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A method for the synthesis of solvates of dinuclear heterospin complexes of bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)copper(ii) with 2-(4-methylpyridin-3-yl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl (LMe) and 2-(4-ethylpyridin-3-yl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole-3-oxide-1-oxyl (LEt) of the composition [Cu(hfac)2LR]2 · Solv (Solv = benzene, bromobenzene, toluene, o-xylene, p-xylene) was developed. It was found that a decrease in temperature induces structural transformations of the solid phases of the complexes followed by significant changes in the distances between the paramagnetic centers in the intramolecular exchange clusters {Cu2+-O·-} from 2.321 to 1.974 Å. As a result, the temperature dependences of the effective magnetic moment μeff(T) exhibit magnetic features similar to spin transitions. An analysis of the shape of the μeff(T) curves suggested that the magnetic properties of the compounds under study depend primarily on the molecular packing. A comparison of the magneto-structural correlations typical of the [Cu(hfac)2LR]2 · Solv complexes studied in this work with the data obtained earlier for analogous solvates of heterospin polymer chain complexes showed that the spin transition characteristics of the [Cu(hfac)2LR]2 · Solv systems are much less sensitive to the change of the solvent than the corresponding characteristics of the heterospin polymers containing solvate molecules in the interchain space. The magnetic characteristics of the heterospin dimer molecules depend primarily on which cavity between the dimers is filled with solvate molecules. For solvates with monoclinic symmetry, changes in the solvent molecules occupying same-type cavities have almost no effect on the spin transition characteristics in the heterospin exchange cluster. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hydrolysis of [M4(hfac)4(MeO)4(MeOH)4] (М = Сo, Ni and hfac is hexafluoroacetylaceton ate) is a convenient way of obtaining polynuclear complexes [Ni7(hfac)6(OH)8(H2O)6]•2H2O, [Co12(hfac)10(OH)14(H2O)8]•2H2O•2MePh, [Co12(hfac)10(OH)14(H2O)4(Me2CO)4]•3PhMe, and [Co12(hfac)10(OH)14(H2O)6(Me2CO)2]•2H2O•2Me2CO, whose structures were confirmed by X-ray analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alkali metals form mutinuclear compounds with redox-active singly and doubly reduced derivatives of sterically of hindered о-benzoquinones. Complexes [Na6(Cat)3(THF)7]•4THF, [Na5(Cat)2(SQ)(THF)5], [Na4(SQ)4(THF)4]•THF•C6H14, [Na4(3,5-SQ)4(THF)4], [K4(SQ)4(THF)4]•4THF and [Li3(SQ)3(THF)3]•THF (Cat is catecholate, SQ is semiquinonate) possessing high sensitivity to atmospheric oxygen were synthesized and their structures were determined. Magnetochemical measurements and quantum chemical calculations revealed that variation of the alkali metal and/or change in the structure of the polymetallic core significantly affect the energy of exchange interaction between the unpaired electrons of the paramagnetic ligands framing the polynuclear metal core formed by s-elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]