Antibacterial Activity of 2-Picolyl-polypyridyl-Based Ruthenium (II/III) Complexes on Non-Drug-Resistant and Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Figure 3

Suspected weak Jahn–Teller distortions on complex 4 Note. The diagram is not to scale. The diagram demonstrates that the orbitals transform under the a′ symmetry label while the orbitals transform under the a′, a″, and a″; this observation suggests the weak Jahn–Teller distortion. This explains why the observed effective magnetic moment was a bit lower than the expected magnetic moment which is because of the unpaired electron not having orbital contribution from interacting with the other orbitals, thus having no effect on the magnetic moment.