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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 125, Issue 2, Pages 466-474Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja020969i
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK-31450] Funding Source: Medline
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Magnetic, vibrational, and optical techniques are combined with density functional calculations to elucidate the electronic structure of the diamagnetic mononuclear side-on Cu-II-superoxo complex. The electronic nature of its lowest singlet/triplet states and the ground-state diamagnetism are explored. The triplet state is found to involve the interaction between the Cu xy and the superoxide pi(V)* orbitals, which are V orthogonal to each other. The singlet ground state involves the interaction between the Cu xy and the in-plane superoxide pi(sigma)* orbitals, which have a large overlap and thus strong bonding. The ground-state singlet/triplet states are therefore fundamentally different in orbital origin and not appropriately described by an exchange model. The ground-state singlet is highly delocalized with no spin polarization.
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