| Grant number: | 14/21930-9 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research |
| Start date: | February 01, 2015 |
| End date: | January 31, 2016 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Physical-Chemistry |
| Principal Investigator: | Lucas Colucci Ducati |
| Grantee: | Lucas Colucci Ducati |
| Host Investigator: | Jochen Autschbach |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | State University of New York, Buffalo State (SUNY), United States |
Abstract This project aims to study the solvent effect influence on the 1JPt-Tl spin-spin coupling constant in metal complexes that exhibit a metal-metal bond between Pt and Tl. These 1JPt-Tl spin-spin coupling constants have a strong solvent effect influence. Previous works showed that the calculated values of 1JTlPt for isolated complexes reproduce about 50% of the experimental value, while the same NMR calculation for the complexes in the presence of some solvent molecules can describe about 80% of the experimental 1JPt-Tl value.In this project the inclusion of solvent effect by ab inito molecular dynamics (aiMD) in the calculation of the coupling constant 1JTlPt is proposed. This new approach to the description of the effect of the solvent in the calculation of magnetic properties at the DFT-ZORA level has been successfully applied to cisplatin complexes, obtaining an accuracy of approximately 95%.To explain the reason for the strong influence of the solvent effect on the studied coupling constant, the 1JTlPt values will be decomposed into contributions from bonding, non-bonding, core, and antibonding orbitals applying the "Analysis of Natural Coupling Constant" (NJC), which provides an interpretation of the results with a chemical sense. Another issue to be studied is the nature of the complexes' Pt-Tl chemical bond using the energy decomposition analysis (EDA) method. This will allow assessing the change in electron density across the Pt-Tl bond, when the complex is solvated, supplementing NJC results, since the Pt-Tl bond is the transmission path for the coupling constant between these two metal centers. (AU) | |
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