Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2010
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
132
DOI of Original Publication
10.1063/1.3458912
Date of Submission
October 2015
Abstract
A pulsed arc discharge source was used to prepare gas-phase, aluminum hydride cluster anions, AlnHm−, exhibiting enhanced hydrogen content. The maximum number of hydrogen atoms in AlnHm− species was m=3n+1 for n=5–8, i.e., AlnH3n+1−, and m=3n+2 for n=4, i.e., Al4H14−, as observed in their mass spectra. These are the most hydrogen-rich aluminum hydrides to be observed thus far, transcending the 3:1 hydrogen-to-aluminum ratio in alane. Even more striking, ion intensities for AlnHm− species with m=3n+1 and m=3n+2 hydrogen atoms were significantly higher than those of nearby AlnHm− mass peaks for which m<3n+1, i.e., the ion intensities for AlnH3n+1− and for Al4H14− deviated from the roughly bell-shaped ion intensity patterns seen for most AlnHm−species, in which m ranges from 1 to 3n. Calculations based on density functional theory showed that AlnH3n+1− clusters have chain and/or double-ring polymericstructures.
Rights
Li, X., Grubisic, A., Bowen, K. H., et al. Communications: Chain and double-ring polymeric structures: Observation of AlnH3n+1− (n=4–8) and Al4H14. The Journal of Chemical Physics 132, 241103 (2010). Copyright © 2010 AIP Publishing LLC.
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VCU Physics Publications
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3458912