Magnetic behaviour of bivalent copper complexes of some tridentate Schiff bases

Abstract

The magnetic susceptibilities in the temperature range 90-400ºK are reported for  copper(11) complexes of the general formula CuL, where L is a tridentate Schiff base. The magnetic behaviour of some of the complexes is interpreted in terms of pairwise antiferromagnetic interaction and of others in terms of linear antiferromagnetism involving infinite chains of copper atoms.