PMID- 21072397 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110324 LR - 20131121 IS - 1477-9234 (Electronic) IS - 1477-9226 (Linking) VI - 40 IP - 1 DP - 2011 Jan 7 TI - Unsymmetrical diimine complexes of iron(II) and manganese(II): synthesis, structure and photoluminescence of an isomer. PG - 146-55 LID - 10.1039/c0dt00883d [doi] AB - Two bis(unsymmetrical diimine) complexes of (L(NO(2))(varphi1))(L(NO(2))(varphi2))M(II)Cl(2) family with M = Fe and Mn, are reported (L(NO(2))(varphi) = (E)-3-nitro-N-(pyridine-2-ylmethylene)aniline; varphi = dihedral angle between the diimine unit including pyridine ring and the phenyl ring planes). Pure tcc-(L(NO2)(33.6))(L(NO2)(79.3))Fe(II)Cl(2).0.5H(2)O (1) and tcc-(L(NO2)(32.0))(L(NO2)(79.4))Mn(II)Cl(2).0.5H(2)O (2) isomers have been successfully isolated in high yields and characterized by elemental analyses, variable temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements, IR, mass, UV-vis and Mossbauer spectra including the single-crystal X-ray structure determinations that identified strong intermolecular non-bonding interactions in lattice (tcc refers to trans-cis-cis positions with respect to pyridine N-imine N-Cl donors). Geometries optimizations of all possible tcc, ttt, ctc, ccc and cct isomers of iron at the B3LYP/DFT level in gas-phase have shown that the tcc-isomer incorporating two non-equivalent ligands as in (L(NO(2))(42))(L(NO(2))(61))Fe(II)Cl(2), 1 (g), is stabilized by 6-20 kJ mol(-1) compared to other isomers where two ligands are equivalent. The frozen methanol glasses of 1 and 2 are luminescent at 77 K (1: lambda(ext) = 370, lambda(em) = 521 nm, chi(2) = 1.3, tau(avg) = 0.57 ns; 2: lambda(ext) = 368, lambda(em) = 524 nm, chi(2) = 1.1, tau(avg) = 0.90 ns). The DFT calculations have identified four closely spaced localized pi(*) orbitals comprising of two non-equivalent ligands as UPMOs. The features contrast the tcc-isomer of (L(varphi))(2)Fe(II)Cl(2) (3), congener of 1 without -NO(2) substitution and non-emissive (bpy)(2)Fe(II)Cl(2) (4) where two ligands are equivalent. TD-DFT calculations have assigned intra-ligand (IL) and ligand to ligand charge transfer (LLCT) dominated excited states as the origin of luminescence of 1 and 2. FAU - Roy, Amit Saha AU - Roy AS AD - Department of Chemistry, R. K. Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata-103, India. FAU - Biswas, Manas Kumar AU - Biswas MK FAU - Weyhermuller, Thomas AU - Weyhermuller T FAU - Ghosh, Prasanta AU - Ghosh P LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20101111 PL - England TA - Dalton Trans JT - Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) JID - 101176026 RN - 0 (Ferrous Compounds) RN - 0 (Imines) RN - 42Z2K6ZL8P (Manganese) SB - IM MH - Crystallography, X-Ray MH - Ferrous Compounds/chemical synthesis/*chemistry MH - Imines/chemical synthesis/*chemistry MH - Luminescence MH - Manganese/*chemistry MH - Models, Molecular MH - Quantum Theory MH - Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet MH - Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared MH - Spectroscopy, Mossbauer MH - Stereoisomerism EDAT- 2010/11/13 06:00 MHDA- 2011/03/25 06:00 CRDT- 2010/11/13 06:00 PHST- 2010/11/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/11/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/03/25 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1039/c0dt00883d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Dalton Trans. 2011 Jan 7;40(1):146-55. doi: 10.1039/c0dt00883d. Epub 2010 Nov 11.