Room-temperature spin crossover and Langmuir–Blodgett film formation of an iron(II) triazole complex featuring a long alkyl chain substituent: the tail that wags the dog

Kitchen, Jonathan A.; White, Nicholas G.; Gandolfi, Claudio; Albrecht, Martin; Jameson, Guy N. L.; Tallon, Jeffery L.; Brooker, Sally

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Room-temperature spin crossover and Langmuir–Blodgett film formation of an iron(II) triazole complex featuring a long alkyl chain substituent: the tail that wags the dog

Kitchen, Jonathan A. Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
White, Nicholas G. Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Gandolfi, Claudio Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Albrecht, Martin Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Ireland
Jameson, Guy N. L. Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Tallon, Jeffery L. MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Brooker, Sally Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

07.07.2010

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Chemical Communications. - 2010, vol. 46, no. 35, p. 6464-6466

English [Fe^II(C₁₆dpt)₂(NCS)₂]·⅔H₂O displays temperature-mediated spin crossover (SCO) with T_½ = 290 K and the long alkyl chain substituent on the dipyridyltriazole ligand facilitates the formation of a stable Langmuir–Blodgett film at an air–water interface.

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Faculté des sciences et de médecine

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Département de Chimie

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