New strategies for incorporating anisotropy into high spin molecular species

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Matthew P. Shores, shores@lamar.colostate.edu and Wesley A. Hoffert. Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, 1872 Campus Delivery, 200 W. Lake St., Fort Collins, CO 80523
We address the problem of increasing magnetic anisotropy (D) in high-spin exchange-coupled clusters to afford species that display magnetic bistability at higher temperatures. Two related projects represent initial efforts to reduce cluster symmetry and manage spin in exchange-coupled clusters. The first project targets high-nuclearity complexes of paramagnetic transition metal ions bridged by 1,3,5-triethynylbenzene ligands. The rigid ligands impose ferromagnetic coupling between metal ions as well as a disk-like topology. In a related project, we aim to enforce linear geometries in exchange-coupled species by the covalent linking of Schiff base metal complexes prior to cluster formation.