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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 40, Pages 13174-13181Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0cp00667j
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- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO)
- VUB
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Adiabatic energy differences Delta E-adiabatic are computed at density functional theory (DFT) level for the oxidation half reaction of [M(CO)(n)L6-n] complexes (M = Ru2+/3+, Os2+/3+, Tc2+/3+; L = CN-, Cl-, water, CH3CN, N-2 and CO). Linear trends in Delta E-adiabatic with respect to the substitution number n(CO) support the hypothesis of additive ligand effects on the redox potential. The values of the slope of these linear regression curves are shown to be independent of metal type (Ru, Os and Tc) and can therefore act as a ligand specific parameter. Based on these parameters, a computed electrochemical series was constructed, which was in good agreement with Pickett's P-L, Lever E-L(L) and CEP parameters. The linearity in DEadiabatic is also reflected in the structural properties such as the M-CO bond distances of [M(CO)(n)L6-n] complexes. An energy decomposition analysis of the bond between the metal fragment and ligand gave an additional insight into the ligand's bonding properties in terms of electrostatic and orbital contributions.
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