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Synchrotron based nuclear forward scattering (NFS) experiments using the 193Ir nucleus have been performed for the first time on a dinuclear iridium(I) complex, [IrCl(COD)]2 with COD being cycloocta-1,5-diene. This complex serves as a catalyst for hydrogenation and other chemical reactions. Both, the obtained absolute values of the isomer shift δ = 0.87 mm s - 1 and the quadrupole splitting Δ E Q = 3.82 mm s - 1 agree within the experimental error with values obtained via conventional 193Ir Mössbauer spectroscopy reported earlier (Gál M. et al. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 260 (1) 2004, 133). In addition, we present density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the complex yielding its electronic structure and related Mössbauer parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within this work, we report the results of nuclear inelastic scattering experiments of the low-spin phase of the iron(II) mononuclear SCO complex Fe[HBpz3]2 and density functional theory based calculations performed on a model molecule of the complex. We show that the calculated partial density of vibrational states based on the structure of a single iron(II) center which is linked by three pyrazole rings to borat is in good accordance with the experimentally obtained 57Fe-pDOS and assign the molecular vibrations to the prominent optical phonons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]