过渡金属原子簇离子结合能的光离解测量

本实验以激光离解的方式, 较系统地测量了钴、铌及其他一些过渡金属原子簇阳离子的结合能. 实验结果表明: 金属原子簇离子的结合能与其成族原子数关系不大, 而明显地受其组分的影响. 本文还探讨了金属原子簇离子的光离解机理及其几何结构模型。     

一种新型三核钴簇合物[Co_3(bdt)_3(PBu_3)_3]~1H NMR研究

本文测定了一种新型三核钴簇合物(Co_3(bdt)_3(PBu_3)_3]的~1H NMR谱,对谱线作了归属,并和计算机模拟谱进行了比较。本文还讨论了簇合物的分子结构与它的磁性及电子结构之间的关系,并确认它在二氯甲烷溶液中仍保留着固态结构,钴原子之间存在着强烈的反铁磁偶合作用。     

Nonmolecular Metal Chalcogenide/Halide Solids and Their Molecular Cluster Analogues

A variety of transition-metal cluster structures are found within the extended arrays of solidstate materials. Although molecular analogues of some of these clusters have been synthesized—either by the self-assembly of smaller components in solution or by the excision of intact cluster units directly from the solid-state phase—molecular chemists are often unaware of the rich structural variety expressed in solid-state clusters. This article presents these diverse structural types as potential targets for synthetic molecular chemistry by describing fundamental solid-state cluster topologies in transition-metal chalcogenide/halide phases and detailing cases where molecular counterparts have been prepared. Particular emphasis is placed on cluster excision as a method of molecular cluster synthesis.     

Study of spatial correlations in a supercooled molecular system

Spatial heterogeneities have been investigated in a supercooled system composed of diatomic molecules with an associated dipole moment by using the molecular dynamics simulation technique. Pair distribution functions of molecules with different mobilities have been evaluated, and it has been found that molecules belonging to the same dynamic domain are spatially correlated. Molecules with extremely large mobilities form larger clusters than those resulting from random statistics. These clusters are stringlike shaped. The mean cluster size displays a maximum at times between the ballistic and the diffusive regime, approximately at the end of the beta-relaxation zone. The value of this maximum increases upon cooling the system. An analogous profile has been observed for the characteristic cluster length when plotted against time. Agreement with Adam-Gibbs predictions has been encountered when considering these clusters as the basic dynamic units of the theory. For the extremely slow molecules, a cluster distribution has also been encountered. These clusters are smaller than the ones composed by fast molecules; they do not have a quasilinear geometry and no maximum is observed for their mean cluster size.     

新团簇形成的动力学研究

利用紧束缚模型,通过对不同初始条件下的碱金属团簇的碰撞研究,得到形成大分子团簇的可能性.结果表明,对同一种团簇,具有空间对称性的团簇间的碰撞更易形成大团簇,而平面结构的团簇碰撞则反之,并且空间结构的团簇碰撞形成的新团簇复合体更加稳定.另一方面,团簇碰撞过程是可逆的.     

Reactions within fluorobenzene-ammonia heterocluster ions: experiment and theory

Reactions occurring within gas phase fluorobenenze-ammonia heterocluster cations (FC(6)H(5)-(NH(3))(n=1-4)) have been studied through the use of a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer as well as employing density functional theory (DFT). Collision induced dissociation (CID) experiments were conducted in which mass selected cluster ions are accelerated into a cell containing argon gas and the resulting products then subsequently mass analyzed. Two dominate reaction channels are observed. The first is simple evaporative loss of neutral ammonia from the cluster ion. The second involves a substitution reaction occurring within the cluster ion to form the aniline cation, C(6)H(5)NH(2)(+), where the reactivity was found to vary as a function of cluster size. DFT calculations have been performed to both help analyze the structure and the reactivity of these cluster ions. Pronounced differences in activation energies were found that provide an explanation for the observed variation of reactivity as a function of cluster size. An ad hoc model based upon the Arrhenius equation was developed to fit both the experimental collision energy dependence of the reaction and the observed lowering of the reaction barrier to aniline formation as a function of cluster size.     

Photodissociation of small group-11 metal cluster ions: fragmentation pathways and photoabsorption cross sections

Noble metal cluster ions Cu(n)(+), Ag(n)(+) and Au(n)(+) (n = 3-21) have been stored in a Penning trap and photodissociated by low intensity laser pulses of 10 ns at photon energies of 3.49 eV and 4.66 eV. The fragmentation pathways, neutral monomer and dimer evaporation, have been monitored as a function of cluster size, excitation energy and element. It is found that the behavior of the branching ratio between monomer and dimer evaporation as a function of excitation energy depends on the metal under investigation. In particular, the slope of the energy dependence is positive for silver but negative for gold and copper cluster ions. Furthermore, photoabsorption cross sections are determined from observed total fragment yields in single-photon dissociation.     

