Molecular magnetism, quo vadis? A historical perspective from a coordination chemist viewpoint☆

J Ferrando-Soria, J Vallejo, M Castellano… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Molecular magnetism has travelled a long way from the pioneering studies on electron
exchange and double exchange or spin crossover and valence tautomerism in small …

Switchable Fe/Co Prussian blue networks and molecular analogues

D Aguilà, Y Prado, ES Koumousi… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
With the long term objective to build the next generation of devices from the molecular scale,
scientists have explored extensively in the past two decades the Prussian blue derivatives …

Single-molecule magnet engineering: building-block approaches

KS Pedersen, J Bendix, R Clérac - Chemical Communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Tailoring the specific magnetic properties of any material relies on the topological control of
the constituent metal ion building blocks. Although this general approach does not seem to …

Three-way switching in a cyanide-bridged [CoFe] chain

N Hoshino, F Iijima, GN Newton, N Yoshida, T Shiga… - Nature Chemistry, 2012 - nature.com
Bistable compounds that exist in two interchangeable phases under identical conditions can
act as switches under external stimuli. Among such switchable materials, coordination …

Recent progress on cyano-bridged transition-metal-based single-molecule magnets and single-chain magnets

JH Wang, ZY Li, M Yamashita, XH Bu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Novel functional molecular-based magnetic materials, especially some members of the
Prussian blue family, have gained significant attention over the past few decades as they …

Controlled intramolecular electron transfers in cyanide-bridged molecular squares by chemical modifications and external stimuli

M Nihei, Y Sekine, N Suganami… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A series of cyanide bridged Fe− Co molecular squares,[Co2Fe2 (CN) 6 (tp*) 2 (dtbbpy)
4](PF6) 2· 2MeOH (1),[Co2Fe2 (CN) 6 (tp*) 2 (bpy) 4](PF6) 2· 2MeOH (2), and [Co2Fe2 (CN) …

A light-induced spin crossover actuated single-chain magnet

T Liu, H Zheng, S Kang, Y Shiota, S Hayami… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Both spin-crossover complexes and molecular nanomagnets display bistable magnetic
states, potentially behaving as elementary binary units for information storage. It is a …

Reversible Thermally and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Cyano‐Bridged {Fe2Co2} Square Complex

Y Zhang, D Li, R Clérac, M Kalisz… - Angewandte …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The rational design of molecule-based materials that exhibit tunable magnetic and optical
properties that vary as a function of external stimuli is currently a topic of worldwide research …

An S = 6 Cyanide-Bridged Octanuclear FeIII4NiII4 Complex that Exhibits Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization

D Li, S Parkin, G Wang, GT Yee, R Clérac… - Journal of the …, 2006 - ACS Publications
The synthesis and structural and magnetic characterization of an S= 6 cyanide-bridged
octanuclear FeIII4NiII4 (1) complex is described. Ac susceptibility and μ-SQUID …

Thermochromic and photoresponsive cyanometalate Fe/Co squares: toward control of the electron transfer temperature

YZ Zhang, P Ferko, D Siretanu, R Ababei… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Two structurally related and photoresponsive cyanide-bridged Fe/Co square
complexes,{Fe2Co2}, are reported:{[(TpMe) Fe (CN) 3] 2 [Co (bpy) 2] 2 [(TpMe) Fe (CN) 3] …