“…1,2,3,4,5,6,7 During the last years cobaltates with layered CoO structures have also become subject of intense studies. 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 It has been proposed that various of these compounds would also show temperature-dependent spin-state transitions of the Co 3+ and/or Co 2+ ions, but an unambiguous proof of such spin-state transitions is still missing (see e. g. Ref. 15).…”