Carrière:

Since 01.01.2013 : Head of CRM2 laboratory

Since 01.12.2009 : Professor at CRM2, Université de Lorraine

2006-2010: Leader of a junior research group (BMBF) at I. Physical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany

2006: Scientist at Institute of Mineralogy & Geochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany

2005-2006: Guest professor at Institute of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria

2003-2005: Postdoctoral work at University of Cologne and University of Osnabrück, Germany

1999-2002: Thesis work at ETH Zurich & Paul Scherrer Institute Villigen, Switzerland

Prizes :

• Max-von-Laue Award 2007 of the German Crystallographic Society
• Nanofutur 2006 (Research grant of 1.7 M€ to establish a junior research group)

Domaine de recherche:

• Photocrystallography
• Nanocrystallography
• Holography
• Switchable molecular materials

Enseignement

Solid state physics, diffraction methods, and crystallography on Master level as well as general physics courses on the bachelor level (mechanics, optics, etc.)

Publications:

Mikhailov A. A., Komarov V. Yu. , Pishchur D. P., Schaniel D. and Kostin G. A.
Nitrosyl linkage photoisomerization in heteroleptic fluoride ruthenium complexes derived from labile nitrate precursors
New Journal of Chemistry 45 (2021) 8192-8202 DOI link

Fomenko I.S., Mikhailov A.A., Vorobyev V., Kuratieva N.V., Kostin G.A., Schaniel D.,Nadolinny V.A., Gushchin A.L.
Solution and solid-state light-induced transformations in heterometallic vanadium-ruthenium nitrosyl complex
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry 407 (2021) 113044 DOI link

Mikhailov A. A. , Woike T., Gansmuller A., Schaniel D., Kostin G. A.
Photoinduced linkage isomers in a model ruthenium nitrosyl complex: Identification and assignment of vibrational modes
Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 263 (2021) 120217 DOI link

Tchana Kamgne D., Thiodjio Sendja B., Oliveira de Souza D., Schaniel D., Aquilanti G.
An experimental XAS and ab initio approach to describe the electronic and local structure of sodium nitroprussiate single crystals
Journal of Molecular Structure 1245 (2021) 131119 DOI link

Schwartz H., Schaniel D., Ruschewitz U.
Tracking the light-induced isomerization processes and the photostability of spiropyrans embedded in the pores of crystalline nanoporous MOFsviaIR spectroscopy
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 19 (2020) 1433-1441 DOI link

Schwartz H., Werker M., Tobeck C., Christoffels R., Schaniel D., Olthof S., Meerholz K., Kopacka H., Huppertz H., Ruschewitz U.
Novel Photoactive Spirooxazine Based Switch@MOF Composite Materials
ChemPhotoChem 4 (2020) 195-206 DOI link

Ahoulou S., Vilà N., Pillet S., Schaniel D., Walcarius A.
Non-covalent Immobilization of Iron-triazole (Fe(Htrz)₃) Molecular Mediator in Mesoporous Silica Films for the Electrochemical Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide
Electroanalysis 32 (2020) 690-697 DOI link

Rjiba A., Jelassi J., Letaief N., Lucas-Girot A., Pillet S., Schaniel D., Bendeif E.-E., Dorbez-Sridi R.
Structural and comparative study of water confined in a mesoporous bioglass by X-ray total scattering
Physics and Chemistry of Liquids (2020) 1-11 DOI link

Maza S., Kijatkin C., Bouhidel Z., Pillet S., Schaniel D., Imlau M., Guillot B., Cherouana A., Bendeif E.-E.
Synthesis, structural investigation and NLO properties of three 1,2,4-triazole Schiff bases
Journal of Molecular Structure (2020) 128492 DOI link

Khoder H., Schaniel D., Pillet S., and Bendeif E.-E.
X-ray scattering study of water confined in bioactive glasses: experimental and simulated pair distribution function
Acta Crystallographica, Section A: Foundations of Crystallography A76 (2020) DOI link

LANGMANN J., HAAS C., WENGER E., SCHANIEL D., SCHERER W., and EICKERLING G.
Evidence for a soft phonon mode driven Peierls-type distortion in Sc₃ Co C₄
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter 102 (2020) DOI link

