Redox Potentials of Ligands and Complexes – a DFT Approach
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A review of the limited literature concerned with theoretical ways to predict experimentally measured redox potentials of ligands and complexes is presented. Electrochemical and related DFT studies involving series of para-substituted nitrobenzenes and -diketone bidentate ligands are discussed. New studies involving ferrocenes and bimetallic complexes (containing both rhodium and iron) are additionally reported. Correlations of redox potentials with calculated descriptors; electron affinity (EA), group electronegativity ( R), electrophilicity index ( ), LUMO energy (ELUMO) and HOMO energy (EHOMO) – obtained from calculated electronic energies of neutral, anionic and cationic molecules, are compared. Observed E, Epa or Epc gave excellent correlations in the linear relationships between Epc and ELUMO (R 2 > 0.99), and Epa and EHOMO (R 2 > 0.92). Close correlation with the HOMO-1 energy was also found with the ferrocene-based second oxidation in the Rh complex.
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