Pseudotetrahedral cobalt(ii) complexes with PNP-ligands showing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy

Yuan-Qi Zhai; Yi-Fei Deng; Yan-Zhen Zheng

doi:10.1039/c8dt01683f

Pseudotetrahedral cobalt(ii) complexes with PNP-ligands showing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy

Dalton Trans. 2018 Jul 10;47(27):8874-8878. doi: 10.1039/c8dt01683f.

Authors

Yuan-Qi Zhai¹, Yi-Fei Deng, Yan-Zhen Zheng

Affiliation

¹ Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis of Condensed Matter, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Sustainable Energy and Materials Chemistry and School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 99 Yanxiang Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, P. R. China. zheng.yanzhen@xjtu.edu.cn.

PMID: 29922787
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt01683f

Abstract

Two mononuclear pseudotetrahedral cobalt(ii) complexes with the formula Co(PNP)X2, where X = Cl (1) or X = SCN (2) and PNP = bis(2-(diphenylphosphaneyl)-4-methylphenyl)amine, have been synthesised. Magnetic and high-frequency/field electron paramagnetic resonance (HF-EPR) spectroscopy and ab initio calculation studies reveal that both complexes show uniaxial magnetic anisotropy.