"Squaring the clusters": a Mn(III)4Ni(II)4 molecular square from nickel(II)-induced structural transformation of a Mn(II/III/IV)12 cage

Dimitris I Alexandropoulos; Manolis J Manos; Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou; Shreya Mukherjee; Anastasios J Tasiopoulos; Spyros P Perlepes; George Christou; Theocharis C Stamatatos

doi:10.1039/c2dt00030j

"Squaring the clusters": a Mn(III)4Ni(II)4 molecular square from nickel(II)-induced structural transformation of a Mn(II/III/IV)12 cage

Dalton Trans. 2012 Apr 28;41(16):4744-7. doi: 10.1039/c2dt00030j. Epub 2012 Mar 16.

Authors

Dimitris I Alexandropoulos¹, Manolis J Manos, Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou, Shreya Mukherjee, Anastasios J Tasiopoulos, Spyros P Perlepes, George Christou, Theocharis C Stamatatos

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece.

PMID: 22422435
DOI: 10.1039/c2dt00030j

Abstract

A Mn(III)(4)Ni(II)(4) molecular square exhibiting slow magnetization relaxation has been prepared from the reaction of a Mn(II)(4)Mn(III)(6)Mn(IV)(2) cluster and a simple Ni(II) source.