Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Air-stable redox-active nanomagnets with lanthanide spins radical-bridged by a metal–metal bond

  • Fupin Liu,
  • Georgios Velkos,
  • Denis S. Krylov,
  • Lukas Spree,
  • Michal Zalibera,
  • Rajyavardhan Ray,
  • Nataliya A. Samoylova,
  • Chia-Hsiang Chen,
  • Marco Rosenkranz,
  • Sandra Schiemenz,
  • Frank Ziegs,
  • Konstantin Nenkov,
  • Aram Kostanyan,
  • Thomas Greber,
  • Anja U. B. Wolter,
  • Manuel Richter,
  • Bernd Büchner,
  • Stanislav M. Avdoshenko,
  • Alexey A. Popov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08513-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Dilanthanide complexes that possess radical bridges exhibit enhanced magnetic exchange coupling, affording molecular magnets with high blocking temperatures. Here, the authors explore a series of dilanthanide-encapsulated fullerenes where the radical bridge is taken to its limit and the role is played by a single unpaired electron.