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Uranium memory

Nature Chemistry volume 3, pages 426–427 (2011)Cite this article

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A diuranium compound featuring an arene bridge shows single-molecule-magnet behaviour, which could arise from a mechanism different from the traditional 'super-exchange' spin coupling.

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Figure 1: An arene-bridged diuranium complex exhibits SMM behaviour.

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  1. Marinella Mazzanti is at the Laboratory of Ionic Recognition and Coordination Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biology (UMR E-3 CEA/UJF-Grenoble 1), INAC, 17 rue des Martyrs 38054 Grenoble cedex 9, France.,

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Mazzanti, M. Uranium memory. Nature Chem 3, 426–427 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1057

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