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