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JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 47, Issue 2, Pages 206-210Publisher
PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC
DOI: 10.1007/s10947-006-0288-6
Keywords
metal carbonates; density of states; electron density; difference density; chemical bonding; sublattices; charge state
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In the context of the density functional theory the calculation of electron energy and space distribution in (LixK1-x)(2)CO3 (x = 0, 0.5, 1) have been made employing the pseudopotential method in the basis of numerical pseudo-orbitals. The electron structure of alkali metal carbonates is shown to be essentially different from alkaline-earth ones, this being connected with the change in the charge state of both the anion as a whole and the atoms composing it. The mechanisms of chemical bond formation were investigated by the sublattice method and it was shown that its peculiarities were due to the presence of nonequivalent oxygen and cation sublattices. In Li2CO3, anion atoms are covalently bonded, while in LiKCO3 and K2CO3 the ion constituent presents.
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