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Aidan Bell1, Guillem Aromí, Simon J Teat
1Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UKM13 9PL.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 2, 2005
Abstract:
Two new octanuclear nickel(II) cage complexes are reported; the second is a new single molecule magnet.
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