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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 57, 期 1, 页码 343-350出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02585
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11574220, 11304167, 21671114]
- 973 Program of China [2014CB660804]
- Special Program for Applied Research on Super Computation of the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund [U1501501]
- Program for Science & Technology Innovation Talents in Universities of Henan Province [15HASTIT020]
Transition-metal (TM)-doped boron clusters have received considerable attention in recent years, in part, because of their remarkable size-dependent structural and electronic properties. However, the structures of medium-sized boron clusters doped with TM atoms are still not well-known because of the much increased complexity of the potential surface as well as the rapid increase in the, number of low-energy isomers, which are the challenges in cluster structural searches. Here, by means of an unbiased structure search, we systematically investigated the structural evolution of medium-sized tantalum-doped boron clusters, TaBn0/- (n = 10-20). The results revealed that TaBn0/- (n = 10-15) clusters adopt half-sandwich molecular geometries, with the notable exception of TaB10-, while for n = 16-18 and 19-20, the lowest-energy clusters are characterized by drum-type geometries and tubular molecules with two B atoms on the top, respectively. Good agreement between the calculated and experimental photoelectron spectra strongly support the validity of our global minimum structures. Molecular orbital and adaptive natural density partitioning analyses indicate that the enhanced stability of half-sandwich TaB12- is due to the strong interaction of the Ta atom (5d orbitals) with surrounding B atoms (2p orbitals) and sigma B-B bonds in the B-12 moiety.
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