Brechin group paper demonstrates synthesis of Fe(III) molecular metal oxide The Brechin group has published a paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., in which they describe a very simple synthetic strategy for producing molecular analogues of bulk iron oxides such as magnetite. Magnetic data, measured at temperatures as low as 0.4 K and fields up to 35 T, in tandem with theoretical calculations, reveal unusual spin frustration effects. Structural similarities to polyoxometalates (POMs) hints that a diverse family of novel Fe(III) molecular metal oxides awaits discovery, with the methodology suggesting an exciting route to the bottom-up assembly of molecular metal oxide ‘nanoparticles‘ with a raft of potential applications. More Information Read the paper online: “An [FeIII34] molecular metal oxide”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 16903 –16906. Publication date 15 Nov, 2019
