Abstract
Geometric structures of gas-phase palladium oxide cluster cations, PdnOm+, were investigated for stable compositions by ion mobility mass spectrometry (IMMS) and quantum chemical calculations. Pure metallic (m = 0) and oxygen-deficient (m < n) cluster cations were preferentially obtained from the mass spectra as a result of collision-induced dissociation. Structures of cluster series, Pd3Om+ (m = 1–6), Pd4Om+ (m = 2–8), and Pd5Om+ (m = 3–8), were determined by comparing experimental collision cross sections obtained by IMMS and theoretical collision cross sections of optimized structures by density functional theory calculations. As for the Pd3Om+ cluster cations, structural transition was observed from one-dimensional chains to two-dimensional (2D) branched/2D sheets and finally to three-dimensional (3D) compact structures with increasing m. These 2D and 3D isomers were found to retain their triangular metal-core configuration. 2D sheets and 3D compact isomers that maintain a tetrahedral metal-core confi...
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