14594-80-0Relevant articles and documents
Interaction of boron cluster ions with water: Single collision dynamics and sequential etching
Hintz, Paul A.,Ruatta, Stephen A.,Anderson, Scott L.
, p. 292 - 303 (1990)
Reactions of mass-selected, cooled, boron cluster ions (Bn+, n = 1-14) with water have been studied for collision energies from 0.1 to 6.0 eV.Most work was done with D2O, however isotope effects were examined for selected reactant cl
Oxidation of small boron cluster ions (B1-13+) by oxygen
Hanley, Luke,Anderson, Scott L.
, p. 2848 - 2860 (2007/10/02)
Absolute cross sections for all ionic products formed in reactions of B1-13+ with oxygen have been measured under single collision conditions, at collision energies from 0.25 to 10 eV.Three main reaction mechanisms appear to be important: oxidative fragmentation, collision induced dissociation, and boron atom abstraction.The dominant oxidation process are exoergic for all cluster sizes, but appear to have bottlenecks or activation barriers for the larger cluster ions.Clusters smaller than B6+ have similar chemistry, then there is a sharp transition in chemistry for clusters larger than B6+.Correlations are explored between cluster reactivity and cluster stability, and the oxidation chemistry is compared to the similar results found for aluminum cluster ion oxidation.
