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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 18, 期 42, 页码 29147-29155出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05420j
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- US National Science Foundation [CHE-1632813]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21573138, 21373130]
- State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices [KF201402]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1263745] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Size-selected boron clusters have been found to be predominantly planar or quasi-planar (2D) in the small size regime with the appearance of three-dimensional (3D) borospherene cages of larger sizes. A seashell-like B-28(-) cluster was previously shown to be the smallest borospherene, which competes with a quasi-planar isomer for the global minimum. Here we report a study on the structures and bonding of the B-29(-) and B-29 clusters using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) and first-principles calculations and demonstrate the continued competition between the 2D and borospherene structures. The PES spectrum of B-29(-) displays a complex pattern with evidence of low-lying isomers. Global-minimum searches and extensive theoretical calculations revealed a complicated potential energy surface for B-29(-) with five low-lying isomers, among which the lowest three were shown to contribute to the experimental spectrum. A 3D seashell-like C-s (2, (1)A') isomer, featuring two heptagons on the waist and one octagon at the bottom, is the global minimum for B-29(-), followed by a 2D C-1 (3, (1)A) isomer with a hexagonal hole and a stingray-shaped 2D C-s (1, (1)A') isomer with a pentagonal hole. However, by taking into account the entropic effects, the stingray-shaped isomer 1 was shown to be the lowest in energy at room temperature and was found to dominate the PES spectrum. Isomers 2 and 3, which have lower electron binding energies, were also found to be present in the experiment. Chemical bonding analyses showed that isomer 1 is an all-boron analogue of benzo[ghi] fluoranthene (C18H10), whereas the borospherene isomer 2 possesses 18 pi electrons, conforming to the 2(N + 1)(2) electron counting rule for spherical aromaticity. For the B-29 neutral cluster, the seashell-like borospherene isomer is the global minimum, significantly lower in energy than the stingray-shaped quasi-planar structure.
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