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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 9.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2014 Mar 3;114(7):3659–3853. doi: 10.1021/cr400327t

Figure 99.

Figure 99

Schematic molecular orbital diagram of the copper-superoxo bonding in [TMG3trenCuO2]+. The LMCT (red) and IL (blue) transitions are shown, as are the orbital energy separations (Δ). The π*σ (+dz2) MO is dominantly superoxo-based and σ-bonding to dz2 and the dz2(−π*σ) MO is dominantly copper-based and σ-antibonding to π*σ. (Reprinted with permission from ref 123 Copyright 2010 American Chemical Society.))