Magnetic properties of the seven-coordinated nanoporous framework material Co(bpy)1.5(NO3)2 (bpy = 4,4′-bipyridine)

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (34) ◽  
pp. 10382-10389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bartolomé ◽  
Pablo Javier Alonso ◽  
Ana Arauzo ◽  
Javier Luzón ◽  
Juan Bartolomé ◽  
...  

The hepta-coordinated Co(bpy)1.5(NO3)2 molecule exhibits a large crystal field induced anisotropy along its binary symmetry axis, as deduced from SQUID magnetometry, EPR, heat capacity measurements and ab initio simulations.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Soncini ◽  
MATTEO PICCARDO

We present a non-orthogonal fragment ab initio methodology for the calculation of crystal field energy levels and magnetic properties in lanthanide complexes, implementing a systematic description of non-covalent contributions to metal-ligand bonding. The approach has two steps. In the first step, appropriate ab initio wavefunctions for the various ionic fragments (lanthanide ion and coordinating ligands) are separately optimized, accounting for the electrostatic influence of the surrounding environment, within various approximations. In the second and final step, the scalar relativistic (DKH2) electrostatic Hamiltonian of the whole molecule is represented on the basis of the optimized metal-ligand multiconfigurational non-orthogonal group functions (MC-NOGF), and reduced to an effective (2J+1)-dimensional non-orthogonal Configuration Interaction (CI) problem via L{\"o}wdin-partitioning. Within the proposed formalism, the projected Hamiltonian can be implemented to any desired order of perturbation theory in the fragment-localised excitations out of the degenerate space, and its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are systematic approximations to the crystal field energies and wavefunctions. We present a preliminary implementation of the proposed MC-NOGF method to first-order degenerate perturbation theory within our own ab initio code CERES, and compare its performance both with the simpler non-covalent orthogonal ab initio approach Fragment Ab Initio Model Potential (FAIMP) approximation, and with the full CAHF/CASCI-SO method, accounting for metal-ligand covalency in a mean-field manner. We find that energies and magnetic properties for 44 complexes obtained via an iteratively optimized version of our MC-NOGF first-order non-covalent method, compare remarkably well to the full CAHF/CASCI-SO method including metal-ligand covalency, and are superior to the best purely electrostatic results achieved via an iteratively optimized version of the FAIMP approach.<br>


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (14) ◽  
pp. 4834-4843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Solis-Céspedes ◽  
Dayán Páez-Hernández

The electronic structure and magnetic properties of a series of Kramers ions with f1 configuration in axial symmetry have been analyzed with a combination of theoretical methods: ab initio relativistic wavefunction methods as well as a crystal-field (CF) model with parameters extracted from the ab initio calculations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 15807-15814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem Van den Heuvel ◽  
Simone Calvello ◽  
Alessandro Soncini

We propose an ab initio method that simplifies the CASSCF/RASSI–SO approach for crystal field levels and magnetic properties of lanthanide complexes.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Gendron ◽  
Sebastiano Di Pietro ◽  
Laura Abad Galan ◽  
François Riobé ◽  
Virginie Placide ◽  
...  

<p>The electronic structure of a chiral Yb(III)-based complex is fully determined by taking advantage of experimental magnetic, luminescence, and chiroptical characterizations in combination with ab-initio wavefunction calculations. The combined use of these techniques allows determining with high resolution the electronic structure diagram as well as the nature of the different states involved in the magnetic and chiroptical properties of the investigated complex. The different crystal-field pictures deduced from spectroscopic measurements are re-conciliated in light of the magnetic properties and ab-initio results in the frame of the van Vleck initial vision. Advanced ab-initio calculations demonstrate that global chiroptical spectra correspond to the sum of intricated transitions with similar or opposite polarizations.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Soncini ◽  
MATTEO PICCARDO

We present a non-orthogonal fragment ab initio methodology for the calculation of crystal field energy levels and magnetic properties in lanthanide complexes, implementing a systematic description of non-covalent contributions to metal-ligand bonding. The approach has two steps. In the first step, appropriate ab initio wavefunctions for the various ionic fragments (lanthanide ion and coordinating ligands) are separately optimized, accounting for the electrostatic influence of the surrounding environment, within various approximations. In the second and final step, the scalar relativistic (DKH2) electrostatic Hamiltonian of the whole molecule is represented on the basis of the optimized metal-ligand multiconfigurational non-orthogonal group functions (MC-NOGF), and reduced to an effective (2J+1)-dimensional non-orthogonal Configuration Interaction (CI) problem via L{\"o}wdin-partitioning. Within the proposed formalism, the projected Hamiltonian can be implemented to any desired order of perturbation theory in the fragment-localised excitations out of the degenerate space, and its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are systematic approximations to the crystal field energies and wavefunctions. We present a preliminary implementation of the proposed MC-NOGF method to first-order degenerate perturbation theory within our own ab initio code CERES, and compare its performance both with the simpler non-covalent orthogonal ab initio approach Fragment Ab Initio Model Potential (FAIMP) approximation, and with the full CAHF/CASCI-SO method, accounting for metal-ligand covalency in a mean-field manner. We find that energies and magnetic properties for 44 complexes obtained via an iteratively optimized version of our MC-NOGF first-order non-covalent method, compare remarkably well to the full CAHF/CASCI-SO method including metal-ligand covalency, and are superior to the best purely electrostatic results achieved via an iteratively optimized version of the FAIMP approach.<br>


Author(s):  
Frédéric Gendron ◽  
Sebastiano Di Pietro ◽  
Laura Abad Galan ◽  
François Riobé ◽  
Virginie Placide ◽  
...  

<p>The electronic structure of a chiral Yb(III)-based complex is fully determined by taking advantage of experimental magnetic, luminescence, and chiroptical characterizations in combination with ab-initio wavefunction calculations. The combined use of these techniques allows determining with high resolution the electronic structure diagram as well as the nature of the different states involved in the magnetic and chiroptical properties of the investigated complex. The different crystal-field pictures deduced from spectroscopic measurements are re-conciliated in light of the magnetic properties and ab-initio results in the frame of the van Vleck initial vision. Advanced ab-initio calculations demonstrate that global chiroptical spectra correspond to the sum of intricated transitions with similar or opposite polarizations.</p>


1971 ◽  
Vol 32 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-1008-C1-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. LAGENDIJK ◽  
W. J. HUISKAMP ◽  
P. F. BONGERS

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