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A Trigonal Prismatic Cobalt(II) Complex as a Single Molecule Magnet with a Reduced Contribution from Quantum
Alexander A Pavlov1, Dmitry Y Aleshin1,2, Svetlana A Savkina1
1A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova str. 28, 119991, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
Herein, we report a new trigonal prismatic cobalt(II) complex that behaves as a single molecule magnet. The obtained zero-field splitting, which is also directly accessed by THz-EPR spectroscopy (-102.5 cm-1 ), results in a large magnetization reversal barrier U of 205 cm-1 . Its effective value, however, is much lower (101 cm-1 ), even though there is practically no contribution from quantum tunneling to magnetization relaxation.
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