The structure of the FeNO group in two metastable states (MS1 and MS2) of the nitroprusside anion in Na2[Fe(CN)5NO].2H2O. Infrared spectra and quantum chemistry calculations for the normal and the 15NO and N18O isotopic substituted substance.

Low temperature infrared spectra of light induced metastable states MS1 and MS2 of the nitroprusside anion in Na(2)[Fe(CN)(5)NO].2H(2)O, isotopically normal and substituted with (15)NO and N(18)O, are presented and discussed. As a consequence of the relatively high population of the MS2 state achieved by further irradiation with 1064 nm light of samples previously irradiated with 488.0 nm light, new bands were seen for the first time, and others, previously reported, were confirmed. The comparison of the spectral data obtained for the FeNO moiety of the isotopically normal as well as of the (15)NO and N(18)O substituted anion with the results of quantum chemical (DFT) calculations support the assignment of the bands which appear after successive irradiations to MS1, the linear Fe(eta(1)-ON) linkage isomer, and to MS2, the side-bound Fe(eta(2)-NO) isomer.

Infrared evidence of NO linkage photoisomerization in Na2[Fe(CN)5NO].2H2O at low temperature: experimental and theoretical (DFT) isotopic shifts from 15n(O), 18O and 54Fe species.

Infrared spectra of the metastable state I (MSI) of normal and 15NO, N18O and 54Fe isotopically substituted sodium nitroprusside dihydrate (Na2[Fe(CN)5NO].2H2O) have been obtained at 77 K. A comparison of the isotopic shifts measured for the vibrational modes of the FeXY (XY = NO or ON) moiety with those calculated by means of quantum chemistry (DFT) procedures supports the linear Fe-O = N arrangement for the MSI state.