Goodwin Conrad A P
Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, 87545 USA.
Dalton Trans. 2020 Oct 27;49(41):14320-14337. doi: 10.1039/d0dt01904f.
Progress in the synthesis, design, and characterisation of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) has expanded dramatically from curiosity driven beginnings to molecules that retain magnetization above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. This is in no small part due to the increasingly collaborative nature of this research where synthetic targets are guided by theoretical design criteria. This article aims to summarize these efforts and progress from the perspective of a synthetic chemist with a focus on how chemistry can modulate physical properties. A simple overview is presented of lanthanide electronic structure in order to contextualize the synthetic advances that have led to drastic improvements in the performance of lanthanide-based SMMs from the early 2000s to the late 2010s.
单分子磁体（SMMs）的合成、设计和表征方面的进展已从最初受好奇心驱动，大幅扩展到能在液氮沸点以上保持磁化强度的分子。这在很大程度上归因于该研究日益增强的合作性质，即合成目标由理论设计标准引导。本文旨在从合成化学家的角度总结这些努力和进展，重点关注化学如何调节物理性质。为了将21世纪初到2010年代后期基于镧系元素的单分子磁体性能取得大幅提升的合成进展置于背景中，本文对镧系元素的电子结构进行了简要概述。