簇模型选取的配位数原则——CO/ZnO吸附体系的ab initio研究

提出并以ZnO为例初步考察了用于金属氧化物的簇模型选取的配位数原则,即尽可能选取边界悬空键总数最少的簇模型,使簇模型"边界效应"尽可能低.在此基础上研究了CO在一系列按配位数原则选取的(ZnO)n表面簇模型上的吸附行为.结果表明,配位数原则有效地缩小了簇模型的选取范围;依配位数原则确立的ZnO表面簇模型,能够对CO/ZnO吸附体系给出合理的定性解释.计算还表明,考虑相关效应有助于进一步改善计算结果.     

Molecular dynamic simulations of atom-cluster collision processes

Monomer-cluster collisions of Lennard-Jones argon atoms have been studied using molecular dynamics simulation for target cluster sizes of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 20 atoms. Capture probability of monomers by clusters and the lifetimes of the resulting clusters have been calculated as a function of impact parameter and the total energy of the target cluster. Cluster lifetime is further integrated over all impact parameters to obtain the average lifetime for each cluster size and energy. The average lifetime of the smallest aggregates is shown to be short compared to the collision time between monomers and clusters unless the vapor is highly supersaturated. The formation probability of a new cluster decreases steeply if a minimum lifetime is required for the cluster.     

Molecular dynamics simulations of the interactions between platinum clusters and carbon platelets

Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed with two reactive force fields to investigate the structure of a Pt100 cluster adsorbed on the three distinct sides of a carbon platelet. A revised Reax force field for the carbon-platinum system is presented. In the simulations, carbon platelet edges both with and without hydrogen termination have been studied. It is found that the initial mismatch between the atomic structure of the platelet egde and the adsorbed face of the Pt100 cluster leads to a desorption of a few platinum atoms from the cluster and the subsequent restructuring of the cluster. Consequently, the average Pt-Pt bond length is enlarged in agreement with experimental results. This change in the bond length is supposed to play an important role in the enhancement of the catalytic activity, which is demonstrated by studying the changes in the bond order of the platinum atoms. We found an overall shift to lower values as well as a loss of the well-defined peak structure in the bond-order distribution.     

磷酸三乙酯改性HZSM-5沸石的活性及理论研究

采用XRD表征了水蒸气和磷联合改性的HZSM-5沸石分子筛的结构．通过NH3-TPD和N2吸附脱附研究了样品的酸性和比表面．采用正庚烷的裂化反应研究了样品的裂化活性，研究结果表明，磷改性样品与母体样品相比，经过水蒸气处理后显示出较高的酸量和正庚烷裂化活性．上述结果首次用模型簇和计算量子化学方法进行了解释．采用Gaussian94软件包和PM3半经验量子化学方法对模型簇进行了全优化和频率分析．计算结果显示磷改性后样品的脱铝补硅反应热大于母体样品脱铝补硅反应热，从而显示出磷对骨架的稳定化作用．     

Molecular-dynamics simulation of the structural stability,energetics, and melting of Cu n(n = 13–135) clusters

Cluster properties of copper have been investigated using the Molecular-Dynamics md technique. The structural stability and energetics of spherical Cu_n (n = 13–135) clusters have been investigated at temperatures T = 1 K and T = 300 K. It has been found that the average interaction energy per atom in the cluster decreases and reaches an asymptotic value as cluster size increases. The melting behaviour of clusters n = 13 and n = 55 have been investigated. It has been found that the melting temperature decreases as cluster size increases, and for clusters with multishell structures melting starts from the outermost shell. In the simulation an emprical potential energy function (PEF) proposed by Erkoç has been used, which contains two-body atomic interactions.     

Basis-Modified hydrogen atoms as embedding atoms in ab initio chemisorption cluster model calculations on Si surfaces

A comparative and systematic ab initio study of different models simulating the Si (111) surface has been carried out for a variety of embedding hydrogen atoms including unmodified hydrogen atoms and modified hydrogen atoms described with a STO-4G basis set and a Slater exponent optimized to have the cluster atoms as neutral as possible. The study has been extended to some chemisorption processes as Ag and Al on Si (111). The main conclusion of the present work is that neither the electronic structure of the isolated cluster models nor the nature of the chemisorption bond depend on the kind of embedding hydrogen atoms used to saturate the free valences of the cluster edge atoms. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Analysis of the prodiginine biosynthesis gene cluster of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): new mechanisms for chain initiation and termination in modular multienzymes

