Experimentally Calibrated Analysis of the Electronic Structure of CuO+: Implications for Reactivity

0497406 - ÚFCH JH 2019 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Srnec, Martin - Navrátil, R. - Andris, E. - Jašík, J. - Roithová, J.
Experimentally Calibrated Analysis of the Electronic Structure of CuO+: Implications for Reactivity.
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition. Roč. 57, č. 52 (2018), s. 17053-17057. ISSN 1433-7851. E-ISSN 1521-3773
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-13093S
Institutional support: RVO:61388955
Keywords : Franck–Condon analysis * multireference calculations * photodissociation spectroscopy
OECD category: Physical chemistry
Impact factor: 12.257, year: 2018

The CuO+ core is a central motif of reactive intermediates in copper‐catalysed oxidations occurring in nature. The high reactivity of CuO+ stems from a weak bonding between the atoms, which cannot be described by a simple classical model. To obtain the correct picture, we have investigated the acetonitrile‐ligated CuO+ ion using neon‐tagging photodissociation spectroscopy at 5 K. The spectra feature complex vibronic absorption progressions in NIR and visible regions. Employing Franck–Condon analyses, we derived low‐lying triplet potential energy surfaces that were further correlated with multireference calculations. This provided insight into the ground and low‐lying excited electronic states of the CuO+ unit and elucidated how these states are perturbed by the change in ligation. Thus, we show that the bare CuO+ ion has prevailingly a copper(I)‐biradical oxygen character. Increasing the number of ligands coordinated to copper changes the CuO+ character towards the copper(II)‐oxyl radical structure.

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