Structural and magnetic study of O2 molecules arranged along a channel in a flexible single-crystal host family

We report the magnetic behaviors of O(2) molecules, which aligned in the channels of four types of single-crystal adsorbents, [M(2)(bza)(4)(pyz)](n) (bza = benzoate; pyz = pyrazine; M = Rh(II) (1a) and Cu(II) (1b)) and [M(2)(bza)(4)(2-mpyz)](n) (2-mpyz = 2-methylpyrazine; M = Rh(II) (2a) and Cu(II) (2b)). The X-ray single-crystal structures at various temperatures from 10 to 298 K were determined for O(2)-included crystals of 1a and 2a. All adsorbed O(2) molecules exhibited abnormal magnetic phases above 4 T in the temperature range around 55-105 K. The magnetic behaviors of adsorbed O(2) molecules between four inclusions were discussed. The existence of the metastable state, which was also suggested by hysteresis on the M-H curves, was revealed by analysis of the time course of the magnetization. Considering that the abnormal magnetic behavior occurred at relatively high temperatures and a low magnetic field, it was suggested that these behaviors were induced because of the changes of magnetic interaction of included O(2) aggregates involving transformation which is supported by the surrounding of the channels of the single-crystal hosts under the applied magnetic field.