No-pair bonding in coinage metal dimers |
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Authors: | Danovich David Filatov Michael |
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Institution: | The Lise-Meitner Minerva Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel. david.danovich@huji.ac.il |
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Abstract: | High-level ab initio calculations at the coupled cluster with single and double substitutions and perturbative treatment of triple substitutions, CCSD(T), level of theory have been carried out for the dimers of coinage metal atoms Cu, Ag, and Au in the ground 1Sigma(g)+ state and in the excited 3Sigma(u)+ state. All of the calculations have been carried out with the inclusion of scalar-relativistic effects via the normalized elimination of the small component (NESC) method. For the dimers in the triplet state, nonzero bond dissociation energies are obtained which vary from 1.3 kcal/mol for 3Cu2 to 4.6 kcal/mol for 3Au2. Taking into account that, in bulky high-spin copper clusters, the bond dissociation energy per atom increases steeply to the value of ca. 19 kcal/mol, the results obtained in the present paper suggest that the bond dissociation energy per atom in high-spin gold clusters may reach extremely high values exceeding 20 kcal/mol thus becoming comparable to the usual bonding due to the spin-pairing mechanism. |
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