Interaction of Thioether Groups at the Open Coordination Sites of Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes Probed by Luminescence Spectroscopy at Variable Pressure
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Abstract
The crystal structures of [PtCl(2)(ttcn)], [PdCl(2)(ttcn)], [Pt(ethylenediamine)(ttcn)](PF(6))(2), and [Pd(ethylenediamine)(ttcn)](PF(6))(2) (ttcn = 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane) show short apical metal---S(ttcn) distances, qualitatively indicating an interaction. Luminescence spectroscopy was used to study these crystalline complexes at room temperature and variable hydrostatic pressure. The luminescence band maximum of [PdCl(2)(ttcn)] shows a pressure-induced blue shift of +6 cm(-1)/kbar, while the platinum(II) compounds show a red shift of approximately -20 cm(-1)/kbar. This difference is rationalized in terms of a competition between blue shifts due to pressure-induced metal-ligand bond shortening in the equatorial plane and increasing out-of-plane distance of the metal center, and a red shift due to the approach of the apical sulfur donor to the metal center. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate d-d luminescence transitions and a different nature of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) for [PdCl(2)(ttcn)] than for [PtCl(2)(ttcn)], while the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMOs) are identical in character. This electronic structure difference is used to rationalize the different pressure effects.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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