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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 120, Issue 29, Pages 5848-5855Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b05139
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- Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [KAW-2013.0020]
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For first-row transition metals, high-resolution 3d electronic structure information can be obtained using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). In the hard X-ray region, a K pre-edge (1s -> 3d) excitation can be followed by monitoring the dipole-allowed K alpha (2p -> 1s) or K beta (3p -> 1s) emission, processes labeled 1s2p or 1s3p RIXS. Here the restricted active space (RAS) approach, which is a molecular orbital method, is used for the first time to study hard X-ray RIXS processes. This is achieved by including the two sets of core orbitals in different partitions of the active space. Transition intensities are calculated using both first- and second-order expansions of the wave vector, including, but not limited to, electric dipoles and quadrupoles. The accuracy of the approach is tested for 1s2p RIXS of iron hexacyanides [Fe(CN)(6)](n-) in ferrous and ferric oxidation states. RAS simulations accurately describe the multiplet structures and the role of 2p and 3d spin-orbit coupling on energies and selection rules. Compared to experiment, relative energies of the two [Fe(CN)(6)](3-) resonances deviate by 0.2 eV in both incident energy and energy transfer directions, and multiplet splittings in [Fe(CN)(6)](4-) are reproduced within 0.1 eV. These values are similar to what can be expected for valence excitations. The development opens the modeling of hard X-ray scattering processes for both solution catalysts and enzymatic systems.
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