We provide a comprehensive study of the coordination of with palladium(II), including presentation of a novel bifunctional analogue, bearing an aniline pendant. The complexation of palladium(II) with was examined by various techniques, including NMR analysis and potentiometric titrations which revealed that the Pd(II) complex can adopt different configurations such as -I and -III. In addition, forms a thermodynamically stable palladium(II) complex, the stabilization being attributed to the deprotonation of the amide function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA one-dimensional coordination solid is synthesized by reaction of a bispyridyl dithienylethene (DTE) photochromic unit with the highly anisotropic dysprosium-based single-molecule magnet [Dy(Tp)F(pyridine)]PF. Slow magnetic relaxation characteristics are retained in the chain compound , and photoisomerization of the bridging DTE ligand induces a single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation that can be monitored using photocrystallography. Notably, the resulting chain compound exhibits faster low-temperature relaxation than that of , which is apparent in magnetic hysteresis data collected for both compounds as high as 4 K.
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