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Tailoring the optical properties of lanthanide phosphors: prediction and characterization of the luminescence of Pr3+-doped LiYF4

Ramanantoanina, Harry ; Urland, Werner ; Herden, Benjamin ; Cimpoesu, Fanica ; Daul, Claude

In: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2015, vol. 17, no. 14, p. 9116–9125

We present a theoretical work detailing the electronic structure and the optical properties of (PrF₈)⁵⁻ embedded in LiYF₄, complementing the insight with data that are not available by experimental line. The local distortions due to the embedding of the lanthanide ion in the sites occupied in the periodic lattice by smaller yttrium centres, not detectable in regular X-ray analyses, are...

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Magnetic anisotropy in ‘scorpionate’ first-row transition-metal complexes: a theoretical investigation

Perić, Marko ; García-Fuente, Amador ; Zlatar, Matija ; Daul, Claude ; Stepanović, Stepan ; García-Fernández, Pablo ; Gruden-Pavlović, Maja

In: Chemistry – A European Journal, 2015, vol. 21, no. 9, p. 3716–3726

In this work we have analyzed in detail the magnetic anisotropy in a series of hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate (Tp−) metal complexes, namely [VTpCl]+, [CrTpCl]+, [MnTpCl]+, [FeTpCl], [CoTpCl], and [NiTpCl], and their substituted methyl and tert-butyl analogues with the goal of observing the effect of the ligand field on the magnetic properties. In the [VTpCl]+, [CrTpCl]+, [CoTpCl], and [NiTpCl]...

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Spherical aromaticity of Jahn–Teller active fullerene ions

Perić, Marko ; Andjelković, Ljubica ; Zlatar, Matija ; Nikolić, Aleksandar S. ; Daul, Claude ; Gruden-Pavlović, Maja

In: Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly, 2013, vol. 144, no. 6, p. 817–823

Density functional theory was applied to compute the nucleus-independent chemical shifts of fullerene (C₆₀), the fullerene ion C₆₀ ¹⁰⁺, and the Jahn–Teller active fullerene anion C₆₀ ⁻ and cation C₆₀ ⁺. Positioning a ³He nucleus inside the cage of each of these fullerene species facilitates investigations of the substantial differences among them, ³He NMR chemical...

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The choice of the exchange-correlation functional for the determination of the jahn–teller parameters by the density functional theory

Andjelković, Ljubica ; Gruden-Pavlović, Maja ; Daul, Claude ; Zlatar, Matija

In: International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2012, p. -

The Jahn–Teller (JT) parameters for small, aromatic, organic radicals, CnHn (n = 4–7), bis(cyclopentadienyl)cobalt(II) (cobaltocene), a sodium cluster (Na3), a silver cluster (Ag3), the hexaflurocuprate(II) ion ([CuF6]4−), and tris(acetylacetonato)manganese(III) ([Mn(acac)3]) have been evaluated by the means of the multideterminantal density functional theory using the most common...

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Computational analysis of tris(1,2-ethanediamine) cobalt(III) complex ion : calculation of the ⁵⁹Co shielding tensor using LF-DFT

Senn, Florian ; Zlatar, Matija ; Gruden-Pavlovic, Maja ; Daul, Claude

In: Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly : an International Journal of Chemistry, 2011, vol. 142, no. 6, p. 593-597

The ligand-field density functional theory (LF-DFT) approach is employed for calculations of the ⁵⁹Co nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shielding tensor of all four diastereoisomers (λλλ, λλδ, λδδ, and δδδ) of tris(1,2-ethanediamine) cobalt(III) complex ion, [Co(en)₃]³⁺. The obtained values split into two groups according to the point group of the diastereoisomers. The...

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Polytopal rearrangement of [Ni(acac)₂(py)]: A new square pyramid ⇄ trigonal bipyramid twist mechanism

Daul, Claude ; Niketic, Svetozar ; Rauzy, Cédrick ; Schläpfer, Carl-Wilhelm

In: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2004, vol. 10(3), p. 721-727

The interconversion mechanisms between three idealized polytopal forms (a square pyramid and two trigonal bipyramids) of [M(bidentate)₂(unidentate)] were investigated by an original combination of molecular mechanics (MM) and density functional theory (DFT) approaches. MM was used to model the mechanistic rearrangement path, and DFT to study selected points along this path. The test case was a...