INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF METAL LIGAND AND METAL OXIDE LIGAND COMPLEXES
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2010
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Ohio State University
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Metal ligand and metal oxide ligand complexes are generated in a laser vaporization/supersonic expansion cluster source and are mass selected and studied using infrared spectroscopy in the 600-4000 \wn region using a tunable infrared OPO. Several different systems are investigated and some show evidence for intracluster reactions to form metal oxide species or coupling of coordinating ligands. In particular the V(CO$_{2}$)$_{n}^{+}$ system shows evidence for the onset of in intracluster reaction at n=7 as evidinced by the sudden appearance of a band at 1800 \wn. DFT calculations are performed in support of this work and several possible interpretations of the experimental data will be presented.
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Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga