Geometric distortions and Jahn-Teller effects in Bis(terpyridine) metal complexes

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.139840" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.molstruc.2024.139840</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geometric distortions and Jahn-Teller effects in Bis(terpyridine) metal complexes

Original language description

All bis(terpyridine)metal complexes exhibit a distorted octahedral geometry due to the steric strain imposed by the terpyridine ligand. In these complexes, the central metal-nitrogen bonds are consistently shorter than the terminal metal-nitrogen bonds, indicating that every bis(terpyridine)metal complex is inherently compressed along the direction of the central metal-nitrogen bonds. However, due to the Jahn-Teller effect, additional geometric distortion and symmetry breaking occur in Jahn-Teller active bis(terpyridine)metal complexes to stabilize the system. Examples include high-spin d4 bis(terpyridine)manganese(III) and d4 bis(terpyridine) chromium(II), high-spin d6 bis(terpyridine)iron(II), low-spin d7 bis(terpyridine)cobalt(II) and bis(terpyridine) nickel(III), and d9 bis(terpyridine)copper(II). Elongation Jahn-Teller distortion in bis(terpyridine)metal complexes occurs along the opposite terminal metal-nitrogen bonds of one of the terpyridine ligands, with the highest symmetry achieved in such elongation Jahn-Teller distorted bis(terpyridine)metal compounds being C2v. Compression Jahn-Teller distortion occurs along the central metal-nitrogen bonds, with the highest symmetry in these compressed bis(terpyridine)metal compounds being D2d, although C2v symmetry is also observed, with the z-axis defined along the central metalnitrogen bonds. Distinguishing between the two possible Jahn-Teller distorted geometries for bis(terpyridine)metal complexes under C2v (or lower) symmetry is not straightforward. This contribution discusses, with examples, experimental and theoretical results reported on Jahn-Teller distortion observed in bis(terpyridine)metal complexes, providing guidelines on how to identify the kind of Jahn-Teller distortion observed.

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10403 - Physical chemistry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Molecular Structure

ISSN

0022-2860

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

1321

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February 2025

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

001308342900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85202819076