Journal of the American Chemical Society
Journal of the American Chemical Society
5 years ago

“Visible” 5d Orbital States in a Pleochroic Oxychloride

“Visible” 5d Orbital States in a Pleochroic Oxychloride
Nobuyuki Abe, Taka-hisa Arima, Mitsuaki Kawamura, Changsu Kim, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, Takeshi Yajima, Zenji Hiroi, Hidefumi Akiyama, Takahiro Misawa, Daigorou Hirai
Transition metal compounds sometimes exhibit attractive colors. Here, we report a new oxychloride, Ca3ReO5Cl2, that shows unusually distinct pleochroism; that is, the material exhibits different colors depending on the viewing direction. This pleochroism is a consequence of the coincidental complex crystal field splitting of the 5d orbitals of the Re6+ ion in a square-pyramidal coordination of low symmetry in the energy range of the visible spectrum. Since the relevant d–d transitions show characteristic polarization dependence according to the optical selection rule, the orbital states are “visible” in Ca3ReO5Cl2.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b05128

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05128

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