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María José Heras Ojea1, Jeff M Van Raden2, Shayan Louie2
1Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK.
Abstract:
Addition of the bipyridyl-embedded cycloparaphenylene nanohoop bipy[9]CPP to [Fe{H2 B(pyz)2 }] (pyz=pyrazolyl) produces the distorted octahedral complex [Fe(bipy[9]CPP){H2 B(pyz)2 }2 ] (1). The molecular structure of 1 shows that the nanohoop ligand contains a non-planar bipy unit. Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate spin-crossover (SCO) behaviour with a T1/2 of 130 K, lower than that of 160 K observed with the related compound [Fe(bipy){H2 B(pyz)2 }2 ] (2), which contains a conventional bipy ligand. A computational study of 1 and 2 reveals that the curvature of the nanohoop leads to the different SCO properties, suggesting that the SCO behaviour of iron(II) can be tuned by varying the size and diameter of the nanohoop.
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