Electronic reorganization triggered by electron transfer: The intervalence charge transfer of a Fe3+/Fe2+ bimetallic complex |
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| Authors: | Alex Domingo Celestino Angeli Coen de Graaf Vincent Robert |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Belgium;2. Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy;3. Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain;4. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan?ats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain;5. Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, Institut de Chimie UMR 7177, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
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| Abstract: | The key role of the molecular orbitals in describing electron transfer processes is put in evidence for the intervalence charge transfer (IVCT) of a synthetic nonheme binuclear mixed‐valence Fe3+/Fe2+ compound. The electronic reorganization induced by the IVCT can be quantified by controlling the adaptation of the molecular orbitals to the charge transfer process. We evaluate the transition energy and its polarization effects on the molecular orbitals by means of ab initio calculations. The resulting energetic profile of the IVCT shows strong similarities to the Marcus' model, suggesting a response behaviour of the ensemble of electrons analogue to that of the solvent. We quantify the extent of the electronic reorganization induced by the IVCT process to be 11.74 eV, a very large effect that induces the crossing of states reducing the total energy of the transfer to 0.89 eV. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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| Keywords: | electron transfer transition metal electronic structure Ab Initio molecular orbitals |
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