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Na$_9$Bi$_5$Os$_3$O$_24$: a diamagnetic oxide featuring a pronouncedly Jahn–Teller-compressed octahedral coordination of osmium(VI)

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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60 (30): 16500-16505 (Apr 27, 2021)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202103295

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Abstract The Jahn–Teller (JT) theorem constitutes one of the most fundamental concepts in chemistry. In transition-element chemistry, the 3d4 and 3d9 configurations in octahedral complexes are particularly illustrative, where a distortion in local geometry is associated with a reduction of the electronic energy. However, there has been a lasting debate about the fact that the octahedra are found to exclusively elongate. In contrast, for Na9Bi5Os3O24, the octahedron around Os6+(5d2) is heavily compressed, lifting the degeneracy of the t2g set of 5d orbitals such that in the sense of a JT compression a diamagnetic ground state results. This effect is not forced by structural constraints, the structure offers sufficient space for osmium to shift the apical oxygen atoms to a standard distance. The relevance of these findings is far reaching, since they provide new insights in the hierarchy of perturbations defining ground states of open shell electronic systems.

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