“…Such a hypsochromic shift of the absorption upon the ligand exchange suggests that the frontier orbitals have an appreciable input from the apical ligands as also mentioned in earlier work devoted to [{Mo 6 I 8 }L 6 ] 2À cluster complexes. [17][18][19] The transmittance of the PMMA bulk -Mo x samples is in accordance with the absorption spectrum of compound 2. Indeed, with the increase of cluster complex loading, the transparency of the pelleted samples gradually decreases in the region where the blank PMMA sample is almost fully transparent, i.e.…”
“…Such a hypsochromic shift of the absorption upon the ligand exchange suggests that the frontier orbitals have an appreciable input from the apical ligands as also mentioned in earlier work devoted to [{Mo 6 I 8 }L 6 ] 2À cluster complexes. [17][18][19] The transmittance of the PMMA bulk -Mo x samples is in accordance with the absorption spectrum of compound 2. Indeed, with the increase of cluster complex loading, the transparency of the pelleted samples gradually decreases in the region where the blank PMMA sample is almost fully transparent, i.e.…”
“…The well‐known electronic situation of [M 6 X 8 X 6 ] 2– clusters with M = Mo, W and X = Cl, Br, I is represented by a band gap in the typical order of 3 eV . The photoexcitation of the ground state of the cluster into an excited singlet state (S 0 →S 1 ) can be considered as an intrinsic property of the individual clusters and has been described as a ligand‐to‐metal charge transfer , . For this reason, photoluminescence of the clusters is evident in solid state and in solution.…”
A x [W 6 I 14 ] compounds with A = Na, K, Rb, or Cs are prepared from W 3 I 12 and alkali iodides (AI). Crystal structures were solved and refined for Na[W 6 I 14 ] and A 2 [W 6 I 14 ] compounds with A = K, Rb and Cs on the basis of powder and single-crystal XRD diffraction. All compounds behave stable in air and can be dissolved in polar organic solvents making them [a]
“…10) Such optical properties depend on the combination of X i and X a , 20,21) and so the effects of halogen substitution on the electronic structure of these compounds and their excited states were investigated. 22,23) Based on these investigations into the electronic structure of the 2− , 23,24)…”
We herein report the structure-property relationships of the octahedral molybdenum metal cluster compound, Cs2[Mo6Cl14]. Using purified samples, we attempted to determine if Cs2[Mo6Cl14] possesses crystalline polarity. Heat treatment was performed prior to characterization to remove impurities, as X-ray powder diffraction and Fourier transformation infrared spectroscopy studies suggested the unit cell of Cs2[Mo6Cl14] expanded with the insertion of water molecules and/or hydroxyl moieties. Geometry optimization and total energy calculations by density functional theory calculations were conducted to determine whether Cs2[Mo6Cl14] crystallizes in centrosymmetric ( 31 P c ) or non-centrosymmetric (P31c) space groups. Furthermore, the results of the optical studies, along with the absence of a second harmonic generation, and the observation of a strong third harmonic generation, supported the hypothesis that inversion symmetry exists in the Cs2[Mo6Cl14] lattice. The space group of Cs2[Mo6Cl14] was therefore identified as 31 P csymmetry.
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