The 1:1 tetrabutylammonium salt of a nickel complex with an extended-TTF ligand, (
nBu
4N)[Ni(dmstfdt)
2] (dmstfdt = dimethyldiselenadithiafulvalenedithiolate) (
1) is a unique ambivalent molecularsystem exhibiting weakly metallic conduction above room temperature and a weak ferromagnetism atlow temperature. Its X-ray structure consists of two independent [Ni(dmstfdt)
2]
- (A and B) and two
nBu
4N
+ in the unit cell. The pseudo-planar anions are arranged in a zigzag -ABA'B'- manner along themolecular side-by-side direction with a dihedral angle of the molecular planes of 42.6
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. The tight-bindingband structure calculation, based on transfer integrals estimated by the extended Hückel approximation,presents both three-dimensional electron and hole Fermi surfaces, which is consistent with the observedweakly metallic conduction around room-temperature despite the 1:1 stoichiometry of the complex. At147 K,
1 shows a sharp insulating transition associated with the localization of one electron on eachnickel complex below 160 K. The
T values of
1 increase linearly from 0.129 to 0.383 emu K mol
-1with decreasing temperature (160-340 K), suggesting a gradual electron localization with lowering thetemperature. In the range of temperature of 80-150 K,
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follows the Curie-Weiss law:
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=
C/(
T -
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);
C = 0.383 emu K mol
-1; and
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= -4 K. Weak ferromagnetism sets in below 20 K. The coercive fieldis ±1.3 kOe at 2.0 K.