To investigate the existing magnetic couplings in three compounds, we adopted different means and models to acquire the specific exchange constants with respect to their crystal structures. The temperature dependence of
χMT of
1 was fitted using PHI program [
24] and the intermolecular magnetic interactions (
zJ') were treated with the mean-field approximation. The best-fitting of the magnetic data gives
zJ' = −0.46 cm
−1 and TIP = 8 × 10
−5 cm
3/mol with
g = 2.0, and this intermolecular exchange constant is in agreement with the Weiss constant
θ. While for
2 and
3, their magnetic behaviors can be approximated as 1D uniform AFM chain with one isotropic interaction parameter
J and 1D alternating AFM chain with two interaction parameters
J1 and
J2 (
J2 =
αJ1) respectively, and the Hamiltonian can be expressed as
H=−
J∑
Si·
Si+1 and
H=−
J∑
i=1n/2(
S2i·
S2i−1+
αS2i·
S2i+1) (
Figs. 4E and
F), where
α is alternation parameter (0 ≤
α ≤ 1), and
α = 0 and
α = 1 correspond to the cases of isolated pairs and a uniform chain. Therefore the experimental magnetic susceptibility data can be adequately described by the Bonner-Fisher approximation for
2 (Eq. 1,
x = |
J|/
kBT) [
25–
28] and theoretical expressions derived by Hatfield for
3 (0 ≤
α ≤ 0.4, Eqs. 2–8),
x = |
J|/2
kBT) [
29–
31], respectively. Considering the temperature-independent paramagnetism (TIP) and interchain interaction (
zJ'), the temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility for
2 and
3 can be best fitted by utilizing the parameters listed in Table S5 (Supporting information). The results demonstrated that intrachain CA-bridges were capable of transmitting strong AFM exchanges between Cu(Ⅱ) ions, while the
α value closer to zero in
3 indicates that the magnetic behavior of this 1D alternating chain approaches to a dinuclear Cu(Ⅱ) system, and the different magnitude of
J1 and
J2 could be attributed to different bridging modes. Moreover, the differences of
χMT products at low temperature range between
2 and
3 may originate from paramagnetic short chains after chain breaking in
2 and this part of magnetic susceptibility also follows the Curie law [
27,
28], which is reflected in the TIP terms that TIP = 1.86 × 10
−4 cm
3/mol for
2 is much higher than this value of 1.33 × 10
−5 cm
3/mol for
3.