Vibrational solvatochromism of rhodium pybox carbonyl complexes mediated by hydrogen bonding
Nil Roig1,2, Mercedes Alonso2, Adrian B Chaplin1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. a.b.chaplin@warwick.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 16, 2026
Abstract:
The carbonyl stretching frequencies of structurally related classical and non-classical rhodium carbonyl complexes are significantly red-shifted by methanol enrichment in solution and rationalised in terms of the nature of the hydrogen bonding interactions involved using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.
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