Covalency Effects in KNi F 3 . III. Theoretical Studies
Covalency Effects in KNi F 3 . III. Theoretical Studies
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KNi F 3 中的共价效应。
DOI:
10.1103/physrev.130.517
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发表时间:
1963
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通讯作者:
R. Shulman
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作者:
S. Sugano;R. Shulman
For the (N i F 6) 4− complex in KNi F 3 we have constructed molecular orbitals (MO) which are linear combinations of the Ni 2+ and F− Hartree-Fock atomic orbitals. These LCAO-MO, introduced by Van Vleck, are of the form Ψ= N− 1 2 (ϕ− λ χ) in which ϕ is the Ni 2+ 3 d function and χ a linear combination of the suitable F− functions. The orbitals were assumed to be solutions of Schrödinger's equation h Ψ= E Ψ, where the Hamiltonian was h=− Δ 2+ V M+ V L. The terms V M and V L describe the Coulombic and exchange interactions with the metal ion and ligands, respectively. Matrix elements of the form< Ψ| h| Ψ> were evaluated numerically on an IBM 7090. Assuming λ and the overlap between ϕ and χ to be small, the energy was minimized and the parameters λ were determined. For the 2 p σ bonding and the 2 s bonding the calculated values were N e− 1 2 λ σ= 0.383 and N e− 1 2 λ s= 0.109 which agreed very well with the values N e− 1 2 λ p σ= 0.337 and N e− 1 2 λ s= 0.116 determined in the nuclear magnetic resonance experiment. The molecular orbitals were used to calculate the cubic crystal field splitting 1 0 D q=(Ψ e| h| Ψ e)−(Ψ t| h| Ψ t) which is the promotion energy of an electron from a t 2 g orbital to an e g orbital. The calculated value of 1 0 D q= 6 3 5 0 cm− 1 agreed quite well with the observed value of 1 0 D q= 7 2 5 0 cm− 1 considering the accuracy of the calculation. Furthermore, the reduction of the spin-orbit parameter and the Racah parameter B from their free-ion values are satisfactorily explained by the molecular orbital approach. The physical interpretation of these results is emphasized. In particular, the only contributions to 1 0 D q with the correct sign come from the off-diagonal matrix elements associated with the covalency; the amount of π electron admixture is shown to be large; one novel physical mechanism partly responsible for the large π bonding is the crystal field splitting of the F− p σ and p π levels by the Ni 2+ ions; expanding the Ni 2+ radial function is shown to be unnecessary for some purposes and incorrect for the remainder. Details of the calculation are presented and implications of the LCAO-MO model discussed.