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Xi Fan1, Junhui Wang2, Kaifeng Wu2
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 350002, Fuzhou, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Phase isomerism is a common and important phenomenon in inorganic materials, but the molecular isomerism of their nanocluster models is still rare. In this work, we report the first pair of isomeric titanium-oxo clusters. Through combining pentagonal {Ti(Ti5 )} building units in corner-sharing or edge-sharing forms, the two obtained Ti20 -oxo clusters take vertical and horizontal core configurations, respectively, which are both functionalized by the same organic ligands. More interestingly, the vertical type Ti20 -oxo core contains an identical {Ti8 O14 } moiety as anatase, making it the first molecular model of anatase TiO2 . As a result, the vertical type cluster exhibits better photocatalytic H2 evolution activity, higher photocurrent response and faster charge transfer to external acceptors than its horizontal isomer. Thus, this work provides a cluster isomer method to understand the structure-property relationship of import titanium oxide materials.
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