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Ferromagnetic Coupling Through the End-to-End Thiocyanate Bridge in Cobalt(II) and Nickel(II) Chains

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The preparation, spectroscopic characterization, and X-ray crystal structure of two novel one-dimensional compounds of formula [MII(tppz)(NCS)(μ-1,3-NCS)]n [tppz = 2,3,5,6-tetrakis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine and M = Co(1) and Ni (2)] are reported. 1 and 2 are isomorphous compounds, and they crystallize in the P21/n space group. Their structures are made up of zigzag chains of cobalt(II) (1) and nickel(II) ions (2) bridged by single end-to-end thiocyanate groups with a tridentate tppz molecule and a terminally bound thiocyanate-N ligand achieving distorted MN5S octahedral surroundings around each metal center. The main source of the distortion of the ideal octahedron is due to the geometrical constraints issued from the occurrence of two fused five-member chelate rings of the tridentate tppz ligand, the values of the N–M–N bond angles covering the range 75.58(9)–78.66(9)°. The M–N bond lengths vary in the range 2.025(3)–2.116(29 (1) and 2.001(2)–2.079(2) A (2), and they are shorter than the M–S bond distance [2.63...