Molecule-based magnets

Abstract

The employment of molecules, not atoms, as a basic building block to construct solids has lead to the development of new classes of materials exhibiting commercially useful properties.l,2 These include electrical conductivity, ferroelectricity as well as magnetic ordering. Molecules, in contrast to atoms, enables the modulation of the commercially useful properties by low-temperature organic-synthesis methodologies, that can lead to the improvement of the properties, and lead to the development of materials with a combination of properties that will expand their desirability. Herein, we focus solely upon work related to molecule-based magnets. Molecule-based magnets are defined as substances prepared from molecules (or molecular ions) that maintain aspects of the parent molecular framework, and magnetically order.