Using tripodal alcohols to build high-spin molecules and single-molecule magnets.
The combination of tripodal alcohols with paramagnetic 3d transition metal ions leads to the isolation of a host of new clusters, high spin molecules and single-molecule magnets ranging in nuclearity from two to thirty-two.
Brechin
Euan K
EK
School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, UKEH9 3JJ. ebrechin@staffmail.ed.ac.uk.