Communications: Tin cluster anions (Snn-, n=18, 20, 23, and 25) comprise dimers of stable subunits

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 132, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Lechtken, Anne ^a   Drebov, Nedko ^a   Ahlrichs, Reinhart ^a   Kappes, Manfred M ^a   Schooss, Detlef ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CLUSTER ANIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; GAS-PHASE STRUCTURES; GROWTH MODES; HETERODIMERS; HOMODIMERS; SIZE RANGES; TRAPPED ION ELECTRON DIFFRACTION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIMERS; IONS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

TIN;

EID: 77953575245     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3442411     Document Type: Article

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