Six dinuclear ferrous complexes including [Fe
2(acpypentO)(O
2CMe)(NCS)
2] (
1), [Fe
2(acpypentO)(O
2CMe)(NCSe)
2](
2), [Fe
2(acpypentO)(NCO)
3] (
3), ([Fe
2(acpybutO)(O
2CMe)(NCS)
2] (
5), [Fe
2(acpybutO)(O
2CMe)(NCO)
2] (
6),
and[Fe
2(acpybutO)(O
2CMe)(N
3)
2] (
7), one tetranuclear (bis-dinuclear) ferrous compound, [Fe
4(acpypentO)
2(N
3)
6] (
4),
and one mononuclear ferrous compound, [Fe(acpybutOH)(NCS)
2] (
8), have been prepared,
and their structures
and magnetic
and Mössbauer properties have been studied (acpybutOH = 1,4-bis{[2-pyridyl(1-ethyl]imino)}butane-2-ol
and acpypentOH = 1,5-bis{[2-pyridyl(1-ethyl]imino)}pentane-3-ol). The X-ray diffraction analyses yielded thefollowing results:
1 (C
23H
26Fe
2N
6O
3S
2, monoclinic,
P2
1/
n,
a = 8.0380(7) Å,
b = 12.4495(8) Å,
c = 27.358(2) Å,
= 92.180(10)
,
V = 2735.7(4) Å
3,
Z = 4) is a dinuclear species in which the unequivalent high-spin (HS) Fe
IIsites are bridged by the alkoxo oxygen atom of the symmetrical acpypentO
- Schiff base
and one syn-syn acetatoanion;
3 (C
22H
23Fe
2N
7O
4, triclinic,
P,
a = 8.4152(10) Å,
b = 9.1350(10) Å,
c = 17.666(2) Å,
= 97.486(14)
,
= 100.026(14)
,
= 113.510(13)
,
V = 1195.9(2) Å
3,
Z = 2) is a dinuclear species in which the unequivalentHS Fe
II sites are bridged by the alkoxo oxygen atom of the symmetrical acpypentO
- Schiff base
and one end-onNCO anion;
4-MeOH (C
39H
50Fe
4N
26O
3, triclinic,
P,
a = 9.1246(11) Å,
b = 10.2466(11) Å,
c = 14.928(2) Å,
=91.529(15)
,
= 101.078(16)
,
= 106.341(14)
,
V = 1309.6(3) Å
3,
Z = 1) is a bis-dinuclear species in whichthe unequivalent HS Fe
II sites are bridged by the alkoxo oxygen atom of the symmetrical acpypentO
- Schiff base
and one end-on N
3- anion,
and the symmetry related Fe
II sites are bridged by two end-on N
3- anions;
8-MeOH(C
21H
26FeN
6O
2S
2, triclinic,
P,
a = 8.7674(9) Å,
b = 12.0938(13) Å,
c = 12.2634(14) Å,
= 106.685(14)
,
=93.689(14)
,
= 108.508(13)
,
V = 1163.7(2) Å
3,
Z = 2) is a mononuclear species in which the octahedrallow-spin (LS) Fe
II site is in an N
6 environment provided by the four N atoms of the protonated asymmetricalacpybutOH Schiff base
and two thiocyanato anions. The Mössbauer spectra of all dinuclear species (
1-
3 and5-
7),
and of the bis-dinuclear compound
4, evidence two distinct HS Fe
II sites while the Mössbauer spectra of themononuclear compound
8 evidence a LS Fe
II site over the 80-300 K temperature range. The temperature dependenceof the magnetic susceptibility was fitted with
J = -13.7 cm
-1,
D = -1.8 cm
-1,
and g = 2.096 for
1;
J = 3.0 cm
-1,
D1 = 1.6 cm
-1,
E1 = -0.35 cm
-1 (
1 = 0.22),
D2 = - 12.2 cm
-1,
E2 = 1.1 cm
-1 (
2 = 0.09),
and g = 2.136for
3;
and J1 = - 0.09 cm
-1,
J2 = 15.9 cm
-1,
D1 = 5.7 cm
-1,
D2 = 12.1 cm
-1,
and g = 1.915 for
4. The natureof the ground state in
3 and 4 was confirmed by simulation of the magnetization curves at 2
and 5 K. The intradinuclearinteraction through the central O
alkoxo of the acpypentO
- lig
and and one pseudohalide bridges is ferromagnetic in
3 (end-on cyanato) while it is very weakly antiferromagnetic in
4 (end-on azido). The interdinuclear interactionthrough two end-on azido bridges (
4) is ferromagnetic as expected. In agreement with the symmetry of the two ironsites of complexes
3 and 4, the fits show that
D2 (tetragonal pyramid) is larger than
D1 (distorted trigonal bipyramid(
3) or distorted octahedron (
4)).