2024/08/25 by Andreas Dürrmann, Gerald Hörner, Dirk Baabe +3 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Chemistry · Materials Science · #Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes #Magnetism in coordination complexes #Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51675-1
openalex publication_date 2024/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Abstract Cooperativity among spin centres has long been the royal road in spin crossover (SCO) research to impose magnetic bistability in terms of thermal hysteresis. In this work we access magnetic multi-inert states of the iron(III) compound FeL 2 [B(Ph) 4 ] ≡ FeB at low temperature, in addition to thermal bistability. The packing of the low-spin and high-spin forms of crystalline FeB differs only marginally what ultimately leads to structural conservatism. This indicates that the SCO-immanent breathing of the complex cation is almost fully compensated by the anion matrix. The unique cooling rate dependence of the residual low-temperature magnetisation in FeB unveils continuous switching between the trapped high-spin (ON) and the relaxed low-spin state (OFF). The macroscopic ratio of the spin states (ON:OFF) can be adjusted as a simple function of the cooling rate. That is, cooperative spin crossover can be the source of bistable and multi-inert system states in the very same material.