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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2020 Dec 7;22(46):27084–27095. doi: 10.1039/d0cp04694a

Table 2.

Ligand Field Splitting (LFS) for two octahedral Ni(II) complexes. All energies are given in eV.

Source OPBE DFTB3 DFTB3+U Experiment70
Δo(10Dq) for [Ni(H2O)6]2+ 1.98 1.50 1.24 1.05
Δo(10Dq) for [Ni(NH3)6]2+ 2.32 2.70 1.38 1.34