Molecular Structure and Vibrational Spectra of Mixed MDyX₄ (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs; X = F, Cl, Br, I) Vapor Complexes: A Computational and Matrix-Isolation Infrared Spectroscopic Study

Abstract

The structures, energetic, and vibrational properties of MDyX(4) (M = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs; X = F, Cl, Br, I) mixed alkali halide/dysprosium halide complexes have been investigated by a joint computational and experimental, matrix-isolation Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic (MI-IR), study. According to our DFT computations for the complexes with heavier halides and alkali metals the ground-state structure is the tridentate isomer; while at high temperatures the bidentate structural isomer dominates. The survey of various dissociation processes revealed the preference of the dissociation to neutral MX and DyX(3) fragments over ionic and radical dissociation products. Cationic complexes are considerably less stable at 1000 K than the neutral complexes, and they prefer to dissociate to M(+) + DyX(4)(•) fragments. The vapor species of selected mixtures of NaBr and CsBr with DyBr(3) and of CsI with DyI(3) in the temperature range 900-1000 K have been isolated in krypton and xenon matrices and investigated by infrared spectroscopy. Besides the characteristic vibrational frequencies of the monomeric and dimeric alkali halide species and of the dysprosium trihalide molecules, certain signals indicated the formation of MDyX(4) (M = Na, Cs; X = Br, I) mixed complexes. Comparison with the computed vibrational and thermodynamic characteristics of the relevant species lead to the conclusion that these complexes appear in the vapor predominantly as the C(2v)-symmetry bidentate isomer. This is the first time that this structure was identified in an experimental vibrational spectroscopic study. The signals appearing upon performing a thermal anneal cycle were tentatively assigned to the double complex M(2)DyX(5) (M = Na, Cs; X = Br, I). A structure in which one alkali atom is bound to dysprosium by three and the other by two bridges is proposed for these double complexes.

Magdolna Hargittai’s inorganic structures

“…The operation of metal halide lamps is an example in which lanthanide trihalides are involved. Magdi and her co-workers carried out computations on a series of complexes of dysprosium trihalides with alkali halides, MDyX 4 [19][20][21]. Figure 7a shows the PES of the NaDyBr 4 complex.…”

“…An interesting aspect of their study was that while at zero K the tridentate structure is the minimum energy structure, at the high operational temperature of the lamps, the bidentate structure becomes dominant (Fig. 7b) [21].…”

Phase transition and ionic conduction enhancement induced by co-doping of LiI and MnI2 in a one-dimensional lead iodide perovskite

“…S9b, ESI†), which is probably attributed to ν Li−I . 7 In the Raman spectra, the ν Pb–I band locates at 101 cm −1 for x = 0 and 106 cm −1 for all co-doped hybrids (Fig. 2a) and in the Raman spectrum of layered MnI 2 , the ν Mn–I band locates at 111 cm −1 , 8 very close to the ν Pb–I band (∼106 cm −1 ), and both the ν Mn–I and ν Pb–I bands may overlap together in the co-doped hybrids.…”