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On the precision and accuracy of structural analysis of light-induced metastable states

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Bragg diffraction data were collected on single crystals of the spin-crossover complex [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] in its low-spin and light-induced metastable high-spin states. Experimental variables included the temperature (32 and 15 K), the X-ray source (sealed tube and synchrotron), and the time interval between laser light excitation of the sample ([lambda] = 647 nm). From a comparison of the structural parameters refined, it is shown that photo-crystallographic measurements suffer significantly and systematically from bias if the probed sample contains residual ground-state species, resulting from an incomplete photo-conversion or a significant metastable- to ground-state relaxation. It follows that a 4% population of species in a different spin state affects the Fe-N bond lengths by more than three standard deviations, and the FeN6 polyhedron volume by as much as seven standard deviations, while the mean atomic position misfit exceeds 0.005 Å.
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hal-01007149 , version 1 (23-06-2018)

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Vincent Legrand, Sébastien Pillet, Hans-Peter Weber, Mohamed Souhassou, Jean-François Létard, et al.. On the precision and accuracy of structural analysis of light-induced metastable states. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2007, 40 (6), pp.1076-1088. ⟨10.1107/S0021889807040149⟩. ⟨hal-01007149⟩
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