A novel correlation of vibrational circular dichroismspectra with the electronic ground state for Δ-SAPR-8-cesium-tetrakis((+)-heptafluorobutyryl-camphorato)lanthanide(iii) complexes

Abstract

For Δ-SAPR-8-Cs[Ln((+)-hfbc)₄]((+)-hfbc = (+)-heptafluoro-butyrylcamphorate; Cs–Ln), the vibrational circular dichroism pattern and intensity of Cs–La, Cs–Nd, Cs–Gd, Cs–Ho, Cs–Er, Cs–Lu and Cs–Sm, Cs–Eu, Cs–Tb, Cs–Dy, Cs–Tm, Cs–Yb, respectively, are correlated with the even and the odd parity of total orbital angular momentum in the ground state terms.