Metal–organic frameworks represent the ultimate chemical platform on which to develop a
new generation of designer magnets. In contrast to the inorganic solids that have dominated …

The unique properties of natural tetrapyrrolic compounds have inspired the rapid growth of
research interest in the design and synthesis of artificial porphyrinoids and their metal …

Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) containing only one metal center may represent the lower
size limit for molecule-based magnetic information storage materials. Their current drawback …

Lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets are leading materials for achieving
magnetization blocking at the level of one molecule. In this paper, we examine the physical …

Over the past fifteen years or so, the study of f-element single-ion magnets (f-SIMs) has gone
from being a sub-discipline of molecular magnetism to an established field of research in its …

Conspectus The discovery of materials capable of storing magnetic information at the level
of single molecules and even single atoms has fueled renewed interest in the slow magnetic …

Innovative synthetic coordination and, increasingly, organometallic chemistry are at the
heart of advances in molecular magnetism. Smart ligand design is essential for …

Quantum coherence is detected in the 4f single-ion magnet (SIM) Yb (trensal), by isotope
selective pulsed EPR spectroscopy on an oriented single crystal. At X-band, the spin–lattice …

Magnetic bistability in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) is a potential basis for new types of
nanoscale information storage material. The standard model for thermally activated …

Determination of the electronic energy spectrum of a trigonal-symmetry mononuclear Yb3+
single-molecule magnet (SMM) by high-resolution absorption and luminescence …