BACKGROUND: Prodiginines are a large family of pigmented oligopyrrole antibiotics with medicinal potential as immunosuppressants and antitumour agents that are produced by several actinomycetes and other eubacteria. Recently, a gene cluster in Streptomyces coelicolor encoding the biosynthesis of undecylprodiginine and butyl-meta-cycloheptylprodiginine has been sequenced. RESULTS: Using sequence comparisons, functions have been assigned to the majority of the genes in the cluster, several of which encode homologues of enzymes involved in polyketide, non-ribosomal peptide, and fatty acid biosynthesis. Based on these assignments, a complete pathway for undecylprodiginine and butyl-meta-cycloheptylprodiginine biosynthesis in S. coelicolor has been deduced. Gene knockout experiments have confirmed the deduced roles of some of the genes in the cluster. CONCLUSIONS: The analysis presented provides a framework for a general understanding of the genetics and biochemistry of prodiginine biosynthesis, which should stimulate rational approaches to the engineered biosynthesis of novel prodiginines with improved immunosuppressant or antitumour activities. In addition, new mechanisms for chain initiation and termination catalysed by hitherto unobserved domains in modular multienzyme systems have been deduced.     

水溶性铁硫簇纳米粒子的制备及表征

铁硫簇是普遍存在于生物体内的最古老的生命物质之一[1,2]。1960年人们对固氮细菌、亚线粒体片段及哺乳动物的起源进行研究时发现了一种具有高效氧化还原能力的蛋白质,后来被证明是铁硫蛋白,此后对铁硫簇的研究才得以迅速展开。铁硫蛋白结构中包含有铁与巯基丙氨酸中的硫结合成的具有一定构型的铁硫簇合物,基本结构单元主要以Fe2S2、Fe3S4、Fe4S4这3种簇合物的形式而存在。铁硫簇的一个重要结构特征,就是铁原子由无机硫原子以桥的方式联接,同时,蛋白质肽链中半胱胺酸的巯基作为配体与铁原子相结合。这些铁原子以高自旋Fe!或Fe"形式存在…     

SPC cluster modeling of metal oxides: ways of determining the values of point charges in the embedded cluster model

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A molecular dynamics simulation of rebound,capture and diffusion in collisions at thermal energies between a rare gas atom and an argon cluster (n=125)

Molecular dynamics calculations have been performed to simulate the low energy collision (0.2 eV) of a rare gas atom (He, Ar, Xe) with a cluster of 125 argon atoms. Depending on its relative mass to argon, the projectile is either deflected (He) or captured (Ar, Xe) by the argon cluster. We have determined the deflection function of the He projectile that is scattered, and for Xe we have determined wether it stays near the surface of the cluster or migrates inside. These results have been discussed in the light of very simple models.     

Parallelization of multireference perturbation calculations with GAMESS

The quasi‐degenerate multireference second‐order perturbation theory (MRMP2) routines in the GAMESS suite of program codes have been parallelized using a distributed data interface (DDI). Two typical kinds of molecules were chosen for examination of parallelization speedup using one to eight PCs gathered as a cluster and connected by Fast Ethernet. The first example, in which total energies of several low‐lying electronic states have been obtained for niobium monohydride, give parallelization speedup of 7.15 when eight PCs were used as a cluster. The second example is the ground‐state total energy for a medium sized molecule, 4a,4b,8a,9a‐tetrahydro‐pyridino[1′,2′‐4,3]imidazo‐lidino[1,5‐a]pyridine. When distributed memory is employed, the parallelization speedup improves to 6.84 for the MRMP2 calculations when an eight‐PC cluster is used. These results demonstrate that our efforts to achieve the parallelization of MRMP2 routines have been successful. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 22: 1243–1251, 2001     

Atom desorption energies for sodium clusters

The desorption energies of supported sodium clusters have been determined as a function of cluster size. Na _n clusters were formed by surface diffusion of sodium atoms adsorbed from a thermal atomic beam on a LiF(100) single crystal. Measurements have been performed by temperature programmed thermal desorption. The signals reflect fractional order desorption kinetics. The average cluster size could be controlled by varying the total number of sodium atoms on the surface. It was determined from scattering experiments. We find that the binding energies vary between 0.55 and 0.8 eV and only approach a constant value for clusters with diameters as large as 1,000 Å.     

铝硫二元团簇的组分及其光解规律

硫与金属元素所形成的二元团簇具有很多重要的特性,已受到人们的普遍重视.用激光-串级飞行时间质谱仪,我们曾研究了硫与过渡金属钽、铁等的二元团簇.最近我们选取主族金属元素铝,研究了铝硫团簇的形成及其光解,实验结果表明,与钽硫或铁硫团簇相比,铝硫团簇无论在其组份构成还是在其光解方面,都表现出鲜明的特有规律性.实验的主要参数如下:溅射用激光为Nd:YAG 二倍频,其输出强度控制在约10~7W·cm~(-2),激光的重复频率10Hz 样品位于激光束的焦点附近,由焦距f=50cm 的透镜调整其聚焦状