Journal article

Hysteretic spin crossover in iron(ii) complexes of a new pyridine–triazole–pyrazine ligand is tuned by choice of NCE co-ligand

RW Hogue, RG Miller, NG White, HLC Feltham, GNL Jameson, S Brooker

Chemical Communications | ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY | Published : 2014

Abstract

A family of three new mononuclear complexes of the general form [Fe(Lpz)2(NCE)2] has been prepared (Lpz = 4-p-tolyl-3-(2-pyrazinyl)-5-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole; E = S, Se, BH3). All three exhibit spin crossover, in two cases with hysteresis, with T1/2 being predictably tuned by varying the coordinated anion. © 2014 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the University of Otago and the Marsden Fund (RSNZ) for supporting this research, the MacDiarmid Institute for the Mossbauer spectrometer and magnetometers, Dr S. Chong (Callaghan Innovation) for his help, and Dr J. L. Tallon (Callaghan Innovation) for advice.