title: Experimental assessment of lanthanide ion donor preference: spectroscopic and theoretical dissection of static charge and dynamic polarisation contributions to axial ligation in a C4-symmetric chiral europium complex.
abstract: Measurements of the equilibrium constants for ligand exchange (MeCN, 295 K) involving the axial donor in a C4-symmetric, mono-capped, square antiprismatic cationic Eu complex, supported by calculations based on an electrostatic perturbation model, have been interpreted in terms of a predominant ligand polarisation interaction defined by observation of the hypersensitive delta J = 2 normalised emission intensity, in association with measurements correlating delta J = 1 band splitting and 1H NMR dipolar shifts that vindicate Bleaney's theory of magnetic anisotropy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, UK DH1 3LE. david.parker@durham.ac.uk
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Tozer