Electronic structure of N,N'-ethylene-bis(1,1,1-trifluoropentane-2,4-dioneiminato)-copper(II) (Cu-TFAC), from soft X-ray spectroscopies and density functional theory calculations.

The element and orbital-specific electronic structure of thin films of the organic material N,N'-ethylene-bis(1,1,1-trifluoropentane-2,4-dioneiminato)-copper(II) (designated as Cu-TFAC) has been studied using a combination of synchrotron radiation-excited resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations. Furthermore, resonant X-ray emission at the carbon K-edge was used to measure the density of states for individual C sites in the molecule.