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Xiaozhou Ma1, Elizaveta A Suturina, Mathieu Rouzières
1Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, 33600 Pessac, France. rodolphe.clerac@crpp.cnrs.fr pierre.dechambenoit@crpp.cnrs.fr.
Abstract:
Successive chemical reductions of the heteroleptic complex [(tpy)CrIII(tphz)]3+ (tpy = terpyridine; tphz = tetrapyridophenazine) give rise to the mono- and di-radical redox isomers, [(tpy)CrIII(tphz˙-)]2+ and [(tpy˙-)CrIII(tphz˙-)]+, respectively. As designed, the optimized overlap of the involved magnetic orbitals leads to extremely strong magnetic interactions between the S = 3/2 metal ion and S = 1/2 radical spins, affording well isolated ST = 1 and ST = 1/2 ground states at room temperature.
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