The 57Fe nuclear magnetic resonance shielding in ferrocene revisited. A density-functional study of orbital energies, shielding mechanisms, and the influence of the exchange-correlation functional

The 57Fe nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) shielding and chemical shift in ferrocene, Fe(C5H5)2, are studied using density functional theory (DFT) and gauge-including atomic orbitals (GIAO). Electronic factors contributing to the chemical shift are discussed in detail. It is shown that the chemical shift is entirely determined by paramagnetic contributions which in turn are dominated by metal based occupied-virtual d→d couplings. In particular, the HOMO-1(a1′) and the HOMO (e2′) couple with the LUMO (e1″). It is argued that the 57Fe nucleus in ferrocene is less shielded than in the reference compound (iron pentacarbonyl) due to a smaller HOMO-LUMO gap, resulting in stronger interactions between occupied and virtual orbitals. The influence of the XC functional on the calculated molecular orbital (MO) energies of frontier orbitals is discussed. Different generalized gradient approximations (GGA) give similar results whereas hybrid functionals that incorporate part of the Hartree–Fock exchange stabilize occup...

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