A two-step spin crossover mononuclear iron(ii) complex with a [HS–LS–LS] intermediate phase

Sylvestre Bonnet, Maxime A. Siegler, José Sánchez Costa, Gábor Molnár, Azzedine Bousseksou, Anthony L. Spek, Patrick Gámez, J. Reedijk

Chemical Communications · 2008 · 165 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

The two-step spin crossover of a new mononuclear iron(ii) complex is studied by magnetic, crystallographic and calorimetric methods revealing two successive first-order phase transitions and an ordered intermediate phase built by the repetition of the unprecedented [HS-LS-LS] motif.

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