Performance of Density Functional Theory and Relativistic Effective Core Potential for Ru-Based Organometallic Complexes

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (13) ◽  
pp. 2128-2134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selvarengan Paranthaman ◽  
Jiwon Moon ◽  
Joonghan Kim ◽  
Dong Eon Kim ◽  
Tae Kyu Kim
Author(s):  
Claudio Garino ◽  
Luca Salassa

The use of density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) to study the photochemistry of metal complexes is becoming increasingly important among chemists. Computational methods provide unique information on the electronic nature of excited states and their atomic structure, integrating spectroscopy observations on transient species and excited-state dynamics. In this contribution, we present an overview on photochemically active transition metal complexes investigated by DFT. In particular, we discuss a representative range of systems studied up to now, which include CO- and NO-releasing inorganic and organometallic complexes, haem and haem-like complexes dissociating small diatomic molecules, photoactive anti-cancer Pt and Ru complexes, Ru polypyridyls and diphosphino Pt derivatives.


2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 1356-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanns-Dieter Amberger ◽  
Hauke Reddmann

The planned model calculations of normal modes of pseudo-trigonal-bipyramidal LaCp3(NCCH3)2 (Cp = η5-C5H5-) (1) adopting density functional theory (DFT), and using the molecular structure as suggested by X-ray investigations, did not converge. Alternatively, DFT calculations assuming molecular C3h symmetry were performed. Unfortunately, these calculations did not reproduce the experimentally derived frequencies of the skeletal modes very well, including a wrong energetic sequence of the four previously unambiguously assigned (close lying) Raman-active ν(La-Cp) skeletal modes. The same presumably also holds for DFT calculations made for LaCp3 · NCCH3 (2) and base-free LaCp3 (3), assuming molecular C3 and C3h symmetry, respectively. In order to check whether the calculated incorrect sequence is produced by the five-membered Cp rings, a DFT calculation also has been performed for the hypothetical model complex [La(η6-C6H6)3]3+ (4) of D3 symmetry. A closer examination of the vibronic sidebands of the hypersensitive absorption transition 4I9/2 → 4G5/2 of [LaCp3(NCCH3)2:Nd3+] (5) showed that first of all, totally symmetric intraligand and not skeletal vibrations are coupling as it was the case for [LaCp3(NCCH3)2:Ln3+] (Ln = Pr, Sm). Applying this result to the vibronic sidebands of some purely electronic crystal field (CF) transitions, which are hampered by strong binary combination vibrations, the energies of these CF levels could be determined. The CF state 1Γ8 of the ground multiplet 4I9/2 of [LaCp3(NCCH3)2:Nd3+], which previously could not be detected by absorption measurements, could be derived from the luminescence transition 4F3/2 → 4I9/2. Considering these additional assignments, the goodness of the fit increased from 32.3 to 29.9 cm-1 for 61 assignments


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