Discovery of Kinetic Effect in a Valence Tautomeric Cobalt-Dioxolene Complex

Inorg Chem. 2022 Mar 14;61(10):4240-4245. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c03898. Epub 2022 Mar 2.

Abstract

Two isostructural valence tautomeric (VT) complexes with different critical temperatures were prepared and fully investigated through a series of magnetic, structural, spectral, and differential scanning calorimetry evidence. The kinetic effect in the VT complex was observed for the first time through scan-rate-dependent studies and further validated by annealing tests.