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Chem Commun (Camb). 2003 Nov 07;(21):2672-3. doi: 10.1039/b306246e.

Single-molecule magnets: control by a single solvent molecule of Jahn-Teller isomerism in [Mn12O12(O2CCH2Bu(t))16(H2O)4].

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Mònica Soler, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Ziming Sun, John C Huffman, David N Hendrickson, George Christou

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, USA.

PMID: 14649804 DOI: 10.1039/b306246e

Abstract

Faster- and slower-relaxing versions of the title Mn12 compound have been obtained in pure forms that crystallize in the same space group and differ only in the identity of one lattice solvent molecule; solvent loss causes isomerization from the faster- to the slower-relaxing form.

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