Electronic Structure of Small Isolated and Supported Manganese Oxide Clusters

Autor(es)

Fernandes, Gabriel F. S. ; Machado, Francisco B. C. ; Ferrao, Luiz F. A.

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Journal of Physical Chemistry A; v. 127, n. 42, p. 9-pg., 2023-10-15.

Resumo

In the present work, possible molecular models of the isolated manganese oxides and supported Mn3Ox/Al2O3 structures were built based on small clusters of passivated MnOx. The support was represented as a simplified model of the alumina tetramer cluster based on small fragments of AlOxHy. Combinations of MnOxHy and AlOxHy clusters were made to form both the isolated and supported manganese oxides clusters. The electronic structure of these systems was characterized by ab initio methods (DFT and CASPT2). It was observed that the vertical excitation energy of the isolated and supported Mn3OxHy clusters is significantly lower than that of the alumina cluster model, while both the isolated and supported Mn3OxHy wave function characters are qualitatively similar with respect to the ground state and electronic transition processes, suggesting that the alumina cluster behaves as an inert support, since there is little contribution of this component in the description of the low-lying electronic states. The present study also reports for the first time the spectroscopic parameters of several clusters containing the manganese transition metal atom. (AU)

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