PMID- 19235971 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20090428 LR - 20090224 IS - 1520-510X (Electronic) IS - 0020-1669 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 5 DP - 2009 Mar 2 TI - Two-step spin-transition iron(III) compound with a wide [high spin-low spin] plateau. PG - 2128-35 LID - 10.1021/ic801973x [doi] AB - A new iron(III) coordination compound exhibiting a two-step spin-transition behavior with a remarkably wide [HS-LS] plateau of about 45 K has been synthesized from a hydrazino Schiff-base ligand with an N,N,O donor set, namely 2-methoxy-6-(pyridine-2-ylhydrazonomethyl)phenol (Hmph). The single-crystal X-ray structure of the coordination compound [Fe(mph)(2)](ClO(4))(MeOH)(0.5)(H(2)O)(0.5)(2) (1) determined at 150 K reveals the presence of two slightly different iron(III) centers in pseudo-octahedral environments generated by two deprotonated tridentate mph ligands. The presence of hydrogen bonding interactions, instigated by the well-designed ligand, may justify the occurrence of the abrupt transitions. 1 has been characterized by temperature-dependent magnetic susceptibility measurements, EPR spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and (57)Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy, which all confirm the occurrence of a two-step transition. In addition, the iron(III) species in the high-spin state has been trapped and characterized by rapid cooling EPR studies. FAU - Tang, Jinkui AU - Tang J AD - Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. FAU - Sanchez Costa, Jose AU - Sanchez Costa J FAU - Smulders, Simon AU - Smulders S FAU - Molnar, Gabor AU - Molnar G FAU - Bousseksou, Azzedine AU - Bousseksou A FAU - Teat, Simon J AU - Teat SJ FAU - Li, Yangguang AU - Li Y FAU - van Albada, Gerard A AU - van Albada GA FAU - Gamez, Patrick AU - Gamez P FAU - Reedijk, Jan AU - Reedijk J LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Inorg Chem JT - Inorganic chemistry JID - 0366543 EDAT- 2009/02/25 09:00 MHDA- 2009/02/25 09:01 CRDT- 2009/02/25 09:00 PHST- 2009/02/25 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/02/25 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/02/25 09:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/ic801973x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Inorg Chem. 2009 Mar 2;48(5):2128-35. doi: 10.1021/ic801973x.