Mikhailov A., Komarov V., Sukhikh A., Pishchur D., Schaniel D., Kostin G.
The impact of counterion on the metastable state properties of nitrosyl ruthenium complexes
New Journal of Chemistry 44 (2020) 18014-18024 DOI link

Kutniewska S., Krówczyński A., Kamiński R., Jarzembska K., Pillet S., Wenger E., Schaniel D.
Photocrystallographic and spectroscopic studies of a model (N,N,O)-donor square-planar nickel(II) nitro complex: in search of high-conversion and stable photoswitchable materials
IUCrJ 7 (2020) 1188-1198 DOI link

ATHMANI, H. KIJATKIN,C. BENALI-CHERIF, R. PILLET, S. SCHANIEL, D. IMLAU, M. BENALI-CHERIF. N and BENDEIF, E.-E
Nonlinear optical organic-inorganic crystals: synthesis, structural analysis and verification of harmonic generation in tri-(o-chloroanilinium nitrate)
Acta Crystallographica, Section A: Foundations of Crystallography A75 (2019) 107-114 DOI link

In-Iam A., Wolf M., Wilfer C., Schaniel D., Woike T., Klüfers P.
{FeNO}⁷-Type Halogenido Nitrosyl Ferrates: Syntheses, Bonding, and Photoinduced Linkage Isomerism
Chemistry - A European Journal 25 (2019) 1304-1325 DOI link

Hermann D., Schwartz H., Werker M., Schaniel D., Ruschewitz U.
Metal-Organic Frameworks as Hosts for Fluorinated Azobenzenes: A Path towards Quantitative Photoswitching with Visible Light
Chemistry - A European Journal 25 (2019) 3606-3616 DOI link

Mikhailov A., Wenger E., Kostin G., Schaniel D.
Room-Temperature Photogeneration of Nitrosyl Linkage Isomers in Ruthenium Nitrosyl Complexes
Chemistry: a european journal 25 (2019) 7569-7574 DOI link

Ahoulou S., Vilà N., Pillet S., Schaniel D., Walcarius A.
Coordination Polymers as Template for Mesoporous Silica Films: A Novel Composite Material Fe(Htrz)₃@SiO₂with Remarkable Electrochemical Properties
Chemistry of Materials 31 (2019) 5796-5807 DOI link

Mikhailov A., Vuković V., Kijatkin C., Wenger E., Imlau M., Woike T., Kostin G., Schaniel D.
Combining photoinduced linkage isomerism and nonlinear optical properties in ruthenium nitrosyl complexes
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials 75 (2019) 1152-1163 Electronic reprint DOI link

Schaniel D., Casaretto N., Bendeif E.-E., Woike T., Gallien A., Klüfers P., Kutniewska S., Kamiński R., Bouchez G., Boukheddaden K., Pillet S.
Evidence for a photoinduced isonitrosyl isomer in ruthenium dinitrosyl compounds
CrystEngComm 21 (2019) 5804-5810 DOI link

Deligey F., Bouguet-Bonnet S., Doudouh A., Marande P.-L., Schaniel D., Gansmüller A.
Bridging Structural and Dynamical Models of a Confined Sodium Nitroprusside Complex
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2018) DOI link

Orlowska E., Babak M., Dömötör O., Enyedy E., Rapta P., Zalibera M., Bučinský L., Malček M., Govind C., Karunakaran V., Farid Y., McDonnell T., Luneau D., Schaniel D., Ang W., Arion V.
NO Releasing and Anticancer Properties of Octahedral Ruthenium–Nitrosyl Complexes with Equatorial 1H-Indazole Ligands
Inorganic Chemistry 57 (2018) 10702-10717 DOI link

Schaniel D., Bendeif E.-E., Woike T., Böttcher H.-C., Pillet S.
Wavelength-selective photoisomerisation of nitric oxide and nitrite in a rhodium complex
CrystEngComm 20 (2018) 7100-7108 DOI link

Casaretto N., Schaniel D.,Alle P.,Wenger E.,Parois P., Fournier B., Bendeif E.-E., Palin C. and Pillet S.
In-house time-resolved photocrystallography on the millisecond timescale using a gated X-ray hybrid pixel area detector
Acta Crystallographica Section B: STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS B73 (2017) 696-707 DOI link

