Solvent-induced on/off switching of intramolecular electron transfer in a cyanide-bridged trigonal bipyramidal complex

Rong-Jia Wei; Ryohei Nakahara; Jamie M Cameron; Graham N Newton; Takuya Shiga; Hajime Sagayama; Reiji Kumai; Youichi Murakami; Hiroki Oshio

doi:10.1039/c6dt03416k

Solvent-induced on/off switching of intramolecular electron transfer in a cyanide-bridged trigonal bipyramidal complex

Dalton Trans. 2016 Nov 1;45(43):17104-17107. doi: 10.1039/c6dt03416k.

Authors

Rong-Jia Wei¹, Ryohei Nakahara¹, Jamie M Cameron¹, Graham N Newton², Takuya Shiga¹, Hajime Sagayama³, Reiji Kumai³, Youichi Murakami³, Hiroki Oshio¹

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan. oshio@chem.tsukuba.ac.jp.
² Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan. oshio@chem.tsukuba.ac.jp and School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
³ Photon Factory and Condensed Matter Research Center, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan.

PMID: 27757466
DOI: 10.1039/c6dt03416k

Abstract

A cyanide-bridged [Co₃Fe₂] cluster with trigonal bipyramidal geometry shows solvent-driven reversible on/off switching of its thermally induced electron-transfer-coupled spin transition (ETCST) behaviour.