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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2016 Jul 6;138(28):8752–8764. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b02176

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Relaxed geometries of each electronic state in the NiTMP decay pathway as calculated by TDDFT. Occupation of the Ni 3dz2 orbital drives expansion of the Ni N bond length and subsequent flattening of the macrocycle.