1. Institut für Physik, Universit?t zu Lübeck, 23538, Lübeck, Germany 2. Wydzia? Chemii, Uniwerystet Wroc?awski, 50-383, Wroc?aw, Poland 3. Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, 31077, Toulouse, France
Abstract:
Density functional methods have been applied to calculate the quadrupole splitting of a series of iron(II) spin crossover
complexes. Experimental and calculated values are in reasonable agreement. In one case spin–orbit coupling is necessary to
explain the very small quadrupole splitting value of 0.77 mm/s at 293 K for a high-spin isomer.