Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.38, No.23, 5384-5388, 1999
An EPR study of some highly distorted tetrahedral manganese(II) complexes at high magnetic fields
EPR spectra at 94.5 GHz (3 mm) and 249.9 GHz (1 mm) have been measured for the dichloro-, dibromo-, and diiodobis(triphenylphosphine oxide)manganese(II) complexes. These compounds have a distorted tetrahedral geometry, and the highest possible symmetry obtainable is Cr,. Because the spectra are taken in the high-field limit, they are simple and much easier to interpret than at lower magnetic fields. Accurate values of the zero-field splitting parameters, D and eta (E/D), are determined by least-squares fitting and homotopy using matrix diagonalization. The compounds have g-values near 2 and large values of D and eta. Across the series, D increases from 0.165 to 0.906 cm(-1), while eta decreases slightly from 0.273 to 0.246.
Keywords:ELECTRON-SPIN-RESONANCE;ESR