Templating odd numbered magnetic rings: oxovanadium heptagons sandwiched by beta-cyclodextrins.
The oxovanadium heptagons sandwiched by beta-cyclodextrins showed stepped magnetization curves, which were characteristic of level crossings of spin sublevels. Doubly degenerate ground Kramers' doublets split into two spin states, and the splitting energy gaps depend upon ring distortions.
Hoshino
Norihisa
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Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan.
Nakano
Motohiro
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Nojiri
Hiroyuki
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Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang
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Oshio
Hiroki
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