Aug, 2004
Electronic structures of exohedral lanthanide-C-60 clusters
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
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- Volume
- 121
- Number
- 6
- First page
- 2649
- Last page
- 2654
- Language
- English
- Publishing type
- Research paper (scientific journal)
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1767514
- Publisher
- AMER INST PHYSICS
We have studied the electronic structures of several gas phase exohedral lanthanide (Ln)-C-60 clusters, Ln(n)C(60) (Ln=Pr, Ho, Tb, Tm, Eu, and Yb) with n=1-4, by photoionization spectroscopy of the neutrals and photoelectron spectroscopy of their anions. Both of the spectroscopic analyses reveal that most of the Ln atoms preferably take +3 oxidation states, while Eu atoms alone assume +2 oxidation states, and that C-60 accepts up to twelve donated electrons in Ln(n)C(60). An additional photoionization examination of the oxygen atom mixing into the Ln(n)C(60) clusters demonstrated that each oxygen atom reduces two electrons from C-60. This result implies that the number of accepted electrons in C-60 can be varied by a suitable choice of the number of Ln atoms and O atoms. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.
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- DOI : 10.1063/1.1767514
- ISSN : 0021-9606
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000222855700025