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Driving Electrons to Anti-Bonding States: On the Synthesis of New Niobium Cluster Chlorides by Electrochemical Lithium Intercalation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Flaviano Garcia-Alvarado ,
Alois Kuhn ,
Elena Gonzalo  and
H. Juergen Meyer
Flaviano Garcia-Alvarado
Affiliation:
flaga@ceu.es, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Chemistry, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Alois Kuhn
Affiliation:
akuhn@ceu.es, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Chemistry, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Elena Gonzalo
Affiliation:
egonzalo@ceu.es, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Chemistry, Boadilla del Monte, Spain
H. Juergen Meyer
Affiliation:
juergen.meyer@uni-tuebingen.de, Universität Tübingen, Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Tübingen, Germany
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Abstract

The lithium intercalation chemistry of LiNb6Cl15, a 16 e− Nb-cluster, has been explored in order to obtain new Nb-cluster compounds. As a result, three different phases have been detected. Full de-intercalation of lithium produces Nb6Cl15, a new 15 e− Nb-cluster. The oxidation reaction is reversible since lithium can be intercalated again to produce the parent LiNb6Cl15. On the other hand, intercalation of lithium into LiNb6Cl15 seems to proceed through two single phases with the following stoichiometries: Li1.5Nb6Cl15 and Li3Nb6Cl15. For these two compositions the extra electrons (0.5 and 2 respectively/formula) should enter the eg* molecular orbitals arising from Nb-Nb interactions inside the cluster. The reductions of LiNb6Cl15 leading to these two new electron-rich Nb-cluster are reversible as detected by chronopotentiometry.

Keywords

intercalationelectrochemical synthesisintercalated
Type
Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1148: Symposium PP – Solid-State Chemistry of Inorganic Materials VII , 2008 , 1148-PP01-06
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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