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Original Articles

Structures and magnetic properties of two new heterospin complexes involving nitroxide radicals and oxamido-bridged copper(II)

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Pages 294-301 | Received 02 Nov 2006, Accepted 23 Mar 2007, Published online: 22 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

Two new binuclear copper(II) complexes containing four spin carriers with pyridyl-substituted nitroxide radicals have been synthesized and characterized structurally and magnetically. These complexes are formulated as [Cu2(oxap)(IM4py)2](ClO4)2 (1) and [Cu2(oxap)(NIT4py)2](ClO4)2 (2), respectively, in which oxap stands for N,N′-bis(2-aminopropyl). IM4py stands for 2-(4′-pyridyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl and NIT4py for 2-(4′-pyridyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide. The structures of the complexes consist of centro-symmetric trans oxamido-bridged copper(II) binuclear units and nitroxide radicals. In 1 and 2 the copper atoms are in a distorted square plane and radicals (IM4py and NIT4py) coordinate to copper via nitrogen atoms from pyridine rings. Magnetic analysis indicates that 1 and 2 exhibit strong metal-metal antiferromagnetic coupling through oxamido-bridged and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between copper(II) ion and radicals, respectively. The magnetic behaviors are discussed with reference to their crystal structures.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20331010) and Tianjin Science Foundation (No. 033602011).

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