IR spectra and structures of saturated ruthenium cluster carbonyl cations Ru<sub><i>n</i></sub>(CO)<sub><i>m</i></sub><sup>+</sup> (<i>n</i> = 1–6)
David Yubero Valdivielso, Christian Kerpal, Wieland Schöllkopf, Gerard Meijer, André Fielicke
Abstract
) are obtained by infrared multiple photon dissociation spectroscopy. The structures of these cluster carbonyls are assigned by comparison with results from density functional calculations. A multitude of differently activated CO ligands are identified in these cationic cluster carbonyls, reaching from terminal, over non-symmetrically bridging (semi-bridging) ligands with varying degrees of interaction to additional Ru atoms towards symmetrically bridging CO ligands.
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RutheniumDissociation (chemistry)Cluster (spacecraft)Cationic polymerizationChemistryInfrared spectroscopyInfraredSpectroscopySpectral lineCrystallographyPhotochemistryPhysical chemistryPhysicsCatalysisOrganic chemistryAstronomyOpticsProgramming languageComputer scienceQuantum mechanicsAdvanced Chemical Physics StudiesCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceOrganometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis