Single-laser-shot-induced complete bidirectional spin transition at room temperature in single crystals of (FeII(pyrazine)(Pt(CN)4))

Saioa Cobo; Denis Ostrovskii; Sébastien Bonhommeau; Laure Vendier; Gábor Molnár; Lionel Salmon; Koichiro Tanaka; Azzedine Bousseksou

doi:10.1021/ja800878f

Single-laser-shot-induced complete bidirectional spin transition at room temperature in single crystals of (FeII(pyrazine)(Pt(CN)4))

J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Jul 16;130(28):9019-24. doi: 10.1021/ja800878f. Epub 2008 Jun 21.

Authors

Saioa Cobo¹, Denis Ostrovskii, Sébastien Bonhommeau, Laure Vendier, Gábor Molnár, Lionel Salmon, Koichiro Tanaka, Azzedine Bousseksou

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS UPR-8241, 205 Route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse, France.

PMID: 18570417
DOI: 10.1021/ja800878f

Abstract

Single crystals of the {Fe (II)(pyrazine)[Pt(CN) 4]} spin crossover complex were synthesized by a slow diffusion method. The crystals exhibit a thermal spin transition around room temperature (298 K), which is accompanied by a 14 K wide hysteresis loop. X-ray single-crystal analysis confirms that this compound crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/ mmm space group in both spin states. Within the thermal hysteresis region a complete bidirectional photoconversion was induced between the two phases (high spin right arrow over left arrow low spin) when a short single laser pulse (4 ns, 532 nm) was shined on the sample.