Electronic dna Vibronic Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes II Volume Editor: H. Yersin With contributions by .T Azumi, H. .B Gray, .W Humbs, H. Miki, .V M. Miskowski, H. H. Patterson, .T Sch6nherr, . Strasser, H. Yersin Springer This series presents critical reviews of the present position and future trends in modern chemical research. It is addressed to all research and industrial chemists who wish to keep abreast of advances in the topics covered. As a rule, contributions are specially commissioned. The editors • . and publishers will, however, always be pleased to receive suggestions and supplementary information. Papers are accepted for" Topics in Current Chemistry" in English. In references Topics in Current Chemistry si abbreviated Top. Curr. Chem. and is cited as a journal. 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Houk Institut fiir Organische Chemie Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry der Georg-August-Universit/it University of California Tammannstrat~e 2 504 Higard eunevA 77073-D G6ttingen, Germany soL ,selegnA AC ,9851-42009 ASU E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn Prof. Steven .V Ley Institut de Chimie University Chemical Laboratory Universitd de Strasbourg dleifsneL Road 1 rue Blaise Pascal, .B .P Z 8R/692 2BC WE1 Cambridge, Great Britain 80076-F Strasbourg Cedex, France E-mail: svll ku.ca.mac.suc@00O E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Joachim Thiem Prof. Barry M. Trost Institut ftir Organische Chemie Department of Chemistry ti~tisrevinU Hamburg Stanford University Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6 Stanford, AC ,0805-50349 ASU 64102-D Hamburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Dr. Fritz V6gtle Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto Institut ftir Organische Chemie School of Engineering und Biochemie der ti/tisrevinU Nagoya University Gerhard-Domagk-Strafle 1 10-464 Chikusa, ,ayogaN Japan 12135-D Bonn, Germany E-mail: pj.ca.u-ayogan.cc.ccun@a88954j :liam-E eimehcnS@eltgeov l.chemie.uni-bonn.de ecaferP The properties of transition metal compounds have fascinated physicists and chemists for a long time. These compounds have an enormous potential for future applications of solar energy conversion, information storage systems, chemical or biochemical sensors, lowdimensional semiconductors, supramole- cular systems, chemical synthesis, etc. Most of these applications are related to the characteristics of the low-lying electronic and vibronic states. In the present volume as well as in its companion volume 1 leading researchers - physicists and chemists - present theoretical as well as experimental approaches towards a deeper understanding of these compounds. Both volumes build a bridge between physicists and chemists by showing how controlled chemical variations can be applied to tune physical properties in a defined way and vice versa, "yb demon- strating how detailed spectroscopical and quantum mechanical investigations allow the chemical characterization of ground and excited states. In particular in this volume, an introduction into properties of spin sublevels of metal centered (MC), ligand centered (LC) and metal-to-ligand-charge-trans- fer (MLCT) states is given by .T Azumi and H. Miki. Further, a modern ligand field theory based on the Angular Overlap Model is presented by .T Sch6nherr. In the contribution by .V M. Miskowski and H. .B Gray it is shown how to characterize bi-nuclear Os(III) complexes from polarized single-crystal electronic spectra and magnetic susceptibility measurements. In experimental case studies H.H. Patterson discusses selected d-electron systems in a variety of environments such as neat and mixed crystals as well as on surfaces. On the basis of highly frequency-resolved and time-resolved spectra, H. Yersin, .W Humbs, and .J Stras- ser investigate and characterize a series of metal bipyridine compounds. Con- sequences of adjustable metal d-orbital involvement, which leads to variable spin-orbit coupling, zero-field splittings, and spin-lattice relaxation processes in the time domain, are treated. Further, several specific effects such as magnetic- field induced tunability of Herzberg-Teller to Franck-Condon activity, chromophore-matrix interactions, and spectroscopic fingerprints of localiza- tion/delocalization processes in the excited states are also studied. A series of compounds is investigated in detail, for example Rh(phen)3 ,+3 cis- Rh(CN)z(phen)2 ,+ Pt(bpy)2 ,+2 Ru(bpy)3 +2 , Ru(i-biq)2 (bpy) +z , Os(bpy)3 +z , 1 ehT first ,emulov