The electronic properties of copper cyanide cluster anions were studied using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) with a magnetic-bottle type electron spectrometer. Both the anions and the cations of the cluster were generated by laser vaporization of a molded copper cyanide rod in a He carrier gas. In the mass spectra, abundant clusters were produced at the composition of and and 5) for the anions, whereas more abundant clusters were observed at (n, for the cations. The stability of and clusters is attributed to their electronic structure, where ionic and are linked alternately in a linear geometry. The PES spectra of the anions show that the clusters exhibit an extremely large EA of above 4.5 eV, while the EA’s of the less abundant clusters increase monotonously with cluster size from 1.3 eV to 3.12 eV except for and 5. Together with theoretical calculations by the density functional theory (DFT), two different linear isomers have been found for clusters, where CN takes a opposite direction toward Cu. For and moreover, the PES spectra show two components of distinctly different peak shape, suggesting that a ring isomer should coexist with the linear ones.
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August 01 2000
Photoelectron spectroscopy of copper cyanide cluster anions: On the possibility of linear and ring structures
Yuichi Negishi;
Yuichi Negishi
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Tomokazu Yasuike;
Tomokazu Yasuike
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Fumitaka Hayakawa;
Fumitaka Hayakawa
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Miki Kizawa;
Miki Kizawa
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Satoshi Yabushita;
Satoshi Yabushita
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Atsushi Nakajima;
Atsushi Nakajima
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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Koji Kaya
Koji Kaya
Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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J. Chem. Phys. 113, 1725–1731 (2000)
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November 15 1999
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May 01 2000
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Yuichi Negishi, Tomokazu Yasuike, Fumitaka Hayakawa, Miki Kizawa, Satoshi Yabushita, Atsushi Nakajima, Koji Kaya; Photoelectron spectroscopy of copper cyanide cluster anions: On the possibility of linear and ring structures. J. Chem. Phys. 1 August 2000; 113 (5): 1725–1731. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.481974
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