Superatoms and their assemblies based on alkali and super-alkali motifs

Issue title: Alkali Metal Clusters

Guest editors: G. Maroulisx and P. Calaminiciy

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Clayborne, P. | Jones, N.O. | Reber, A.C. | Reveles, J.U. | Qian, M.C. | Khanna, S.N.^{; *}

Affiliations: Physics Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2000, USA | [x] Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, Greece | [y] Departamento de Quimica, CINVESTAV, Centro De Investigacion Y De Estudios Avanzados, Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional, 2508, A.P. 14-740, Mexico, D.F. 07000, Mexico

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: snkhanna@vcu.edu.

Abstract: It is shown that chosen stable clusters can mimic the chemical behavior of atoms in the periodic table and hence can be regarded as superatoms forming a third dimension of the periodic table. The review discusses the developments leading to the superatom concept and our recent studies on superhalogens and superalkalis. It is shown that molecules and assemblies with novel electronic and chemical features can be synthesized by assembling superhalogens with alkalis and superalkalis. The paper reviews these developments and presents a summary and future prospects.

Keywords: Superatoms, superhalogens, super-alkali clusters

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2007-75-608

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 5-6, pp. 417-430, 2007