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Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.109, No.19, 9195-9197, 2005
Magnetic phase transition in a heteromolecular hydrogen-bonded complex of nitronylnitroxide radicals
An organic molecular acid-base complex has been synthesized from pyridine-substituted biradical 2 in a triplet (S = 1) ground state and a benzoic acid derivative of monoradical 3 with S = 1/2. The two constituent molecules are bound by an OH-N hydrogen bond in a crystalline solid state. The complex has been found to exhibit an antiferromagnetic phase transition at 5 K. The complex is the first example of a hydrogen-bonded heterospin, heteromolecular complex exhibiting a magnetic phase transition in purely organic moleculebased materials.