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ArticleNature communications2018

Strong lowering of ionization energy of metallic clusters by organic ligands without changing shell filling.

Vikas Chauhan, Arthur C Reber, Shiv N Khanna

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Converting COCommunications chemistry · 2023
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  2. AlNature communications · 2022
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  3. Electron transport properties of PAlNanoscale advances · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Vikas ChauhanDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2000, USA.
Arthur C ReberDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2000, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1013-331X
Shiv N KhannaDepartment of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284-2000, USA. Snkhanna@vcu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-1289

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alkali atoms have unusually low ionization energies because their electronic structures have an excess electron beyond that of a filled electronic shell. Quantum states in metallic clusters are grouped into shells similar to those in atoms, and clusters with an excess electron beyond a closed electronic may also exhibit alkali character. This approach based on shell-filling is the way alkali species are formed as explained by the periodic table. We demonstrate that the ionization energy of metallic clusters with both filled and unfilled electronic shells can be substantially lowered by attaching ligands. The ligands form charge transfer complexes where the electronic spectrum is lifted via crystal field like effect. We demonstrate that the effect works for the weakly bound ligand, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone (EP = C

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PMCPMC6003947

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