A Cyanide-Bridged Magnetically Switchable Cage with Encapsulated Water Molecules

Inorg Chem. 2016 Dec 5;55(23):12114-12117. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02306. Epub 2016 Nov 17.

Abstract

A cage complex, H2O@[Co5Fe4], was found to encapsulate two water molecules during its self-assembly. The complex exhibited remarkable multifunctionality, combining magnetic switching from the thermal electron-transfer-coupled spin transition of the cage host and dipolar reorientational motion of the confined water, as evidenced by permittivity measurements, density functional theory calculations, and solid-state 2H NMR spectra.