ROLE OF THE MADELUNG ENERGY IN THE NEUTRAL IONIC PHASE-TRANSITION OF TETRATHIAFULVALENE CHLORANIL
ROLE OF THE MADELUNG ENERGY IN THE NEUTRAL IONIC PHASE-TRANSITION OF TETRATHIAFULVALENE CHLORANIL
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00287a021
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
TORRANCE, JB
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作者:
METZGER, RM;TORRANCE, JB
In order to elucidate what determines the degree of charge transfer from donorto acceptor in charge-transfer solids, we have calculated the crystalline electrostatic Madelung energy,£ M, for tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) chloranil as a function of pressure and temperature. At 300 K between 1 bar and 11 kbar, where there is a transition between Neutral and Ionic ground states,£ M becomes more negative by~ 0.10 eV. This increase in binding energy suggests that the pressure dependence of the Madelung energy may be sufficiently largeto drive the Neutral-Ionic phase transition at high pressures. Themagnitude of£ m=-3.8 eV at 11 kbar is used to show that the calculated energies of the Neutral and Ionic states become approximately equal at this pressure. On the other hand, at 1 bar between 300 and 50 K, where another transition between Neutral and Ionic ground states has been found,£ M becomes more negative by only~ 0.05 eV, or half as much as for the transition at high pressure. This suggests that there is an additional driving force for the Neutral-Ionic transition at low temperature (which we believe is the dimerization of the stacks). Better quantitative agreement for the transition and for the charge-transferband energy is obtained by formally including partial charge transfer in the ground state.