Double spin crossovers: a new double salt strategy to improve magnetic and memory properties

Wasinee Phonsri; Barnaby A I Lewis; Guy N L Jameson; Keith S Murray

doi:10.1039/c9cc07416c

Double spin crossovers: a new double salt strategy to improve magnetic and memory properties

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Dec 4;55(93):14031-14034. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07416c. Epub 2019 Nov 6.

Authors

Wasinee Phonsri¹, Barnaby A I Lewis², Guy N L Jameson³, Keith S Murray¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, Monash University, 17 Rainforest Walk, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. keith.murray@monash.edu.
² School of Chemistry, Monash University, 17 Rainforest Walk, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. keith.murray@monash.edu and Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
³ School of Chemistry, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.

PMID: 31690908
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07416c

Abstract

The structural, magnetic and Mössbauer spectral properties of a double salt, mixed-valent material, [Fe^II(3,5-Me₂TPM)(TPM)][Fe^III(azp)₂]ClO₄·2MeCN, 1, reveal spin transitions occur at both the metal sites, with hysteresis, indicative of 1 being a double spin crossover material.