Unique Hydration/Dehydration-Induced Vapochromic Behavior of a Charge-Transfer Salt Comprising Viologen and Hexacyanidoferrate(II)

We successfully prepared and crystallographically characterized the first intermolecular charge-transfer (CT)-based vapochromic compound, (EV)(H3O)2[Fe(CN)6] (1-Wet, EV2+: 1,1'-diethyl-4,4'-bipyridine-1,1'-diium), an ethyl viologen-containing CT salt. 1-Wet, which is purple in color, is transformed into a brown powder (1-Dry) upon exposure to methanol vapor, drying over silica gel, or heating; 1-Dry returns to 1-Wet upon exposure to water vapor. These color changes are induced by hydration and dehydration, and gravimetric analyses suggest that 1-Dry is the dehydrated form of 1-Wet, namely, (EV)(H)2[Fe(CN)6]. Interestingly, desorption of water molecules from the oxonium ions in 1-Wet produces isolated protons (H+) that remain in 1-Dry as counter cations. Powder X-ray crystal structure analysis of 1-Dry reveals the presence of very short contacts between the nitrogen atoms of adjacent [Fe(CN)6]4- anions in the crystal. The isolated protons are trapped between the nitrogen atoms of cyanido ligands to form very short N···H···N hydrogen bonds. A detailed comparison of the crystal structures of 1-Wet and 1-Dry reveals that hydration and dehydration induce changes in crystal packing and intermolecular CT interactions, resulting in reversible color changes.

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2018

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2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:57

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Inorganic chemistry - 57(2018), 4 vom: 19. Feb., Seite 2209-2217

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Englisch

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Tanaka, Rikako [VerfasserIn]
Okazawa, Atsushi [VerfasserIn]
Konaka, Hisashi [VerfasserIn]
Sasaki, Akito [VerfasserIn]
Kojima, Norimichi [VerfasserIn]
Matsushita, Nobuyuki [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 07.03.2018

Date Revised 07.03.2018

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10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03100

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NLM280721633