Magnetic lanthanide-containing

This volume of the Handbook illustrates the rich variety of topics covered by rare earth science. Three chapters are devoted to the description of solid state compounds skutteru-dites (Chapter 211), rare earth-antimony systems (Chapter 212), and rare earth-manganese perovskites (Chapter 214). Two other reviews deal with solid state properties one contribution includes information on existing thermodynamic data of lanthanide trihalides (Chapter 213) while the other one describes optical properties of rare earth compounds under pressure (Chapter 217). Finally, two chapters focus on solution chemistry. The state of the art in unraveling solution structure of lanthanide-containing coordination compounds by paramagnetic nuclear magnetic resonance is outlined in Chapter 215. The potential of time-resolved, laser-induced emission spectroscopy for the analysis of lanthanide and actinide solutions is presented and critically discussed in Chapter 216. 

C. Piguet and C.F.G.C. Geraldes, HRE, 2003, 33, 353 (solution structure of lanthanide-containing coordination compounds by paramagnetic nnclear magnetic resonance). 

Li, R, Xu, L., and Wei, Y. (2006) Lanthanide-containing and bridged polyoxometalate chains syntheses, crystal structures and magnetic properties. Inorganica ChimicaActa, 359, 3795-3799. 

Magnetic Coupling in Lanthanide Containing Molecular Materials... 

Another type of lanthanide-containing magnetic materials are 4f-3d/4d heterometallic complexes, which have attracted much attention as part of the tremendous development of molecular magnetism [2, 3]. 

Since the discovery of slow relaxation in lanthanide complexes [11], lanthanides [184, 185] and, more recently, actinides [12, 186] have become very popular in molecular magnetism. Most of the analysis of the magnetic properties of these complexes involved powder d.c. and a.c. susceptibility and magnetization measurements [187, 188]. Other techniques used for the investigation of lanthanide-containing MNMs have included single crystal susceptibihty [189], Mossbauer spectroscopy [190], muon spin relaxation [191], and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy [192]. 

The magnetic relaxation phenomena in lanthanide-containing complexes cover a wide range of magnetic materials, among which the SMMs and single-chain magnets (SCMs) are the two most important families of molecular materials. 

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