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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6940 - 6942, DOI: 10.1039/b916637h


Assembling chirality into magnetic nanowires: cyano-bridged iron(III)–nickel(II) chains exhibiting slow magnetization relaxation and ferroelectricity

Cai-Feng Wang, Dong-Ping Li, Xin Chen, Xiao-Ming Li, Yi-Zhi Li, Jing-Lin Zuo and Xiao-Zeng You


The assembly of chirality into magnetic nanowires enables the formation of two new cyano-bridged heterobimetallic 3,2-chain enantiomeric complexes, representing the first example of multiferroic compounds bearing both slow magnetization relaxation and ferroelectricity.

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