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  • Title: Structural, magnetic, and Mössbauer spectral study of the electronic spin-state transition in [Fe{HC(3-Mepz)2(5-Mepz)}2](BF4)2.
    Author: Reger DL, Elgin JD, Foley EA, Smith MD, Grandjean F, Long GJ.
    Journal: Inorg Chem; 2009 Oct 05; 48(19):9393-401. PubMed ID: 19780620.
    Abstract:
    The complex [Fe{HC(3-Mepz)(2)(5-Mepz)}(2)](BF(4))(2) (pz = pyrazolyl ring) has been prepared by the reaction of HC(3-Mepz)(2)(5-Mepz) with Fe(BF(4))(2) x 6 H(2)O. The solid state structures obtained at 294 and 150 K show a distorted iron(II) octahedral N(6) coordination environment with the largest deviations arising from the restrictions imposed by the chelate rings. At 294 K the complex is predominately high-spin with Fe-N bond distances averaging 2.14 A, distances that are somewhat shorter than expected for a purely high-spin iron(II) complex because of the presence of an admixture of about 80% high-spin and 20% low-spin iron(II). At 294 K the twisting of the pyrazolyl rings from the ideal C(3v) symmetry averages only 2.2 degrees, a much smaller twist than has been observed previously in similar complexes. At 150 K the Fe-N bond distances average 1.99 A, indicative of an almost fully low-spin iron(II) complex; the twist angle is only 1.3 degrees, as expected for a complex with these Fe-N bond distances. The magnetic properties show that the complex undergoes a gradual change from low-spin iron(II) below 85 K to high-spin iron(II) at 400 K. The 4.2 to 60 K Mössbauer spectra correspond to a fully low-spin iron(II) complex but, upon further warming above 85 K, the iron(II) begins to undergo spin-state relaxation between the low- and high-spin forms on the Mössbauer time scale. At 155 and 315 K the complex exhibits spin-state relaxation rates of 0.36 and 7.38 MHz, respectively, and an Arrhenius plot of the logarithm of the relaxation rate yields an activation energy of 670 +/- 40 cm(-1) for the spin-state relaxation.
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