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  • (C60)nX (X=Li+, Na+, K+, Ca2+, F-), Cl-), I-) and (C60)nYCl (Y=Li, Na, K) clusters

      The clusters by a Girifalco potential for the C60 intermolecular potential along with a polarization potential,  which depends on the first non-vanishing C60 multipole polarizabilities.
            Ions:

        • Table of (C60)nLi+ clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n Li+  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -1.425121
          2
          C2v -2.480690
          3
          D3h -3.197857
          4
          C3v -4.063961
          5
          Cs -4.935797
          6
          C3v -5.839957
          7
          C2v -6.923045
          8
          C1 -7.796731
          9
          C1 -8.878101
          10
          C1 -9.904019
          11
          C1 -10.938862
          12
          C1 -12.038584
          13
          C2v -13.201811
        • Table of (C60)nNa+ clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n Na+  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -0.989151
          2
          C2v -1.858032
          3
          C3v -2.794956
          4
          Td -3.740822
          5
          C3v -4.608511
          6
          C2v -5.479573
          7
          C2v -6.585755
          8
          Cs -7.460319
          9
          Cs -8.540714
          10
          C3v -9.568408
          11
          Cs -10.593302
          12
          Cs -11.688967
          13
          Cs -12.822800
        • Table of (C60)nK+ clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n K+  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -0.716193
          2
          C2v -1.456328
          3
          C3v -2.333590
          4
          Td -3.362940
          5
          C3v -4.230639
          6
          C2v -5.101973
          7
          C2v -6.223458
          8
          Cs -7.098449
          9
          Cs -8.191296
          10
          C3v -9.203263
          11
          Cs -10.259355
          12
          Cs -11.345646
          13
          C3v -12.493364
        • Table of (C60)nCa2+ clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n Ca2+  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click on a label to obtain the Cartesian coordinates of a minimum.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -4.06278
          2
          Dinftyh -6.82962
          3
          D3h -8.63953
          4
          Td -9.69459
          5
          C3v -10.65115
          6
          C2v -11.60481
          7
          C2v -12.76216
          8
          Cs -13.71017
          9
          C2v -14.84013
          10
          C3v -15.92627
          11
          Cs -16.98252
          12
          Cs -18.11441
          13
          Cs -19.27842
        • Table of (C60)nF- clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n F-  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click on a label to obtain the Cartesian coordinates of a minimum. 


          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -0.66462
          2
          C2v -1.36448
          3
          C3v -2.20825
          4
          Td -3.17601
          5
          C3v -4.04291
          6
          C3v -4.93218
          7
          C2v -6.03812
          8
          Cs -6.91238
          9
          Cs -8.00979
          10
          C1 -9.03597
          11
          Cs -10.10343
          12
          Cs -11.19379
          13
          C3v -12.33644
        • Table of (C60)nCl-  clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n Cl-  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -0.441597
          2
          C2v -1.028675
          3
          C3v -1.815608
          4
          C3v -2.677630
          5
          C4v -3.600066
          6
          Oh -4.862567
          7
          C3v -5.726910
          8
          C2v -6.608194
          9
          Cs -7.489959
          10
          Cs -8.633816
          11
          Cs -9.780566
          12
          C3v -10.928207
          13
          C2v -11.935413

          Table of (C60)nI- clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n I-  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click on a label to obtain the Cartesian coordinates of a minimum. 


          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -0.34475
          2
          C2v -0.88408
          3
          C3v -1.64977
          4
          C3v -2.50821
          5
          Cs -3.36564
          6
          Oh -4.39726
          7
          Cs -5.33089
          8
          C2v -6.25417
          9
          D3h -7.41426
          10
          C1 -8.29826
          11
          Cs -9.41384
          12
          Cs -10.53818
          13
          C2v -11.69736

      fig2 Pictures of the structure of the ion coordination compounds.

      fig3 Pictures of the some relevant structures of (C60)nX complexes.

          Diatomic molecules:

          Table of (C60)nLiCl clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n LiCl  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -7.079313
          2
          Cs -7.469329
          3
          Cs -8.113328
          4
          Cs -8.953198
          5
          C1 -9.796059
          6
          C2v -10.904327
          7
          Cs -11.754033
          8
          C2v -12.621317
          9
          C1 -13.670302
          10
          C1 -14.670302
          11
          C1 -15.763900
          12
          Cs -16.900254
          13
          Cs -17.960465
        • Table of (C60)nNaCl clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n NaCl  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -6.076697
          2
          C2v -6.522985
          3
          C3v -7.211309
          4
          C3v -8.046294
          5
          Cs -8.886219
          6
          C3v -10.073375
          7
          Cs -10.922216
          8
          Cs -11.788440
          9
          C1 -12.749256
          10
          Cs -13.795868
          11
          Cs -14.931478
          12
          C3v -16.068520
          13
          C1 -17.123276
        • Table of (C60)nKCl clusters

          The energies and point groups (PG) of the lowest energy minima of (C60)n KCl  found for n≤13.

          The unit of energy is in eV and the unit of distance is the effective radius Rf (Rf=4.75 Angstrom).

          Click here for the global minima in xyz format.

          n
          PG
          Energy
          1
          Cinftyv
          -5.358930
          2
          Cs -5.812063
          3
          Cs -6.520181
          4
          Cs -7.356447
          5
          C1 -8.197268
          6
          C3v -9.236732
          7
          Cs -10.136848
          8
          Cs -11.037578
          9
          C1 -12.076901
          10
          C1 -13.078651
          11
          C1 -14.097773
          12
          C3v -15.232349
          13
          C1 -16.435375

      fig5 Pictures of the structure of the alkali chloride coordination compounds.

      fig6 Pictures of the some relevant structures of (C60)nYCl complexes.

      Points files for each minimum are accessible from the Tables.

      The work described on the above pages has been published in
      • J. Hernández-Rojas, J. Bretón, J.M. Gomez Llorente and D.J. Wales, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 12315, (2004)
        Lowest-energy structures of (C60)nX (X=Li+, Na+,K+,Cl-) and  (C60)nYCl (Y=Li,Na,K) clusters for n≤13


      If you can improve on any of the results given in these pages email me, and I will update the database.
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