Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.54, No.21, 10490-10496, 2015
Solvent-Free Synthesis of a Pillared Three-Dimensional Coordination Polymer with Magnetic Ordering
A new magnetic coordination polymer, [Fe(bipy)(im)(2)] (bipy = 4,4-bipyridine and im = imidazole), has been synthesized in a solvent-free reaction. Structural analysis reveals a pillared 3D coordination polymer composed by neutral layers, formed by iron(II) and imidazolate linkers, interconnected by bipy ligands which serve as pillars. Magnetic measurements show that the material magnetically orders at low temperatures (T-c = 14.5 K) as a weak ferromagnet, likely due to a spin canting.