In the early 1990s, great excitement followed the discovery that a molecular transition metal
coordination compound could, at liquid-helium temperatures, retain magnetization for long …

The last few years have seen a huge renaissance in the study of the magnetism of
lanthanide coordination complexes, especially in the field of single molecule magnets …

The first reference on this rapidly growing topic provides an essential up-to-date guide to
current and emerging trends. A group of international experts has been carefully selected by …

We review here the synthetic strategies employed in a concerted effort to obtain new single
molecule magnets based on lanthanide ions in the framework of the research program on …

A family of five dinuclear lanthanide complexes has been synthesized with general formula
[LnIII2 (valdien) 2 (NO3) 2] where (H2valdien= N 1, N 3-bis (3-methoxysalicylidene) …

A well-defined two-step relaxation, described by the sum of two modified Debye functions, is
observed in a new alkoxido-bridged linear tetranuclear DyIII aggregate showing single …

Single-molecule magnets: A square-pyramidal pentametallic dysprosium cluster was
synthesized and showed slow magnetic relaxation at temperatures as high as 40 K. The …

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 …

The discovery of single-molecule magnet (SMM) behavior, where relaxation and quantum
tunneling of the magnetization is molecule-based due to the presence of a blocking …

Two systems of carbonate complexes were constructed by employing a newly prepared
Schiff based ligand (H2L; H2L= 2-(hydroxyimino)-2-[(3-methoxyl-2-hydroxyphenyl) …