Abstract
A rationale molecular approach using basic orbital models lead us to the synthesis of a room temperature molecule-based magnet of the Prussian blue family. With the help of the same model, the template effect of chromicyanide in the presence of a metal ion chelated by a bulky pentadentate ligand leads to heptanuclear complexes with predictable spin ground state. High-spin molecules with ground states of 15/2 and 27/2 that behave as superparamagnets are thus synthesized. Their magnetic static and dynamic behaviour is explored. Prospects for molecule-based 3D systems with even higher critical temperatures and molecules with higher spins and larger anisotropy are given.
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Mallah, T., Ferlay, S., Scuiller, A., Verdaguer, M. (1996). A Rationale Molecular Approach to High-Spin Molecules and Molecular Magnets. In: Kahn, O. (eds) Magnetism: A Supramolecular Function. NATO ASI Series, vol 484. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8707-5_29
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