TY - JOUR
T1 - Manganese carboxylate clusters
T2 - From structural aesthetics to single-molecule magnets
AU - Aromí, Guillem
AU - Aubin, Sheila M.J.
AU - Bolcar, Milissa A.
AU - Christou, George
AU - Eppley, Hilary J.
AU - Folting, Kirsten
AU - Hendrickson, David N.
AU - Huffman, John C.
AU - Squire, Rachel C.
AU - Tsai, Hui Lien
AU - Wang, Sheyi
AU - Wemple, Michael W.
N1 - Funding Information:
—This research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and NationalInstitutes of Health.
PY - 1998/8/14
Y1 - 1998/8/14
N2 - An overview is provided of some recent developments in manganese carboxylate cluster chemistry. A variety of synthetic methodologies are described together with the structures of the resultant products, which span metal nuclearities of 4 to 18 and oxidation states of II to IV, including mixed-valency. The spins of the ground states of these products are often large and sometimes abnormally large, and in certain cases when this is coupled to a sufficiently large magnetoanisotropy, the clusters function as single-molecule magnets i.e., they can be magnetized by an external magnetic field below a critical temperature. These complexes display hysteresis in magnetization vs. magnetic field studies, and clear evidence for quantum tunnelling of magnetization. Such results establish single-molecule magnetism as a new magnetic phenomenon, and one that holds great promise for next-century technological applications.
AB - An overview is provided of some recent developments in manganese carboxylate cluster chemistry. A variety of synthetic methodologies are described together with the structures of the resultant products, which span metal nuclearities of 4 to 18 and oxidation states of II to IV, including mixed-valency. The spins of the ground states of these products are often large and sometimes abnormally large, and in certain cases when this is coupled to a sufficiently large magnetoanisotropy, the clusters function as single-molecule magnets i.e., they can be magnetized by an external magnetic field below a critical temperature. These complexes display hysteresis in magnetization vs. magnetic field studies, and clear evidence for quantum tunnelling of magnetization. Such results establish single-molecule magnetism as a new magnetic phenomenon, and one that holds great promise for next-century technological applications.
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U2 - 10.1016/s0277-5387(98)00104-1
DO - 10.1016/s0277-5387(98)00104-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000065584
SN - 0277-5387
VL - 17
SP - 3005
EP - 3020
JO - Polyhedron
JF - Polyhedron
IS - 17
ER -