Photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio study of boron-carbon mixed clusters: CB9- and C2B8-

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Galeev, Timur R ^a   Li, Wei Li ^b   Romanescu, Constantin ^b   Černušák, Ivan ^c   Wang, Lai Sheng ^b   Boldyrev, Alexander I ^a,c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; ANTIAROMATICITY; AROMATICITIES; BORON ATOM; BORON CLUSTERS; CHEMICAL BONDINGS; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; GLOBAL MINIMUM STRUCTURE; MIXED CLUSTERS; NATURAL DENSITY; QUASI-PLANAR STRUCTURE; TYPE STRUCTURES; VERTICAL DETACHMENT ENERGIES;

ATOMS; CHEMICAL BONDS; ISOMERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON;

EID: 84871957661     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4770231     Document Type: Article

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