Hydrogen bonding in the LaNi3BH3 hydride

The electronic structure of the intermetallic LaNi3B as well as the novel hydride LaNi3BH3 have been theoretically investigated by means of quantum chemistry methods. We employed a mixed approach to investigate the electronic structure of these compounds: state-of-the-art energy band calculations an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Orgaz, E, Aburto, A
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Sistema de Información de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fciencias.unam.mx:11154/1250
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11154/1250
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
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Sumario:The electronic structure of the intermetallic LaNi3B as well as the novel hydride LaNi3BH3 have been theoretically investigated by means of quantum chemistry methods. We employed a mixed approach to investigate the electronic structure of these compounds: state-of-the-art energy band calculations and molecular cluster computations. We computed the energy bands and the total and partial density of states using both the linear-augmented plane waves and projector-augmented wave methods. In addition the electronic structure of three representative clusters of the local environment of Ni atoms was investigated by quantum chemistry ab initio molecular calculations. In this report, we discuss the chemical bonding and we investigated the H site occupancy energies and correlate this estimate with the occupancy fraction and metal-hydrogen distances experimentally observed. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.