A. Rajca et S. Utamapanya, SPIN BALLS AND SPIN BARBELLS - PREPARATION AND MAGNETIC STUDIES OF S = 7 2 DENDRITIC HEPTARADICAL AND PROGRESS TOWARD VERY HIGH-SPIN DENDRIMERS/, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 232, 1993, pp. 305-312
1,3-Connected polyarylmethyl dendritic heptaradical was prepared by th
e treatment of the heptaether precursor with lithium in THF followed b
y oxidation of the resultant carboheptaanion using iodine in THF at lo
w temperature. The magnetization studies of heptaradical in frozen THF
, which were carried by SQUID at T = 2 - 10 K, indicate the S = 7/2 gr
ound state.