In: Monatshefte für Chemie / Chemical Monthly, 2005, vol. 136, no. 6, p. 925-963
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In: Inorganic Chemistry, 2008, vol. 47, no. 7, p. 2449–2463
Magnetic anisotropy in cyanide-bridged single-molecule magnets (SMMs) with FeIII−CN−MII (M = Cu, Ni) exchange-coupled pairs was analyzed using a density functional theory (DFT)-based ligand field model. A pronounced magnetic anisotropy due to exchange was found for linear FeIII−CN−MII units with fourfold symmetry. This results from spin–orbit...
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In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2007, vol. 111, no. 37, p. 9145 -9163
The topology of the ground-state potential energy surface of M(CN)₆ with orbitally degenerate ²T2g (M = TiIII (t2g¹), FeIII and MnII (both low-spin t2g⁵)) and ³T1g ground states (M = VIII (t2g²), MnIII and CrII (both low-spin t2g⁴)) has been studied...
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In: Chimia, 2005, vol. 59, no. 7-8, p. 504-510
The research activity within our laboratory of computational chemistry at the University of Fribourg is presented. In this review, a brief outline of a recently proposed Ligand Field Density Functional Theory (LFDFT) model for single nuclear and its extension to dimer transition metal complexes is given. Applications of the model to dinuclear complexes are illustrated for the interpretation...
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In: Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2005, vol. 8(9-10), p. 1421-1433
An overview of the theory and applications of a recently proposed ligand-field density functional theory (LFDFT) is given. We describe a procedure based on DFT allowing to deduce the parameters of this non-empirical LF approach consisting of the following steps: (i) an average of configuration (AOC) DFT calculation, with equal occupancies of the d-orbitals is carried out (ii) with...
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In: Monatshefte für Chemie / Chemical Monthly, 2005, vol. 136, no. 6, p. 925-963
Metal–ligand bonding in transition metal halide molecules and complexes with different central ions, oxidations states, and coordination numbers: CrIII X₆³⁻, CrIVX₄, CrIIX₂ (X = F,Cl,Br,I), MIIICl₆³⁻(M = Mo,W), MIII (H₂O)₆³⁺(M = Cr,Co) and Re₂Cl₈²⁻ has...
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In: Inorganic Chemistry, 2005, vol. 44(8), p. 2954-2963
Metal (4f)-ligand (Cl 3p) bonding in LnCl63- (Ln = Ce to Yb) complexes has been studied on the basis of 4f->4f and Cl,3p->4f charge-transfer spectra and on the analysis of these spectra within the valence bond configuration interaction model to show that mixing of Cl 3p into the Ln 4f ligand field orbitals does not exceed 1%. Contrary to this, Kohn-Sham formalism...
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In: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2005, vol. 102, p. 119-131
Spin-orbit coupling has been introduced into our newly developed ligand field density functional theory (LFDFT), using the zero-order regular approximation as implemented into the Amsterdam density functional (ADF) code. Application of the formalism to a series of NiX₄²⁻ (X=F⁻, Cl⁻, Br⁻, I⁻) compounds shows the increasing importance of intra-ligand spin-orbit coupling across the F,...
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