Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Dalton Transactions. This journal is The Royal Society of Chemistry 2016 Supplementary Material Spin crossover and reversible single-crystal to single-crystal transformation behaviour in two cyanide-bridged mixed-valence {Fe III 2Fe II 2} clusters Chunyang Zheng, a,b, Juping Xu, a, Feng Wang c, Jun Tao d and Dongfeng Li* a,d a College of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, Central China Normal University, 430079 Wuhan b Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Rare Metal Chemistry, Hubei Key Laboratory of Pollutant Analysis and Reuse Technology, Institute for Advanced Materials, Hubei Normal University, 435002 Huangshi, P. R. China c College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Hubei Engineering University, 432000 Xiaogan, P. R. China. d State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, P. R. China These authors contributed equally to this work. *E-mail: dfli@mail.ccnu.edu.cn S1
CONTENTS Figure S1 FT-IR for 1....S3 Figure S2 Cyclic voltammograms of complex 1 in MeCN... S3 Figure S3 ESI-MS spectrum for 2 H 2 O....S4 Figure S4 ESI-MS spectrum for 3 MeOH... S4 Figure S5 X-ray powder diffraction diagrams of 2 H 2 O......S5 Figure S6 X-ray powder diffraction diagrams of 3 MeOH...S5 Figure S7 Variable-temperature FT-IR for 2 H 2 O......S6 Figure S8 Variable-temperature FT-IR for 3 MeOH....S6 Figure S9 Thermo-gravimetric analysis of 2 H 2 O....S7 Figure S10 Thermo-gravimetric analysis of 3 MeOH...S7 Figure S11 Thermo-gravimetric analysis of 3 2H 2 O....S8 Figure S12 Temperature dependence of M T plots for 3 MeOH and 3 2H 2 O.S8 Figure S13 Temperature dependence of M T plot for 1....S9 Figure S14 Schematic representation between 2 H 2 O and 2 S9 Figure S15 Schematic representation between 3 MeOH and 3 2H 2 O.S9 Figure S16 Dihedral angle about SCO Fe site in 2 S10 Figure S17 Dihedral angle about SCO Fe site in 3... S10 Figure S18 Dihedral angles in [Fe II 4(CN) 4 (bpy) 4 (tpa) 4 ](PF 6 ) 4...S11 Table S1 Crystal data and structure refinement for 1....S12 Table S2 Selected bond lengths and angles for 1... S13 S2
Transmittance / a.u 2517 2116 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 Figure S1 FT-IR for 1 at room temperature. Wavenumbers / cm -1-6 -4-2 0 i / A 2 4 6 8 10-1.2-1.0-0.8-0.6-0.4 E / V vs. Fc/Fc + Figure S2 Cyclic voltammogram of complex 1 in CH 3 CN. S3
Figure S3 ESI-MS spectrum for 2 H 2 O in MeCN. Figure S4 ESI-MS spectrum for 3 MeOH in MeCN. S4
(a) (b) as-synthesized simulated (a) (b) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 2 /degree Figure S5 X-ray powder diffraction diagrams of 2 H 2 O and the simulated spectra from single crystal data. (a) (b) as-synthesized simulated (a) (b) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 2 /degree Figure S6 X-ray powder diffraction diagrams of 3 MeOH and the simulated spectra from single crystal data. S5
Transmittance / a.u 280 K 290 K 300 K 310 K 320 K 330 K 340 K 370 K 2143 2138 2122 2200 2150 2100 2050 2000 Wavenumber / cm -1 Figure S7 Variable-temperature FT-IR for 2 H 2 O (Nujol mull, KBr plates), heating from 280 to 370 K. Transmittance / a.u 280K 290K 300K 310K 320K 330K 340K 350K 370K 2129 2120 2200 2150 2100 2050 2000 Wavenumber / cm -1 Figure S8 Variable-temperature FT-IR for 3 MeOH (Nujol mull, KBr plates), heating from 270 to 380 K. S6
Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 100 99 98 97 96 95 1.15% 50 100 150 200 250 100 200 300 400 500 600 T/ o C Figure S9 Thermogravimetric analysis of 2 H 2 O. The first weigh loss until 110 C was due to the coordinated and uncoordinated H 2 O molecule (obsd 1.15%, cacld 1.07%). The decomposition of the organic links in the anhydrous compound occurs at 220 C. Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 100 98 96 94 1.76% 50 100 150 200 250 20 100 200 300 400 500 600 T/ o C Figure S10 Thermogravimetric analysis of 3 MeOH. The first weigh loss until 70 C was due to the coordinated and uncoordinated MeOH molecule (obsd 1.76%, cacld 1.94%). The decomposition of the organic links in the anhydrous compound occurs at 208 C. S7
Weight (%) 100 90 80 70 60 50 100 1.94% 98 96 94 50 100 150 200 250 40 30 20 100 200 300 400 500 600 T/ o C Figure S11 Thermogravimetric analysis of 3 2H 2 O. The first weigh loss until 124 C was due to the loss of H 2 O molecules (obsd 1.94%, cacld 2.21%). The decomposition of the organic links in the anhydrous compound occurs at 210 C. T /cm 3 mol -1 K 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 3-2H 2 O: 2-400 K 400-100-400 K 3-MeOH: 2-400 K 400-100-400 K 0 150 200 250 300 350 400 T /K Figure S12 Temperature dependence of M T plots for 3 MeOH and 3 2H 2 O. S8
T /cm 3 mol -1 K 0.68 0.64 0.60 0.56 0.52 0.48 0.44 2000 Oe 0.40 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 T /K Figure S13Temperature dependence of M T plot for 1. Figure S14 Schematic representation of reversible water desorption and re-sorption between 2 H 2 O and 2. Figure S15 Schematic representation of reversible solvent molecule exchange between 3 MeOH and 3 2H 2 O. S9
Figure S16 The dihedral angle between the plane1 (Fe2, Fe1, Fe1#) and the plane2 (Fe2, N1, N2) in 2. # = 1-x, 2-y, -z Figure S17 The dihedral angle between the plane1 (Fe2, Fe1, Fe1#) and the plane2 (Fe2, N1, N2) in 3. # =1-x, 2-y, 1-z S10
Figure S18 The dihedral angles between (top) the plane1 (Fe2, Fe1, Fe3) and the plane2 (Fe2, N1, N2), (bottom) the plane1 (Fe4, Fe1, Fe3) and the plane2 (Fe4, N3, N4) in [Fe II 4(CN) 4 (bpy) 4 (tpa) 4 ](PF 6 ) 4. Crystallographic data of [Fe II 4(CN) 4 (bpy) 4- (tpa) 4 ](PF 6 ) 4 is obtained from CCDC. S11
Table S1. Crystal data and structure refinement for 1. 1 Formula C 35 H 35.5 BFeN 9.5 P Formula weight 686.86 Crystal system Monoclinic Space group C2/c Temperature/K 100 a /Å 40.799(9) b /Å 8.793(2) c /Å 23.324(5) α /º β /º γ /º 90 124.866 (2) 90 V / Å 3 6865(3) Z 8 ρ calcd/g cm -3 1.329 μ / mm 1 0.526 Collected reflections 26708 Unique reflections 6399 Goodness-of-fit on F 2 1.018 R 1 [I >2σ (I)] 0.0264 wr 2 [I >2σ (I)] 0.0697 S12
Table S2. Selected bond lengths [Å] and angles [ ] for 1 1 Fe1 C1 1.9322(14) C1 Fe1 C2 88.36(6) N1 C1 Fe1 177.77(13) Fe1 C2 1.9224(14) C1 Fe1 C3 89.49(6) N2 C2 Fe1 176.57(12) Fe1 C3 1.9266(14) C2 Fe1 C3 86.16(6) N3 C3 Fe1 178.42(13) Fe1 N4 1.9911(12) N4 Fe1 N6 87.52(5) Fe1 N6 1.9641(12) N4 Fe1 N8 88.97(5) Fe1 N8 1.9772(12) N6 Fe1 N8 87.63(5) S13