Abstract:
Cluster V
nP
m+ generated by laser plasma reaction have been studied using quantum chemistry ab initio method. Possible geometric structures are examined and optimized. For VP
m+,vanadium atom tends to combine with two phosphorus atoms to form planar systems, and VP
4+ and VP
6+ are more stable of them. There is one growing helices for V
2F
4+~V
2P
8+, the number of phosphorus atoms between 2 vanadium atoms grow from four to eight, and these phosphorous takes the shape of tetrahedron, pentagon, octahedron or cube.... It’s found that in many-vanadium phosphide V
aP
b+ and V
bP
a+ are of the same structure, which may be rationalized by the fact that V and P have the same number of valence electrons.