Slow magnetic relaxation in cobalt N-heterocyclic carbene complexes. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the magnetic properties of the cobalt(ii) NHC complexes (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene); [Co(CH2SiMe3)2(IPr)] (1), [CoCl2(IMes)2] (2) and [Co(CH3)2(IMes)2] (3) revealed a large easy plane anisotropy for 1 (D = +73.7 cm-1) and a moderate easy axis anisotropy for 2 (D = -7.7 cm-1) due to significant out-of-state spin-orbit coupling. Dynamic magnetic measurements revealed slow relaxation of the magnetization for 1 (Ueff = 22.5 K, 0 = 3 10-7 s, 1000 Oe) and for 2 (Ueff = 20.2 K, 0 = 1.73 10-8 s, 1500 Oe). The molecular origin of the slow relaxation phenomena was further supported by the retention of AC signal in 10% solutions in 2-MeTHF which reveals a second zero field AC signal in 1 at higher frequencies. Compound 3 was found to be an S = 1/2 system.

published proceedings

  • Dalton Trans

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Saber, M. R., Przyojski, J. A., Tonzetich, Z. J., & Dunbar, K. R.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Saber, Mohamed R||Przyojski, Jacob A||Tonzetich, Zachary J||Dunbar, Kim R

publication date

  • August 2020