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Cyclic Voltammetry
Aqueous electrochemical experiments were conducted under a N2 atmosphere in a 1.0 M buffered
potassium acetate or phosphate solutions at ambient temperature and carried out using BASis
Epsilon potentiostat. All voltammetry experiments used a glassy carbon disk working electrode
(3.0 mm diameter), a platinum wire counter electrode, and a Ag/AgCl reference electrode (BASi).
All potentials were converted to SHE by adding 0.198 V to the measured potentials.
To
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Figure 1: A crystal structure of [(PY5Me2 )Mo(CH3 CN)]2+ in which an acetonitrile has displaced
the triflate of [(PY5Me2 )Mo(CF3 SO3 )]1+ demonstrating the lability of the triflate.
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hk216a
Empirical formula
Formula weight
1891.41
Temperature
100(2) K
Wavelength
1.54178
Monoclinic, P21 /n
a = 12.4356(6) = 90
b = 15.7501(8) = 90.681(2)
c = 20.2185(10)
= 90
Volume
3959.8(3) 3
Z, Calculated density
2, 1.586 mg/m3
Absorption coefficient
4.448 mm1
F(000)
1904
Crystal size
3.56 to 68.16
Limiting indices
14 h 12, 16 k 18, 24 l 21
91.7%
Absorption correction
Empirical
Refinement method
Full-matrix least-squares on F 2
6642 / 0 / 522
Goodness-of-fit on F2
2.139
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Table 2: Absolute energies with three functionals at the TZV-P/6-311G** basis of all species and
Gvib
(T =298.15K) = Htranslation + Hrotational + Hvibrational (298.15K) (Stranslation + Srotational +
Svibrational ) (B3LYP/TZV-P/6-311G**) in Hartrees.
Species
A
B
C
Multiplicity
1
2
2
4
B3LYP -5,446.783781 -0.259024 -0.583680 -0.620252
BP86 -5,447.167265 -0.274416 -0.574846 -0.584205
B97 -5,446.712850 -0.235381 -0.585440 -0.621088
Gvib
0.435545
0.432399 0.445109 0.445458
(T =298.15K)
D
E
Species
Multiplicity
1
3
1
3
B3LYP -0.855330 -0.865037 -1.165465 -1.176327
BP86 -0.862506 -0.870186 -1.154347 -1.166211
B97 -0.836189 -0.848002 -1.164639 -1.174553
Gvib
0.441349 0.443420 0.454983 0.452959
(T =298.15K)
F
G
H2
Species
Multiplicity
3
2
4
1
B3LYP -1.166247 -1.003094 -0.979054
vib
G(T =298.15K) 0.455456 0.437805 0.436528 0.020908
H
I
Species
Multiplicity
2
4
2
4
B3LYP -1.431907 -1.396265 -1.423501 -1.396995
BP86 -1.442940 -1.401435 -1.431334 -1.403241
B97 -1.399619 -1.379520 -1.411031 -1.383765
vib
G(T =298.15K) 0.452446 0.448278 0.453949 0.450067
J
Species
Multiplicity
2
B3LYP -1.740281
BP86 -1.736175
B97 -1.736108
vib
G(T =298.15K) 0.458366
Species
I + H2 O
Multiplicity
2
B3LYP -78.278236
BP86 -77.894752
B97 -78.349167
vib
G(T =298.15K) 0.474128
H2 O
1
-76.447789
0.001867
H
I
2
-1.791604
-1.408120
-1.862535
0.449972
I + H2 O
C + H2 O
F
A
2
1
-78.247847
-1.509342
-77.864363
-1.125859
-78.318778
-1.563033
0.470645
0.453172
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I
C
2
-1.778098
-1.394615
-1.849030
0.449405
E
F
3
-1.492102
-1.108618
-1.580273
0.452786
H
0.91, 0.69, 0.73, 0.53, 0.55
(a) A
(b) B
Figure 2: LOBA diagrams for species A and B. Each set of shapes (i.e. blue circles) represents
a single molecular orbital. The y-axis is the LOBA population value for the atom given on the
x-axis. For A three molecular orbitals are shared between Mo and O, in both the alpha (up spin)
and beta (down spin) space; these are the 6 electrons making up the triple bond. For B one of the
orbitals in the alpha space is missing thus 2.5 bond order. In both figures only orbitals involved in
bonding are shown.
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LOBA
It is important to note that in the LOBA of H two orbitals in the -space as shown in the article
are below the threshold (0.60) used by Thom et al. 1 to define when to subtract one from the atomic
number while calculating oxidation state. Despite the choice made in that paper, allowing 0.50
to be considered localized could also be justified from the thresholding done within the previous
work. If 0.50 is chosen though a difficulty arises when analyzing I because in this case both
bonding orbitals are greater than 0.5 and would be considered localized resulting in an oxidation
state of +1 for the metal hydride. This is not to say that the analysis is broken but is more an
indication of the fact that this method is quite new and needs to be used carefully with systems for
which it was not previously applied.
The full citation for the Q-Chem package, citation 46 in the main text, appears below. 2
References
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11297304.
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Slipchenko, L. V.; Levchenko, S. V.; ONeill, D. P.; DiStasio, R. a.; Lochan, R. C.; Wang, T.;
Beran, G. J. O.; Besley, N. a.; Herbert, J. M.; Lin, C. Y.; Van Voorhis, T.; Chien, S. H.;
Sodt, A.; Steele, R. P.; Rassolov, V. a.; Maslen, P. E.; Korambath, P. P.; Adamson, R. D.;
Austin, B.; Baker, J.; Byrd, E. F. C.; Dachsel, H.; Doerksen, R. J.; Dreuw, A.; Dunietz, B. D.;
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(a) A
(b) B
(d) D
(f) F
(c) C
(e) E
(g) G
(i) I
(h) H
(j) J
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Coordinates
1A
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2H
I
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4H
I
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2I
C + H2 O
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2I
C
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4I
C
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