A perspective on slow-relaxing molecular magnets built from rare-earths and nitronyl-nitroxide building blocks (invited)

We offer a perspective, accessible to both chemists and physicists, of recent developments in the synthesis and characterization of molecular magnetic materials based on rare-earths and nitronyl-nitroxide radicals. We show both the rationale of the synthetic strategies and the observed behaviors. We highlight the relevance of these findings for synthetic chemists, material scientists, and physicists. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3561103]