Oxygen molecule interaction with clusters

In order to study the possible reasons and mechanisms of the catalytic activity of conducting polymers (CP), the electronic structure of some molecular CPs clusters and its adsorption complexes with oxygen were modeled [6], In the CP-O2 complex, the CP surface is an electron density donor. For example, in the case of PANI, the bond orders in adsorbed O2 molecules decrease by about 30%, and the bond lengths L increase by about 24%. Thus, the adsorbed O2 molecules have a fairly high degree of activation and can readily interact with the protons. 

An interesting oxycarbonyl cluster has been isolated in the reaction of 0s04 with CO under pressure. This was an intermediate in the preparation of the Os3(CO)i2. The X-ray analysis has established this as a cubane structure, with an oxygen bridging the four faces of the osmium tetrahedron. The Os-Os distance is 3.20 A and implies no bonding between the osmium centers. This molecule is of obvious interest as a potential model in the studies of carbon monoxide interaction with metal oxides and also metal surfaces, when the formation of metal oxides occurs (200). 

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