Photomagnetic Switching of the Complex [Nd(dmf)4(H2O)3(μ-CN)Fe(CN)5]H2O Analyzed by Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction

摘要

Controlling the physical properties of materials with light irradiation represents an emerging field involving many different types of photoswitchable molecular systems. The photoswitching involves not only electronic excitation, but also a coupling with the structural degrees of freedom, which play a key role in stabilizing the excited state from us to days. In concert with these developments, photocrystallography has become a rapidly evolving branch of modern crystallography, which provides unique experimental access to structural information for molecules in electronically excited states.