Structures Jahn-Teller distortion

The complex [Co3(/A3-CPh)2Cp3] (76) (E = E = CPh) is reduced by potassium metal to a radical anion whose ESR spectrum suggests a symmetrical structure with a half-filled orbital constructed from cobalt 3d atomic orbitals. The cation [76]" (E = E = CPh), detected by cyclic voltammetry ( = 0.34 V) and prepared by electrolytic oxidation, has the unpaired electron in a degenerate orbital, and a structural Jahn-Teller distortion is again expected 189). 

It was shown by several workers that in this case the first-order Jahn-Teller distortion is due to an ej vibration, and that the second-order distortion vanishes. Therefore, in terms of simple Jahn-Teller theoi, the moat around the symmetric point should be a Mexican hat type, without secondary minima. This expectation was borne out by high-level quantum chemical calculations, which showed that the energy difference between the two expected C2v structures ( A2 and Bi) were indeed very small [73]. 

Complexes of the divalent metals [M(ttcn)2]2+ undergo electrochemical oxidation to paramagnetic [M(ttcn)2]3+. Red [Pd(ttcn)2]3+ has a tetragonally distorted octahedral structure (d7, Jahn-Teller distortion) with Pd—S 2.356-2.369 A (equatorial) and 2.545 A (axial) in keeping with the ESR spectrum (gj = 2.049, gy = 2.009) which also displays 105Pd hfs. Similarly, electrochemical oxidation of the palladium(II) tacn complex (at a rather lower... 

KT1 does not have the NaTl structure because the K+ ions are too large to fit into the interstices of the diamond-like Tl- framework. It is a cluster compound K6T16 with distorted octahedral Tig- ions. A Tig- ion could be formulated as an electron precise octahedral cluster, with 24 skeleton electrons and four 2c2e bonds per octahedron vertex. The thallium atoms then would have no lone electron pairs, the outside of the octahedron would have nearly no valence electron density, and there would be no reason for the distortion of the octahedron. Taken as a closo cluster with one lone electron pair per T1 atom, it should have two more electrons. If we assume bonding as in the B6Hg- ion (Fig. 13.11), but occupy the t2g orbitals with only four instead of six electrons, we can understand the observed compression of the octahedra as a Jahn-Teller distortion. Clusters of this kind, that have less electrons than expected according to the Wade rules, are known with gallium, indium and thallium. They are called hypoelectronic clusters their skeleton electron numbers often are 2n or 2n — 4. 

SiMe4+ (15), -GeMe4+ (15) and SnMe4+ (12) make some interesting structural contrasts. In all cases, there have to be Jahn-Teller distortions after electron-loss, but the SOMO s, as estimated from the e.s.r. parameters, differ markedly from one group to another. 

The versatile binding modes of the Cu2+ ion with coordination number from four to six due to Jahn-Teller distortion is one of the important reasons for the diverse structures of the Cu-Ln amino acid complexes. In contrast, other transition metal ions prefer the octahedral mode. For the divalent ions Co2+, Ni2+, and Zn2+, only two distinct structures were observed one is a heptanuclear octahedral [LnM6] cluster compound, and the other is also heptanuclear but with a trigonal-prismatic structure. 

Static Jahn-Teller distortions and lower-symmetry structures... 

Instead the allyl cation 97 was obtained. The reported experimental 13C NMR data (<513C(exp) 8 — 250/243, 153, 60 ppm) are in agreement with the cyclopentenyl cation structure 97, but differ significantly from the calculated 13C NMR chemical shift for both Jahn-Teller distorted valence isomeric cyclopentadienyl cation structures 95 and 96. 

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