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Field-induced single-ion magnet based on a quasi-octahedral Co(II) complex with mixed sulfur-oxygen coordination environment.

Denis V KorchaginYa E GureevE A YurevaGennadii V ShilovA V AkimovEugenii Ya MisochkoR B MorgunovK V ZakharovAlexander N VasilievAndrei V PaliiThomas LohmillerKarsten HolldackSergey M Aldoshin
Published in: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2021)
Synthesis and characterization of structure and magnetic properties of the quasi-octahedral complex (pipH2)[Co(TDA)2] 2H2O (I), (pipH22+ = piperazine dication, TDA2- = thiodiacetic anion) are described. X-ray diffraction studies reveal the first coordination sphere of the Co(II) ion, consisting of two chelating tridentate TDA ligands with a mixed sulfur-oxygen strongly elongated octahedral coordination environment. SQUID magnetometry, frequency-domain Fourier-transform (FD-FT) THz-EPR spectroscopy, and high-level ab initio SA-CASSCF/NEVPT2 quantum chemical calculations reveal a strong "easy-plane" type magnetic anisotropy (D ≈ +54 cm-1) of complex I. The complex shows field-induced slow relaxation of magnetization at an applied DC field of 1000 Oe.
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