(1) Chemical Physics Group, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, 400 005 Bombay, India;(2) Laboratoire de Spectrochimie des Elements de Transition, Universite de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
Abstract:
The paper reports synthesis and physical characterisation of a new iron(III) porphyrin which shows unusual features of quantum
mechanically mixed ground state in its magnetic properties. Magnetic susceptibility (300−3·6 K) and M?ssbauer spectroscopy
(300−77 K) studies of the compound are described and discussed with reference to some bacterial ferricytochromeC' exhibiting similar spin-mixed ground state.