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Time-dependent Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Electronic Spectra of Hexanuclear Chalcohalide rhenium(III) Clusters

Time-dependent Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Electronic Spectra of Hexanuclear Chalcohalide rhenium(III) Clusters

Jorge S Gancheff, Pablo A Denis

J Phys Chem A. 2011 Jan 20;115(2):211-8.

PMID: 21158477

Abstract:

The UV-vis spectra of the hexanuclear chalcohalide rhenium(III) clusters of formula [Re(6)S(8)X(6)](4-) (X(-) = Cl(-), Br(-), I(-)) were investigated at the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) level employing B3LYP, PBE1PBE, and the double-hybrid B2PLYP functional in combination with the LANL2DZ basis set. We were able to reproduce the red shift experimentally observed when the halide changes from chloride to iodide. However, some discrepancies between experimental results and theory were found. First, we did not observe a remarkable dependence of the experimental ill-resolved bands on the solvent. Indeed, similar spectra were obtained taken CH(2)Cl(2) or CH(3)CN as solvents into account. Second, all calculations explained the origin of the band peaked at the low-energy region in contraposition with the one experimentally assumed by R. Long et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 4603), and theoretically made available by Arratia-Pérez et al. (J. Chem. Phys. 1999, 110, 2529). These authors have proposed a ligand-to-cluster charge transfer (LCCT) for all title complexes. Our findings undoubtedly allow such origin to be discarded. While the HGGA functionals lead to a cluster-to-halide ligand charge transfer (CLCT), an intracluster charge transfer (ICCT) has been considered by employing B2PLYP. This contribution showed B2PLYP in the presence of the solvent to be the best performer in studying the UV-vis spectra of large complexes of rhenium(III) containing the Re-S bond. We strongly recommended the use of the double-hybrid B2PLYP in studying UV-vis spectrum of rhenium complexes of size making the computational cost affordable. We expect that our work stimulates new experimental and theoretical investigations of the title complexes to confirm our assignment.

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