Multi-phase spin crossover in Fe(ptz)6(BF4)2
✍ Scribed by Marie-Hélène Lemée-Cailleau; Claude Ecolivet; Bachir Ouladdiaf; Fernande Moussa; Jean-François Létard
- Book ID
- 103887024
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 326 KB
- Volume
- 404
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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✦ Synopsis
Transition metal complexes present solid state phase transitions associated with a change of the spin state, low-spin at low temperature to high-spin at high temperature, often with a significant change of metal-ligand bond lengths. Elastic interactions between small low-spin molecules and large high-spin ones play an important role in the phase transition. Since the discovery of spin crossover phenomenon, the complex [Fe (ptz) 6 ](BF 4 ) 2 has successfully attracted the interest of scientists because of its complete spin conversion and of its sensitivity to light. This very rich phase multi-stability also offers a unique possibility to investigate carefully the spin crossover phenomena in diverse fundamental cases (coupled with a ferroelastic transition, after quenching, after irradiation, y), and in an unusual case where the metal ion lies on a high-symmetry site. On the basis of results obtained by neutron scattering under high pressure, we present here the (pressure-temperature) phase diagram of the complex [Fe (ptz) 6 ](BF 4 ) 2 , which appears as seriously more complex than expected from the earlier literature, with in particular at least two new phases, one corresponding to complexes in a high-spin state but stacked in low symmetry, the other arising from an unexpected reconstructive phase transition.
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