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Modular [FeIII8MII6] n+ (MII = Pd, Co, Ni, Cu) Coordination Cages
Sergio Sanz1, Helen M O'Connor1, Priyanka Comar1
1EaStCHEM School of Chemistry , University of Edinburgh , David Brewster Road , Edinburgh EH9 3FJ , U.K.
Abstract:
The reaction of the simple metalloligand [FeIIIL3] [HL = 1-(4-pyridyl)butane-1,3-dione] with a variety of different MII salts results in the formation of a family of heterometallic cages of formulae [FeIII8PdII6L24]Cl12 (1), [FeIII8CuII6L24(H2O)4Br4]Br8 (2), [FeIII8CuII6L24(H2O)10](NO3)12 (3), [FeIII8NiII6L24(SCN)11Cl] (4), and [FeIII8CoII6L24(SCN)10(H2O)2]Cl2 (5). The metallic skeleton of each cage describes a cube in which the FeIII ions occupy the eight vertices and the MII ions lie at the center of the six faces. Direct-current magnetic susceptibility and magnetization measurements on 3-5 reveal the presence of weak antiferromagnetic exchange between the metal ions in all three cases. Computational techniques known in theoretical nuclear physics as statistical spectroscopy, which exploit the moments of the Hamiltonian to calculate relevant thermodynamic properties, determine JFe-Cu = 0.10 cm-1 for 3 and JFe-Ni = 0.025 cm-1 for 4. Q-band electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of 1 reveal a significantly wider spectral width in comparison to [FeL3], indicating that the magnitude of the FeIII zero-field splitting is larger in the heterometallic cage than in the monomer.
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