Pulsed Laser Evaporated Magnesium Atom Reactions with Hydrogen: Infrared Spectra of Five Magnesium Hydride Molecules
作者:Thomas J. Tague、Lester Andrews
DOI:10.1021/j100086a004
日期:1994.9
Pulsed laser ablated magnesium atoms have been codeposited with mixtures of hydrogen and argon onto a 10 K substrate. Assignments to product molecules have been made on the basis of broad-band photolysis and annealing behavior, deuterium and Mg-26 isotopic substitution, and ab initio calculations. The predominant reaction products are MgH (infrared absorption at 1422.1 cm(-1)) and linear MgH2 (nu(3) = 1571.9 cm(-1) and nu(2) = 439.8 cm(-1)). Absorptions attributed to the two lowest energy MgH dimers HMgMgH (1491.8 cm(-1)) and the rhombic dimer (MgH)(2) (1022.8 and 605.4 cm(-1)) are evident as well as the bridged MgH2 dimer HMg(H)(2)-MgH (1531.0, 1164.2, 1013.7, and 613.9 cm(-1)). An increase of HMgMgH and (MgH)2 dimer formation on photolysis indicates photoactivation of Mg-2, allowing reaction with H-2 Annealing of the matrix yielded little increase in dimer, which is indicative of limited mobility of magnesium hydrides in the matrix. However, H-2 complexes with both MgH and MgH2 increased on annealing.