Solution Spin Crossover Versus Speciation Effects: A Cautionary Tale

S Sundaresan, S Brooker - Inorganic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two acyclic tetradentate Schiff base ligands, HLX–OH (X= H and Br), were synthesised by 2:
1 condensation of either 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde or 5-bromo-2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde …

Manipulating metal spin states for biomimetic, catalytic and molecular materials chemistry

MA Halcrow - Dalton Transactions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This article surveys the relationship between ligand type, coordination geometry and metal
spin state in complexes of iron and other metal ions. Compounds and materials containing …

Unravelling of a [High Spin—Low Spin]↔[Low Spin—High Spin] Equilibrium in Spin‐Crossover Iron (II) Dinuclear Helicates Using Paramagnetic NMR Spectroscopy

DY Aleshin, R Diego, LA Barrios… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spin‐crossover between high‐spin (HS) and low‐spin (LS) states of selected transition
metal ions in polynuclear and polymeric compounds is behind their use as multistep …

Modern physical methods for the molecular design of single-molecule magnets

VV Novikov, YV Nelyubina - Russian Chemical Reviews, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Many paramagnetic metal complexes have emerged as unique magnetic materials (single-
molecule magnets), which behave as conventional magnets at the single-molecule level …

Taking solution Proton NMR to its extreme: prediction and detection of a hydride resonance in an intermediate-spin iron complex

JC Ott, H Wadepohl, M Enders… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Guided by DFT based modeling the chemical shift range of a hydride resonance in the
proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of the intermediate-spin, square planar …

Selective Pathway toward Heteroleptic Spin-Crossover Iron(II) Complexes with Pyridine-Based N-Donor Ligands

I Nikovskiy, DY Aleshin, VV Novikov… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A new synthetic pathway is devised to selectively produce previously elusive heteroleptic
iron (II) complexes of terpyridine and N, N′-disubstituted bis (pyrazol-3-yl) pyridines that …

A Paramagnetic NMR Spectroscopy Toolbox for the Characterisation of Paramagnetic/Spin‐Crossover Coordination Complexes and Metal–Organic Cages

M Lehr, T Paschelke, E Trumpf, AM Vogt… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The large paramagnetic shifts and short relaxation times resulting from the presence of a
paramagnetic centre complicate NMR data acquisition and interpretation in solution. As a …

In Situ NMR Search for Spin-Crossover in Heteroleptic Cobalt(II) Complexes

Y Pankratova, D Aleshin, I Nikovskiy… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Here we report the first successful attempt to identify spin-crossover compounds in solutions
of metal complexes produced by mixing different ligands and an appropriate metal salt by …

Towards the Molecular Design of Spin‐Crossover Complexes of 2, 6‐Bis (pyrazol‐3‐yl) pyridines

I Nikovskiy, A Polezhaev, V Novikov… - … A European Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular design of spin‐crossover complexes relies on controlling the spin state of a
transition metal ion by proper chemical modifications of the ligands. Herein, the first N, N' …

Room-Temperature Spin Crossover in a Solution of Iron(II) Complexes with N,N′-Disubstituted Bis(pyrazol-3-yl)pyridines

DY Aleshin, I Nikovskiy, VV Novikov, AV Polezhaev… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Here, we report a combined study of the effects of two chemical modifications to an N, N′-
disubstituted bis (pyrazol-3-yl) pyridine (3-bpp) and of different solvents on the spin …