Coordination of Ti cation embedded in argon clusters
Abstract
A laser vaporisation source and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer are used for the production and detection of Ti +Ar n clusters. Parallel, density functional theory (DFT) calculations assist in extracting the structures of the first members of the series. The mass spectrum is dominated by one intense line of Ti +Ar 6, for which the DFT calculations predict a regular octahedron.
- Publication:
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Chemical Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0009-2614(99)00162-1
- Bibcode:
- 1999CPL...302..595V