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Fig. 22 Gas-phase electron diffraction of gold cluster anions. Calculated isomeric structures for Au
n
clusters with 11
16 are shown at the top of each panel with their corresponding diffraction
patterns (
sM
(
s
)vs
s
(A
1
)) depicted below (
dotted curves
). Experimental diffraction
sM(s)
(
solid
curve
,
red
)alongwiththebestfit(
dotted curve
,
blue
) are shown at the bottom. The grey (
online green
)
shading shows the data uncertainty
n
. The energy of the isomer relative to the ground state (GS) is
shown on the right for each corresponding curve. The diffraction intensity has arbitrary units. The
isomers that constitute the best fit are marked by a red frame in each panel. Figure reproduced from [
236
]
σ
