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The Jahn–Teller effect (JT effect or JTE) is an important mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in molecular and solid-state systems which has far-reaching consequences in different fields, and is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spectroscopy, stereochemistry, crystal chemistry, molecular and solid-state physics, and materials science.
The pyramidalization and energies of inversion of group 15 :MR 3 (M = N, P, As, Sb, Bi) and group 14 •MR 3 molecules can also be predicted and rationalized using a second-order Jahn-Teller distortion treatment. The “parent” planar molecule possessing D 3h symmetry has frontier orbitals of a 2 ” (HOMO) and a 1 ’ (LUMO) symmetries
In their early 1957 paper on what is now called pseudo Jahn–Teller effect (PJTE), Öpik and Pryce [2] showed that a small splitting of the degenerate electronic term does not necessarily remove the instability and distortion of a polyatomic system induced by the Jahn–Teller effect (JTE), provided that the splitting is sufficiently small (the two split states remain "pseudo degenerate ...
Known for his "life-long years of experience in theoretical chemistry" [1] working on the electronic structure and properties of coordination compounds, Isaac B. Bersuker is “one of the most widely recognized authorities” [2] in the theory of the Jahn–Teller effect (JTE) and the pseudo-Jahn–Teller effect (PJTE).
The Jahn–Teller effect is one such cause. Complexes are not perfectly symmetric all the time. Complexes are not perfectly symmetric all the time. Transitions that occur as a result of an asymmetrical vibration of a molecule are called vibronic transitions , such as those caused by vibronic coupling .
Complexes such as this are called "low spin". For example, NO 2 − is a strong-field ligand and produces a large Δ. The octahedral ion [Fe(NO 2) 6] 3−, which has 5 d-electrons, would have the octahedral splitting diagram shown at right with all five electrons in the t 2g level. This low spin state therefore does not follow Hund's rule.
For a free ion, e.g. gaseous Ni 2+ or Mo 0, the energy of the d-orbitals are equal in energy; that is, they are "degenerate". In an octahedral complex, this degeneracy is lifted. The energy of the d z 2 and d x 2 −y 2, the so-called e g set, which are aimed directly at the ligands are destabilized.
It explains the relationship between conical intersection and Jahn-Teller effects quite nicely. -- Rune Welsh ταλκ July 7, 2005 16:15 (UTC) I have introduced those links because they are evident to me. A Jahn-Teller effect occurs when two potential energy surfaces are crossing for some symmetry reason.