Dear Colleagues,

Over the last several decades, the spin crossover process has been thoroughly investigated. During these years, our understanding of this phenomenon has continuously grown, and the approach to the subject has been more and more improved and refined. Nowadays, a variety of both experimental techniques and computational methods is used to study not only the spin crossover process itself, but also concomitant effects like variation of bond lengths or its impact on optical or vibrational properties. The effects of temperature variation, pressure, radiation, electric or magnetic fields on the electronic ground state of the spin crossover ions have been investigated.

Frequently, the complete experimental characterisation of a spin crossover compound necessitates a multi-technique approach in order to obtain a fully coherent picture of the behaviour of the spin crossover ion and its environment.

I suggest to establish in this Special Issue a collection of articles describing new research in this field and illustrating the currently employed state-of-the-art concepts and approaches. The articles should also demonstrate the valuable information the various methods – whether experimental or theoretical, whether recently developed or well established – provide for the analysis and the understanding of the spin crossover phenomenon.

In this way this Special Issue will – hopefully – serve as a source of information and inspiration for both beginners and scientists already active in this field.

Dr. Manfred Womes
Guest Editor

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• Spin crossover compounds
• Computational methods
• Experimental techniques
• Spectroscopy
• Crystallography
• Magnetic interactions