Metal coated fullerene molecules and clusters
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 99 (5) , 4210-4212
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.466118
Abstract
Coevaporation of C60 and an alkali metal in a gas aggregationcell yields a distribution of clusters with composition (C60) n M x with 0≤x<150, n=1,2,3, and M=Li, Na, and K. For singly ionized clusters the mass peaks are strong for odd values of x but only after reaching the composition C60M7 +. It is suggested that the onset of even–odd alternation marks the end of electron transfer between metal and C60 and the beginning of metal–metal bonding.Keywords
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