Design of Coordination Compounds with Novel Magnetic Properties

Dear Colleagues,

The coordination compounds play crucial roles in the field of coordination chemistry since its discovery by Alfred Werner (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913). The interaction of metal ions and organic ligands led to the creation of interesting molecules of fascinating structures and topologies. This class of compounds excited the research community in developing and finding many applications for these compounds in medicinal chemistry, molecular biology and biological models, material sciences, physics, luminescence, nanotechnology, metal-organic framework (MOFs), multifunctional biomolecular ligand and transition metal ions (BioMOFs) and molecular magnetism. All these potential applications make the coordination chemistry and specifically designing novel coordination compounds with new ligands is one of the most productive area in chemistry. One of the very interesting area that coordination compounds can enhance our understanding with is the field of molecular magnetism, which is rapidly evolved. In addition, to the traditional aspects of this field in studying the magnetic properties to get some insights about the electronic interaction in multinuclear systems and Spin-Cross Over phenomenon (SCO), other sophisticated properties such as molecular nanomagnets and Single-Molecule Magnets (SMMs) have been emerged in the last two decades. The SMMs maintain magnetization in the zero external field and some of these molecules retain the magnetization above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. These molecules play the key role in increasing the memory storage and in the design of quantum computers. The 4f-electrons of lanthanide ions and the ligand field have contributed drastically in improving the performance of lanthanides-based SMMs. The scope of this theme is focused on the synthesis and design of coordination compounds of novel magnetic properties.

Prof. Dr. Salah Massoud
Prof. Dr. Febee Louka
Guest Editors

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