“…The UV-absorption band has a high-wavelength shoulder at around 325 nm. The UV band is assigned as metal-to-ligand charge transfer band [16]. The UVpeak is typically more intense than the Vis-peak and the ratio of the absorbance of the UV-peak to that of the strongest Vis-peaks was about 2.0 for AM and 5.0 for CR, which reflects the influence of the crystal structure.…”
Section: Structural Characterisation Of Ni(dmg) 2 Thin Filmsmentioning
“…The UV-absorption band has a high-wavelength shoulder at around 325 nm. The UV band is assigned as metal-to-ligand charge transfer band [16]. The UVpeak is typically more intense than the Vis-peak and the ratio of the absorbance of the UV-peak to that of the strongest Vis-peaks was about 2.0 for AM and 5.0 for CR, which reflects the influence of the crystal structure.…”
Section: Structural Characterisation Of Ni(dmg) 2 Thin Filmsmentioning
“…Nickel(II)dimethylglyoxime [Ni(dmg) 2 ], was prepared using a known procedure [23]. A solution of glyoxime (0.0129 mol) in ethanol (150 mL) was added to a warm (80 • C) aqueous solution of Ni 2+ (0.005 mol) (30 mL) (Nickel standard solution, Fluka) and the whole mixture was made alkaline with aqueous ammonia.…”
“…Even though [Ni(Hemg) 2 ] has a shorter O ... O distance of 2.33 Å [18] compared with [Ni(Hdmg) 2 ] (2.40 Å or longer; Table S1) and probably stronger hydrogen bonding, the solubility is markedly higher. The poor solubility alongside the bright red colour is well-established as a probe for Ni II in elemental analyses [16,17,22,23]. Even without the H bonds, the geometry of the Pd II and Pt II derivatives would be square planar, due to the intrinsically strong ligand field of 4d and 5d metals, and the metal ... metal stacking planar, due to the intrinsically strong ligand field of 4d and 5d metals, and the metal ... metal stacking is facilitated for these two elements due to the larger size of their frontier d orbitals [9].…”
Important applications of the NiII, PdII and PtII complexes [M(Hdmg)2] (H2dmg = dimethylglyoxime) stem from their metal...metal stacked virtually insoluble aggregates. Given the virtual insolubility of the materials, we postulated that the rare reports on dissolved species in solution do not represent monomolecular species but oligomers. We thus studied the structural and spectral properties of the monomolecular entities of these compounds using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT computations in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as a solvent. The molecular geometries, IR and UV-vis spectra, and frontier orbitals properties were computed using LANL2DZ ecp and def2TZVP as basis sets and M06-2X as the functional. The results are compared with the available experimental and other calculated data. The optimised molecular geometries proved the asymmetric character of the two formed O–H…O bonds which connect the two Hdmg‒ ligands in the completely planar molecules. Calculated UV-vis spectra revealed the presence of three absorptions in the range 180 to 350 nm that are red-shifted along the series Ni–Pd–Pt. They were assigned to essentially ligand-centred π−π* transitions in part with metal(d) to ligand(π*) charge transfer (MLCT) contributions. The notorious d‒p transitions dominating the colour and electronics of the compounds in the solid-state and oligomeric stacks are negligible in our monomolecular models strongly supporting the idea that the previously reported spectroscopic observations or biological effects in solutions are not due to monomolecular complexes but rather to oligomeric dissolved species.
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