Unusual solvent dependence of a molecule-based feii macrocyclic spin-crossover complex

Hongfeng Wang, Chiara Sinito, Abdellah Kaiba, José Sanchez Costa, Cédric Desplanches, Philippe Dagault, Philippe Guionneau, Jean François Létard, Philippe Negrier, Denise Mondieig

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Abstract

This work illustrates in detail the reversible hydration-dehydration process of a molecule-based material, which involves a drastic change of the switchable magnetic properties of the sample. Concretely, the complex [FeL222N3O2(CN)2]·H2O exhibits a spin crossover (SCO) accompanied by a change of the coordination number. The dehydration and rehydration of this SCO complex was carried out and monitored by different methods, which include X-ray diffraction analysis. The corresponding samples display a thermal spin transition as well as a thermal quenching of the metastable high-spin state at low temperature. In particular it was observed that the rehydrated material exhibits a particularly high temperature of relaxation, T(TIESST), of the metastable high-spin state. On the other hand, it was shown that this compound exhibits a uncommon correlation between T(TIESST) and the thermal SCO, as compared with other spin-crossover compounds that do not exhibit a change in coordination number.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4927-4933
Number of pages7
JournalEuropean Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Volume2014
Issue number29
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Dehydration
  • Iron
  • Magnetic properties
  • Phase transitions
  • Solvent effects
  • Spin crossover

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