Infrared Spectroscopy of Transition Metal-Molecular interactions in the Gas Phase

[摘要] Transition metal-molecular complexes produced in a molecular beam are mass-selected and studied with infrared laser photodissociation spectroscopy. Metal complexes with carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water, acetylene or benzene are studied for a variety of metals. The number and intensity of infrared active bands are compared to the predictions of density functional theory calculations to derive structures, spin states and coordination numbers in these systems. These studied provide new insights into subtle details of metal-molecular interactions important in heterogeneous catalysis, metal-ligand bonding and metal ion solvation.

[发布日期] 2008-11-14

[学科分类] 化学（综合）

[关键词] molecular beams;metal clusters;mass spectrometry;laser photodissociation