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Small chromium-doped silicon clusters CrSin: structures, IR spectra, charge effect, magnetism and chirality

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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 25, 期 22, 页码 15340-15353

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00317e

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A series of small chromium-doped silicon clusters CrSin with n = 3-10 in different charge states were studied using quantum chemical methods. The experimental and theoretical results show that the structural growth mechanism of these clusters depends on the charge. The Cr dopant occupies an exohedral position in the clusters and has a large positive charge. The enantiomeric isomers of certain CrSin clusters can be distinguished by their electronic circular dichroism spectra, making them potential building blocks for optical-magnetic nanomaterials.
A series of small chromium-doped silicon clusters CrSin with n = 3-10 in the cationic, neutral and anionic charge states were investigated using quantum chemical methods. The CrSin+ cations with n = 6-10 were produced in the gas phase and characterized by far-IR multiple photon dissociation (IR-MPD) spectroscopy. Good agreement between experimental spectra in the 200-600 cm(-1) frequency range and those determined for the lowest-energy isomers by density functional theory calculations (B3P86/6-311+G(d)) provide a strong support for the geometrical assignments. An extensive structural comparison for the three different charge states shows that the structural growth mechanism inherently depends on the charge. While the structures of the cationic clusters are preferentially formed by addition of the Cr dopant to the corresponding pure silicon cluster, it favors substitution in both the neutral and anionic counterparts. The Si-Cr bonds of the studied CrSin+/0/- clusters are polar covalent. Apart from a basket-like Cr@Si-9(-) and an endohedral Cr@Si-10(-) cage, the Cr dopant takes an exohedral position and bears a large positive charge in the clusters. The exohedrally doped clusters also have a high spin density on Cr, manifesting the fact that the intrinsic magnetic moment of the transition metal dopant is well conserved. Three CrSin clusters have a pair of enantiomeric isomers in their ground state, namely the cationic n = 9 and the neutral and anionic n = 7. Those can be distinguished from each other by their electronic circular dichroism spectra, calculated using time-dependent density functional theory. Those enantiomers, being intrinsically chiral inorganic compounds, might be used as building blocks of optical-magnetic nanomaterials because of their high magnetic moments and ability to rotate the plane of polarization.

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