title: Probing the structure of gas-phase metallic clusters via ligation energetics: sequential addition of C2H4 to Agm+ (m=3-7).
abstract: A new method that utilizes ligation to probe geometries of clusters in the gas-phase has been developed. This technique bases structural assignments on thermodynamic quantities obtained for sequential ligand additions to a bare cluster. The information is obtained from temperature-dependent equilibrium data. This method is also sensitive to changes in bare cluster conformations that occur as a result of ligand addition, and the results can be fine-tuned by choosing ligands that appropriately adjust cluster-ligand binding energies.
authors: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
authors: Manuel J
authors: MJ
authors: Manard
authors: Paul R
authors: PR
authors: Kemper
authors: Michael T
authors: MT
authors: Bowers