We performed a systematic investigation on silicon-doped boron clusters BnSi (n = 8-14) in both neutral and anionic states using quantum chemical methods. Thermochemical properties of the lowest-lying isomers of BnSi(0/-) clusters such as total atomization energies, heats of formation at 0 and 298 K, average binding energies, dissociation energies, etc. were evaluated by using the composite G4 method. The growth pattern for BnSi(0/-) with n = 8-14 is established as follows: (i) BnSi(0/-) clusters tend to be constructed by substituting B atom by Si-atom or adding one Si-impurity into the parent Bn clusters with n to be even number, and (ii) Si favors an external position of the Bn frameworks. Our theoretical results reveal that B8Si, B9Si(-), B10Si and B13Si(-) are systems with enhanced stability due to having high average binding energies, second-order difference in energies and dissociation energies. Especially, by analyzing the MOs, ELF, and ring current maps, the enhanced stability of B8Si can be rationalized in terms of a triple aromaticity.
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- Dang Thi Tuyet Mai
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute for Computational Science and Technology (ICST) , Quang Trung Software City, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Abreu MB, Reber AC, Khanna SN. Making sense of the conflicting magic numbers in WSinclusters. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:074310. [PMID: 26298137 DOI: 10.1063/1.4928755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Marissa Baddick Abreu
- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 701 West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 701 West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220, USA
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- Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 701 West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220, USA
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