Preparation and characterization of [Gd(hfac)3(DTBN)(H2O)] (DTBN = di-t-butyl nitroxide). Ferromagnetic Gd(3+)-Gd3+ super-superexchange.
The intramolecular radical-Gd antiferromagnetic coupling (2J1/k(B) = -11.6 K) is notably strong, as expected from our molecular design, and the intermolecular exchange coupling along the Gd-O-H···O-Gd bridges is unexpectedly ferromagnetic with the largest Gd···Gd coupling ever known (2J2/k(B) = +0.12 K).
Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan. ishi@pc.uec.ac.jp.
Takuya
T
Kanetomo
Takayuki
T
Ishida