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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2020 Jan 28;59(4):2178–2187. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b02758

Figure 3:

Figure 3:

Schematic energy-level diagram illustrating how the change in Mn-CO bond length affects the curve crossing between MLCT and LF states. The barrier for adiabatic population transfer increases with decreasing MLCT energy across the series 1-4 (R = tBu, H, CF3, NO2).