Cover Feature: Recent Developments in CoIII 2 LnIII 2 Single-Molecule Magnets (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 20-21/2018)

Closely - Related ZnII 2 LnIII 2 complexes ( LnIII = Gd , Yb ) with either Magnetic Refrigerant or Luminescent Single - Molecule

Recent developments in single-molecule DNA mechanics.

Over the past two decades, measurements on individual stretched and twisted DNA molecules have helped define the basic elastic properties of the double helix and enabled real-time functional assays of DNA-associated molecular machines. Recently, new magnetic tweezers approaches for simultaneously measuring freely fluctuating twist and extension have begun to shed light on the structural dynamic...

Single-Molecule Magnets

Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) continue to be an attractive research field because of their unique and intriguing properties and potential applications in high-density data storage technologies and molecular spintronics. The anisotropic barrier (U) of an SMM is derived from a combination of an appreciable spin ground state (S) and uniaxial Ising-like magneto-anisotropy (D). The magnet-like beha...

Actinide-based single-molecule magnets.

Actinide single-molecule magnetism has experienced steady growth over the last five years since the first discovery of slow magnetic relaxation in the mononuclear complex U(Ph(2)BPz(2))(3). Given their large spin-orbit coupling and the radial extension of the 5f orbitals, the actinides are well-suited for the design of both mononuclear and exchange-coupled molecules, and indeed at least one new...

Heterometallic cubane single-molecule magnets.

Two new heterometallic cubane molecules have been synthesized. High-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance and magnetization measurements indicate that [Mn(3)Ni(hmp)(3)O(N(3))(3)(C(7)H(5)O(2))(3)] (1) displays a well-isolated S = 5 ground state (DeltaE > 120 K), with g = 2.0, D = -0.23 cm(-1), and ferromagnetic Mn-Mn exchange interactions competing with antiferromagnetic Ni-Mn interactions. ...