A New Family of Low-Field Meta-Magnets Zigzag Polymers of Simple Endo-Bidentate Ligands - (M(1,10-Phenanthroline or 2,2’-Bipyridine)(1)Cl-2)(Infinity) Chains, M=fe-II,Co-II,Ni-II,Mn-II

Reiff WM; Zhang JH

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.273, 119-127, 1995

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A New Family of Low-Field Meta-Magnets Zigzag Polymers of Simple Endo-Bidentate Ligands - (M(1,10-Phenanthroline or 2,2’-Bipyridine)(1)Cl-2)(Infinity) Chains, M=fe-II,Co-II,Ni-II,Mn-II

Reiff WM, Zhang JH

Contrary to previous high field results, low field d.c. and a.c. magnetometry show that a number of the title compounds have 3D antiferromagnetic ground states and exhibit classical meta-magnetic behavior with critical fields ranging from 0.05 to 0.15 Tesla.