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J Landry-Hum1, G Bussière, C Daniel
1Laboratoire de Chimie Quantique, UMR 7551 CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, Institut Le Bel, 4 Rue Blaise Pascal, 67 000 Strasbourg, France.
Abstract:
Octahedral complexes of transition metal ions with d(2) and d(8) electron configurations have triplet electronic states with identical T(2g), A(2g), T(1g)((3)F), and T(1g)((3)P) symmetry labels. CASSCF and CASPT2 calculations indicate the predominant electronic configurations for each triplet state. The two (3)T(1g) states show strong configuration mixing in the d(8) complex [Ni(H(2)O)(6)](2+), but much weaker mixing occurs between these states in the d(2) compound [V(H(2)O)(6)](3+). Calculated vibrational frequencies and equilibrium geometries for the triplet states are used to obtain theoretical absorption spectra that are in agreement with the experimental data.
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