Fabrication of Schottky barrier diodes utilizing carboxylate bridged trinuclear mixed valence cobalt(iii/ii/iii) complexes of tetradentate N₂O₂donor reduced Schiff base ligands

Abstract

Three mixed-valence trinuclear cobalt(III)-cobalt(II)-cobalt(III) complexes, [CoII{(μ-L1)(μ-OAc)CoIII(OAc)}2]2.67H2O (1), [CoII{(μ-L1)(μ-OOCPh)CoIII(DMSO)0.8(OOCPh)0.2}2](ClO4)1.6 (2) and [CoII{(μ-L2)(μ-OOCPh)CoIII(DMSO)0.75(OOCPh)0.25}2](ClO4)1.5 (3), have been synthesized using two tetradentate N2O2 donor 'reduced Schiff base' ligands, H2L1 {1,3-Bis(2-hydroxybenzylamino)2,2-dimethylpropane} and H2L2 {2,2'-[1,1'-(Propane-2,2-diyldiimino)diethylidene]diphenol}, and...