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Solvothermal Synthesis of [Cr7 S8 (en)8 Cl2 ]Cl3  ⋅ 2H2 O with Magnetically Frustrated [Cr7 S8 ]5+ Double-Cubes.


ABSTRACT: A novel transition metal chalcohalide [Cr7 S8 (en)8 Cl2 ]Cl3  ⋅ 2H2 O, with [Cr7 S8 ]5+ dicubane cationic clusters, has been synthesized by a low temperature solvothermal method, using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and ethylenediamine (en) solvents. Ethylenediamine ligand exhibits bi- and monodentate coordination modes; in the latter case ethylenediamine coordinates to Cr atoms of adjacent clusters, giving rise to a 2D polymeric structure. Although magnetic susceptibility shows no magnetic ordering down to 1.8 K, a highly negative Weiss constant, θ=-224(2) K, obtained from Curie-Weiss fit of inverse susceptibility, suggests strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) interactions between S=3/2 Cr(III) centers. Due to the complexity of the system with (2S+1)7 =16384 microstates from seven Cr3+ centers, a simplified model with only two exchange constants was used for simulations. Density-functional theory (DFT) calculations yielded the two exchange constants to be J1 =-21.4 cm-1 and J2 =-30.2 cm-1 , confirming competing AFM coupling between the shared Cr3+ center and the peripheral Cr3+ ions of the dicubane cluster. The best simulation of the experimental data was obtained with J1 =-20.0 cm-1 and J2 =-21.0 cm-1 , in agreement with the slightly stronger AFM exchange within the triangles of the peripheral Cr3+ ions as compared to the AFM exchange between the central and peripheral Cr3+ ions. This compound is proposed as a synthon towards magnetically frustrated systems assembled by linking dicubane transition metal-chalcogenide clusters into polymeric networks.

SUBMITTER: Gamage EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300142 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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