Tris(l, 2-benzodithio)- and tris(l, 2-ethylenedithio)-trimethylenemethane dication salts were synthesized for the purpose of using as an acceptor in the formation of charge-transfer (CT) complexes with some dianionic donors. In the CT complexes of these dications with hexacyanotrimethylenecyclopropane and tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane dianions, in which the CT degree is albeit small, the spin-spin interaction between the cation radical and the anion radical was antiferro magnetic in the temperature range of 60–293 K, but changed to a ferromagnetic one in the lower temperature range till 15 K, the lowest temperature used in this experiment. This provides the first demonstration of ferromagnetic spin-spin interaction in purely organic/molecular CT complexes. It is conceivable that the ferromagnetic spin-spin interaction is caused by a“spin polarization”mechanism rather than a“CT configurational mixing”mechanism.
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