Volume 60, Issue 16 pp. 8803-8807
Communication

The Atypical Hysteresis of [Fe(C6F5Tp)2]: Overlay of Spin-Crossovers and Symmetry-Breaking Phase Transition

Amina Benchohra

Amina Benchohra

Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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Yanling Li

Yanling Li

Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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Lise-Marie Chamoreau

Lise-Marie Chamoreau

Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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Benoit Baptiste

Benoit Baptiste

Institut de Mineralogie, de Physique des Materiaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Universite, UMR 7590 CNRS, UMR 206 IRD, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle MNHN, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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Erik Elkaïm

Erik Elkaïm

Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin—BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France

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Nathalie Guillou

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Nathalie Guillou

Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, CNRS UMR 8180, 45 Avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles, France

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David Kreher

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David Kreher

Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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Rodrigue Lescouëzec

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Rodrigue Lescouëzec

Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire, CNRS UMR 8232, Sorbonne Université, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 5, France

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First published: 26 January 2021
Citations: 12

Graphical Abstract

The [FeII(C6F5Tp)2] complex is converted through melting from a crystal phase showing a very gradual spin-crossover to another one showing a broad hysteretic spin-transition. The uncommon “rounded” hysteresis occurs in a non-cooperative SCO system. It is due to a symmetry-breaking phase transition that is triggered when roughly ca. 50 % of the SCO complexes are switched.

Abstract

The [FeII(C6F5Tp)2] spin-crossover complex is an atypical molecular switch, which can be converted upon annealing between two archetypal spin-crossover behaviours: from an extremely gradual spin-crossover to a broad hysteretic spin-transition (of ca. 65 K). The hysteresis shows an uncommon “rounded shape” that is reproducible upon cycling temperature. In depth structural studies reveal a first crystal phase transition, which occurs upon melting and recrystallizing at high temperature. This first irreversible transition is associated with a radical change in the crystal packing. More importantly, the “rounded and broad” hysteretic transition is shown to occur in a non-cooperative SCO system and is associated with the occurrence of a symmetry-breaking phase transition that appears when roughly ca. 50 % of the SCO complexes are switched.

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