title: High-yield syntheses and reactivity studies of Fe10 "ferric wheels": structural, magnetic, and computational characterization of a star-shaped Fe8 complex.
abstract: Convenient, high-yield routes have been developed to [Fe 10(OMe) 20(O 2CR) 10] ( 1) "ferric wheels" involving the alcoholysis of [Fe 3O(O 2CR) 6(H 2O) 3] (+) salts in MeOH in the presence of NEt 3. Reactivity studies have established [Fe 10(OMe) 20(O 2CMe) 10] ( 1a) to undergo clean carboxylate substitution with a variety of other RCO 2H groups to the corresponding [Fe 10(OMe) 20(O 2CR) 10] product. In contrast, the reaction with phenol causes a nuclearity change to give a smaller [Fe 8(OH) 4(OPh) 8(O 2CR) 12] ( 2) wheel. Similarly, reactions of [Fe 10(OMe) 20(O 2CR) 10] with the bidentate chelate ethylenediamine (en) cause a structural change to give either [Fe 8O 5(O 2CMe) 8(en) 8](ClO 4) 6 ( 3) or [Fe 2O(O 2CBu (t))(en) 4](NO 3) 3 ( 4), depending on conditions. Complex 3 possesses a "Christmas-star" Fe 8 topology comprising a central planar [Fe 4(mu 4-O)] (10+) square subunit edge-fused to four oxide-centered [Fe 3(mu 3-O)] (7+) triangular units. Variable-temperature, solid-state dc and ac magnetization studies on complexes 1a- 4 in the 5.0-300 K range established that all the complexes possess an S = 0 ground state. The magnetic susceptibility data for 4 were fit to the theoretical chi M versus T expression derived by the use of an isotropic Heisenberg spin Hamiltonian and the Van Vleck equation, and this revealed an antiferromagnetic exchange parameter with a value of J = -107.7(5) cm (-1). This value is consistent with that predicted by a previously published magnetostructural relationship. Theoretically computed values of the exchange constants in 3 were obtained with the ZILSH method, and the pattern of spin frustration within its core and the origin of its S = 0 ground state have been analyzed in detail.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, USA.
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