Octacarbonyl Anion Complexes of the Late Lanthanides Ln(CO)8- (Ln=Tm, Yb, Lu) and the 32-Electron Rule
Octacarbonyl Anion Complexes of the Late Lanthanides Ln(CO)8- (Ln=Tm, Yb, Lu) and the 32-Electron Rule
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晚期镧系元素八羰基阴离子配合物Ln(CO)(8)(-) (Ln=Tm, Yb, Lu)和32电子规则
DOI:
10.1002/chem.201805260
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发表时间:
2019-03-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
Zhou, Mingfei
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作者:
Jin, Jiaye;Pan, Sudip;Zhou, Mingfei
The lanthanide octacarbonyl anion complexes Ln(CO)(8)(-) (Ln=Tm, Yb, Lu) were produced in the gas phase and detected by mass-selected infrared photodissociation spectroscopy in the carbonyl stretching-frequency region. By comparison of the experimental CO-stretching frequencies with calculated data, which are strongly red-shifted with respect to free CO, the Yb(CO)(8)(-) and Lu(CO)(8)(-) complexes were determined to possess octahedral (O-h) symmetry and a doublet X(2)A(2u) (Yb) and singlet X(1)A(1g) (Lu) electronic ground state, whereas Tm(CO)(8)(-) exhibits a D-4h equilibrium geometry and a triplet (XB1g)-B-3 ground state. The analysis of the electronic structures revealed that the metal-CO attractive forces come mainly from covalent orbital interactions, which are dominated by [Ln(d)](CO)(8) backdonation and [Ln(d)](CO)(8) sigma donation (contributes approximate to 77 and 16% to covalent bonding, respectively). The metal f orbitals play a very minor role in the bonding. The electronic structure of all three lanthanide complexes obeys the 32-electron rule if only those electrons that occupy the valence orbitals of the metal are considered.