Journal article

Guest binding subtly influences spin crossover in an FeII 4L4 capsule

RA Bilbeisi, S Zarra, HLC Feltham, GNL Jameson, JK Clegg, S Brooker, JR Nitschke

Chemistry A European Journal | WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH | Published : 2013

Abstract

How much should we switch? Two FeII4L4 tetrahedral capsules were shown to undergo thermally induced spin crossover (SCO). Guest binding to one of these capsules was observed to affect the thermodynamics of its SCO in solution, leading to different spin transition temperatures between the empty host (blue) and the host-guest complex (red). HS: high spin; LS: low spin. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Schlumberger Foundation, Faculty for the Future Fellowship (R. A. B.), the EPSRC (S.Z.), the Marie Curie IIF Scheme of the 7th EU Framework Program (J.K.C.) and the MacDiarmid Institute (PPMS and Mossbauer instruments). We thank Dr. Xavier de Hatten, and Dr. Artur Stefankiewicz for useful discussions, Samuel P. Black for running HRMS, and the UK National Crystallography Service at Southampton for collecting X-ray data.