Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2001
Journal/Book/Conference Title
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
115
Issue
17
DOI of Original Publication
10.1063/1.1405438
Date of Submission
October 2015
Abstract
The electronic structure of CrO−n and CrOn (n=1–5) was investigated using anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory. Photoelectron spectra of CrO−n were obtained at several photon energies and yielded electron affinities, vibrational and electronic structure information about the neutral CrOn species. Density functional theory calculations were carried out for both the neutrals and anions and were used to interpret the experimental spectra. Several low-lying electronic states of CrO were observed and assigned from photodetachment of the CrO− ground state(6∑+) and an excited state (4∏), which is only 0.1 eV higher. The main spectral features of CrO−2 were interpreted based on a C2v CrO−2 (4B1). A very weak Cr(O2)− isomer was also observed with lower electron binding energies. Relatively simple and vibrationally resolved spectra were observed for CrO−3, which was determined to be D3h. The CrO3 neutral was calculated to be C3v with the Cr atom slightly out of the plane of the three O atoms. The spectrum of CrO−4 revealed a very high electron binding energy. Several isomers of CrO−4 were predicted and the ground state has a distorted tetrahedral structure (C2) without any O–O bonding. Only one stable structure was predicted forCrO−5 with a superoxo O2 bonded to a C3v CrO3.
Rights
Gutsev, G. L., Jena, P., Zhai, H. J., et al. Electronic structure of chromium oxides, CrO n − and CrO n (n=1–5) from photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. The Journal of Chemical Physics 115, 7935 (2001). Copyright © 2001 AIP Publishing LLC.
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VCU Physics Publications
Comments
Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1405438