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(BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(HCOO)5: An Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Conducting Magnet
Bin Zhang1, Yan Zhang2, Zheming Wang3
1Organic Solid Laboratory, CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, CMS & BNLMS, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P.R. China.
Abstract:
A dual-functional organic-inorganic hybrid (BEDT-TTF)2Cu2(HCOO)5 (1) (BEDT-TTF=bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene) was obtained through the electrochemical oxidation of neutral BEDT-TTF in the presence of an ammonium salt of the one-dimensional copper-formate framework [(C2H5)3NH]2Cu2(HCOO)5 in a C6H5Cl-C2H5OH solution. Compound 1 was composed of organic donor BEDT-TTF+0⋅5 in a θ-phase arrangement and Jahn-Teller distorted (4,4) grid anion sheets [Cu2(HCOO)5-] with S=1/2. We identified the material as a semiconductor with values of σ300K=10-1 S cm-1. The anion sheet is a coordination isomer of [Cu2(HCOO)5-] and, compared with the starting material, shows antiferromagnetic behavior as the well-known inorganic Cu-O, Co-O square layers for creating inorganic conducting magnets. Long-range antiferromagnetic ordering was observed at 8.0 K.
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