Probing Magnetic Excitations in Co-II Single-Molecule Magnets by Inelastic 
Neutron Scattering

Stavretis, Shelby E.; Cheng, Yongqiang; Daemen, Luke L.; Brown, Craig M.; Moseley, Duncan H.; Bill, Eckhard; Atanasov, Mihail; Ramirez-Cuesta, Anibal J.; Neese, Frank; Xue, Zi-Ling

doi:10.1002/ejic.201801088

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Probing Magnetic Excitations in Co-II Single-Molecule Magnets by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

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Bill, Eckhard
Research Department DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max Planck Society;

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Stavretis, S. E., Cheng, Y., Daemen, L. L., Brown, C. M., Moseley, D. H., Bill, E., et al. (2019). Probing Magnetic Excitations in Co-II Single-Molecule Magnets by Inelastic Neutron Scattering. SI, (8), 1119-1127. doi:10.1002/ejic.201801088.

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Abstract

Co(acac)(2)(H2O)(2) (1, acac = acetylacetonate), a transition metal complex (S = 3/2), displays field-induced slow magnetic relaxation as a single-molecule magnet. For 1 and its isotopologues Co(acac)(2)(D2O)(2) (1-d(4)) and Co(acac-d(7))(2)(D2O)(2) (1-d(18)) in approximately D-4h symmetry, zero-field splitting of the ground electronic state leads to two Kramers doublets (KDs): lower energy M-S = +/- 1/2 (phi(1,2)) and higher energy M-S = +/- 3/2 (phi(3,4)) states. This work employs inelastic neutron scattering (INS), a unique method to probe magnetic transitions, to probe different magnetic excitations in 1-d(4) and 1-d(18). Direct-geometry, time-of-flight Disk-Chopper Spectrometer (DCS), with applied magnetic fields up to 10 T, has been used to study the intra-KD transition as a result of Zeeman splitting, M-S = -1/2 (phi(1)) -> M-S = +1/2 (phi(2)), in 1-d(18). This is a rare study of the M-S = -1/2 -> M-S = +1/2 excitation in transition metal complexes by INS. Indirect-geometry INS spectrometer VISION has been used to probe the inter-KD, ZFS transition, M-S = +/- 1/2 (phi(1,2)) -> M-S = +/- 3/2 (phi(3,4)) in both 1-d(4) and 1-d(18), by variable-temperature (VT) properties of this excitation. The INS spectra measured on VISION also give phonon features of the complexes that are well described by periodic DFT phonon calculations.