Orientation of Mn12 molecular nanomagnets in self-assembled monolayers

B. Fleury (1) , V. Huc (1) , Laure Catala (1) , Pascale Jégou (2) , Laurent Baraton (2) , Christophe David (3) , Serge Palacin (2) , Talal Mallah (1)

1 ICMMO - Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay
2 LCSI - Laboratoire de Chimie des Surfaces et Interfaces
3 LPN - Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures

The oriented grafting of the Mn12-carboxylate molecular nanomagnets has been achieved on semi-conducting flat Si(100) functionalized surfaces due to the bonding selectivity between axial and equatorial carboxylate groups present in the coordination sphere of the Mn12 complexes.

Domains: Material chemistry

B. Fleury, V. Huc, Laure Catala, Pascale Jégou, Laurent Baraton, et al.. Orientation of Mn12 molecular nanomagnets in self-assembled monolayers. CrystEngComm, 2009, 11, pp.2192-2197. ⟨10.1039/b908525d⟩. ⟨cea-01022845⟩