Partial Nitrogen Atom Transfer: A New Synthetic Tool to Design Single-Molecule Magnets
Author(s) -
Mei Ding,
Mathieu Rouzières,
Yaroslav Losovyj,
Maren Pink,
Rodolphe Clérac,
Jeremy M. Smith
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 233
eISSN - 1520-510X
pISSN - 0020-1669
DOI - 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01455
Subject(s) - chemistry , vanadium nitride , nitride , bimetallic strip , paramagnetism , molecule , electron transfer , crystallography , atom (system on chip) , ligand (biochemistry) , relaxation (psychology) , nitrogen atom , iron nitride , magnetization , magnet , metal , photochemistry , magnetic field , condensed matter physics , ring (chemistry) , organic chemistry , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , physics , receptor , layer (electronics) , quantum mechanics , computer science , embedded system
Incomplete nitrogen atom transfer from the iron(IV) nitride complex PhB(MesIm)3Fe≡N to the vanadium(III) complex V(Mes)3(THF) quantitatively provides the bimetallic complex PhB(MesIm)3Fe-N═V(Mes)3. Structural and spectroscopic characterizations reveal that the nitride ligand forms a linear bridge between V(V) and high-spin Fe(II) metal ions, confirming that atom transfer is accompanied by electron transfer. In the presence of an applied dc field, the complex displays slow relaxation of the magnetization, revealing its single-molecule magnet properties with an estimation of the energy barrier at about 10 K. This complex establishes a synthetic principle for the assembly of paramagnetic complexes bridged by nitride ligands.
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