From mononuclear to dinuclear : magnetic properties of transition metals complexes

Identifier:  TDX:2257

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2257

Authors:  Saureu Artesona, Sergi

Abstract:
Over the last decades the world of technology and the development of new devices have become vital for our society. Considering the growing demand for interpretation of experimental observations, the improvement of theoretical methods and the increasing of the computational resources has allowed us to deepen the understanding of magnetic beahvior of metal transitions architectures. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to this research field with the study of magnetic materials by using computational tools (DFT, TD-DFT, CASSCF, CASPT2, DDCI, etc.), and in some cases combining it with experimental results. The first part (Chapters 3 and 4) includes the study of the electronic states of Fe(II) and Fe(III) spin-crossover complexes combining the density functional theory (DFT and TD-DFT) with multiconfigurational methodologies (CASSCF, CASPT2). In addition, we have described the LIESST phenomenon in Fe(III) using the same combination. The second part (Chapters 5 and 6) exposes the study of the magnetic properties related to the magnetic coupling using variational methods (DDCI, DDCI-2) of a Fe(IV) complex and bimetallic [MnCr] oxalate-based complexes and how changes can influence to the coupling. Moreover, a rigorous analysis of the electronic structure of the Fe(IV) system has been performed to provide more information about the most adequate description of the system in terms of intuitive chemical concepts.