Abstract:The vibrational structure and binding motifs of vanadium cation−ethane clusters, V + (C 2 H 6 ) n , for n = 1−4 are probed using infrared photodissociation spectroscopy in the C−H stretching region (2550−3100 cm −1 ). Comparison of spectra to scaled harmonic frequency spectra obtained using density functional theory suggests that ethane exhibits two primary binding motifs when interacting with the vanadium cation: an end-on η 2 configuration and a side-on configuration. Determining the denticity of the side on… Show more
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