scipoT ni Current Chemistry 171 Electronic and Vibronic Spectra of Tran- sitions Metal Complexes I de( .H ,)nisreY appeared ni .4991 VIII ecaferP Cr(bpy)3 ,÷3 Cr(urea)6 ,÷3 Cr(acac)3, Cr(III) and Cr(IV) doped oxide lattices, 6FnM ,-a 6rBeR ,-2 61CsO ,-2 bi-nuclear Os(III) complexes, Mo(II) chloride clusters, and two-dimensional layers of Au(CN)2- complexes. I hope that the contributions in the present volume will not only stimulate the interaction between the different fields of basic research in chemistry and physics but will also open pathways for new applications. Regensburg, May 1997 Hartmut Yersin Contents Spectroscopy of the Spin Sublevels of Transition Metal Complexes .T Azumi, H. Miki ............................... Magnetic and Spectroscopic Properties of 0s2(02CR)4C12 . Evidence for a 3(6*rr*) Ground State .V M. Miskowski, H. .B Gray .......................... 14 Luminescence and Absorption Studies of Transition Metal Ions in Host Crystals, Pure Crystals and Surface Environments H. H. Patterson ................................ 59 Angular Overlap Model Applied to Transition Metal Complexes and dtC-Ions in Oxide Host Lattices .T Sch6nherr .................................. 87 Characterization of Excited Electronic and Vibronic States of Platinum Metal Compounds with Chelate Ligands by Highly Frequency-Resolved and Time-Resolved Spectra H. Yersin, .W Humbs, . Strasser ....................... 351 Author Index Volumes 151-191 ....................... 152 Contents of Volume 171 cinortcelE dna Vibronic artcepS of Transition Metal sexelpmoC I Volume Editor: H. Yersin Vibrational Structure in the Luminescence Spectra of Ions in Solids .G Blasse The Doublet States in Chromium (III) Complexes. A Shell-Theoretic View .A Ceulemans Vibrational Progressions in Electronic Spectra of Complex Compounds Indicating Strong Vibronic Coupling H.-H. Schmidtke Sharp-Line Electronic Spectra and Metal-Ligand Geometry .P .E Hoggard Competition Between Ligand Centered and Charge Transfer Lowest Excited States in bis Cyclometalated Rh 3 ÷ and Ir 3 + Complexes .M .G Colombo, .A Hauser, H. .U Gfidel Spectroscopic Manifestations of Potential Surface Coupling Along Normal Coordinates in Transition Metal Complexes .D Wexler, .J .I Zink, .C Reber ypocsortcepS of the Spin slevelbuS of noitisnarT Metal sexelpmoC Tohru Azumi* and Hisayuki Miki Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan * e-mail: azumi @ orgphys, chem. tohoku, ac.jp The theoretical and experimental aspects of the spin sublevels of transition metal complexes are briefly reviewed. First, the complexes with organic ligands are discussed. For metal-local- ized dd states and metal-to-ligand charge transfer drr* states, the splitting among spin sub- levels is mainly governed by the spin-orbit coupling, and the magnitude of the splitting is of the order of 10-100 cm .x- For ligand-localized triplet *-nrr states, the splitting is mainly governed by the spin-spin coupling, and the magnitude of the splitting is mainly governed by the spin-spin coupling and the magnitude of the splitting is of the order of .O 1 cm .~- Theoret- ical evaluation of the radiative rate constants for the individual spin sublevels is discussed, and is compared with experimental data. Finally, the spin sublevels of metal clusters are discussed. Introduction ............................... 2 2 Experimental Methods to Obtain Energies and Other Spectroscopic Properties of the Spin Sublevels .................... 2 2.1 Direct Spectroscopic Observation ................... 2 2.2 Microwave Resonance in Zero Magnetic Field ............ 3 2.3 ESR Spectroscopy ............................ 4 2.4 Temperature Dependence of Lifetime and Intensity of Luminescence ............. " ............... 4 3 Theory and Experimental Results ................... 5 3.1 Spin Sublevels of dd States ....................... 5 3.1.1 Spin Sublevels of a System of a Single d Electron in a Cubic Field ............................. 6 3.1.2 Spin Sublevels of a System of Six d Electrons ............. 14 3.2 Spin Sublevels of the Ligand-Localized 3rrw* State .......... 20 3.2.1 Spin-Spin Interaction .......................... 21 3.2.2 Spin-Orbit Coupling .......................... 23 3.2.3 Experimental Results on Some Ligand-Localized 3rrrr* States and Their Interpretation ........................ 25 3.3 Spin Sublevels of a Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Triplet State ............................... 31 scipoT ni Current ,yrtsimehC .loV 191 (cid:14)9 galreVregnirpS Berlin Heidelberg 7991 2 .T imuzA and .H ikiM 4.3 Spin Sublevels of the Hexanuclear Molybdenum (II) Chloride Cluster ............................. 