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[CrIII8NiII6]n+ heterometallic coordination cubes

[CrIII8NiII6]n+ heterometallic coordination cubes
[CrIII8NiII6]n+ heterometallic coordination cubes
Three new heterometallic [CrIII8NiII6] coordination cubes of formulae  [CrIII8NiII6L24(H2O)12](NO3)12 (1), [CrIII8NiII6L24(MeCN)7(H2O)5](ClO4)12 (2), and [CrIII8NiII6L24Cl12] (3) (where HL = 1-(4-pyridyl)butane-1,3-dione), were synthesised using the paramagnetic metalloligand [CrIIIL3] and the corresponding NiII salt. The magnetic skeleton of each capsule describes a face-centred cube in which the eight CrIII and six NiII ions occupy the eight vertices and six faces of the structure, respectively. Direct current magnetic susceptibility measurements on (1) reveal weak ferromagnetic interactions between the CrIII and NiII ions, with JCr-Ni = + 0.045 cm−1. EPR spectra are consistent with weak exchange, being dominated by the zero-field splitting of the CrIII ions. Excluding wheel-like structures, examples of large heterometallic clusters containing both CrIII and NiII ions are rather rare, and we demonstrate that the use of metalloligands with predictable bonding modes allows for a modular approach to building families of related polymetallic complexes. Compounds (1)–(3) join the previously published, structurally related family of [MIII8MII6] cubes, where MIII = Cr, Fe and MII = Cu, Co, Mn, Pd.
EPR spectroscopy, heterometallic clusters, magnetometry, molecular magnetism, supramolecular Chemistry
1420-3049
O'Connor, Helen M.
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Sanz, Sergio
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Lusby, Paul J.
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Piligkos, Stergios
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Brechin, Euan K.
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Chilton, Nicholas F.
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McInnes, Eric J.L.
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O'Connor, Helen M., Sanz, Sergio, Scott, Aaron J., Pitak, Mateusz, Klooster, Wim, Coles, Simon J., Chilton, Nicholas F., McInnes, Eric J.L., Lusby, Paul J., Weihe, Høgni, Piligkos, Stergios and Brechin, Euan K. (2021) [CrIII8NiII6]n+ heterometallic coordination cubes. Molecules, 26 (3), [757]. (doi:10.3390/molecules26030757).

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Abstract

Three new heterometallic [CrIII8NiII6] coordination cubes of formulae  [CrIII8NiII6L24(H2O)12](NO3)12 (1), [CrIII8NiII6L24(MeCN)7(H2O)5](ClO4)12 (2), and [CrIII8NiII6L24Cl12] (3) (where HL = 1-(4-pyridyl)butane-1,3-dione), were synthesised using the paramagnetic metalloligand [CrIIIL3] and the corresponding NiII salt. The magnetic skeleton of each capsule describes a face-centred cube in which the eight CrIII and six NiII ions occupy the eight vertices and six faces of the structure, respectively. Direct current magnetic susceptibility measurements on (1) reveal weak ferromagnetic interactions between the CrIII and NiII ions, with JCr-Ni = + 0.045 cm−1. EPR spectra are consistent with weak exchange, being dominated by the zero-field splitting of the CrIII ions. Excluding wheel-like structures, examples of large heterometallic clusters containing both CrIII and NiII ions are rather rare, and we demonstrate that the use of metalloligands with predictable bonding modes allows for a modular approach to building families of related polymetallic complexes. Compounds (1)–(3) join the previously published, structurally related family of [MIII8MII6] cubes, where MIII = Cr, Fe and MII = Cu, Co, Mn, Pd.

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Accepted/In Press date: 30 January 2021
Published date: 2 February 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: Funding: This research was funded by the EPSRC (UK), grant numbers EP/N01331X/1 and EP/P025986/1, and by the VILLUM FONDEN (Denmark), grant 13376. We also thank the EP-SRC for funding the UK National EPR Facility. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Keywords: EPR spectroscopy, heterometallic clusters, magnetometry, molecular magnetism, supramolecular Chemistry

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Local EPrints ID: 447086
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/447086
ISSN: 1420-3049
PURE UUID: baa66dbe-8503-4cf1-adcb-c571350a3924
ORCID for Mateusz Pitak: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3680-7100
ORCID for Simon J. Coles: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8414-9272

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Date deposited: 03 Mar 2021 17:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 02:48

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Author: Helen M. O'Connor
Author: Sergio Sanz
Author: Aaron J. Scott
Author: Mateusz Pitak ORCID iD
Author: Wim Klooster
Author: Simon J. Coles ORCID iD
Author: Nicholas F. Chilton
Author: Eric J.L. McInnes
Author: Paul J. Lusby
Author: Høgni Weihe
Author: Stergios Piligkos
Author: Euan K. Brechin

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