Oshio Hiroki, Nihei Masayuki, Koizumi Satoshi, Shiga Takuya, Nojiri Hiroyuki, Nakano Motohiro, Shirakawa Naoki, Akatsu Mitsuhiro
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan.
J Am Chem Soc. 2005 Apr 6;127(13):4568-9. doi: 10.1021/ja042217p.
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.