Intermolecular Interaction and Magnetic Coupling Mechanism of a Mononuclear Nickel(II) Complex |
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Authors: | Ning Pan Rui‐Zheng Wei Yan‐Hui Chi Jing‐Min Shi Wei Wei Yi‐Quan Zhang |
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Institution: | 1. College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Engineering Research Center of Pesticide and, Medicine Intermediate Clean Production, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine ChemicalsShandong Normal UniversityJinan, 250014, P. R. China;2. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA;3. School of Physical Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, P. R. China |
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Abstract: | The mononuclear complex Ni(HOphen)(OSO3)(H2O)3] · 5H2O (HOphen = 1, 10‐phenanthrolin‐2‐ol) was prepared and its single structure was determined by X‐ray crystallography. In this complex, the NiII ion has a distorted octahedral arrangement. Crystal structure analysis shows that two kinds of π–π stacking interactions and C–H ··· O short contact intermolecular interactions exist among the adjacent complexes. Fitting to the variable‐temperature magnetic susceptibility data gave the magnetic coupling constant, 2J = –0.98 cm–1. Theoretical calculations, based on density functional theory (DFT) coupling with the broken‐symmetry approach (BS), revealed that the π–π stacking magnetic coupling pathways resulted in weak ferromagnetic interactions with 2J = 4.86 cm–1 and 2J = 4.16 cm–1, respectively, for the adjacent NiII ions with separations of 8.568(19) Å and 8.749(32) Å, respectively; whereas the magnetic coupling pathway of the C–H ··· O short contact intermolecular interaction led to a weak antiferromagnetic interaction with 2J = –17.62 cm–1 for the adjacent NiII ions with a separation of 10.291(26) Å. The ferromagnetic coupling sign can be explained by the McConnell I spin‐polarization mechanism. |
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Keywords: | Nickel N O ligands Magnetic properties Intermolecular interactions Theoretical calculations Broken‐symmetry theory |
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