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High-temperature experimental and theoretical study of magnetic interactions in diamond and pseudo-diamond frameworks
Berislav Perić1, Stéphane Cordier, Jérôme Cuny
1Division of Materials Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. berislav.peric@irb.hr
Abstract:
Magnetic interactions in solid-state tantalum cluster compounds have been evidenced by using magnetic susceptibility measurements and corroborated by broken-symmetry DFT calculations. The three selected compounds are based on [Ta(6)X(12)(H(2)O)(6)](3+) (X=Cl or/and Br) units with edge-bridged Ta(6) octahedral clusters. Although two of them crystallise in the tetragonal space group I4(1)/a, all compounds exhibit a similar arrangement of paramagnetic clusters related to the diamond structural framework (Fd ̅3m space group). Magnetic parameters were fitted by using the [5,4] Padé approximant of high-temperature series expansion of susceptibility for the Heisenberg model (S=1/2) in the diamond framework, assuming only nearest-neighbouring interactions. Such a model appropriately describes magnetic-susceptibility measurements at temperatures T>0.7|J|/k. The magnetic interaction parameter J between two [Ta(6)Cl(12)(H(2)O)(6)](3+) clusters is estimated to be -64.28(7) cm(-1) ; it has been enhanced by replacing several chlorine inner ligands with bromine ones (J=-123(3) cm(-1) for two [Ta(6)Br(7.7(1))Cl(4.3(1))(H(2)O)(6)](3+) clusters) and is strongest between two bromine [Ta(6)Br(12)(H(2)O)(6)](3+) clusters with a value of -155(1) cm(-1) . Broken-symmetry DFT calculations within spin-dimer analysis confirmed this trend. Those interactions can be explained on the basis of the overlap between singly occupied a(2u) orbitals localised on neighbouring clusters.
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