Pressure induced enhancement of the magnetic ordering temperature in rhenium(IV) monomers

Woodall, Christopher H. and Craig, Gavin A. and Prescimone, Alessandro and Misek, Martin and Cano, Joan and Faus, Juan and Probert, Michael R. and Parsons, Simon and Moggach, Stephen and Martínez-Lillo, José and Murrie, Mark and Kamenev, Konstantin V. and Brechin, Euan K. (2016) Pressure induced enhancement of the magnetic ordering temperature in rhenium(IV) monomers. Nature Communications, 7. ISSN 2041-1723 (https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13870)

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Abstract

Materials that demonstrate long-range magnetic order are synonymous with information storage and the electronics industry, with the phenomenon commonly associated with metals, metal alloys or metal oxides and sulfides. A lesser known family of magnetically ordered complexes are the monometallic compounds of highly anisotropic d-block transition metals; the ‘transformation’ from isolated zero-dimensional molecule to ordered, spin-canted, three-dimensional lattice being the result of through-space interactions arising from the combination of large magnetic anisotropy and spin-delocalization from metal to ligand which induces important intermolecular contacts. Here we report the effect of pressure on two such mononuclear rhenium(IV) compounds that exhibit long-range magnetic order under ambient conditions via a spin canting mechanism, with Tc controlled by the strength of the intermolecular interactions. As these are determined by intermolecular distance, ‘squeezing’ the molecules closer together generates remarkable enhancements in ordering temperatures, with a linear dependence of Tc with pressure.

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