The magnetic properties and the spin dynamics of two molecular magnets have been investigated by magnetization and dc susceptibility measurements, electron paramagnetic resonance and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) over a wide range of temperatures (1.6-300K) at applied magnetic fields H=0.5 and 1.5 T. The two molecular magnets consist of [{ CuII (saldmen) (H2 O) } 6 { FeIII (CN) 6 }] (ClO4) 3 8 H2 O in short Cu6 Fe (here H saldmen is the Schiff base resulted by reacting salicylaldehyde with N,N-dimethylethylenediamine) and the analog compound with cobalt, Cu6 Co. It is found that in Cu6 Fe, whose magnetic core is constituted by six Cu2+ ions and one Fe3+ ion all with s=1/2, a weak ferromagnetic interaction between Cu2+ moments through the central Fe3+ ion with J=0.14 K is present, while in Cu6 Co the Co3+ ion is diamagnetic and the weak interaction is antiferromagnetic with J=-1.12 K. The NMR spectra show the presence of nonequivalent groups of protons with a measurable contact hyperfine interaction consistent with a small admixture of s wave function with the d function of the magnetic ion. The NMR relaxation results are explained in terms of a single-ion (Cu2+, Fe3+, Co3+) uncorrelated spin dynamics with an almost temperature-independent correlation time due to the weak magnetic exchange interaction. We conclude that the two molecular magnets studied here behave as single-molecule paramagnets with a very weak intramolecular interaction, almost on the order of the dipolar intermolecular interaction. Thus they represent a separate class of molecular magnets which differ from the single-molecule magnets investigated up to now, where the intramolecular interaction is much larger than the intermolecular one.

Magnetic properties and spin dynamics in the single-molecule paramagnets Cu6Fe and Cu6Co / P. Khuntia, M. Mariani, M.C. Mozzati, L. Sorace, F. Orsini, A. Lascialfari, F. Borsa, C. Maxim, M. Andruh. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. - ISSN 1098-0121. - 80:9(2009), pp. 094413.094413.1-094413.094413.8. [10.1103/PhysRevB.80.094413]

Magnetic properties and spin dynamics in the single-molecule paramagnets Cu6Fe and Cu6Co

F. Orsini;A. Lascialfari;
2009

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The magnetic properties and the spin dynamics of two molecular magnets have been investigated by magnetization and dc susceptibility measurements, electron paramagnetic resonance and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) over a wide range of temperatures (1.6-300K) at applied magnetic fields H=0.5 and 1.5 T. The two molecular magnets consist of [{ CuII (saldmen) (H2 O) } 6 { FeIII (CN) 6 }] (ClO4) 3 8 H2 O in short Cu6 Fe (here H saldmen is the Schiff base resulted by reacting salicylaldehyde with N,N-dimethylethylenediamine) and the analog compound with cobalt, Cu6 Co. It is found that in Cu6 Fe, whose magnetic core is constituted by six Cu2+ ions and one Fe3+ ion all with s=1/2, a weak ferromagnetic interaction between Cu2+ moments through the central Fe3+ ion with J=0.14 K is present, while in Cu6 Co the Co3+ ion is diamagnetic and the weak interaction is antiferromagnetic with J=-1.12 K. The NMR spectra show the presence of nonequivalent groups of protons with a measurable contact hyperfine interaction consistent with a small admixture of s wave function with the d function of the magnetic ion. The NMR relaxation results are explained in terms of a single-ion (Cu2+, Fe3+, Co3+) uncorrelated spin dynamics with an almost temperature-independent correlation time due to the weak magnetic exchange interaction. We conclude that the two molecular magnets studied here behave as single-molecule paramagnets with a very weak intramolecular interaction, almost on the order of the dipolar intermolecular interaction. Thus they represent a separate class of molecular magnets which differ from the single-molecule magnets investigated up to now, where the intramolecular interaction is much larger than the intermolecular one.
Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale
Settore FIS/03 - Fisica della Materia
2009
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