Fe(II)–porphyrin complexes exhibit a diverse range of electronic interactions between the metal and macrocycle. Herein, the incremental full configuration interaction method is applied to the entire space of valence orbitals of a Fe(II)–porphyrin model using a modest basis set. A novel visualization framework is proposed to analyze individual many-body contributions to the correlation energy, providing detailed maps of this complex’s highly correlated electronic structure. This technique is used to parse the numerous interactions of two low-lying triplet states (3A2g and 3Eg) and to show that strong metal d–d and macrocycle π–π orbital interactions preferentially stabilize the 3A2g state. d–π interactions, on the other hand, preferentially stabilize the 3Eg state and primarily appear when correlating six electrons at a time. Ultimately, the Fe(II)–porphyrin model’s full set of 88 valence electrons are correlated in 275 orbitals, showing the interactions up to the 4-body level, which covers the great majority of correlations in this system.
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March 07 2022
The many-body electronic interactions of Fe(II)–porphyrin
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Nature of the Chemical Bond
A. E. Rask
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A. E. Rask
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
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P. M. Zimmerman
P. M. Zimmerman
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Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
, 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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A. E. Rask
P. M. Zimmerman
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Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan
, 930 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
Note: This paper is part of the JCP Special Topic on Nature of the Chemical Bond.
J. Chem. Phys. 156, 094110 (2022)
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Received:
November 19 2021
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February 14 2022
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A. E. Rask, P. M. Zimmerman; The many-body electronic interactions of Fe(II)–porphyrin. J. Chem. Phys. 7 March 2022; 156 (9): 094110. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0079310
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