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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 1062-1073Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct401014p
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- Grand Challenge Project (IMS, Okazaki, Japan) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23550086, 22000009, 25288032] Funding Source: KAKEN
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One-electron oxidized Mn(III)- and Ni(II)-salen complexes exhibit unique mixed-valence electronic structures and charge transfer (CT) absorption spectra. We theoretically investigated them to elucidate the reason why the Mn(III)-salen complex takes a localized electronic structure (class II mixed valence compound by Robin Day classification) and the Ni(II)-analogue has a delocalized one (class III) in solution, where solvation effect was taken into consideration either by the three-dimensional reference interaction site model self-consistent field (3D-RISM-SCF) method or by the mean-field (MF) QM/MM-MD simulation. The geometries of these complexes were optimized by the 3D-RISM-SCF-U-DFT/M06. The vertical excitation energy and the oscillator strength of the first excited state were evaluated by the general multiconfiguration reference quasi-degenerate perturbation theory (GMC-QDPT), including the solvation effect based on either 3D-RISM-SCF- or MF-QM/MM-MD-optimized solvent distribution. The computational results well agree with the experimentally observed absorption spectra and the experimentally proposed electronic structures. The one-electron oxidized Mn(III) salen complex with a symmetrical salen ligand belongs to the class II, as experimentally reported, in which the excitation from the phenolate anion to the phenoxyl radical moiety occurs. In contrast, the one-electron oxidized Ni(II)-salen complex belongs to the class III, in which the excitation occurs from the doubly occupied delocalized pi(1) orbital of the salen radical to the singly occupied delocalized pi(2) orbital; the pi(1) is a bonding combination of the HOMOs of two phenolate moieties and the pi(2) is an antibonding combination. Solvation effect is indispensable for correctly describing the mixed-valence character, the geometrical distortion, and the intervalence CT absorption spectra of these complexes. The number of d electrons and the d orbital energy level play crucial roles to provide the localization/delocalization character of these complexes.
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