THEORETICAL-STUDY AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS FOR ATACAMITE, CU2CL(OH)(3)

The dependency of the magnetic susceptibility on temperature has eluci dated that the mineral atacamite Cu2Cl(OH)(3) has the antiferromagneti c property. In order to explain this behavior and the spin arrangement derived from experimental studies, the ab initio UHF MO and UNO CASCI calculations were carried out for the tetranuclear cluster of copper( II), Cu4Cl(OH)(3), which is the constitution in the atacamite crystal structure. The results of the CASCI calculations appreciate the relati ve stabilities among various spin arrangements for the tetranuclear cl uster, being consistent with the experiments.