Bare Metal Dimers and Clusters

One of the m jor attractions in the metal-atom synthesis of dimer and cluster species is the ability to isolate highly unsaturated species, M Lm, that may then be considered to be models for chemisorption of the ligand, L, on either a bare, or a supported, metal surface (,100). It is quite informative to compare the spectral properties of these finite cluster-complexes to those of the corresponding, adsorbed surface-layers (100), in an effort to test localized-bonding aspects of chemisorption, and for deciphering UPS data and vibrational-energy-loss data for the chemisorbed state. At times, the similarities are quite striking. 

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