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Synthetic and magnetic studies of a dodecanuclear cobalt wheel
Euan K Brechin1, Olivier Cador, Andrea Caneschi
1Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK M13 9PL.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 26, 2002
Abstract:
The synthesis, structural characterisation and preliminary magnetic studies of a Co12 wheel are reported; the magnetic investigations reveal that the electronic ground state has a spin S = 6, which corresponds to ferromagnetic interactions between the twelve Co(II) ions.