Three isostructur
al dis
klike hept
anucle
ar Fe
III compounds of the gener
al formul
a [Fe
III7(
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3-O)
3(L)
3(
ages/entities/mgr.gif">-O
2CCMe
3)
6(
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ars/et
a.gif" BORDER=0 >
1-O
2CCMe
3)
3(H
2O)
3], where L represents
a di- or trieth
anol
amine moiety, displ
ay
a three-bl
ade propeller topology,with the centr
al Fe
atom representing the
axle or
axis of the propeller. This motif corresponds to the theoretic
almodel of
a frustr
ated Heisenberg st
ar, which is one of the very few solv
able models in the
are
a of frustr
atedqu
antum-spin systems
and c
an, furthermore, be converted to
an oct
anucle
ar c
age for the c
ase where L istrieth
anol
amine to give [Fe
III8(
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4O)
3(
ages/entities/mgr.gif">
4-te
a)(te
aH)
3(O
2CCMe
3)
6(N
3)
3]·
1/
2MeCN·
1/
2H
2O or [Fe
III8(
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4O)
3(
ages/entities/mgr.gif">
4-te
a)(te
aH)
3(O
2CCMe
3)
6(SCN)
3]·2MeCN when tre
ated with excess N
aN
3 or NH
4SCN, respectively. The core structure is form
allyderived from th
at of the hept
anucle
ar compounds by the repl
acement of the three
aqu
a lig
ands by
an {Fe(te
a)}moiety, so th
at the 3-fold
axis of the propeller is now defined by two centr
al Fe
III atoms. M
agnetic studies on twoof the hept
anulce
ar compounds est
ablished unequivoc
ally
S =
5/
2 spin ground st
ate for these complexes, consistentwith over
all
antiferrom
agnetic inter
actions between the constituent Fe
III ions.