title: Regiospecificity in the Exchange Coupling of the Spins of Copper(II) Ion Coordinated with the Ring Nitrogen Atoms and N-tert-Butylaminoxyl Radical Attached as a Substituent on the Pyridine and N-Phenylimidazole Rings.
abstract: Complexes of bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)copper(II) [Cu(hfac)(2)] ligated with 3- and 4-(N-oxyl-tert-butylamino)pyridines (3NOPy and 4NOPy) and N-{3- and 4-(N-oxyl-tert-butylamino)phenyl}imidazoles (3NOIm and 4NOIm) were prepared. The 1:2 complexes [Cu(hfac)(2)(3NOPy and 4NOPy)(2)] have hexacoordinated octahedral structures in which the two pyridyl nitrogen atoms are coordinated to the copper(II) ions in the trans configuration. The 1:1 complex [Cu(hfac)(2)(4NOPy)] has a distorted pentacoordinated pseudo-head-to-tail cyclic dimer structure in which the oxygen atom of the aminoxyl group of one complex is situated at a distance of 2.79 Å from the copper ion of the other complex. The magnetic properties of these and two other complexes, [Cu(hfac)(2)(3NOIm and 4NOIm)(2)], were investigated using a SQUID susceptometer. Temperature dependence studies of the chi(mol)Tvalues of [Cu(hfac)(2)(4NOPy)(2)] revealed that the two aminoxyl radicals interact ferromagnetically with the copper(II) ion (S = (1)/(2)) with an exchange parameter J/k(B) = 60.4 +/- 3.3 K to produce a quartet ground state (S = (3)/(2)). On the other hand, the chi(mol)T value of the isomeric [Cu(hfac)(2)(3NOPy)(2)] was nearly constant at 0.5 emu K mol(-)(1) in the temperature range 5-300 K. A rectangular four-spin model was fitted to the chi(mol)T vs T plot for complex [Cu(hfac)(2)(4NOPy)] to give J/k(B) = 58.6 and 58.5 K. Similarly, the J values for [Cu(hfac)(2)(3NOIm and 4NOIm)(2)] were negative and positive, respectively, but their absolute J values were too small to determine in both cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science and Institute for Fundamental Research of Organic Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-82, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishimaru
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitano
authors.forename: Harumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kumada
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Koga
authors.forename: Hiizu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwamura