Abstract:Abstract. Compared to clusters of transition metal atoms, H-H bond activation by main Group metal clusters is much less known. Here, we have examined a potential new way of obtaining a novel alane Al 6 H 8 through addition of multiple H 2 molecules to the aluminium hexamer, i.e., Al 6 + nH 2 (n=1-4) reactions. To this end, systematic high level quantum chemical modeling calculations using density functional theory (DFT) and coupled-cluster singles-doubles-perturbative triples (CCSD(T)) method in conjunction wi… Show more
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