title: High-spin metal complexes containing a ferromagnetically coupled tris(semiquinone) ligand.
abstract: The tris-bidentate ligand 1,3,5-tris(5'-tert-butyl-3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl)benzene ((TBCat)(3)Ph) was synthesized. The reaction of this molecule in basic solution with two paramagnetic acceptors, i.e., a nickel(II)minus signtetraazamacrocyclic ligand complex (Ni(CTH)) (CTH = dl-5,7,7,12,14,14-hexamethyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) and manganese(II)-hydrotris[3-(4'-cumenyl)-5-methylpyrazolyl]borate (Mn(Tp(Cum,Me))), yielded two complexes whose analytical formulas are consistent with those of trinuclear complexes. Spectroscopic and magnetic measurements suggest that these derivatives contain divalent metal ions coordinated to the tris(semiquinone) form of the ligand. Analysis of the magnetic data shows that the pi-connectivity of the ligand enforces ferromagnetic coupling between the three semiquinone units of the molecule, giving rise to complexes with S = 9/2 (M = Ni(II)) and S = 6 (M = Mn(II)) ground states. The coupling within the tris(semiquinone) unit is quite large (J = -26 cm(-1) for the nickel(II) derivative and J = -40 cm(-1) for the manganese(II) one, using the general exchange Hamiltonian H = sigma J(ij)S(i)S(j)), and it is of the same order of magnitude as that observed in an analogous series of bis(semiquinone) complexes that we recently reported.
authors.affiliation: INSTM, UdR Firenze and Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università, Via Maragliano 75, 50144 Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Caneschi
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dei
authors.forename: Christopher P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Mussari
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Shultz
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sorace
authors.forename: Kira E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Vostrikova