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Kiehl P, Rohmer MM, Bénard M. Electron delocalization in nickel metallic wires: a DFT investigation of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) and [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (dpa = dipyridylamide) and extension to higher nuclearity chains. Inorg Chem. 2004;43(10):3151-8doi: 10.1021/ic040011j.
Kiehl, P., Rohmer, M. M., & Bénard, M. (2004). Electron delocalization in nickel metallic wires: a DFT investigation of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) and [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (dpa = dipyridylamide) and extension to higher nuclearity chains. Inorganic chemistry, 43(10), 3151-8. https://doi.org/10.1021/ic040011j
Kiehl, Pascal, et al. "Electron delocalization in nickel metallic wires: a DFT investigation of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) and [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (dpa = dipyridylamide) and extension to higher nuclearity chains." Inorganic chemistry vol. 43,10 (2004): 3151-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/ic040011j
Kiehl P, Rohmer MM, Bénard M. Electron delocalization in nickel metallic wires: a DFT investigation of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) and [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (dpa = dipyridylamide) and extension to higher nuclearity chains. Inorg Chem. 2004 May 17;43(10):3151-8. doi: 10.1021/ic040011j. PMID: 15132621.
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Inorg Chem. 2004 May 17;43(10):3151-8. doi: 10.1021/ic040011j.

Electron delocalization in nickel metallic wires: a DFT investigation of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) and [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (dpa = dipyridylamide) and extension to higher nuclearity chains.

Inorganic chemistry

Pascal Kiehl, Marie-Madeleine Rohmer, Marc Bénard

Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, UMR 7551, CNRS and Université Louis Pasteur, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.

PMID: 15132621 DOI: 10.1021/ic040011j

Abstract

The electronic structure of Ni(3)(dpa)(4)Cl(2) (1) has been investigated within the framework of the density functional theory (DFT), using two types of exchange-correlation functionals and various basis sets. The "broken-symmetry" approach proposed by Noodleman for the characterization of electronic states displaying an antiferromagnetic coupling has been applied to 1. All calculations lead to the conclusion that the ground state results from an antiferromagnetic coupling between the terminal Ni atoms, both displaying a high-spin electronic configuration. The central Ni atom is in a low-spin configuration, but is involved in a superexchange interaction connecting the two magnetic centers. These results are in agreement with the assignments recently proposed by the group of F. A. Cotton on the basis of magnetic measurements. It is shown that the ground state electronic configuration calculated for 1 provides the trinickel framework with some delocalized sigma bonding character. The observed geometry of 1 is accurately reproduced by the broken-symmetry solution. The doublet ground state assigned to the oxidized species [Ni(3)(dpa)(4)](3+) (2) and the dramatic contraction of the coordination sphere of the terminal metals observed upon oxidation are also confirmed by the calculations. However, the formal Ni-Ni bond order is not expected to increase in the oxidized species. The contraction of the Ni-Ni distance in 2 is shown to result in part from the vanishing of the important trans influence originating in the axial ligands, and for the rest from a more efficient shielding of the metal nuclear charge along the Ni-Ni-Ni axis. The conclusions deduced from the analysis of the bonding in 1 and 2 can be extended to their homologues with higher nuclearity. More specifically, it is predicted that the single occupancy of the most antibonding sigma orbital, extending over the whole metal framework, will provide the (Ni(p))(2)(p)(/(2)(p)(+1)+) chains with some delocalized bonding character and, possibly, with electrical conduction properties.

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