Correction: Crystal structure, magneto-structural correlation, thermal and electrical studies of an imidazolium halometallate molten salt: (trimim)[FeCl].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1039/D0RA00245C.].

Crystal structure, magneto-structural correlation, thermal and electrical studies of an imidazolium halometallate molten salt: (trimim)[FeCl].

A novel imidazolium halometallate molten salt with formula (trimim)[FeCl] (trimim: 1,2,3-trimethylimidazolium) was synthetized and studied with structural and physico-chemical characterization. Variable-temperature synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction (SXPD) from 100 to 400 K revealed two structural transitions at 200 and 300 K. Three different crystal structures were determined combining single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXD), neutron powder diffraction (NPD), and SXPD.

Magnetic Structure, Single-Crystal to Single-Crystal Transition, and Thermal Expansion Study of the (Edimim)[FeCl] Halometalate Compound.

This contribution addresses standing questions about the nature and consequences of the ion self-assembly and magnetic structures, as well as the molecular motion of the crystalline structure as a function of the temperature, in halometalate materials based on imidazolium cation. We present the magnetic structure and magnetostructural correlations of 1-ethyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium tetrachloridoferrate, (Edimim)[FeCl], resolved by neutron diffraction studies. Single-crystal, synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction and powder neutron diffraction techniques have been combined to follow the temperature evolution on its crystallographic structure from 2 K close to its melting point (340 K).