Communication: In search of four-atom chiral metal clusters

Xinxing Zhang; Bradley Visser; Martin Tschurl; Evan Collins; Yi Wang; Qian Wang; Yawei Li; Qiang Sun; Puru Jena; Gerd Gantefoer; Ulrich Boesl; Ulrich Heiz; Kit Bowen

doi:10.1063/1.4821766

Communication: In search of four-atom chiral metal clusters

Xinxing Zhang
, Bradley Visser
, Martin Tschurl
, Evan Collins
, Yi Wang
, Qian Wang
, Yawei Li
, Qiang Sun
, Puru Jena
, Gerd Gantefoer
, Ulrich Boesl
, Ulrich Heiz
, Kit Bowen

Johns Hopkins University
Technical University of Munich
Beijing University
Virginia Commonwealth University
Universitat Konstanz

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Abstract

A combined study utilizing anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory was conducted to search for four-atom, chiral, metal, and mostly metal clusters. The clusters considered were AuCoMnBi^-/0, AlAuMnO^-/0, AgMnOAl^-/0, and AuAlPtAg^-/0, where the superscripts, ^-/0, refer to anionic and neutral cluster species, respectively. Based on the agreement of experimentally and theoretically determined values of both electron affinities and vertical detachment energies, the calculated cluster geometries were validated and examined for chirality. Among both anionic and neutral clusters, five structures were identified as being chiral.

Original language	English
Article number	111101
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	139
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4821766
State	Published - 21 Sep 2013

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