Dilithium

This article is about the real substance. For other uses, see Dilithium (disambiguation).
Dilithium
Wireframe model of dilithium
Spacefill model of dilithium
Names
IUPAC name
Dilithium(Li—Li)[citation needed]
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
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Properties
Li2
Molar mass 13.88 g·mol−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Dilithium, Li2, is a strongly electrophilic, diatomic molecule comprising two lithium atoms covalently bonded together. Li2 is known[clarification needed] in the gas phase. It has a bond order of 1, an internuclear separation of 267.3 pm and a bond energy of 102 kJ/mol or 1.06 eV in each bond.[1] The electron configuration of Li2 may be written as σ2.[citation needed]

Being the third-lightest stable[citation needed] neutral homonuclear diatomic molecule (after dihydrogen and dihelium), dilithium is an extremely important model system for studying fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and electronic structure theory.

It is the most thoroughly characterized compound in terms of the accuracy and completeness of the empirical potential energy curves of its electronic states. Analytic empirical potential energy curves have been constructed for the X-state,[2] a-state,[3] A-state,[4] c-state,[5] B-state,[6] 2d-state,[7] l-state,[7] E-state,[8] and the F-state.[clarification needed][9] The most reliable of these potential energy curves are of the Morse/Long-range variety (see entries in the table below).[2][3][6][4][5]

Li2 potentials are often used to extract atomic properties. For example, the C3 value for atomic lithium extracted from the A-state potential of Li2 by Le Roy et al. in [2] is more precise than any previously measured atomic oscillator strength.[10] This lithium oscillator strength is related to the radiative lifetime of atomic lithium and is used as a benchmark for atomic clocks and measurements of fundamental constants.

Electronic state Spectroscopic symbol[clarification needed] Term symbol Bond length (pm) Dissociation energy (cm−1) Bound vibrational levels References
1 (Ground) X 11Σg+ 267
 .298 74(19)[2] 8 516
 .780 0(23)[2] 39[2] [2]
2 a 13Σu+ 417
 .000 6(32)[3] 333
 .779 5(62)[3] 11[3] [3]
3 b 13Πu [7]
4 A 11Σg+ 310
 .792 88(36)[2] 9 353
 .179 5 (28)[2] 118[2] [2]
5 c 13Σg+ 306
 .543 6(16)[3] 7 093
 .492 6(86)[3] 104[3]
6 B 11Πu 293
 .617 142(310)[6] 2 984
 .444[6] 118[6]
7 E 3(?)1Σg+ [8]
  1. ^ Chemical Bonding, Mark J. Winter, Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-19-855694-2
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Le Roy, Robert J.; N. S. Dattani; J. A. Coxon; A. J. Ross; Patrick Crozet; C. Linton (25 November 2009). "Accurate analytic potentials for Li2(X) and Li2(A) from 2 to 90 Angstroms, and the radiative lifetime of Li(2p)". Journal of Chemical Physics. 131 (20): 204309. Bibcode:2009JChPh.131t4309L. doi:10.1063/1.3264688. PMID 19947682.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Dattani, N. S.; R. J. Le Roy (8 May 2013). "A DPF data analysis yields accurate analytic potentials for Li2(a)and Li2(c) that incorporate 3-state mixing near the c-state asymptote". Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 268 (1–2): 199–210. arXiv:1101.1361. Bibcode:2011JMoSp.268..199.. doi:10.1016/j.jms.2011.03.030. S2CID 119266866.
  4. ^ a b W. Gunton, M. Semczuk, N. S. Dattani, K. W. Madison, High resolution photoassociation spectroscopy of the 6Li2 A-state, https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.5870
  5. ^ a b Semczuk, M.; Li, X.; Gunton, W.; Haw, M.; Dattani, N. S.; Witz, J.; Mills, A. K.; Jones, D. J.; Madison, K. W. (2013). "High-resolution photoassociation spectroscopy of the 6Li2 c-state". Phys. Rev. A. 87 (5): 052505. arXiv:1309.6662. Bibcode:2013PhRvA..87e2505S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.87.052505. S2CID 119263860.
  6. ^ a b c d e Huang, Yiye; R. J. Le Roy (8 October 2003). "Potential energy Lambda double and Born-Oppenheimer breakdown functions for the B1Piu "barrier" state of Li2". Journal of Chemical Physics. 119 (14): 7398–7416. Bibcode:2003JChPh.119.7398H. doi:10.1063/1.1607313.
  7. ^ a b c Li, Dan; F. Xie; L. Li; A. Lazoudis; A. M. Lyyra (29 September 2007). "New observation of the, 13Δg, and 23Πg states and molecular constants with all 6Li2, 7Li2, and 6Li7Li data". Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 246 (2): 180–186. Bibcode:2007JMoSp.246..180L. doi:10.1016/j.jms.2007.09.008.
  8. ^ a b Jastrzebski, W; A. Pashov; P. Kowalczyk (22 June 2001). "The E-state of lithium dimer revised". Journal of Chemical Physics. 114 (24): 10725–10727. Bibcode:2001JChPh.11410725J. doi:10.1063/1.1374927.
  9. ^ Pashov, A; W. Jastzebski; P. Kowalczyk (22 October 2000). "The Li2 F "shelf" state: Accurate potential energy curve based on the inverted perturbation approach". Journal of Chemical Physics. 113 (16): 6624–6628. Bibcode:2000JChPh.113.6624P. doi:10.1063/1.1311297.
  10. ^ Tang, Li-Yan; Yan, Zong-Chao; Shi, Ting-Yun; Mitroy, J. (2011). "Third-order perturbation theory for van der Waals interaction coefficients" (PDF). Physical Review A. 84 (5): 052502. Bibcode:2011PhRvA..84e2502T. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.84.052502. ISSN 1050-2947. S2CID 122544942. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-25.