Photomagnetic Response in Highly Conductive Iron(II) Spin-Crossover Complexes with TCNQ Radicals

Autor: Michael Shatruk, Hoa Phan, Eden Steven, James S. Brooks, Shermane M. Benjamin
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie. 127:837-841
ISSN: 0044-8249
Popis: Co-crystallization of a cationic Fe(II) complex with a partially charged TCNQ(.δ-) (7,7',8,8'-tetracyanoquinodimethane) radical anion has afforded molecular materials that behave as narrow band-gap semiconductors, [Fe(tpma)(xbim)](X)(TCNQ)(1.5)⋅DMF (X=ClO4(-) or BF4(-); tpma=tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine, xbim=1,1'-(α,α'-o-xylyl)-2,2'-bisimidazole). Remarkably, these complexes also exhibit temperature-and light-driven spin crossover at the Fe(II) center, and are thus the first structurally defined magnetically bistable semiconductors assembled with the TCNQ(.δ-) radical anion. Transport measurements reveal the conductivity of 0.2 S cm(-1) at 300 K, with the low activation energy of 0.11 eV.
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