A polyoxometalate-based single-molecule magnet with an S = 21/2 ground state

Xikui Fang; Paul Kögerler; Manfred Speldrich; Helmut Schilder; Marshall Luban

doi:10.1039/c1cc15520b

A polyoxometalate-based single-molecule magnet with an S = 21/2 ground state

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Jan 30;48(9):1218-20. doi: 10.1039/c1cc15520b. Epub 2011 Nov 18.

Authors

Xikui Fang¹, Paul Kögerler, Manfred Speldrich, Helmut Schilder, Marshall Luban

Affiliation

¹ Ames Laboratory, US DOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 22094959
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc15520b

Abstract

Ligand modification transforms a polyoxometalate-anchored cubane-type [Mn(III)(3)Mn(IV)O(4)] core into a centrosymmetric [Mn(III)(6)Mn(IV)O(8)] di-cubane cluster, and restores the slow magnetization relaxation characteristics typical for [Mn(4)O(4)] cubane-based single-molecule magnets.