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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12195
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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.