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Ranajit Mondol1, Casey Van Stappen1, Indrani Bhowmick2
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E 24th St, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
Abstract:
Determining the magnetic effects of binding heavy, main group donors (E) to 3d transition metals has been stymied by their weak σ donor strength, hard-soft mismatch between 3d metal and 5p/6p element, and the instability of E-C bonds in ligand frameworks. Herein, we resolve these issues by leveraging the chelate effect in the xanthene scaffold-based bidentate triaryl-antimony ligand (XantSb2) to enforce binding to the Co(II) ion. The resulting S = 3/2 Co(II) complex [(XantSb2)Co(I)2] (1) exhibits a large magnitude zero-field splitting parameter [D ≈ |25-50| cm-1] as determined by magnetometry measurements, variable-temperature electron paramagnetic resonance, and CASSCF/NEVPT2 calculations. Such D value is up to 10× higher than its light-atom congener [(XantP2)Co(I)2] and is attributed to the 'heavy-atom effect' of antimony donors, as well as a minor geometric distortion. This finding represents a rare example of a 3d|5p paramagnetic system.
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