EPR, ENDOR, and Electronic Structure Studies of the Jahn鈥揟eller Distortion in an FeV Nitride

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• 作者：George E. Cutsail III ; Benjamin W. Stein ; Deepak Subedi ; Jeremy M. Smith ; Martin L. Kirk ; Brian M. Hoffman
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：September 3, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：136
• 期：35
• 页码：12323-12336
• 全文大小：633K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The recently synthesized and isolated low-coordinate Fe^V nitride complex has numerous implications as a model for high-oxidation states in biological and industrial systems. The trigonal [PhB(^tBuIm)₃Fe^V鈮]⁺ (where (PhB(^tBuIm)₃^{鈥?/sup> = phenyltris(3-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidene)), (1) low-spin d3 (S = 1/2) coordination compound is subject to a Jahn鈥揟eller (JT) distortion of its doubly degenerate 2E ground state. The electronic structure of this complex is analyzed by a combination of extended versions of the formal two-orbital pseudo Jahn鈥揟eller (PJT) treatment and of quantum chemical computations of the PJT effect. The formal treatment is extended to incorporate mixing of the two e orbital doublets (30%) that results from a lowering of the idealized molecular symmetry from D_3h to C_3v through strong 鈥渄oming鈥?of the Fe鈥揅₃ core. Correspondingly we introduce novel DFT/CASSCF computational methods in the computation of electronic structure, which reveal a quadratic JT distortion and significant e鈥?i>e mixing, thus reaching a new level of synergism between computational and formal treatments. Hyperfine and quadrupole tensors are obtained by pulsed 35 GHz ENDOR measurements for the 14/15N-nitride and the 11B axial ligands, and spectra are obtained from the imidazole-2-ylidene 13C atoms that are not bound to Fe. Analysis of the nitride ENDOR tensors surprisingly reveals an essentially spherical nitride trianion bound to Fe, with negative spin density and minimal charge density anisotropy. The four-coordinate 11B, as expected, exhibits negligible bonding to Fe. A detailed analysis of the frontier orbitals provided by the electronic structure calculations provides insight into the reactivity of 1: JT-induced symmetry lowering provides an orbital selection mechanism for proton or H atom transfer reactivity.}