Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Structural Transformation and Photomagnetic Properties of a Porous Iron(II) Spin-Crossover Framework

Suzanne M. Neville, Gregory J. Halder,§ Karena W. Chapman, Martin B. Duriska, Peter D. Southon, John D. Cashion, Jean-François Létard,# Boujemaa Moubaraki, Keith S. Murray, and Cameron J. Kepert*
School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia, School of Chemistry, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, School of Physics, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia, and Laboratoire des Sciences Moléculaires, ICMCB (CNRS UPR 9048), Université Bordeaux I, 33608 Pessac, France
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (9), pp 2869–2876
DOI: 10.1021/ja077958f
Publication Date (Web): February 7, 2008
Copyright © 2008 American Chemical Society

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The porous coordination framework material, Fe(NCS)2(bped)2·3EtOH, SCOF-3(Et) (where bped is dl-1,2-bis(4‘-pyridyl)-1,2-ethanediol), displays a spin-crossover (SCO) transition that has been stimulated both thermally and by light irradiation. The one-step thermal SCO (70−180 K) is sensitive to the presence of molecular guests, with a more gradual transition (70−225 K) apparent following the desorption of ethanol molecules that hydrogen bond to the spin centers. Additional intraframework hydrogen-bonding interactions stabilize the vacant one-dimensional pore structure of the apohost, SCOF-3, despite a dramatic single-crystal to single-crystal (SC−SC) structural change upon removal of the guests. Comprehensive structural analyses throughout this transformation, from primitive orthorhombic (Pccn) to body-centered tetragonal (I4/mcm), reveal a flexing of the framework and a dilation of the channels, with an accompanying subtle distortion of the iron(II) coordination geometry. Photomagnetic measurements of the light-induced excited spin state trapping (LIESST) effect have been used to assess the degree of cooperativity in this system.

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  • Received October 17, 2007

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