Trinuclear Complexes Derived from R/S Schiff Bases - Chiral Single-Molecule Magnets

The employment of enantiomerically pure Schiff bases in manganese chemistry is revealed to be an excellent method to obtain chiral single-molecule magnets and has allowed the characterization of several pairs of enantiomers, for which the magnetic properties were investigated. The reported systems consist of MnIII-MnII-MnIII linear trimers or MnIII3 cations in a triangular arrangement including the first example of a μ3-Cl bridge in an isolated manganese triangle