The synthesis and crystal structures of a family of decametallic Cr-III "molecular wheels" are reported, namely [Cr-10(OR)(20)(O2CR')(10)] [R'= Me, R = Me (1), Et (2); R'= Et, R = Me (3), Et (4); R'= CMe3, R = Me (5), Et (6)]. Magnetic studies on 1-6 reveal a remarkable dependence of the magnetic behaviour on the nature of R. In each pair of complexes with a common carboxylate (R) the nearest neighbour (CrCr)-Cr-... magnetic exchange coupling is more antiferromagnetic for the ethoxide-bridged (R=Et) cluster than for the methoxide analogue. In complexes 2, 4 and 6 the overall coupling is weakly antiferromagnetic resulting in diamagnetic (S=0) ground states for the cluster, whilst in 1 and 5 it is weakly ferromagnetic thus resulting in very high-spin ground states. This ground state has been probed directly in the perdeuterated version of 1 ([D]1) by inelastic neutron scattering experiments, and these support the S= 15 ground state expected for ferromagnetic coupling of ten Cr-III ions, and they also indicate that a single J-value model is inadequate. The ground state of 5 is large but not well defined. The trends in J on changing R are further supported by density functional calculations on 1-6, which are in excellent agreement with experiment. The very large changes in the nature of the ground state between 1 and 2, and 5 and 6 are the result of relatively small changes in J that happen to cross J=0, hence changing the sign of J.

A Family of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetically Coupled Decametallic Chromium(Iii) Wheels / D. M. LOW; G. RAJARAMAN; M. HELLIWELL; G. TIMCO; J. VAN SLAGEREN; R. SESSOLI; S. T. OCHSENBEIN; R. BIRCHER; C. DOBE; O. WALDMANN; H. U. GUDEL; M. A. ADAMS; E. RUIZ; S. ALVAREZ; E. J. L. MCINNES. - In: CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL. - ISSN 0947-6539. - STAMPA. - 12:(2006), pp. 1385-1396. [10.1002/chem.200501041]

A Family of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetically Coupled Decametallic Chromium(Iii) Wheels

SESSOLI, ROBERTA;
2006

Abstract

The synthesis and crystal structures of a family of decametallic Cr-III "molecular wheels" are reported, namely [Cr-10(OR)(20)(O2CR')(10)] [R'= Me, R = Me (1), Et (2); R'= Et, R = Me (3), Et (4); R'= CMe3, R = Me (5), Et (6)]. Magnetic studies on 1-6 reveal a remarkable dependence of the magnetic behaviour on the nature of R. In each pair of complexes with a common carboxylate (R) the nearest neighbour (CrCr)-Cr-... magnetic exchange coupling is more antiferromagnetic for the ethoxide-bridged (R=Et) cluster than for the methoxide analogue. In complexes 2, 4 and 6 the overall coupling is weakly antiferromagnetic resulting in diamagnetic (S=0) ground states for the cluster, whilst in 1 and 5 it is weakly ferromagnetic thus resulting in very high-spin ground states. This ground state has been probed directly in the perdeuterated version of 1 ([D]1) by inelastic neutron scattering experiments, and these support the S= 15 ground state expected for ferromagnetic coupling of ten Cr-III ions, and they also indicate that a single J-value model is inadequate. The ground state of 5 is large but not well defined. The trends in J on changing R are further supported by density functional calculations on 1-6, which are in excellent agreement with experiment. The very large changes in the nature of the ground state between 1 and 2, and 5 and 6 are the result of relatively small changes in J that happen to cross J=0, hence changing the sign of J.
2006
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D. M. LOW; G. RAJARAMAN; M. HELLIWELL; G. TIMCO; J. VAN SLAGEREN; R. SESSOLI; S. T. OCHSENBEIN; R. BIRCHER; C. DOBE; O. WALDMANN; H. U. GUDEL; M. A. ADAMS; E. RUIZ; S. ALVAREZ; E. J. L. MCINNES
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