Schwartz H. A., Olthof S., Schaniel D., Meerholz K., and Ruschewitz U.
Solution-Like Behavior of Photoswitchable Spiropyrans Embedded in Metal–Organic Frameworks
Inorganic Chemistry 56 (21) (2017) 13100-13110 DOI link

Schneider, L., Rinkel, T., Voß, B., Chrobak, A., Klare, J., Neethling, J., Olivier, J., Schaniel, D., Bendeif, E., Bondino, F., Magnano, E., Píš, I., Balinski, K., Wollschläger, J., Steinhoff, H., Haa
Characterization of multifunctional β-NaEuF₄/NaGdF₄ core–shell nanoparticles with narrow size distribution
Nanoscale 8 (2016) 2832-2843 DOI link

Takouachet R., Benali-Cherif R., Bendeif E.-E., Benali-Cherif N., Pillet S., Schaniel D.
Structural analysis and IR-spectroscopy of a new anilinium hydrogenselenite hybrid compound: A subtle structural phase transition
Inorganica Chimica Acta 446 (2016) 6-12 DOI link

Allé P., Wenger E., Dahaoui S., Schaniel D., Lecomte C.
Comparison of CCD, CMOS and Hybrid Pixel x-ray detectors: detection principle and data quality
Physica Scripta 91 (2016) 063001 DOI link

Casaretto N., Fournier B., Pillet S., Bendeif E., Schaniel D., Gallien A., Klüfers P., Woike T.
Photo-induced linkage NO isomers in the dinitrosyl complex [Ru(NO)₂(PCy₃)₂Cl](BF₄) identified by photocrystallography and IR-spectroscopy
CrystEngComm 18 (2016) 7260-7268 DOI link

Kostin G., Mikhailov A., Kuratieva N., Tkachev S., Schaniel D., Woike T.
Reaction of [RuNO(NO₂)₄OH]^2-with Sulfamic Acid as a Pathway to Mixed Nitro Pyridine Ruthenium Nitrosyl Complexes
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2016 (2016) 4045-4053 DOI link

Bendeif E.-E., Gansmuller A., Hsieh K.-Y., Pillet S., Woike T., Zobel M., Neder R., Bouazaoui M., El Hamzaoui H., Schaniel D.
Structure determination of molecular nanocomposites by combining pair distribution function analysis and solid-state NMR
RSC Advances 5 (2015) 8895-8902 DOI link

Casaretto N., Pillet S., Bendeif E., Schaniel D., Gallien A., Klüfers P., Woike T.
Multiple light-induced NO linkage isomers in the dinitrosyl complex [RuCl(NO) ₂ (PPh ₃ ) ₂ ]BF ₄ unravelled by photocrystallographic and IR analysis
IUCrJ 2 (2015) 35-44 DOI link

Kopotkov V., Sasnovskaya V., Korchagin D., Morgunov R., Aldoshin S., Simonov S., Zorina L., Schaniel D., Woike T., Yagubskii E.
The first photochromic bimetallic assemblies based on Mn( iii ) and Mn( ii ) Schiff-base (salpn, dapsc) complexes and pentacyanonitrosylferrate
CrystEngComm 17 (2015) 3866-3876 DOI link

Kostin G., Borodin A., Mikhailov A., Kuratieva N., Kolesov B., Pishchur D., Woike T., Schaniel D.
Photocrystallographic, Spectroscopic, and Calorimetric Analysis of Light-Induced Linkage NO Isomers in [RuNO(NO ₂ ) ₂ ­(pyridine) ₂ OH]
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2015 (2015) 4905-4913 DOI link

Casaretto N., Pillet S., Bendeif E.-E., Schaniel D., Gallien A., Klüfers P., Woike T.
Photocrystallography and IR spectroscopy of light-induced linkage NO isomers in [RuBr(NO) ₂ (PCyp ₃ ) ₂ ]BF ₄
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials 71 (2015) 788-797 DOI link

