Asymmetric Conformation of the High-spin State of Iron(II)-tris(2,2-bipyridine): Time-resolved X-ray Absorption and Ultraviolet Circular Dichroism

Overview

Journal Struct Dyn

Date 2024 Nov 28

PMID 39606426

Authors

Nico Sanna

Costantino Zazza

Giovanni Chillemi

Elisabetta Pace

Francesco Cappelluti

Luigi Bencivenni

Malte Oppermann

Maurizio Benfatto

Majed Chergui

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Abstract

We analyze the structures of the low-spin (LS) ground state and the high-spin (HS) lowest excited state of the iron-(II)-tris bipyridine complex ([Fe(bpy)]) using density functional theory PBE methods, modeling the solvent interactions with conductor-like polarizable continuum model. These calculations are globally benchmarked against a wide range of experimental observables that include ultraviolet-visible linear absorption and circular dichroism (CD) spectra and Fe K-edge x-ray absorption near edge spectra (XANES). The calculations confirm the already established D geometry of the LS state, as well as a departure from this geometry for the HS state, with the appearance of inequivalent Fe-N bond elongations. The simulated structures nicely reproduce the above-mentioned experimental observables. We also calculate the vibrational modes of the LS and HS states. For the former, they reproduce well the vibrational frequencies from published infrared and Raman data, while for the latter, they predict very well the low-frequency vibrational coherences, attributed to Fe-N stretch modes, which were reported in ultrafast spectroscopic experiments. We further present calculations of the high-frequency region, which agree with recent ultrafast transient infrared spectroscopy studies. This work offers a common basis to the structural information encoded in the excited state CD and the Fe K XANES of the HS state tying together different structural IR, UV-visible, and x-ray observables.

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