화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.103, No.3, 349-354, 1999
Solvation of sodium dimer in ammonia clusters: Photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio study of Na-2(-)(NH3)(n)
Photoelectron spectra (PESs) of Na-2(-)(NH3)(n) (n = 0-5) are investigated to explore the solvation of sodium dimer in small ammonia clusters. We also calculate the structures and energetics of Na-2(-)(NH3)(n) (n = 0-3) as well as the vertical detachment energies (VDEs) associated with the transitions to various neutral states for n up to 2 by using an ab initio MO method. The PES of Na-2(-)(NH3) exhibits five bands at the VDE of 0.41, 1.36, 1.86, 2.11, and 2.40 eV. These bands are reproduced theoretically with a reasonable accuracy and assigned to the transitions from the anion ground state, 1(2)Sigma(u)(+)(X-), to the neutral ground, 1(1)Sigma(g)(+)(X), and low-lying four excited states derived from the 1(3)Sigma(u)(+)(a), 1(3)Pi(u)(b), 1(1)Sigma(u)(+)(A), and 1(3)Sigma(g)(+) states of Na-2, respectively. The VDEs to the neutral ground state for all clusters examined are found to be slightly smaller than or equal to that of Na-2(1(1)Sigma(g)(+)), while that to the first excited state derived from Na-2(1(3)Sigma(u)(+)) increases gradually for n = 4 and 5. In addition, the higher-energy transitions derived from the 1(3)Pi(u), 1(1)Sigma(u)(+), and 1(3)Sigma(g)(+) states correlated to the Na(3(2)S) + Na(3(2)P) asymptote are found to be shifted rapidly to the red and almost become degenerate with the 1(3)Sigma(u)(+)-type transition. On the basis of these experimental and theoretical results, we discuss the structure of the anion clusters and the solvation state of Na-2 in (NH3)(n).