Nature Communications (Jul 2016)
Iridates from the molecular side
- Kasper S. Pedersen,
- Jesper Bendix,
- Alain Tressaud,
- Etienne Durand,
- Høgni Weihe,
- Zaher Salman,
- Thorbjørn J Morsing,
- Daniel N. Woodruff,
- Yanhua Lan,
- Wolfgang Wernsdorfer,
- Corine Mathonière,
- Stergios Piligkos,
- Sophia I. Klokishner,
- Serghei Ostrovsky,
- Katharina Ollefs,
- Fabrice Wilhelm,
- Andrei Rogalev,
- Rodolphe Clérac
Affiliations
- Kasper S. Pedersen
- CNRS, CRPP, UPR 8641
- Jesper Bendix
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
- Alain Tressaud
- CNRS, ICMCB, UPR 9048
- Etienne Durand
- CNRS, ICMCB, UPR 9048
- Høgni Weihe
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
- Zaher Salman
- Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut
- Thorbjørn J Morsing
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
- Daniel N. Woodruff
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
- Yanhua Lan
- CNRS, Inst NEEL
- Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
- CNRS, Inst NEEL
- Corine Mathonière
- CNRS, ICMCB, UPR 9048
- Stergios Piligkos
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
- Sophia I. Klokishner
- Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- Serghei Ostrovsky
- Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- Katharina Ollefs
- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, CS 40220
- Fabrice Wilhelm
- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, CS 40220
- Andrei Rogalev
- ESRF - The European Synchrotron, CS 40220
- Rodolphe Clérac
- CNRS, CRPP, UPR 8641
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12195
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Iridates are known to exhibit a range of exotic electronic and magnetic behaviours but it is difficult to prepare isolated [IrO6]8− species via soft chemical routes. Here, the authors isolate the isoelectronic [IrF6]2−complex, and assess it as a model and for iridate analogues.