Issue 11, 1987

New iron(II) spin-crossover complexes with heterocyclic amine-derived ligands and STEPS experiments on photogenerated metastable high-spin states

Abstract

Cationic complexes of the type [Fe(LNN)3]2+ and [Fe(LNNN)2]2+ have been isolated as Cl, ClO4, or BF4 salts, where LNN and LNNN represent bidentate and tridentate nitrogen-donor ligands respectively. The bidentate ligands were 2-(2′-pyridyl) benzimidazole (pybtim), 2-(2′-pyridyl)-N-methylbenzimidazole (mpybzim); 2-(2′-pyridyl) benzothiazole (pybzt), 2,2′-dipyridylamine (dpya), and the tridentates di(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (dpyma), 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2′-yl)pyridine (bzimpy), 2,6-bis(N-methylbenzimidazol-2′-yl)pyridine (mbzimpy), and 2,6-bis(benzothiazol-2′-yl) pyridine (bztpy). Except for [Fe(dpya)3][ClO4]2, all these FeN6 chromophores exhibit strong absorption in the 550 nm region, which is assigned as a metal-to-ligand charge-transfer transition. Between 4 and 320 K, the iron(II) is in the low-spin form in the majority of these compounds; high-spin exceptions are [Fe(dpya)3][ClO4]2 and [Fe(mbzimpy)2]Cl2. Other complexes show evidence of the onset of a spin transition near 40 °C, while the salt [Fe(bztpy)2][ClO4]2·CHCl3 is a well defined spin-crossover system. The low-spin complex [Fe(bzimpy)2][ClO4]2 was excited by irradiation with visible light, and the generation and decay of the resulting high-spin form was observed under cryogenic conditions. In solution, [Fe(bzimpy)2]2+ acts as a weak diprotic acid and also exhibits quintet ⇌ singlet spin crossover (ΔH=–42.7 kJ mol–1, ΔS=–140.9 J K–1 mol–1). The complexes are all electrochemically oxidizable to their iron(III) forms in non-aqueous solution, but the dpyma, bztpy, pybtz, and dpya chelates thus formed are unstable. The iron(III) complex [Fe(H–2bzimpy)2] containing the doubly deprotonated ligand was obtained as its low-spin triethylammonium salt. The high-spin chloro complexes [Fe(bzimpy)Cl3], [Fe(mbzimpy)Cl3], Fe(mbzimpy)Cl2, and the mixed-spin iron(II) complex salt [Fe(bzimpy)][FeCl4] were also isolated.

Article information

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J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1987, 2621-2630

New iron(II) spin-crossover complexes with heterocyclic amine-derived ligands and STEPS experiments on photogenerated metastable high-spin states

A. W. Addison, S. Burman, C. G. Wahlgren, O. A. Rajan, T. M. Rowe and E. Sinn, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1987, 2621 DOI: 10.1039/DT9870002621

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