We report for the first time infrared spectra of three non-heme pseudo-octahedral iron(V) nitride complexes with assigned Fe-N stretching vibrations. The intensities of the Fe-N bands in two of the complexes are extremely weak. Their detection was enabled by the high resolution and sensitivity of the experiments performed at 3 K for isolated complexes in the gas phase. Multireference CASPT2 calculations revealed that the Fe-N bond in the ground doublet state is influenced by two low-lying excited doublet states. In particular, configuration interaction between the ground and the second excited state leads to avoided crossing of their potential energy surfaces along the Fe-N coordinate, which thus affects the ground-state Fe-N stretching frequency and intensity. Therefore, DFT calculated Fe-N stretching frequency strongly depends on the amount of Hartree-Fock exchange potential. As a result, by tuning the amount of Hartree-Fock exchange potential in the B3LYP functional, it was possible to obtain theoretical spectra perfectly consistent with the experimental data. The theory shows that the intensity of the Fe-N stretching vibration can almost vanish due to strong coupling with other stretching modes of the ligands.

Departament de Quimica and Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis University of Girona Campus Montilivi Girona 17071 Spain

Department of Organic Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University Hlavova 2030 8 128 43 Prague 2 Czech Republic

J Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS v v i Dolejškova 2155 3 182 23 Prague 8 Czech Republic

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