The CASSCF and the hybrid CASSCF-MRMP2 methods are applied to the calculations of spin-spin and spin-orbit contributions to the zero-field splitting tensors (D tensors) of the halogen-substituted spin-septet 2,4,6-trinitrenopyridines, focusing on the heavy atom effects on the spin-orbit term of the D tensors (D(SO) tensors). The calculations reproduced experimentally determined |D| values within an error of 15%. Halogen substitutions at the 3,5-positions are less influential in the spin-spin dipolar (D(SS)) term of 2,4,6-trinitrenopyridines, although the D(SO) terms are strongly affected by the introduction of heavier halogens. The absolute sign of the D(SO) value (D = D(ZZ) - (D(XX) + D(YY))/2) of 3,5-dibromo derivative 3 is predicted to be negative, which contradicts the Pederson-Khanna (PK) DFT result previously reported. The large negative contributions to the D(SO) value of 3 arise from the excited spin-septet states ascribed mainly to the excitations of in-plane lone pair of bromine atoms → SOMO of π nature. The importance of the excited states involving electron transitions from the lone pair orbital of the halogen atom is also confirmed in the D(SO) tensors of halogen-substituted para-phenylnitrenes. A new scheme based on the orbital region partitioning is proposed for the analysis of the D(SO) tensors as calculated by means of the PK-DFT approach.
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