Slow magnetic relaxation in a {CoIICo} complex containing a high magnetic anisotropy trigonal bipyramidal CoII centre

Alexandra Collet; Gavin A Craig; María José Heras Ojea; Lakshmi Bhaskaran; Claire Wilson; Stephen Hill; Mark Murrie

doi:10.1039/c8dt01997e

Slow magnetic relaxation in a {Co^IICo} complex containing a high magnetic anisotropy trigonal bipyramidal Co^II centre

Dalton Trans. 2018 Jul 17;47(28):9237-9240. doi: 10.1039/c8dt01997e.

Authors

Alexandra Collet¹, Gavin A Craig, María José Heras Ojea, Lakshmi Bhaskaran, Claire Wilson, Stephen Hill, Mark Murrie

Affiliation

¹ WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK. [email protected].

PMID: 29953164
DOI: 10.1039/c8dt01997e

Abstract

We report a trinuclear mixed-valence {CoIICoIII2} complex, where the CoII centre adopts a trigonal bipyramidal geometry, leading to a large, easy-plane magnetic anisotropy and field-induced slow magnetic relaxation with a Raman-like relaxation process.