Towards molecular spintronics

• Georgeta Salvan and
• Dietrich R. T. Zahn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2464–2466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.245

• considered molecules spans from heterotrinuclear bis(oxamato)-type and bis(oxamidato)-type complexes [1][2][3], to exchange-coupled dinickel complexes [4], metallo-phthalocyanines [5][6][7], metallo-porphyrins [8][9] and charge-transfer complexes [10][11], to metal-free molecules like pentacene-derivatives

The interplay between spin densities and magnetic superexchange interactions: case studies of mono- and trinuclear bis(oxamato)-type complexes

• Azar Aliabadi,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Vladislav Kataev and
• Tobias Rüffer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2245–2256, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.224

• superexchange couplings of trinuclear bis(oxamato)-type complexes we review on efforts on such magneto-structural correlations. Keywords: bis(oxamato); bis(oxamidato); copper(II); electron nuclear double resonance; electron paramagnetic resonance; magnetic superexchange interactions; pulsed electron–electron

• first chiral bis(oxamato)-type metalloligand [9], later on used by Ferrando-Soria et al. for the design of the first chiral single-chain magnets (SCMs) [10]. Additionally, we reported how to introduce the redox-active anthrachinone functionality into bis(oxamato)-type metalloligands [11], later on

• adapted for the design of higher nuclear complexes that could potentially act as molecular magnetic capacitors [12], or we reported to which extent a ferrocene group in multinuclear bis(oxamato)-type complexes is suited to vary magnetic properties with respect to its oxidation state [13]. Among many

Tuning the spin coherence time of Cu(II)−(bis)oxamato and Cu(II)−(bis)oxamidato complexes by advanced ESR pulse protocols

• Ruslan Zaripov,
• Evgeniya Vavilova,
• Iskander Khairuzhdinov,
• Kev Salikhov,
• Violeta Voronkova,
• Mohammad A. Abdulmalic,
• Francois E. Meva,
• Saddam Weheabby,
• Tobias Rüffer,
• Bernd Büchner and
• Vladislav Kataev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 943–955, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.96

• protons in [Cu(opbon-Pr2)]2– as compared to [Cu(opba)]2– yields significantly shorter Tm times. Such a detrimental effect of the opbon-Pr24− ligands has to be considered when discussing a potential application of the Cu(II)−(bis)oxamato and Cu(II)−(bis)oxamidato complexes as building blocks of more

• . Keywords: electron spin echo; ESR; hyperfine interaction; molecular complexes; spin coherence; Introduction Cu(II)−(bis)oxamato and Cu(II)−(bis)oxamidato complexes have attracted in the recent past substantial attention as precursor materials for the synthesis of the corresponding polynuclear complexes

• applications of mono- and polymetallic Cu(II)−(bis)oxamato and Cu(II)−(bis)oxamidato complexes in molecular electronic devices. Pulse methods of electron spin resonance (ESR) have been shown to be very informative in assessing the magnetically active molecular complexes for the purpose of quantum information

Probing the magnetic superexchange couplings between terminal Cu^II ions in heterotrinuclear bis(oxamidato) type complexes

• Mohammad A. Abdulmalic,
• Saddam Weheabby,
• Francois E. Meva,
• Azar Aliabadi,
• Vladislav Kataev,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Frederik Schleife,
• Berthold Kersting and
• Tobias Rüffer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 789–800, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.82

• ; magnetic superexchange coupling; molecular structure; Introduction Significant synthetic efforts have been directed to the synthesis of polynuclear species in which the metal ions are bridged by oxamato, oxamido, oxalato or dithiooxalato ligand [1][2][3][4]. In this context, the so-called bis(oxamato

• -containing bis(oxamato) complex [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opba)] (11) [23] and the related bis(oxamidato) type complex [Ph4P]2[Ni(opboMe2)] (12) [9] the following observation has been made: Three of bond angles of the central NiN2O2/NiN4 coordination units are small (11: 85.79(8)–86.18(5)°; 12: 82.7(3)–84.7(3)°), while

• ) are substantially shorter compared to the Ni–Nalkyl bond lengths (Ni1–N2 and Ni1–N4, = 1.912(8) Å). This fact is in principal in agreement with the observations made for 12 [9] and could be explained in analogy to statements made for mononuclear CuII-containing bis(oxamato) complexes by the greater