TDDFT study of the nonlinear optical properties of the rich d-electron molecular system - iridium/rhodium cluster: the effect of phosphaferrocene
Title:
TDDFT study of the nonlinear optical properties of the rich d-electron molecular system - iridium/rhodium cluster: the effect of phosphaferrocene
Author:
Li, Fujun Wu, Kechen
Appeared in:
Molecular physics
Paging:
Volume 106 (2008) nr. 15 pages 1853-1866
Year:
2008-08
Contents:
A series of iridium carbonyl clusters substituted with phosphaferrocene, namely [{M(η5-C5H5)}{Fe(η5-L5)(η5-C5H5)}] (M = Ir, L = P I-1; M = Rh, L = As I-2), [{Ir4(CO)10}n{Fe(η5-PxC5-xMe5-x)(η5-C5H5)}] (n = 1, x = 3 II-1, 1 II-2, 5 II-3; n = 2, x = 3 III-3), [Ir4(CO)10{Fe[η5-P3C2 [image omitted]](η5-C5H5)}Ir4(CO)11] (III-1) and [Ir4H(CO)10{Fe[η5-P3C(CMe2CH2)CBut](η5-C5H5)}Ir4(CO)11] (III-2), have been studied using the time-dependent density functional theory method (TDDFT), focusing on the electronic and nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. The calculated results suggest that their first hyperpolarizabilities are much larger than most iridium clusters coordinated by organic ligands (about 10 times larger on average), and even larger than some ferrocene derivatives coordinated by typical π-conjugated organic ligands. We expand the orbital decomposition scheme proposed by Baerends et al. and apply it to the analysis of the NLO nature of the clusters. The charge-transfer processes between the d orbitals of iron and iridium through phospha-cyclopentadienyl are assigned to the second-order NLO response mechanism.
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