“…According to the strongly oxidizing power of the pentavalent metals, which facilitates charge transfer from the ligands, bathochromic shifts of ∼8000 cm -1 between Ir(V) and Ir(IV), 7000 cm -1 between Os(V) and Os(IV) and 15 000 cm -1 between corresponding d 4 species of the fluorochloroiridates(V) and -osmates-(IV) have been observed. 60,151,153,154 The minor differences of the electronegativities between the heavier halides, Cl, Br, and I, make the assignments of LMCT transitions to the respective ligands in mixed coordination spheres impossible. Nevertheless, for the sake of an overall spectroscopic characterization, the spectra have been measured in solution and at low temperature in solid state for the following series: [ReCl n Br 6-n ] 2-, 157 [ReCl n I 6-n ] 2-, 148 [OsCl n Br 6-n ] 2-, 158 [IrCl n Br 6-n ] 2-, 158 [OsCl n I 6-n ] 2-, 159 and [RuCl n Br 6-n ] 2-.…”