PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY OF TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTERS - CORRELATION OF VALENCE ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE TO REACTIVITY

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作者
CONCEICAO, J
LAAKSONEN, RT
WANG, LS
GUO, T
NORDLANDER, P
SMALLEY, RE
机构
[1] RICE UNIV,DEPT CHEM,HOUSTON,TX 77251
[2] RICE UNIV,RICE QUANTUM INST,HOUSTON,TX 77251
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.51.4668
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T [工业技术];
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The photoelectron spectra and the reactivity of H2 with Fe, Co, and Ni clusters have been studied as a function of cluster size for clusters ranging from 5 to 26 atoms in size. It is shown that the variation of the reactivity correlates with the variation of the difference between the ionization potential and the electron affinity of the clusters. This finding is rationalized by using a simple model in which the probability of H2 chemisorption on the cluster is proportional to the magnitude of an entrance channel barrier caused by Pauli repulsion between H2 and the cluster. It is argued that the magnitude of this barrier is proportional to the promotion energy of an electron from the frontier orbital of the cluster to the lowest unoccupied d state of the cluster. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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页码:4668 / 4671
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