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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 15, Pages 4550-4556Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200903423
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ab initio calculations; magnetic properties; photo-chemistry; spin crossover; transition metals
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- Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation [FIS2008-02238, CTQ2008-06644-CO2-01]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009SG R-1041, 2009SGR-462, XRQTC]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Ab initio calculations have been performed on [Fe-II(bpy)(3)](2+) (bpy=bipyridine) to establish the variation of the energy of the electronic states relevant to light-induced excited-state spin trapping as a function of the Fe-ligand distance. Light-induced spin crossover takes place after excitation into the singlet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) band. We found that the corresponding electronic states have their energy minimum in the same region as the low-spin (LS) state and that the energy dependence of the triplet MLCT states are nearly identical to the (MLCT)-M-1 states. The high-spin (HS) state is found to cross the MLCT band near the equilibrium geometry of the MLCT states. These findings give additional support to the hypothesis of a fast singlet triplet interconversion in the MLCT manifold, followed by a (MLCT)-M-3-HS (T-5(2)) conversion accompanied by an elongation of the Fe-N distance.
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