The isolable matryoshka nesting doll icosahedral cluster [As@Ni12@As20]3− as a “superatom”: analogy with the jellium cluster Al13− generated in the gas phase by laser vaporization

R. Bruce King; Jijun Zhao

doi:10.1039/B607895H

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The isolable matryoshka nesting doll icosahedral cluster [As@Ni₁₂@As₂₀]³⁻ as a “superatom”: analogy with the jellium cluster Al₁₃⁻ generated in the gas phase by laser vaporization†

R. Bruce King*^a and Jijun Zhao*^b

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^a Department of Chemistry and Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
E-mail: rbking@chem.uga.edu

^b State Key Laboratory of Materials Modification by Laser, Electron, and Ion Beams & College of Advanced Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
E-mail: zhaojj@dlut.edu.cn

Abstract

The valence electrons in the recently reported icosahedral cluster [As@Ni₁₂@As₂₀]³⁻ with a Russian matryoshka nesting doll structure can be partitioned so that the central As atom has the rare gas configuration, as As³⁻, and the intermediate Ni₁₂ icosahedron receives 40 electrons from the lone pairs of the outer As₂₀ dodecahedron to be isoelectronic with the Al₁₃⁻ jellium cluster found in molecular beam experiments.

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Computed molecular orbital energies and irreducible representations of the outer As ₂₀ dodecahedron and the complete [As@Ni ₁₂@As ₂₀] ^3- cluster PDF (545K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B607895H
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 02 Jun 2006
Accepted: 11 Aug 2006
First published: 01 Sep 2006

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Chem. Commun., 2006, 4204-4205

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The isolable matryoshka nesting doll icosahedral cluster [As@Ni₁₂@As₂₀]³⁻ as a “superatom”: analogy with the jellium cluster Al₁₃⁻ generated in the gas phase by laser vaporization

R. B. King and J. Zhao, Chem. Commun., 2006, 4204 DOI: 10.1039/B607895H

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