Unusual magnetic property associated with dimerization within a nickel tetramer.
A new ion-pair complex, 1-benzyl-4-aminopyridinium bis(maleonitriledithiolato)nickelate(III) (1), has been synthesized. The variable magnetic susceptibility results of 1 show a discontinuity around 184 K, which is phenomenologically similar to that observed for first-row transition metal complexes undergoing a spin crossover transition. The crystal structure analyses of 1 at high and low temperatures indicate that this unusual magnetic property is associated with a packing structure that changes from tetrameric spin clusters to dimers between neighboring spin carriers.
Ren
Xiaoming
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Coordination Chemistry Institute, State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, P. R. China.
Meng
Qingjin
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Song
You
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Hu
Chuanjiang
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Lu
Changsheng
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Chen
Xiaoyuan
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Xue
Ziling
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