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Zhaoping Ni1, Matthew P Shores
1Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, USA.
Abstract:
Many spin-crossover complexes exhibit high sensitivity to small environmental changes. Here, we demonstrate proof-of-concept exploitation of this property to report anion binding events in solution. Dichloromethane solutions of the cationic receptor complex [Fe(H(2)bip)(3)](BPh(4))(2) (bip = 2,2'-bi-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidine) (1) undergo subtle color changes at room temperature when interrogated by anions capable of hydrogen bonding interactions. Significantly, at -40 degrees C, these secondary binding interactions cause a change from a high- to low-spin state that is qualitatively linked to the strength of the host-guest interaction. The anion recognition property is combined with spin-state switching in a synergistic fashion and offers the possibility of using magnetometry to report host-guest interactions.
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