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  • Title: Molecular and Electronic Structures of Homoleptic Six-Coordinate Cobalt(I) Complexes of 2,2':6',2″-Terpyridine, 2,2'-Bipyridine, and 1,10-Phenanthroline. An Experimental and Computational Study.
    Author: England J, Bill E, Weyhermüller T, Neese F, Atanasov M, Wieghardt K.
    Journal: Inorg Chem; 2015 Dec 21; 54(24):12002-18. PubMed ID: 26636830.
    Abstract:
    The crystal structures of nine homoleptic, pseudooctahedral cobalt complexes, 1-9, containing either 2,2':6',2″-terpyridine (tpy), 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine ((t)bpy), or 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) ligands have been determined in three oxidation levels, namely, cobalt(III), cobalt(II), and, for the first time, the corresponding presumed cobalt(I) species. The intraligand bond distances in the complexes [Co(I)(tpy(0))2](+), [Co(I)((t)bpy(0))3](+), and [Co(I)(phen(0))3](+) are identical, within experimental error, not only with those in the corresponding trications and dications but also with the uncoordinated neutral ligands tpy(0), bpy(0), and phen(0). On this basis, a cobalt(I) oxidation state assignment can be inferred for the monocationic complexes. The trications are clearly low-spin Co(III) (S = 0) species, and the dicationic species [Co(II)(tpy(0))2](2+), [Co(II)((t)bpy(0))3](2+), and [Co(II)(phen(0))3](2+) contain high-spin (S = (3)/2) Co(II). Notably, the cobalt(I) complexes do not display any structural indication of significant metal-to-ligand (t2g → π*) π-back-donation effects. Consistent with this proposal, the temperature-dependent molar magnetic susceptibilities of the three cobalt(I) species have been recorded (3-300 K) and a common S = 1 ground state confirmed. In contrast to the corresponding electronic spectra of isoelectronic (and isostructural) [Ni(II)(tpy(0))2](2+), [Ni(II)(bpy(0))3](2+), and [Ni(II)(phen(0))3](2+), which display d → d bands with very small molar extinction coefficients (ε < 60 M(-1) cm(-1)), the spectra of the cobalt(I) species exhibit intense bands (ε > 10(3) M(-1) cm(-1)) in the visible and near-IR regions. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations using the B3LYP functional have validated the experimentally derived electronic structure assignments of the monocations as cobalt(I) complexes with minimal cobalt-to-ligand π-back-bonding. Similar calculations for the six-coordinate neutral complexes [Co(II)(tpy(•))2](0) and [Co(II)(bpy(•))2(bpy(0))](0) point to a common S = (3)/2 ground state, each possessing a central high-spin Co(II) ion and two π-radical anion ligands. In addition, the excited-states and ground state magnetic properties of [Co(I)(tpy(0))2][Co(I-)(CO)4] have been explored by variable-temperature variable-magnetic-field magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectroscopy. A series of strong signals associated with the paramagnetic monocation exhibit pronounced C-term behavior indicative of the presence of metal-to-ligand charge-transfer bands [in contrast to d-d transitions of the nickel(II) analogue]. Time-dependent DFT calculations have allowed assignment of these transitions as Co(3d) → π*(tpy) excitations. Metal-to-ligand charge-transfer states intermixing with the Co(d(8)) multiplets explain the remarkably large (and negative) zero-field-splitting parameter D obtained from SQUID and MCD measurements. Ground-state electron- and spin-density distributions of [Co(I)(tpy(0))2](+) have been investigated by multireference electronic structure methods: complete active-space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and N-electron perturbation theory to second order (NEVPT2). Both correlated CASSCF/NEVPT2 and spin-unrestricted B3LYP-based DFT calculations show a significant delocalization of the spin density from the Co(I) dxz,yz orbitals toward the empty π* orbitals located on the two central pyridine fragments in the trans position. This spin density is of an alternating α,β-spin polarization type (McConnel mechanism I) and is definitely not due to magnetic metal-to-radical coupling. A comparison of these results with those for [Ni(II)(tpy(0))2](2+) (S = 1) is presented.
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