• Unidirectional Photoisomerization of Styrylpyridine for Switching the Magnetic Behavior of an Iron(II) Complex: A MLCT Pathway in Crystalline Solids
    A. Tissot, M.-L. Boillot, S. Pillet, E. Codjovi, K. Boukheddaden and L.M. Lawson Daku
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 114 (49) (2010), p21715-21722
    DOI:10.1021/jp106583f | unige:14853 | Abstract | Article HTML | Article PDF
 
The photoreactivity of two iron(II)−styrylpyridine frameworks Fe(stpy)4(NCSe)2 (stpy = 4-styrylpyridine) has been investigated for the very first time in a crystalline solid. A quantitative cis-to-trans isomerization of stilbenoids is shown to occur in the confined environment of the inorganic solid. The photochromic reaction was driven by a visible excitation into the metal-to-ligand charge transfer absorption of the high-spin all-cis complex. The solid-state transformation is accompanied by a unit-cell volume increase and an amorphization. Interestingly, the photoproduct formed by irradiating the high-spin all-cis reactant undergoes a spin conversion when the temperature is decreased. This observation is related to the “ligand-driven light-induced spin change” effect in a constrained environment.

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