ISSN:
1434-1948
Keywords:
Crystal structures
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Nickel complexes
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Dinuclear complexes
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Magnetism
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Far-infrared
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Chemistry
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General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The ligand bis(2-benzimidazolyl)propane coordinates to NiII with chloride as an anion, thereby forming a dinuclear compound with the formula: [NiCl2(tbz)2]2(C2H6O)2. This compound crystallizes in the space group P21/c. Each five-coordinated NiII ion has a distorted trigonal bipyramidal environment which consist of two asymmetrically bridging Cl anions with distances of 2.3556(17) and 2.4275(16) Å, a terminal Cl anion with a distance of 2.3496(17) Å and two nitrogen atoms of the ligand with distances of 2.022(4) and 2.000(4) Å. The Ni-Ni distance is 3.5891(12) Å, while the Ni-Cl-Ni angle is 97.23(6)°. The magnetic properties of the compound, as studied in the range 5-280 K, have been fitted with a zero-field splitting parameter D (-14.3 cm-1) and a ferromagnetic exchange between the Ni ions in the dinuclear unit (J = +2.5 cm-1). The title compound appears to be the second example for a five-coordinated ferromagnetic dinuclear NiII compound of this type, and its magnetic properties appear to correlate with the ligand structure. With the availability of an increasing number of examples of such species it appears that antiferromagnetic exchange is found for all cases with the chromophore N2ClNiCl2NiClN2 where the MN2 ring is 5-membered. In the case, where this ring is six-membered, the exchange is ferromagnetic.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
