Abstract
The Co 2p3/2 X-ray absorption spectroscopy and high-energy-resolution (∼0.09 eV fwhm) 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra of the single-cobalt-centered polyoxometalate K5H[CoW12O40]·xH2O were measured. The low-energy dd transition features at 0.55 eV, unmeasurable with ultraviolet-visible (UV/vis) spectroscopy, were experimentally revealed in 2p3d RIXS spectra. RIXS simulations based on ligand-field multiplet theory were performed to assess the potential cobalt tetragonal symmetry distortion, which is described with the ligand-field parameters 10Dq (-0.54 eV), Ds (-0.08 eV), and Dt (0.005 eV). Because 2p3d RIXS probes not only the optical spin-allowed transitions but also the spin-forbidden transitions, we show that the current 2p3d RIXS simulation enables a series of dd feature assignments with higher accuracy than those from previous optical data. Furthermore, by wave-function decomposition analyses, we demonstrate the more realistic and detailed origins of a few lowest dd transitions using both one-electron-orbital and term-symbol descriptions.
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