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Guest induced reversible on-off switching of elastic frustration in a 3D spin crossover coordination polymer with room temperature hysteretic behaviour

  • Lucía Piñeiro-López
  • , Francisco Javier Valverde-Muñoz
  • , Elzbieta Trzop
  • , M. Carmen Muñoz
  • , Maksym Seredyuk
  • , Javier Castells-Gil
  • , Iván da Silva
  • , Carlos Martí-Gastaldo
  • , Eric Collet*
  • , José Antonio Real*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A binary reversible switch between low-temperature multi-step spin crossover (SCO), through the evolution of the populationγHS(T) with high-spin (HS)-low-spin (LS) sequence: HS1LS0(state 1) ↔ HS2/3LS1/3(state 2) ↔ HS1/2LS1/2(state 3) ↔ HS1/3LS2/3(state 4) ↔ HS0LS1(state 5), and complete one step hysteretic spin transition featuring 20 K wide thermal hysteresis centred at 290 K occurs in the three-dimensional (3D) Hofmann-type porous coordination polymer {FeII(3,8phen)[Au(CN)2]2}·xPhNO2(3,8phen = 3,8-phenanthroline, PhNO2= nitrobenzene), made up of two identical interpenetrated pcu-type frameworks. The included PhNO2guest (x= 1,1·PhNO2) acts as a molecular wedge between the interpenetrated 3D frameworksviaPhNO2-3,8phen intermolecular recognition and is the source of the strong elastic frustration responsible for the multi-step regime. Detailed X-ray single crystal analysis reflects competition between spatial periodicities of structurally inequivalent HS and LS SCO centres featuring: (i) symmetry breaking (state 3) with ⋯HS-LS⋯ ordering withγHS= 1/2; and (ii) occurrence of spatial modulation of the structure providing evidence for stabilization of local or aperiodic ordered mixed spin states for states 2 and 4 (withγHS≈ 2/3) and 4 (withγHS≈ 1/3), respectively. Belowc.a.20 K, structural and magnetic analyses show the photogeneration of a metastable HS*, state 6. The room-temperature single-step hysteretic regime appears with release of the guest (x= 0,1) and the elastic frustration, and reversibly switches back to the original four-step behaviour upon guest re-adsorption. Both uncommon relevant SCO events meeting in the same material represent a rare opportunity to compare them in the frame of antiferro- and ferro-elastic transitions.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1317-1326
Number of pages10
JournalChemical Science
Volume12
Issue number4
Early online date23 Nov 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jan 2021

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  • General Chemistry

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