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Single-molecule magnets

Iron lines up

For more than a decade, single-molecule magnets have relied on multinuclear transition metal clusters and lanthanide compounds. Now, a mononuclear, two-coordinate iron(I) complex has shown that single transition metals can compete with the lanthanides when certain design principles from magnetochemistry are borne in mind.

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Figure 1: A single-molecule magnet has been devised based on an iron(I) centre with linear symmetry.

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Bill, E. Iron lines up. Nature Chem 5, 556–557 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1687

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