Chemical control of magnetism: oxidation-induced ferromagnetic spin coupling in the chromium dimer evidenced by photoelectron spectroscopy.
The photoelectron spectrum of the dichromium oxide cluster anion, Cr2O-, and the analysis by the density-functional theory revealed that the spins of the two Cr atoms in Cr2O- are ferromagnetically coupled, and that its total spin magnetic moment is as large as 9 mu(B). This ferromagnetic spin coupling is induced by oxidation; the mixing of Cr 3d with O 2p orbitals plays an important role in a spin coupling between the localized electrons at the two Cr sites bridged by the O atom. The present finding is in marked contrast to the pure chromium dimer, which is known to be antiferromagnetic due to the strong sextuple Cr-Cr bond.
Tono
Kensuke
K
Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Terasaki
Akira
A
Ohta
Toshiaki
T
Kondow
Tamotsu
T