MAGNETIC MOLECULAR-METALS BASED ON THE ORGANIC DONOR MOLECULE BET (BET = BIS(ETHYLENETHIO)TETRATHIAFULVALENE) - THE SERIES BET2[MCL4] (M-3-CIRCLE-PLUS = GA, FE)
E. Coronado et al., MAGNETIC MOLECULAR-METALS BASED ON THE ORGANIC DONOR MOLECULE BET (BET = BIS(ETHYLENETHIO)TETRATHIAFULVALENE) - THE SERIES BET2[MCL4] (M-3-CIRCLE-PLUS = GA, FE), Advanced materials, 9(12), 1997, pp. 984
The molecular metals BET2[MCl4] with M = Fe, Ga (see article title for
BET) have been prepared and their structural, transport, and magnetic
properties investigated. It is shown that the conducting layers of th
e organic donor BET are interleaved by the inorganic ions, which are f
airly well isolated from each other in the crystal. However, in the ca
se of the Fe, the ions are found not to be magnetically isolated but c
oupled by exchange interactions. A mechanism is suggested to account f
or the observed Fe-Fe interaction in this magnetic molecular metal.