1. Giant Ising-Type Magnetic Anisotropy in Trigonal Bipyramidal Ni(II) Complexes
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Martial Boggio-Pasqua, El-Eulmi Bendeif, Stephen Hill, Nathalie Guihéry, Junjie Liu, Rémi Maurice, Régis Guillot, Sébastien Pillet, Anne-Laure Barra, Renaud Ruamps, Talal Mallah, Luke J. Batchelor, Systèmes étendus et magnétisme (LCPQ) (SEM), Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ), Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Atomiques et Moléculaires Complexes (IRSAMC), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Atomiques et Moléculaires Complexes (IRSAMC), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Photochimie théorique et computationnelle (LCPQ) (PTC), Laboratoire national des champs magnétiques intenses - Grenoble (LNCMI-G), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cristallographie, Résonance Magnétique et Modélisations (CRM2), Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de chimie inorganique (LCI), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Theoretical Chemistry
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Spin states ,Ab initio ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Biochemistry ,Catalysis ,EFFECTIVE CORE POTENTIALS ,DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,ATOMS GA-KR ,ORBITAL METHODS ,AB-INITIO ,Condensed matter physics ,Chemistry ,HIGH-SPIN ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-ATM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atomic and Molecular Clusters [physics.atm-clus] ,GAUSSIAN-BASIS SETS ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,TRANSITION-METAL-COMPLEXES ,SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETS ,0104 chemical sciences ,Crystallography ,Trigonal bipyramidal molecular geometry ,Magnetic anisotropy ,Ising model ,Density functional theory ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-CHEM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Chemical Physics [physics.chem-ph] ,0210 nano-technology ,Degeneracy (mathematics) ,Single crystal ,ZERO-FIELD SPLITTINGS - Abstract
This paper reports the experimental and theoretical investigations of two trigonal bipyramidal Ni(II) complexes, [Ni(Me(6)tren)Cl](ClO4) (1) and [Ni(Me(6)tren)Br](Br) (2). High-field, high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy performed on a single crystal of 1 shows a giant uniaxial magnetic anisotropy with an experimental D-expt value (energy difference between the M-s = +/- 1 and M-s = 0 components of the ground spin state S = 1) estimated to be between -120 and -180 cm(-1). The theoretical study shows that, for an ideally trigonal Ni(II) complex, the orbital degeneracy leads to a first-order spin-orbit coupling that results in a splitting of the M-s = +/- 1 and M-s = 0 components of approximately -600 cm(-1). Despite the Jahn-Teller distortion that removes the ground term degeneracy and reduces the effects of the first-order spin orbit interaction, the D value remains very large. A good agreement between theoretical and experimental results (theoretical D-theor, between -100 and -200 cm(-1)) is obtained.
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- 2013