Gallien A., Schaniel D., Woike T., Klüfers P.
NO-binding in {Ru(NO) ₂ } ⁸ -type [Ru(NO) ₂ (PR ₃ ) ₂ X]BF ₄ compounds
Dalton Transactions 43 (2014) 13278 DOI link

Wenger E., Dahaoui S., Alle P., Parois P., Palin C., Lecomte C., Schaniel D.
XPAD X-ray hybrid pixel detector for charge density quality diffracted intensities on laboratory equipment
Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials 70 (2014) 783-791 DOI link

Durand P., Pillet S., Bendeif E.-E., Carteret C., Bouazaoui M., El Hamzaoui H., Capoen B., Salmon L., Hébert S., Ghanbaja J., Aranda L., Schaniel D.
Room temperature bistability with wide thermal hysteresis in a spin crossover silica nanocomposite
Journal of Materials Chemistry 1 (2013) 1933-1942 DOI link

Hermann D., Emerich H., Lepski R., Schaniel D., Ruschewitz U.
Metal-Organic Frameworks as Hosts for Photochromic Guest Molecules
Inorganic Chemistry 52 (2013) 2744-2749 DOI link

Hsieh K.-Y., Bendeif E.-E., Pillet S., Doudouh A., Schaniel D., Woike T.
Structural reinvestigation of the photoluminescent complex [NdCl2(H2O)6]Cl
Acta Crystallographica, Section C: Crystal Structure Communications C69 (2013) 1002-1005 DOI link

Hsieh K.-Y., Bendeif E.-E., Gansmuller A., Pillet S., Woike T., Schaniel D.
Structure and dynamics of guest molecules confined in a mesoporous silica matrix: Complementary NMR and PDFcharacterisation
RSC Advances 3 (2013) 26132-26141 DOI link

Galle G., Nicoul M., Woike T., Schaniel D., Freysz E., Chergui M., Taylor A., Cundiff S., de Vivie-Riedle R., Yamagouchi K.
Monitoring of the ultrafast vibrational kinetic during formation of photo-induced linkage isomers in Na ₂ [Fe(CN) ₅ NO]·2H ₂ O single crystal.
EPJ Web of Conferences 41 (2013) 05005 DOI link

Krause J., Imlau M., Woike T., Schaniel D.
Improvement in photostability of solid state dye by oxygen removal
Optical Materials Express 2 (2012) 71-77 DOI link

Tahri Z., Lepski R., Hsieh K.-Y., Bendeif E.-E., Pillet S., Durand P., Woike T., Schaniel D.
Properties of metastable linkage NO isomers in Na₂[Fe(CN)₅NO]2H₂O incorporated in mesopores of silica xerogels
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14 (2012) 3775-3781 DOI link

Cormary B., Ladeira S., Jacob K., Lacroix P., Woike T., Schaniel D., Malfant I.
Structural Influence on the Photochromic Response of a Series of Ruthenium Mononitrosyl Complexes
Inorganic Chemistry 51 (2012) 7492-7501 DOI link

Gallé G., Nicoul M., Woike T., Schaniel D., Freysz E.
Unraveling the mechanism of NO ligand photoisomerism by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Chemical Physics Letters 552 (2012) 64-68 DOI link

Krause J., Schrage C., Schuy A., Woike T., Kockrick E., Kaskel S., Schaniel D.
Effect of synthesis conditions on porous structure, luminescence and absorption properties of dye-loaded silica xerogels
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 142 (2011) 245-250 DOI link

CERVELLINO A., SCHEFER J., KELLER L., WOIKE T. AND SCHANIEL D.
Identification of single photoswitchable molecules in nanopores of silica xerogels using powder diffraction
Journal of Applied Crystallography 43 (2010) 1040-1045

LISINSKI S., RATKE L., SCHANIEL D., JUNGK T., SOERGEL E., BOYSEN H. AND WOIKE T.
Second-harmonic generation in nano-structured LiTaO₃- and LiNbO₃-xerogels with randomly oriented ferroelectric grains
Optical Materials 32 (2010) 504-509

