Structural re-arrangement in two hexanuclear CuIIcomplexes: from a spin frustrated trigonal prism to a strongly coupled antiferromagnetic soluble ring complex with a porous tubular structure
The addition of water to a chloroform solution of the Cu6 trigonal prism complex [Cu6(μ6F)(μ2OH)(μ3OCH3)2(μ2OCH3)2(3,5-Me2pz)6] (1) (3,5-Me2pz− = 3,5-dimethylpyrazolate) results in the formation of the Cu6 planar hexagonal ring complex [Cu6(μ2OH)6(3,5-Me2pz)6]·CH3CN·CHCl3 (2). A simple mechanism for this structural re-arrangement is proposed, in which 2 can be viewed as a hydrolysis product of 1. This process is clearly noticeable in the magnetic properties, which change from spin frustrated with a weak antiferromagnetic coupling in 1, to strongly antiferromagnetic in 2. Interestingly, the hexagonal ring complex 2 self-assembles in the solid state to form a porous hexagonal tubular structur…
Structural and magnetic characterization of the tridimensional network [Fe(HCO2)3]n·nHCO2H
In this work we report the structural and magnetic characterization of a new three-dimensional porous metal–organic framework (MOF) based on iron(III) and the formate anion, [Fe(HCO2)3]n·nHCO2H (1), which was obtained by solvothermal synthesis. The tridimensional structure crystallizes in the trigonal space group Rc and is formed by highly regular octahedral Fe(OHCO)6 units. These units contain six equal Fe–O distances, with angles slightly different from 90° or 180°. The packing of 1 corresponds to a 3D covalent network defined by face sharing between the parallelepipeds, which are formed by the interactions of Fe(OHCO)6 units through formate ligands, thus generating a 41263 topology. This…
Magnetic properties of vanadium(IV)-based extended systems: [(VO)3(μ-PO4)2(2,2′-bpy)(μ-OH2)]*1/3H2O and (VO)2H4P2O9
International audience; The magnetic properties of [(VO)3(μ-PO4)2(2,2′-bpy)(μ-OH2)]1/3H2O (1) and (VO)2H4P2O9 (2), a tubular and a layered vanadium(IV) phosphates containing triply oxido bridged VIV dimers, are analyzed considering the Bleaney-Bowers S = 1/2 dimer model. In compound 1 the presence of an additional VIV connected with the VIV dimers through μ1,2-PO43− bridges is described with a Curie-Weiss type correction. This model reproduces the magnetic properties of compound 1 with g = 1.956, Jdim = −102.1 cm−1, θ = −0.4 cm−1 and Nα = 278 × 10−6 emu mol−1. In compound 2, the presence of a small percentage of paramagnetic impurity has to be considered to account for the divergence of χm …