The First Conducting Spin-Crossover Compound Combining a MnIII Cation Complex with Electroactive TCNQ Demonstrating an Abrupt Spin Transition with a Hysteresis of 50 K

Anna V Kazakova; Aleksandra V Tiunova; Denis V Korchagin; Gennady V Shilov; Eduard B Yagubskii; Vladimir N Zverev; Shun Cheng Yang; Jiunn-Yuan Lin; Jyh-Fu Lee; Olga V Maximova; Alexander N Vasiliev

doi:10.1002/chem.201901792

The First Conducting Spin-Crossover Compound Combining a Mn^III Cation Complex with Electroactive TCNQ Demonstrating an Abrupt Spin Transition with a Hysteresis of 50 K

Chemistry. 2019 Aug 1;25(43):10204-10213. doi: 10.1002/chem.201901792. Epub 2019 Jul 4.

Authors

Anna V Kazakova¹, Aleksandra V Tiunova^{1

2}, Denis V Korchagin¹, Gennady V Shilov¹, Eduard B Yagubskii¹, Vladimir N Zverev^{3

4}, Shun Cheng Yang⁵, Jiunn-Yuan Lin^{5

6}, Jyh-Fu Lee⁷, Olga V Maximova^{2

8}, Alexander N Vasiliev^{2

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of problems of Chemical Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia.
² Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
³ Institute of Solid State Physics, RAS, Chernogolovka, 142432, Russia.
⁴ Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, 141700, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Physics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan.
⁶ Center for Emergent Functional Matter Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, 30010, Taiwan.
⁷ National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu, 30076, Taiwan.
⁸ National University of Science and Technology "MISIS", Moscow, 119991, Russia.
⁹ National Research South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia.

PMID: 31144786
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201901792

Abstract

We present herein the synthesis, crystal structure, and electric and magnetic properties of the spin-crossover salt [Mn(5-Cl-sal-N-1,5,8,12)]TCNQ_1.5 ⋅2 CH₃ CN (I), where 5-Cl-sal-N-1,5,8,12=N,N'-bis(3-(2-oxy-5-chlorobenzylideneamino)propyl)-ethylenediamine, containing distinct conductive and magnetic blocks along with acetonitrile solvent molecules. The Mn^III complex with a Schiff-base ligand, [Mn(5-Cl-sal-N-1,5,8,12)]⁺ , acts as the magnetic unit, and the π-electron acceptor 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ^- ) is the conducting unit. The title compound (I) exhibits semiconducting behavior with room temperature conductivity σ_RT ≈1×10^-4 ohm^-1 cm^-1 and activation energy Δ ≈0.20 eV. In the temperature range 73-123 K, it experiences a hysteretic phase transition accompanied by a crossover between the low-spin S=1 and high-spin S=2 states of Mn^III and changes in bond lengths within the MnN₄ O₂ octahedra. The pronounced shrinkage of the basal Mn-N bonds in I at the spin crossover suggests that the d $_{x^{2} - y^{2}}$ orbital is occupied/deoccupied in this transition. Interestingly, the bromo isomorphic counterpart [Mn(5-Br-sal-N-1,5,8,12)]TCNQ_1.5 ⋅2 CH₃ CN (II) of the title compound evidences no spin-crossover phenomena and remains in the high-spin state in the temperature range 2-300 K. Comparison of the chloro and bromo compounds allows the thermal and spin-crossover contributions to the overall variation in bond lengths to be distinguished. The difference in magnetic behavior of these two salts has been ascribed to intermolecular supramolecular effects on the spin transition. Discrete hydrogen bonding exists between cations and cations and anions in both compounds. However, the hydrogen bonding in the crystals of II is much stronger than in I. The relatively close packing arrangement of the [Mn(5-Br-sal-N-1,5,8,12)]⁺ cations probably precludes their spin transformation.

Keywords: EXAFS spectroscopy; X-ray diffraction; conducting materials; magnetic properties; polyfunctional materials.

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