Fig. 11. Quantitative comparison of ground-state 2p- and average 5d/6d-orbital energies from Ln(C5H4SiMe3)3 x– (Ln = Sm, Ho; x = 0, 1) for a variety of electronic configurations. The solid arrow represents the excitation energy associated with the Ln L3-edge excitation. To plot both Sm and Ho on the energy scale, the energies associated with the LnIII 2p-orbitals were set to zero.
