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Spin accommodation and reactivity of nickel clusters with oxygen: Aromatic and magnetic metalloxocube Ni13O8±
Zhen-Dong Sun1,3(
), Zhixun Luo2,4()
), Zhixun Luo2,4()Abstract
Due to challenges in preparing pure metal clusters and in controlling reactions, the oxides produced by metal clusters reacting with oxygen are often different from traditional ion-molecule products in the gas phase and their reactivity pattern is also largely unveiled yet. In this work, utilizing a customized Re-TOFMS having a home-made cluster source and a flow tube reactor, we have observed the gaseous reactions of Nin± clusters with oxygen and found magic clusters of Ni13O8± that dominate the mass distributions. By quantum chemistry calculations, we find that both Ni13O8– and Ni13O8+ clusters bear a regular cubic structure with 8 oxygen anchoring the eight angles, however, they have rather different spin accommodations. The Ni13O8– clusters have 15 unpaired spin-up electrons exhibiting cubic aromaticity and decent ferromagnetism, while the Ni13O8+ clusters take a lower-spin ground state (11 unpaired electrons), with spin-down population on the central Ni atom pertaining to ferrimagnetism. This is a class of metalloxocube clusters that hold properties of aromaticity and ferromagnetism/ferrimagnetism charcterized by a few spin electrons, which embodies the bonding nature of superatomic compounds and enables to develop cluster-genetic materials of multi-functionality.
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Geng L, Yin B, Zhang H, et al. Spin accommodation and reactivity of nickel clusters with oxygen: Aromatic and magnetic metalloxocube Ni13O8±. Nano Research, 2021, 14(12): 4822-4827. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3435-7
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