Issue 14, 2008

Ground state spin-switching via targeted structural distortion: twisted single-molecule magnets from derivatised salicylaldoximes

Abstract

The use of derivatised salicylaldoximes in Mn chemistry has led to the isolation of a plethora of beautiful new SMMs ranging in nuclearity from three to eight and with spin ground states as large as S = 12–including a Mn6 complex with the largest energy barrier to magnetisation reversal yet reported. The deliberate chemically-induced structural distortion of the [Mn6] molecule allows the isolation of analogous family members displaying remarkably different magnetic properties and this in turn allows for a rare semi-quantitative magneto-structural correlation which enables prediction of the magnetic properties of new family members.

Graphical abstract: Ground state spin-switching via targeted structural distortion: twisted single-molecule magnets from derivatised salicylaldoximes

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
24 Oct 2007
Accepted
26 Nov 2007
First published
13 Dec 2007

Dalton Trans., 2008, 1809-1817

Ground state spin-switching via targeted structural distortion: twisted single-molecule magnets from derivatised salicylaldoximes

C. J. Milios, S. Piligkos and E. K. Brechin, Dalton Trans., 2008, 1809 DOI: 10.1039/B716355J

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