Photoelectron spectra and bonding of covalent metal nitrates
Abstract
He II photoelectron spectral data for Ti(NO3)4(g) and Cu(NO3)2(g) are interpreted with the aid of ab initio molecular orbital calculations and show that the metal ligand bonding involves those orbitals which correlate with the 4é m.o.'s of the ligands; the ionization energies are consistent with the nitrato-groups of Ti(NO3)4(g) having a smaller overall negative charge than those of Cu(NO3)2(g).