Two-step spin crossover by guest-disorder induced local symmetry breaking within a 3D Hofmann-like framework

Hunter J Windsor; William Lewis; Suzanne M Neville; Samuel G Duyker; Deanna M D'Alessandro; Cameron J Kepert

doi:10.1039/d2cc03780g

Two-step spin crossover by guest-disorder induced local symmetry breaking within a 3D Hofmann-like framework

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Nov 24;58(94):13127-13130. doi: 10.1039/d2cc03780g.

Authors

Hunter J Windsor¹, William Lewis^{1

2}, Suzanne M Neville³, Samuel G Duyker^{1

2}, Deanna M D'Alessandro¹, Cameron J Kepert¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia. cameron.kepert@sydney.edu.au.
² Sydney Analytical, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia.
³ School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.

PMID: 36349554
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03780g

Abstract

A 3D Hofmann-like metal-organic framework has been prepared which contains a 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole-based pillaring ligand. Encapsulation of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, chrysene, within the pore structure leads to a new pathway to multi-step spin crossover behaviour in which the observed two-step spin transition arises due to the presence of multiple site environments associated with local guest positional effects within the host lattice.