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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Dec 5;129(51):15983–15996. doi: 10.1021/ja074900s

Table 5.

Comparison of experimental and calculated Fe-O bond lengths in the ground state and d(xy) → d(xz/yz) excited state for complexes 1 and 3.

1 3
r(Fe-O) [Å] experimental computationala experimental computationala
ground state 1.65 1.65 1.64 1.65
excited state 1.79 1.70 1.83 1.73

Δr(Fe-O) [Å] +0.14 +0.05 +0.19 +0.08
a

from ADF/B88P86/tzp calculations, for details see methodology section 2.4.