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The iron(III) complexes that were formed by coordination of the Fe III ion with the asymmetric tridentate liquid crystalline Schiff base ligand (L), the water molecules and the different counterions [PF 6 -(1), NO 3 -(2), and Cl -(3)] were studied by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. EPR spectroscopy demonstrated that each of the complexes investigated consists of two types of iron centers: S = 1/2 low-spin (LS) and S = 5/2 high-spin (HS). LS iron complexes 2, 3 and LS complex 1 in the temperature range 4. + X -, with X = PF 6 -as the counterion. The LS and HS iron centers of 1 are coupled together antiferromagnetically and form a dimer structure by means of the water molecules and the PF 6 -counterion. The second-type of LS and HS cen-

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