Issue 45, 2011
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Dalton Transactions

Partial spin crossover behaviour in a dinuclear iron(ii) triple helicate†

Rosanna J. Archer,a   Chris S. Hawes,a   Guy N. L. Jameson,b   Vickie McKee,c   Boujemaa Moubaraki,d   Nicholas F. Chilton,d   Keith S. Murray,d   Wolfgang Schmitte  and  Paul E. Kruger*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
E-mail: paul.kruger@canterbury.ac.nz

b Department of Chemistry & MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

c Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England

d School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

e University of Dublin, Trinity College, School of Chemistry & CRANN, Dublin 2, Ireland

Abstract

Reported herein are the synthesis, structural, magnetic and Mössbauer spectroscopic characterisation of a dinuclear Fe(II) triple helicate complex [Fe2(L)3](ClO4)4.xH2O (x = 1–4), 1(H2O), where L is a bis-bidentate imidazolimine ligand. Low temperature structural analysis (150 K) and Mössbauer spectroscopy (4.5 K) are consistent with one of the Fe(II) centres within the helicate being in the low spin (LS) state with the other being in the high-spin (HS) state resulting in a [LS:HS] species. However, Mössbauer spectroscopy (295 K) and variable temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements (4.5–300 K) reveal that 1(H2O) undergoes a reversible single step spin crossover at one Fe(II) centre at higher temperatures resulting in a [HS:HS] species. Indeed, the T1/2(SCO) values at this Fe(II) centre also vary as the degree of hydration, x, within 1(H2O) changes from 1 to 4 and are centred between ca. 210 K–265 K, respectively. The dehydration/hydration cycle is reversible and the fully hydrated phase of 1(H2O) may be recovered on exposure to water vapour. This magnetic behaviour is in contrast to that observed in the related compound [Fe2(L)3](ClO4)4·2MeCN, 1(MeCN), whereby fully reversible SCO was observed at each Fe(II) centre to give [LS:LS] species at low temperature and [HS:HS] species at higher temperatures. Reasons for this differing behaviour between 1(H2O) and 1(MeCN) are discussed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1DT11381J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Jul 2011
Accepted
26 Sep 2011
First published
11 Oct 2011

Dalton Trans., 2011,40, 12368-12373

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Partial spin crossover behaviour in a dinuclear iron(II) triple helicate

R. J. Archer, C. S. Hawes, G. N. L. Jameson, V. McKee, B. Moubaraki, N. F. Chilton, K. S. Murray, W. Schmitt and P. E. Kruger, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 12368 DOI: 10.1039/C1DT11381J

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