Site-selective detection of vibrational modes of an iron atom in a trinuclear complex

Autor: S. Rackwitz, Atanu Banerjee, Hans-Jörg Krüger, Kai Schlage, Isabelle Faus, Harald Kelm, Hans-Christian Wille, Volker Schünemann, Juliusz A. Wolny
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Hyperfine Interactions. 237
ISSN: 1572-9540
0304-3843
DOI: 10.1007/s10751-016-1283-8
Popis: Nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS) experiments on the trinuclear complex [57Fe{L-N4(CH2Fc)2} (CH3CN)2](ClO4)2 have been performed. The octahedral iron ion in the complex was labelled with 57Fe and thereby exclusively the vibrational modes of this iron ion have been detected with NIS. The analysis of nuclear forward scattering (NFS) data yields a ferrous low-spin state for the 57Fe labelled iron ion. The simulation of the partial density of states (pDOS) for the octahedral low-spin iron(II) ion of the complex by density functional theory (DFT) calculations is in excellent agreement with the experimental pDOS of the complex determined from the NIS data obtained at 80 K. Thereby it was possible to assign almost each of the experimentally observed NIS bands to the corresponding molecular vibrational modes.
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