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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 47, Issue 20, Pages 7013-7019Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt00227d
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [PTDC/QEQ-QIN/3414/2014, UID/MULTI/00612/2013, UID/MULTI/04046/2013, SFRH/BPD/73345/2010]
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS [T.0102.15]
- WBI
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Two polymorphic species of the [Fe(5-Br-salEen)(2)]ClO4 compound were obtained, each of them being selectively recovered after evaporation of the solvent at a controlled rate. While polymorph 1a is formed during slow evaporation, fast evaporation favors polymorph 1b. The importance of the evaporation rate was recognized after detailed studies of the reaction temperature, solvent evaporation rate and crystallization temperature effects. The complex in the new polymorphic form 1a showed an abrupt spin crossover at 172 K with a small 1 K hysteresis window and over a narrow 10 K range. Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry, complemented by X-ray studies for both the high-spin and low-spin forms, were used to further characterize the new polymorphic phase 1a. Both polymorphs are based on the same Fe(III) complex cation hydrogen bonded to the perchlorate anion. These units are loosely bound in the crystals via weak interactions. In the new polymorph 1a, the hydrogen bonds are stronger, while the weak hydrogen and halogen bonds, as well as pi-pi stacking, create a cooperative network, not present in 1b, responsible for the spin transition profile.
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