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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2010 Nov 9;6(12):3735–3749. doi: 10.1021/ct100398m

Table 3.

The geometrical parameters of the complexes Fe2(S-t-Bu)2(NO)2 (GIDKIN02) and Fe(NO)2(S(pMe)Ph)2 (SONMUE) (which are the greatest outliers in Fig. 3) obtained from two sources – DFT optimization and X-ray crystallography. The distances are given in Angstrom and the angles are in degrees.

GIDKIN02 SONMUE

Parameter DFT opt. X-ray DFT opt. X-ray

d(Fe – N) 1.85 1.67 1.76 1.71
d(Fe – S) 2.38 2.25 2.38 2.33
d(N – O) 1.17 1.17 1.18 1.18
d(S – C) 1.90 1.87 1.78 1.80
∠(NFeN) 74.8 116.6 120.3 115.7
∠(SFeS) 100.1 106.2 115.0 111.9