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Inside Cover: Coupled Crystallographic Order–Disorder and Spin State in a Bistable Molecule: Multiple Transition Dynamics (Chem. Eur. J. 11/2011)
Author(s) -
Craig Gavin A.,
Sánchez Costa José,
Roubeau Olivier,
Teat Simon J.,
Aromí Guillem
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201190050
Subject(s) - bistability , spin crossover , intermolecular force , hysteresis , phase transition , frustration , chemical physics , coupling (piping) , spin (aerodynamics) , materials science , condensed matter physics , crystallography , molecule , chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , optoelectronics , metallurgy
Within spin‐crossover solids… … strong intermolecular interactions afford a means for the propagation of molecular‐scale changes and coupling with crystallographic phase transitions, which leads to intricate cooperative phenomena. In their Full Paper on page 3120 ff. , J. S. Costa, O. Roubeau, G. Aromí et al. report on a novel spin‐crossover Fe II complex that features a dense network of intermolecular interactions. This results in a large unsymmetrical hysteresis of the spin state, which correlates with a crystallographic order–disorder transition.