Reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation from achiral antiferromagnetic hexanuclears to a chiral ferrimagnetic double zigzag chain

Yan-Juan Zhang; Tao Liu; Shinji Kanegawa; Osamu Sato

doi:10.1021/ja901539y

Reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation from achiral antiferromagnetic hexanuclears to a chiral ferrimagnetic double zigzag chain

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Jun 17;131(23):7942-3. doi: 10.1021/ja901539y.

Authors

Yan-Juan Zhang¹, Tao Liu, Shinji Kanegawa, Osamu Sato

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan.

PMID: 19507898
DOI: 10.1021/ja901539y

Abstract

A reversible single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation from hexanuclear clusters to a one-dimensional double-zigzag chain was established. With the reversible polymerization, the chirality and magnetic interactions are switched between achiral and chiral and between antiferromagnetic in hexanuclear clusters and ferrimagnetic in chains, respectively.