title: High proton conduction in a chiral ferromagnetic metal-organic quartz-like framework.
abstract: A complex-as-ligand strategy to get a multifunctional molecular material led to a metal-organic framework with the formula (NH(4))(4)[MnCr(2)(ox)(6)]·4H(2)O. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction revealed that the anionic bimetallic coordination network adopts a chiral three-dimensional quartz-like architecture. It hosts ammonium cations and water molecules in functionalized channels. In addition to ferromagnetic ordering below T(C) = 3.0 K related to the host network, the material exhibits a very high proton conductivity of 1.1 × 10(-3) S cm(-1) at room temperature due to the guest molecules.
authors.affiliation: Institut Parisien de Chimie Moléculaire,  Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 , UMR CNRS 7201, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Emilio
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authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.forename: Cyrille
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authors.lastname: Train
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authors.forename: Hongbo
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authors.lastname: Liu
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authors.forename: Francesc
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authors.lastname: Lloret
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authors.lastname: Nakagawa
authors.forename: Hiroko
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authors.lastname: Tokoro
authors.forename: Shin-ichi
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authors.lastname: Ohkoshi
authors.forename: Michel
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authors.lastname: Verdaguer