Coordination of solvent molecules to VO(acac)2 complexes in solution studied by hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy and pulsed electron nuclear double resonance

Vijayasarathi Nagarajan, Barbara Müller, Oksana Storcheva, Klaus Köhler, Andreas Pöppl

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Abstract

Interactions and binding sites of the solvent molecules chloroform and ethanol to bis(acetylacetonate)oxovanadium(IV) (VO(acac)2) complexes in (frozen) solutions have been investigated by pulsed electron nuclear double resonance, sum peak electron spin echo envelope modulation and hyperfine sublevel correlation spectroscopy. The experimental proton hyperfine coupling data of coordinating solvent molecules have been interpreted using quantum chemical calculations (density functional theory). Experimental and computed hyperfine couplings indicate that ethanol coordinates to vanadium in the equatorial plane of VO(acac)2 and chloroform interacts via hydrogen bonding to oxygens of the acac ligands.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)705-724
Number of pages20
JournalResearch on Chemical Intermediates
Volume33
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2007

Keywords

  • Pulsed ESR
  • Solvation structure
  • VO(acac)

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