Spin state dependence of electrical conductivity of spin crossover materials

Aurelian Rotaru; Il'ya A Gural'skiy; Gábor Molnár; Lionel Salmon; Philippe Demont; Azzedine Bousseksou

doi:10.1039/c2cc30528c

Spin state dependence of electrical conductivity of spin crossover materials

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 May 4;48(35):4163-5. doi: 10.1039/c2cc30528c.

Authors

Aurelian Rotaru¹, Il'ya A Gural'skiy, Gábor Molnár, Lionel Salmon, Philippe Demont, Azzedine Bousseksou

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS UPR-8241 and Université de Toulouse, UPS, INP, F-31077 Toulouse, France.

PMID: 22466531
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc30528c

Abstract

We studied the spin state dependence of the electrical conductivity of the spin crossover compound [Fe(Htrz)(2)(trz)](BF(4)) (Htrz = 1H-1,2,4-triazole) by means of dc electrical measurements. The low spin state is characterized by higher conductance and lower thermal activation energy of the conductivity, when compared to the high spin state.