Osa Shutaro, Kido Takafumi, Matsumoto Naohide, Re Nazzareno, Pochaba Andrzej, Mrozinski Jerzy
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Kurokami 2-39-1, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan.
J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Jan 21;126(2):420-1. doi: 10.1021/ja037365e.
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.
