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Multifrequency EPR Study and Density Functional g-Tensor Calculations of Persistent Organorhenium Radical Complexes

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Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124 (35): 10563--10571 (2002)
DOI: 10.1021/ja025829n

Abstract

The dinuclear radical anion complexes (μ-L)Re(CO)3Cl2.bul.-, L = 2,2'-azobispyridine (abpy) and 2,2'-azobis(5-chloropyrimidine) (abcp), were studied by EPR at 9.5, 94, 230, and 285 GHz (abpy complex) and at 9.5 and 285 GHz (abcp complex). Whereas the X-band measurements yielded only the isotropic metal hyperfine coupling of the 185,187Re isotopes, the high-frequency EPR expts. in glassy frozen CH2Cl2/toluene soln. revealed the g components. Both the a(185,187Re) value and the g anisotropy, g1 - g3, are larger for the abcp complex, which contains the better p-accepting bridging ligand. Confirmation for this comes also from IR and UV/visible spectroscopy of the new (μ-abcp)Re(CO)3Cl2o/.bul.-/2- redox system. The g values are reproduced reasonably well by d. functional calcns. which confirm higher metal participation at the singly occupied MO and therefore larger contributions from the metal atoms to the g anisotropy in abcp systems compared to abpy complexes. Addnl. calcns. for systems (μ-abcp)M(CO)3X2.bul.- (M = Tc or Re and X = Cl, and X = F, Cl, or Br with M = Re) provided further insight into the relation between spin d. distribution and g anisotropy. on SciFinder(R)

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