Spin canting and slow magnetic relaxation in mononuclear cobalt(II) sulfadiazine ternary complexes Villa Pérez, Cristian Zabala Lekuona, Andoni Vitorica-Yrezabal, Iñigo Javier Seco, José M. Cepeda, Javier Echeverría, Gustavo Alberto Soria, Delia Beatriz Monomeric [Co(SDZ)2phen] (1) and [Co(SDZ)(bq)Cl] (2) complexes (SDZ = sulfadiazine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, and bq = 2,2’-biquinoline) have been synthesized and characterized. X-ray diffraction studies indicate that SDZ acts as a bidentate ligand coordinating through the sulfonamide and the pyrimidine N atoms in both compounds. In complex 1, the coordination sphere consists of two SDZ ligands and a bischelating phen ligand, giving rise to a CoN6 coordination sphere. On the other hand, 2 has a CoN4Cl core, with two N-atoms from SDZ and two from the bq ligand. Both compounds have been studied by dc and ac magnetometry and shown to display slow magnetic relaxation under an optimum external dc field (1 kOe) at low temperatures. Moreover, compound 2 displays long range magnetic ordering provided by spin-canted antiferromagnetism, which has been characterized by further field-dependent magnetic susceptibility measurements, FC/ZFC curves, hysteresis loops and frequency-independent ac curves. The signs of the calculated D parameters, positive in 1 and negative in 2, have been rationalized according to the two lowest-lying transitions in the orbital energy diagrams derived from ab initio ligand field theory (AILFT). In a subsequent attempt to reveal the possible hidden zero-field SMM behaviour, Ni(II)-based 3 and Co(II)-doped Ni(II)-based (with a Ni :Co ratio of 0.9 : 0.1) heterometallic compound 2Ni were synthesized. 2024-04-19T09:26:21Z 2024-04-19T09:26:21Z 2024-01-09 journal article Villa-Pérez C, Zabala-Lekuona A, Vitorica-Yrezabal IJ, Seco JM, Cepeda J, Echeverría GA, Soria DB. Spin canting and slow magnetic relaxation in mononuclear cobalt(II) sulfadiazine ternary complexes. Dalton Trans. 2024 Feb 13;53(7):3254-3266. doi: 10.1039/d3dt02359a https://hdl.handle.net/10481/90921 10.1039/d3dt02359a eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional Royal Society of Chemistry