Molecular materials (bottom-up approach) have many advantages compared to top-down manufacturing methods. These include the small size of the molecules and the monodispersity of a crystalline solid. Knowledge of coordination chemistry is a great tool in our arsenal, if we want to build materials for the future. We thus apply coordination chemistry principles to the synthesis of molecule-based materials, with focus on molecular magnets and hybrid materials resulting from them. We have developed a synthetic pathway to make 1D polymers, which we then weaved into, 2D, and 3D networks of molecular clusters. We were also able to synthesize oligomers, from the covalent linkage of single-molecule magnets. All these materials are unprecedented in the inorganic literature, and were all studied with different physical methods, including SQUID magnetometry and High Frequency EPR spectroscopy. A comprehensive account of this project will be presented.

Molecular magnets gone dimensional

251st National Meeting (2016)

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