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Does confinement alter the ionization energy and electron affinity of atoms?

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Confinement causes drastic changes in bonding, reactivity and dynamics. Alkali metal atoms are excellent reducing agents due to their low ionization energies. On the other hand, high electron affinity values allow the halogen atoms to behave as powerful oxidizing agents. In this article, we have shown that those properties get changed in a confined environment created by two fullerenes differing in size.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.].

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Acknowledgements

PKC would like to thank Professors C. N. Ramachandran , H. E. Montgomery, V. Aquilanti and N. Sathyamurthy for kindly inviting him to contribute an article to this special issue of the European Physical Journal D on ‘Atoms and molecules in a confined environment’. He also thanks DST, New Delhi, for the J. C. Bose National Fellowship. SG thanks DST CRG Grant (CRG/2019/001125) financial support and computational facilities.

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  1. Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India

    Ruchi Jha

  2. Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, 721657, India

    Santanab Giri

  3. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India

    Pratim K. Chattaraj

  4. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, 400076, India

    Pratim K. Chattaraj

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This research was planned by PKC and SG. The calculations were performed by RJ and SG. All the authors were involved in the preparation of the manuscript and have approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Jha, R., Giri, S. & Chattaraj, P.K. Does confinement alter the ionization energy and electron affinity of atoms?. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 88 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00106-7

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