Cu(II) and Cu(I) coordination complexes involving two tetrathiafulvalene-1,3-benzothiazole hybrid ligands and their radical cation salts.

Preparations, crystal structure analyses, and magnetic property investigations on a new Cu(II)(hfac)2 complex coordinated with two TTF-CH═CH-BTA ligands, where hfac is hexafluoroacetylacetonate, TTF is tetrathiafulvalene, and BTA is 1,3-benzothiazole, are reported together with those of its dicationic AsF6(-) salt, [Cu(hfac)2(TTF-CH═CH-BTA)2](AsF6)2, in which each TTF part is in a radical cation state. In these Cu(II)(hfac)2 complexes, two ligands are bonded to the central Cu atom of the Cu(hfac)2 part through the nitrogen atom of the 1,3-benzothiazole ring and occupy the two apical positions of the Cu(hfac)2 complex with an elongated octahedral geometry. These two ligands are located parallelly in a transverse head-to-tail manner, and the Cu(hfac)2 moiety is closely sandwiched by these two ligands. In the AsF6(-) salt of the Cu(hfac)2 complex, each TTF dimer is separated by the AsF6(-) anions and has no overlap with each other within the one-dimensional arrays, resulting in an insulating behavior. Both Cu(hfac)2 complexes showed the simple Curie-like temperature dependence of paramagnetic susceptibilities (χM), indicating that no interaction exists between the paramagnetic Cu(II) d spins. Furthermore, crystal structure analysis and magnetic/conducting properties of a radical cation ReO4(-) salt of the Cu(I) complex with two TTF-CH═CH-BTA ligands, [Cu(TTF-CH═CH-BTA)2](ReO4)2, are also described. Two nitrogen atoms of the ligands are connected to the central Cu(I) in a linear dicoordination with a Cu-N bond length of 1.879(9) Å. Two TTF parts of the neighboring complexes form a dimerized structure, and such a TTF dimer forms a one-dimensional uniform array along the a direction with a short S-S contact of 3.88 Å. Magnetic property measurement suggested the existence of a strongly antiferromagnetic one-dimensional uniform chain of S = 1/2 spins that originate from the radical cation states of the TTF dimers. Due to the construction of the one-dimensional uniform array of the radical cation state of the TTF dimer along the a axis, a semiconducting behavior is observed with σ(rt) = of 6 × 10(-5) S cm(-1) and an activation energy of E(a) = 0.16 eV.