PEREZ-RUIZ R., FICHTLER R., DIAZ MIARA I., NICOUL, M., SCHANIEL, D., NEUMANN, H., BELLER, M., BLUNK, D., GRIESBECK A. G. AND JACOBI VON WANGELIN A.
On the Photophysical Properties of New Luminol Derivatives and their Synthetic Phthalimide Precursors
Journal of Fluorescence 20 (2010) 657-664 DOI link

KUSHCH L. A., YAGUBSKII E. B., DMITRIEV A. I., MORGUNOV R. B., EMELYANOV V. A., MUSTAFINA A. R., GUBAIDULLIN A. T., BURILOV V. A., SOLOVIEVA S. E., SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Bifunctional supramolecular systems on the platform of p-sulfotothiacalix[4]arene containing photochromic mononitrosyl Ru(II) and paramagnetic aqua Gd or Dy complexes
Physica B: Condensed Matter (Amsterdam) 405 (2010) S30-S33 DOI link

Dieckmann V., Imlau M., Taffa D. H., Walder L., Lepski R., Schaniel D. and Woike Th.
Phototriggered NO and CN release from [Fe(CN)₅NO]^2- molecules electrostatically attached to TiO₂ surfaces
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 (2010) 3283-3288 DOI link

SCHANIEL D., MOCKUS N., WOIKE T., KLEIN A., SHEPTYAKOV D., TODOROVA T. AND DELLEY B.
Reversible photoswitching between nitrito-N and nitrito-O isomers in trans-[Ru(py)₄(NO₂)₂]
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 (2010) 6171-6178 DOI link

GOULKOV M., SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Pulse recording of thermal and linkage isomer gratings in nitrosyl compounds
Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics 27 (2010) 927-932

SCHANIEL D., NICOUL M. AND WOIKE Th.
Ultrafast reversible ligand isomerisation in Na₂[Fe(CN)₅NO]2H₂O
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 (2010) 9029-9033 DOI link

KLEIN A., VON MERING Y., UTHE A., BUTSCH K., SCHANIEL D., MOCKUS N. AND WOIKE T.
Oxidation states and photoinduced metastable states in [Fe(CO)₂(NO)₂]
Polyhedron 29 (2010) 2553-2559 DOI link

SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T., BEHRND N. R., HAUSER J., KRAEMER K., TODOROVA T. AND DELLEY B.
Photogeneration of nitrosyl linkage isomers in octahedrally coordinated platinum complexes in the red spectral range
Inorganic Chemistry 48 (2009) 11399-11406

GIGLMEIER H., KERSCHER T., KLUEFERS P., SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Nitric-oxide photorelease and photoinduced linkage isomerism on solid [Ru(NO)(terpy)(L)]BPh₄ (L = glycolate dianion)
Dalton Transactions (2009) 9113-9116

ZANGL A., KLUEFERS P., SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Photoinduced linkage isomerism of binuclear bis(pyrazole-3,5-dicarboxylato)-bridged {RuNO}⁶ centres
Inorganic Chemistry Communications (2009) 1064-1066

CORMARY B., MALFANT I., VALADE L., BURON-LE COINTE M. L., TOUPET L., TODOROVA T., DELLEY B., SCHANIEL D., MOCKUS N., WOIKE T., FEJVAROVA K., PETRICEK V. AND DUSEK M.
[Ru(py)₄Cl(NO)](PF₆)₂1/2H₂O: a model system for structural determination and ab initio calculations of photoinduced linkage NO isomers
Acta Crystallographica, Section B: Structural Science 65 (2009) 612-624

SCHUY A., WOIKE T. AND SCHANIEL D.
Photoisomerisation in single molecules of nitroprusside embedded in mesopores of xerogels
Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 50 (2009) 403-408

SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Necessary conditions for the photogeneration of nitrosyl linkage isomers
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 4391-4395

KUSHCH L. A., EMELYANOV V. A., GOLHEN S., CADOR O., SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T., OUAHAB L. AND YAGUBSKII E. B.
The photochromic paramagnet derived from polyoxometalate [Cr(OH)₆Mo₆O₁₈]^3- and ruthenium mononitrosyl complex [RuNO(en)₂Cl]²⁺
Inorganica Chimica Acta 362 (2009) 2279-2282

