Pressure-Induced Linkage Isomerism in a Prussian Blue Analogue

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The Prussian blue analogue K0.4Fe4[Cr(CN)6]2.8.16H2O (1) is a soft ferromagnet at ambient pressure with a critical temperature (Tc) of 19 K. Bridging cyanides are oriented in the sense Cr(3+)-C-N-Fe(2+), while magnetic measurements imply that the Fe2+ ions are all in the high-spin state. At 1.2 GPa Tc drops to 13 K and the saturation value of the magnetisation is reduced to 50% of its ambient-pressure value. It is thought that ~half the bridges isomerise to Cr(3+)-N-C-Fe(2+), while the change from N to C ligation causes a spin cross-over to the low spin state at the Fe2+ centres. The aim of the present beam-time request is to obtain crystallographic confirmation of the flipping process.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24090610
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24090610
Provenance
Creator Professor Simon Parsons; Professor Konstantin Kamenev; Mr Jack Binns; Professor Euan Brechin; Dr Bill Marshall
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-06-05T07:13:04Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-31T00:00:00Z