Magnetostructural relationship for μ2-phenoxido bridged ferric dimers
Fei Yu1, Zi-Heng Cao1, Jing-Yuan Ge1
1State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, P. R. China. zuojl@nju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Three Fe(iii) dimers, [Fe2(L-H)2]·2CH3CN (1), [Fe2(L-OCH3)2] (2) and [Fe2(L-OC2H5)2]·2CH3CN (3), containing the pentadentate O,N,N,O,O-donor Schiff-base ligands with variable size pendants, were synthesized and structurally characterized. The three ligands were generated in situ from 2-(iminomethyl)phenol, 2-methoxy-6-(iminomethyl)phenol and 2-ethoxy-6-(iminomethyl)phenol, respectively. All three crystal structures contain centrosymmetric dimers of edge-sharing octahedra of Fe(iii) ions through a pair of μ2-phenoxido bridges. The exchange coupling is ferromagnetic for 1 (J = +0.47(1) cm-1, ∠Fe-O-Fe = 98.02°) and 2 (J = +0.86(1) cm-1, ∠Fe-O-Fe = 97.17°), but antiferromagnetic for 3 (J = -0.72(1) cm-1, ∠Fe-O-Fe = 98.53°), which are correlated by high-field electron paramagnetic resonance revealing moderate magneto-anisotropy of D = -0.24(3) cm-1, E = 0.08(1) cm-1 for 1, D = -0.38(1) cm-1, E = 0.11(1) cm-1 for 2, and D = 0.30(3) cm-1, E = 0.02(1) cm-1 for 3. The exchange couplings were further estimated by DFT calculations, which gave the finest Fe-O-Fe angle of 97.83° for the ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic crossover.
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