Zur Elektronenstruktur hochsymmetrischer Verbindungen der f‐Elemente. 38 [1] Kristall‐, Molekül‐ und Elektronenstruktur von Tris(hydrotris(1‐pyrazolyl)borato)‐samarium(III)

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AbstractElectronic Structures of Highly Symmetrical Compounds of f Elements. 38 [1] Crystal, Molecular and Electronic Structure of Tris(hydrotris(1‐pyrazolyl)borato)samarium(III)Tris(hydrotris(1‐pyrazolyl)borato)samarium(III) (SmTp3) crystallizes in the space group P63/m (No. 176) with two molecules in the unit cell. The Sm3+ central ion is coordinated by nine N atoms in the shape of a tricapped trigonal prism, leading to an effective crystal field (CF) of D3h symmetry. The underlying CF splitting pattern was extracted from the absorption and luminescence spectra run at room and low temperatures, and simulated by fitting the free parameters of a phenomenological Hamiltonian achieving an r.m.s. deviation of 9.4 cm−1 for 58 assignments. The parameters used allow the estimation of the global ligand field strength experienced by the Sm3+ central ion, the insertion of SmTp3 into empirical nephelauxetic and relativistic nephelauxetic series, and the set‐up of experimentally based nonrelativistic and relativistic molecular orbital schemes in the f range.