Molecular-orbital calculations complexes

Molecular orbitals were one of the first molecular features that could be visualized with simple graphical hardware. The reason for this early representation is found in the complex theory of quantum chemistry. Basically, a structure is more attractive and easier to understand when orbitals are displayed, rather than numerical orbital coefficients. The molecular orbitals, calculated by semi-empirical or ab initio quantum mechanical methods, are represented by isosurfaces, corresponding to the electron density surfeces Figure 2-125a). 

Unlike reactive diatomic chalcogen-nitrogen species NE (E = S, Se) (Section 5.2.1), the prototypical chalcogenonitrosyls HNE (E = S, Se) have not been characterized spectroscopically, although HNS has been trapped as a bridging ligand in the complex (HNS)Fc2(CO)6 (Section 7.4). Ab initio molecular orbital calculations at the self-consistent field level, with inclusion of electron correlation, reveal that HNS is ca. 23 kcal mof more stable than the isomer NSH. There is no low-lying barrier that would allow thermal isomerization of HNS to occur in preference to dissociation into H -1- NS. The most common form of HNS is the cyclic tetramer (HNS)4 (Section 6.2.1). 

Dioxygen activation in transition metal complexes in the light of molecular orbital calculations. R. Boca, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1983, 50,1-72 (245). 

In a series of studies of the spectroscopy and photochemistry of nickel(O) -a-diimine complexes, the structural differences among the complexes NiL2 and Ni(CO)2L (L Q-diimine) have been examined by means of molecular orbital calculations and electronic absorption Raman resonance studies.2471, 472 Summing up earlier work, the noninnocence of a-diimine ligands with a flat — N=C—C=N— skeleton in low-valent Ni chemistry and the course of substitution reactions of Ni° complexes with 1,4-diaza-1,3-dienes or a,a -bipyridine have been reviewed.2473... 

Self-consistent field molecular orbital calculations by Fenske and coworkers have confirmed that nucleophilic additions to Fischer and related complexes [e.g., (CO)sCr=CXY, (T)5-C5H5)(CO)2Mn=CXY], are frontier orbital-controlled rather than charge-controlled reactions (7-9). Interaction of the HOMO of the nucleophile with the carbene complex LUMO (localized on Ca) destroys the metal-carbon w-interaction and converts the bond to a single one. 

Group 2 complexes are formally electron deficient and conformationally floppy only small energies (often only 1-2 kcal mol-1) are required to alter their geometries by large amounts (e.g., bond angles by 20° or more). In such cases, the inclusion of electron-correlation effects becomes critical to an accurate description of the molecules structures. Both HF/MP2 and density functional theory (DFT) methods have been applied to organoalkaline earth compounds. DFT approaches, which implicitly incorporate electron correlation in a computationally efficient form, are generally the more widely used. Molecular orbital calculations that successfully reproduce bent... 

Recently, molecular orbital calculations on some iron complexes have been made by Gray and his co-workers (2, 30). These values for ferrous complexes are plotted in Figure 2 as the dashed line [3d 4s (MO)]. Hence, Mossbauer spectroscopy provides estimates for the 4s electron contribution for molecular orbital calculations. This correlation does not hold for high spin complexes such as FeCb" and FeFe ". Bersuker (3, 4) has attempted to relate both S and AEq directly to molecular orbital parameters. Using the equations developed from this approach, Bersuker, Gordanskii, and Makarov (5) have concluded that in tin tetrahalides the role of dx-Px bonding is significant. 

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