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Slow Dynamics of the Spin-Crossover Process in an Apparent High-Spin Mononuclear FeII Complex.

Yi Shan YeXiu Qin ChenYou De CaiBin FeiPierre DechambenoitMathieu RouzièresCorine MathonièreRodolphe CléracXin Bao
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2019)
A mononuclear FeII complex that shows a high-spin (S=2) paramagnetic behavior at all temperatures (with standard temperature-scan rates, ≈1 K min-1 ) has, in fact, a low-spin (S=0) ground state below 100 K. This low-spin state is not easily accessible due to the extremely slow dynamics of the spin-crossover process-a full relaxation from the metastable high-spin state to the low-spin ground state takes more than 5 h below 80 K. Bidirectional photo-switching of the FeII state is achieved reproducibly by two selective irradiations (at 530-590 and 830-850 nm). The slow dynamics of the spin-crossover and the strong structural cooperativity result in a remarkably wide 95-K hysteresis loop induced by both temperature and selected light stimuli.
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