43 References ................................ 93 1 Introduction When an eigenstate of the electronic Hamiltonian of a molecular system is split into several states by a perturbation involving spin, the set of split levels are cal- led spin sublevels. In this paper we focus attention on spin sublevels in the zero external magnetic field. Thus, the splitting of a level by the Zeeman effect is not considered. For atoms, spin sublevels have been well studied. One of the typical examples is the splitting of sodium D line, the emission from the p3 state to the s2 state. In the p3 state, the orbital part is three-fold degenerate and the spin part si doubly degen- erate, and thus the total degeneracy is six. This six-fold degeneracy is partially lif- ted by spin-orbit interaction. The state is split into two sublevels one correspon- ding to j = 3/2 and the other corresponding to j = 1/2. This type of the splitting of atomic levels is well discussed in standard textbooks 1 of atomic spectroscopy and of quantum chemistry, and thus there is nothing to discuss here any further. The spin sublevels for organic molecules in their triplet excited states have been well studied by RSE and ODMR (gptical detection of magnetic resonance) spectroscopy. However, for metal complexes, research on spin sublevels is rather scarce. In this paper we try to review the spectroscopy of the spin sublevels for metal complexes. 2 Experimental Methods to Obtain Energies and Other Spectroscopic Properties of the Spin Sublevels We briefly summarize various experimental methods to determine the sublevel properties. 1.2 tceriD cipocsortcepS noitavresbO In atomic spectroscopy, to experimentally observe the spin-sublevel structures is quite easy. However, for large organic molecules and for metal complexes, to detect the splitting directly in the luminescence is difficult because of a number of reasons. In order for the sublevel luminescence to be observed, the population of the individual sublevels should be sufficiently large. Thus, the energy separation among sublevels should be of the order of kT or less. However, even if the tem- perature is of the order of kT, the inhomogeneous broadening still may prevent the resolution of the spectrum, and thus the bands from different sublevels are ypocsortcepS of the nipS slevelbuS of noitisnarT Metal sexelpmoC hard to detect separately. An ingenious way to avoid this inhomogeneous broad- ening is the site-selection spectroscopy using narrow band laser excitation. In this method only a few sites are selected by narrow band excitation. The method is schematically illustrated in Fig. .1 In the case of a triplet state, three sites are excited. If the relaxation among the sublevels is suppressed, we would observe only one emission line. If, on the other hand, the relaxation among the sublevels exists, each excited site emits three lines, and thus we should observe total of 3 x 3 = 9 lines, among which three lines are at the same energy. Thus, we have 7 lines. The sublevel properties such as energies and relative radiative rate con- stants can be obtained by analyzing the observed spectrum. Various modifica- tions of this spectroscopy have been made, and they are discussed in a number of review articles 2 -6. 2.2 Microwave Resonance in Zero Magnetic Field If the separation among the sublevels is in the range of microwave frequency, sublevel properties can be obtained by observing the effect of microwave reso- nance on the emission from this state. The zero-field splitting is of the order of microwave frequency for most of 3rrn* states. Thus, the sublevel properties can be obtained by analyzing the effect of microwave resonance on the phosphores- cence intensity. The method is called phosphorescence-microwave double reso- nance (PMDR) or optical detection of magnetic resonance (ODMR). The information that can be obtained from this method is as follows: a) zero- field splitting, b) decay rate constants for individual sublevels, c) relative radia- _,! demussA Triplet ledoM ygrene, etis a etis b etis c D - f / noitaticxE yb deworran laser .giF .1 Schematic illustration of the direct observation of the sublevel phosphorescence in a zero external magnetic field. In this example, the relative radiative rate constants of the sub- levels are set 1:10: .5 Three different sites are excited by a narrow laser band, and total of nine bands (of which there appear at the same location) are observed in the manner illustrated in the figure