Molecular Magnetic Materials -M3 Lab

Last month before New Years, we were super busy bees!
Attended IC24 at Western Sydney University.
Attended PMUB postdoctoral meeting.
Recorded VDO to promote the department & lab.
Christmas dinner at home last night.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

This publication is from Chantalaksana Chantarangkul's MSc thesis and our first paper concerning Mn(III) single-molecule magnets. These are to date the best performing Mn(III) SMMs yet reported, with initial results from Apinya Meen.

The work has support from our good friends at the University of Bordeaux and the University of Barcelona. ACS Inorganic Chemistry is a leading journal in our field and also a Nature Index journal, so we are really happy that this paper found it's home here.
I should also say that the paper is Open Access thanks to กระทรวงการอุดมศึกษา วิทยาศาสตร์ วิจัยและนวัตกรรม with the work funded by PMU-B บพค.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01317?fbclid=IwY2xjawFeUN5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa7m2-BdXuAeJ8F-sBeqpZ181AZ0YInGUuUcdwyQ-WTdok9NIlF6Vjr3kA_aem_PlgApIakUfYsUat6Xnza-A

Here's a new paper from the group, this time exploring how the anion impacts magnetic behaviour in these compounds. It turns out that bromide has just the right complementarity with the lattice to give spin crossover at room temperature.
Thanks to กระทรวงการอุดมศึกษา วิทยาศาสตร์ วิจัยและนวัตกรรม for Open Access funding and PMU-B บพค. through the QT consortium.
Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01068

This paper was interrupted by Covid and relocations to new universities by us and our collaborator, now at AUT in NZ.
The work began life as a senior project by Piw Peeranuch, with polish and repeat studies done by Theerapoom Boonprab.
The paper demonstrates that not only can we make iron(III) spin crossover complexes with long alkyl chains but these self-assemble into thin films. Being a bit of a structural geek I was really pleased to see how the complexes pack into interdigitated layers.
While we were unable to definitively say whether spin crossover occurs in the films, this seems likely and we are actively pursuing other substrates and hope to report these soon.
Link to the paper: https://pubs.rsc.org/.../articlelanding/2024/ra/d4ra06111j

Tauseef Qadir
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Welcome to M3-cubed group. Sorn

Chantalaksana Chantarangkul
Welcome to M3-cubed group.

Congratulations! Chantalaksana Chantarangkul for the 2nd winner poster presentation at the 1st International symposium on Sustainable Pathways: Green Synthesis for Functional Materials and Eco-Friendly Applications (SMA2024).

Welcome Dr. Dulyawat Doonyapisut to M3 Lab.
Thank you PMU-B and CMU for your support under the National Postdoctoral/Postgraduate System: The Consortium for Nurturing Talent Pioneers in Materials Science and Technology to Drive Thailand to BCG Economy (2nd year).