Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-02-27
New J. Phys. 9, 26 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
18 pages, 11 figures, final version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1367-2630/9/2/026
Within a first principles framework, we study the electronic structure of the recently synthesized polymeric coordination compound Cu(II)-2,5-bis(pyrazol-1-yl)-1,4-dihydroxybenzene (CuCCP), which has been suggested to be a good realization of a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain with antiferromagnetic coupling. By using a combination of classical with ab initio quantum mechanical methods, we design on the computer reliable modified structures of CuCCP aimed at studying effects of Cu-Cu coupling strength variations on this spin-1/2 system. For this purpose, we performed two types of modifications on CuCCP. In one case, we replaced H in the linker by i) an electron donating group (NH2) and ii) an electron withdrawing group (CN), while the other modification consisted in adding H2O and NH3 molecules in the structure which change the local coordination of the Cu(II) ions. With the NMTO-downfolding method we provide a quantitative analysis of the modified electronic structure and the nature of the Cu-Cu interaction paths in these new structures and discuss its implications for the underlying microscopic model.
Buchsbaum Christian
Jeschke Harald O.
Rahaman Badiur
Saha-Dasgupta Tanusri
Salguero Andrea L.
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