New routes to high nuclearity cages: a fluoride-based hexaicosametallic manganese cage

Leigh F Jones; Euan K Brechin; David Collison; Andrew Harrison; Simon J Teat; Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

doi:10.1039/b209445b

New routes to high nuclearity cages: a fluoride-based hexaicosametallic manganese cage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Dec 21:(24):2974-5. doi: 10.1039/b209445b.

Authors

Leigh F Jones¹, Euan K Brechin, David Collison, Andrew Harrison, Simon J Teat, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK M13 9PL.

PMID: 12536773
DOI: 10.1039/b209445b

Abstract

The reaction of MnF3 with benzotriazole (BTAH) in hot MeOH gives the Mn(III) complex [Mn26O16(OH)10(OMe)6(F)10(BTA)20(BTAH)2(MeOH)13(H2O)] which displays hysteresis and temperature-independent magnetisation relaxation at low temperature.