The synthesis, X-ray crystal structure, and magnetic studies of a rare example of organic/inorganic spin hybridclusters extended in infinite ladder-type chain [Cu(C
5F
6HO
2)
2]
7(C
35H
35N
5O
4)
2 ([
Cu(hfac)2]
7(
pyacbisNN)
2,
2) formedby the reaction of a high spin nitronylnitroxide biradical C
35H
35N
5O
4 (
pyacbisNN,
1) and bis(hexafluroacetylacetonate)copper(II) =
Cu(hfac)2 are described. Single-crystal X-ray structure analysis revealed the triclinic
P space groupof
2 with the following parameters:
a =10.6191(4) Å,
b = 19.6384(7) Å,
c = 21.941(9) Å,
= 107.111(7)
,
= 95.107(8)
,
= 94.208(0)
,
Z = 2. Each repeating unit in
2 carries a centrosymmetric cyclic six spin and alinear five spin cluster with four different copper coordination environments having octahedral and square planargeometries. These clusters are interconnected to form infinite chains which are running along the crystallographic
b axis. The magnetic measurements show nearly paramagnetic behavior with very small variations over a largetemperature range. The magnetic properties are thus result of complex competitions of many weak ferro- andantiferromagnetic interactions, which appear as small deviations from quite linear
eff vs
T dependence at lowtemperature. At high temperature (300-14 K), antiferromagnetic behavior dominates a little, while at very lowtemperature (14-2 K), a small increase of
eff was observed. The magnetic susceptibility data are described by theCurie-Weiss law [
=
C/(
T -
)] with the optimal parameters
C = 4.32 ± 0.01 emuK/mol and
= - 0.6 ± 0.3K, where
C is the Curie constant and
is the Weiss temperature.