Air oxidation-induced single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation of mixed-valence tetranuclear Fe(II)-Fe(III) complexes

Jong Won Shin; Ihsan Ullah; Ryuya Tokunaga; Shinya Hayami; Kil Sik Min

doi:10.1039/d2dt02551e

Air oxidation-induced single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation of mixed-valence tetranuclear Fe(II)-Fe(III) complexes

Dalton Trans. 2022 Oct 4;51(38):14429-14433. doi: 10.1039/d2dt02551e.

Authors

Jong Won Shin¹, Ihsan Ullah¹, Ryuya Tokunaga², Shinya Hayami², Kil Sik Min³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Chemistry, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
³ Department of Chemistry Education, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea. minks@knu.ac.kr.

PMID: 36134441
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt02551e

Abstract

A mixed valence tetranuclear iron complex [(Hpmide)Fe^II(NCSe)₂Fe^III(pmide)]₂·5CH₃OH (1) underwent oxidation and ligand exchange in the solid state (H₂pmide = N-(2-pyridylmethyl)iminodiethanol). Upon air oxidation, 1 was converted into [(pmide)Fe^III(NCSe)Fe^III(pmide)]₂(NCSe)₂·2H₂O (2), which was accompanied by deprotonation and ligand exchange through a single crystal-to-single-crystal transformation.