A Tetranuclear 3d−4f Single Molecule Magnet:  [Cu<sup>II</sup>LTb<sup>III</sup>(hfac)<sub>2</sub>]<sub>2</sub>

S. Osa, Takafumi Kido, Naohide Matsumoto, Nazzareno Re, A. Pochaba, Jerzy Mroziński

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2003 · 806 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

We report now the first single molecule magnet (SMM) consisting of d-f elements. The present study demonstrates that the synthesis of the d-f polynuclear molecule is a very promising approach to SMMs. (1) The d-f polynuclear molecule can be easily synthesized by the assembly reaction of the d-component and the f-component, (2) the high-spin ground state can be generated by a smaller number of metal ions than the d complex, and (3) the molecular magnetic anisotropy is easily derived from the f-component.

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