Electronic structures of cluster compounds of molybdenum sulfide (MoS42-, Mo3S92-) and nickel molybdenum sulfide (Ni(MoS4)22-) by XPS studies

Autor: E. I. Stiefel, G. J. Hughes, Jerry Bernholc, W.-H. Pan, K. S. Liang
Rok vydání: 1987
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Zdroj: Inorganic Chemistry. 26:1422-1425
ISSN: 1520-510X
0020-1669
DOI: 10.1021/ic00256a019
Popis: XPS studies were performed on cluster compounds (TEA)/sub 2/MoS/sub 4/, (TEA)/sub 2/Mo/sub 3/S/sub 9/, and (TEA)/sub 2/Ni(MoS/sub 4/)/sub 2/ (TEA = tetraethylammonium). The results are analyzed on the basis of formal charge and molecular orbital considerations. The major features of the valence band spectra of (TEA)/sub 2/MoS/sub 4/ and (TEA)/sub 2/Mo/sub 3/S/sub 9/ are in good agreement with theoretical densities of state of recent calculations using the local density pseudopotential method. However, the XPS data show that the multiple excitation process is quite significant in the simple tetrahedral MoS/sub 4//sup 2 -/. The XPS of (TEA)/sub 2/Ni(MoS/sub 4/)/sub 2/ reveals a significant difference from the XPS of the other two compounds in the top valence band, which is attributed to the additional d electrons in Ni (formally d/sup 8/) compared to Mo (formally d/sub 2/).
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