Issue 37, 2015

Electronic structures of cyclometalated palladium complexes in the higher oxidation states

Abstract

The electronic and redox properties of a series of cyclometalated Pd complexes with oxidation states of +2, +3 and +4 were examined using a range of currently available spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques. Changes in metal–ligand bond lengths were established by X-ray crystallography and correctly predicted by DFT calculations, from which the frontier orbitals and partial atomic charges can be obtained. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) revealed interesting XANES features that suggest a synergistic relationship between metal–ligand interactions. The electrochemical study of the Pd(II) dimer was found to contain two sequential oxidative potentials indicative of a weak metal–metal interaction.

Graphical abstract: Electronic structures of cyclometalated palladium complexes in the higher oxidation states

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Jun 2015
Accepted
14 Aug 2015
First published
18 Aug 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 16586-16591

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Electronic structures of cyclometalated palladium complexes in the higher oxidation states

B. N. Nguyen, L. A. Adrio, T. Albrecht, A. J. P. White, M. A. Newton, M. Nachtegaal, S. J. A. Figueroa and K. K. (. Hii, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 16586 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT02104A

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