The Al50Cp*(12) Cluster - A 138-Electron Closed Shell (L=6) Superatom
Journal article, 2011
Metal clusters stabilized by a surface ligand shell represent an interesting intermediate state of matter between molecular metal-ligand complexes and bulk metal. Such "metalloid" clusters are characterized by the balance between metal-metal bonds in the core and metal-ligand bonds at the exterior of the cluster. In previous studies, the electronic stability for the Al50Cp*(12) cluster was not fully understood. We show here that the known cluster Al50Cp*(12) can be considered as an analogue to a giant atom ("superatom") with 138 sp electrons organized in concentric angular momentum shells up to L = 6 symmetry.
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Aluminum
building-blocks
Shell
models
fullerene
ga-clusters
gold clusters
electronic-structure
complexes
metalloid al
Ab initio calculations
Superatoms
aluminum
chemistry
Cluster compounds
Author
P. A. Clayborne
University of Jyväskylä
O. Lopez-Acevedo
University of Jyväskylä
R. L. Whetten
University of Jyväskylä
Georgia Institute of Technology
Henrik Grönbeck
Chalmers, Applied Physics, Chemical Physics
Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK)
H. Hakkinen
University of Jyväskylä
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
1434-1948 (ISSN) 10990682 (eISSN)
17 2649-2652Areas of Advance
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Materials Science
Roots
Basic sciences
Subject Categories
Chemical Sciences
DOI
10.1002/ejic.201100374