Structures and stability of N7+ and N7? clusters |
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Authors: | Yong Dong Liu Jun Fang Zhao Qian Shu Li |
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Institution: | (1) School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China, CN |
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Abstract: | Ab initio molecular orbital theory and density functional theory have been used to study nine isomers of N7 ionic clusters with low spin at the HF/6-31G*, MP2/6-31G*, B3LYP/6-31G*, and B3LYP/6-311(+)G* levels of theory. All stationary
points are examined with harmonic vibrational frequency analyses. Four N7
+ isomers and five N7
− isomers are determined to be local minima or very close to the minima on their potential-energy hypersurfaces, respectively.
For N7
+ and N7
−, the energetically low lying isomers are open-chain structures (C
2
v
and C
2
v
or C2). The results are very similar to those of other known odd-number nitrogen ions, such as N5
+, N9
+, and N9
−, for which the open-chain structures are also the global minima. This research suggests that the N7 ionic clusters are likely to be stable and to be potential high-energy-density materials if they could be synthesized.
Received: 16 July 2001 / Accepted: 8 October 2001 / Published online: 21 January 2002 |
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Keywords: | : Nitrogen cluster – Ab initio calculation – Density functional theory method – N7+– N7− |
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