ZANGL A., KLUEFERS P., SCHANIEL D. AND WOIKE T.
Photoinduced linkage isomerism of {RuNO}₆ complexes with bioligands and related chelators
Dalton Transactions (2009) 1034-1037

SCHAAB S., GRANZOW T., WOIKE T. AND SCHANIEL D.
Light-induced absorption in lead lanthanum zirconate titanate ceramics
Journal of Applied Physics 105 (2009) 024103

KRAUSE J., LISINSKI S., RATKE L., WILLERT C., SCHANIEL D., ALTMEYER S., WOIKE T., VOGES M. AND KLINNER J.
Observation of gelation process and particle distribution during sol-gel synthesis by Particle Image Velocimetry
Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology 45 (2008) 73-77

LISINSKI S., KRAUSE J., SCHANIEL D., RATKE L. AND WOIKE T.
Variable refractive indices in mixed oxide xerogels
Scripta Materiala 58 (2008) 553-555

SCHEFER J., SCHANIEL D., PETRICEK V. AND WOIKE T.
Neutron photocrystallography: Simulation and Experiment
Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie 223 (2008) 259-264

WOIKE T. AND SCHANIEL D.
Photocrystallography - Preface
Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie 223 (2008) IV

SCHEFER J., SCHANIEL D., PETRICEK V., WOIKE T., COUSSON A. AND WOEHLECKE M.
Reducing the positional modulation of NbO6-ocathedra in Sr_xBa_1-xNb₂O₆ by increasing the Barium content: A single crystal neutron diffraction study at ambient temperature for x=0.61 and x=0.34
Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie 223 (2008) 399-407

SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T., DELLEY B., BOSKOVIC C. AND GUEDEL H. U.
Photogeneration of metastable side-on N2 linkage isomers in [Ru(NH₃)₅N₂]Cl₂, [Ru(NH₃)₅N₂]Br₂, and [Os(NH₃)₅N₂]Cl₂
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 10 (2008) 5531-5538

KUSHCH L. A., SHILOV G. V., IL'IN M. A., SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T. AND YAGUBSKII E. B.
Synthesis, structure and properties of [RuNO(NH₃)₅NO][Co(CN)₆] complex containing a photochromic cation
Russian Chemical Bulletin (Int. Ed.) 57 (2008) 557-560

SCHANIEL D., IMLAU M., WEISEMOELLER M., WOIKE T., KRAEMER K. AND GUEDEL H. U.
Photoinduced nitrosyl linkage isomers uncover a variety of unconventional photorefractive media
Advanced Materials (Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany) 19 (2007) 723-726

SCHANIEL D., CORMARY B., MALFANT I., VALADE L., WOIKE T., DELLEY B., KRAEMER K. AND GUEDEL H. U.
Photogeneration of two metastable NO linkage isomers with high populations of up to 76% in trans-[RuCl(py)₄(NO)][PF₆]₂1/2H₂O
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 9 (2007) 3717-3724

SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T., DELLEY B., BINER D., KRAEMER K. AND GUEDEL H. U.
Generation of one light-induced metastable nitrosyl linkage isomer in [Pt(NH₃)₄Cl(NO)]Cl₂ in the red spectral range
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 9 (2007) 5149-5157

SCHANIEL D., WOIKE T., KUSHCH L. A. AND YAGUBSKII E. B.
Photoinduced nitrosyl linkage isomers in complexes based on the photochromic cation [RuNO(NH₃)₅]³⁺ with the paramagnetic anion [Cr(CN)₆]^3- and the diamagnetic anions [Co(CN)₆]^3-
Chemical Physics 340 (2007) 211-216

WOIKE T., DAHAOUI S., SCHANIEL D., POUNOU S., HANSEN N. K., PETRICEK V.
Structure analysis and the existence of light-induced long-lived metastable states in Xn[Fe(CN)5NO] with iorganic and organic cations: Xn = Pb, (H₃O⁺CH₆N⁺), (C₂N₂H₇)₂
Zeitschrift fuer Kristallographie 219 (2004) 558-566

Schaniel, D., Schefer, J., Delley, B., Imlau, M., Woike, T.
Light-induced absorption changes by excitation of metastable states in Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]2H2O single crystals
Physical Review B 66 (2002) DOI link