A comprehensive study of the photomagnetic behavior of the [Fe(L
222N
5)(CN)
2]
H
2O complex has been carried out.This complex is characterized by a low-spin (LS) iron(II)-metal center up to 400 K and exhibits at 10 K thewell-known Light-Induced Excited Spin State Trapping (LIESST) effect. The critical LIESST temperature (
T(LIESST))has been measured to be 105 K. The kinetics of the transition from the metastable high-spin (HS) state to thelow-spin state have been determined and used for reproducing the experimental
T(LIESST) curve. This studyrepresents a second example of a fully low-spin iron(II)-metal complex up to 400 K, which can be photoexcitedat low temperature with an atypical long-lived metastable HS state. This underlines the preponderant role of theinner coordination sphere for stabilizing the lifetime of the photoinduced HS state.