Confined growth of cyanide-based magnets in two dimensions

Inorg Chem. 2010 Feb 15;49(4):1313-5. doi: 10.1021/ic902552t.

Abstract

Herein we report the first hybrid magnetic material resulting from the intercalation of a cyanide-based molecular magnet into a solid-state layered host. More specifically, the use of a diamagnetic cationic Zn(II)-Al(lII) layered double hydroxide host allows for the formation of an anionic two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ni(II)-Cr(III) Prussian Blue analogue, from the templated assembly of its ionic molecular components in the confined interlamellar space offered by the inorganic host.