Lihua Yin, Peng Cheng, Xinkan Yao and Honggen Wang
A novel binuclear iron(III) complex
[{FeL[O2P(OPh)2]}2][ClO
4]2 was synthesized and characterized by X-ray
single-crystal structure analysis, where HL is
bis(benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)(2-hydroxyethyl)amine. The crystals are
triclinic, space group P, with
a = 11.523(9),
b = 11.809(6),
c = 13.406(4) Å,
α = 68.52(4), β = 71.41(5),
γ = 71.85(6)° and Z = 1.
The structure shows that the iron(III) ions are bridged by
the oxygen atoms of two L ligands and a phosphate ligand is terminally
co-ordinated to each iron(III). Magnetic susceptibility
measurements in the range 4.2–300 K and subsequent calculations
based on an isotropic Heisenberg model suggest antiferromagnetic
coupling between the iron(III) ions with
J = -17.5 cm-1.