A heterometal single-molecule magnet of [MnIII2NiII2Cl2(salpa)2]

Hiroki Oshio; Masayuki Nihei; Satoshi Koizumi; Takuya Shiga; Hiroyuki Nojiri; Motohiro Nakano; Naoki Shirakawa; Mitsuhiro Akatsu

doi:10.1021/ja042217p

A heterometal single-molecule magnet of [MnIII2NiII2Cl2(salpa)2]

J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Apr 6;127(13):4568-9. doi: 10.1021/ja042217p.

Authors

Hiroki Oshio¹, Masayuki Nihei, Satoshi Koizumi, Takuya Shiga, Hiroyuki Nojiri, Motohiro Nakano, Naoki Shirakawa, Mitsuhiro Akatsu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan. oshio@chem.tsukuba.ac.jp

PMID: 15796510
DOI: 10.1021/ja042217p

Abstract

The tetranuclear complex [MnIII2NiII2Cl2(salpa)2] (salpa = N-(2-hydroxybenzyl)-3-amino-1-propanol) has a spin ground state of S = 6 and was confirmed to be an SMM based on a steplike feature of the magnetization hysteresis loop at 0.55 K.