A photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio study of B 21 -: Negatively charged boron clusters continue to be planar at 21

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Piazza, Zachary A ^a   Li, Wei Li ^a   Romanescu, Constantin ^a   Sergeeva, Alina P ^b   Wang, Lai Sheng ^a   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; BORON CLUSTERS; CCSD; CHEMICAL BONDINGS; ELECTRON BINDING ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; GLOBAL MINIMA; LOWEST-ENERGY ISOMERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTRUM; PLANAR STRUCTURE; QUASI-PLANAR STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL PATTERNS; VERTICAL DETACHMENT ENERGIES;

BINDING ENERGY; BORON; CHEMICAL BONDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ISOMERS;

EID: 84858966783     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3692967     Document Type: Article

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