SOME JOURNAL COVERS FROM OUR WORK

An Old Crystallization Technique as a Fast, Facile and Adaptable Method for Obtaining Single Crystals of Unstable "Li₂TCNQF₄" and New Compounds of TCNQ or TCNQF₄: Syntheses, Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties.

Slavomíra Šterbinská, Mariia Holub, Erik Čižmár, Juraj Černák, L. R. Falvello, and Milagros Tomás.

Cryst. Growth Des. 2023, 23, 6, 4357–4369.

As with the mayfly and other ephemeral species, crystals of some coordination compounds form and disappear under the same conditions, as the clock advances. A crystallization technique based on horizontal diffusion through a liquid medium facilitates the capture and characterization of the ephemeral crystalline solids.  

See the article (Open Access)   

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00160   

Slow magnetic relaxation in Ni–Ln (Ln = Ce, Gd, Dy) dinuclear complexes

A. Vráblová, M. Tomás, L. R. Falvello, Ľ. Dlháň, J. Titiš, J. Černák and R. Boča

Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 13943-13952.

doi: 10.1039/c9dt02122a 

A gadolinium (III) complex with an unsymmetrical coordination environment has unexpected single-molecule-magnet behavior. Related Ce (III) and Dy (III) compounds were also prepared and their magnetism was characterised.  See the article (Open Access).

A Route to Small Clusters: A Twisted Half-Hexagram-Shaped M₄(OH)₄ Cluster and Its Capacity for Hosting Closed-Shell Metals

I. Ara, M. A. García-Monforte, R.González, L. R. Falvello, and M. Tomás

Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 13121-13124.

Featured on the inside back cover of Chem. Commun. 53(98), 21 December, 2017.

Transition-metal hydroxy clusters with a heretofore unobserved core geometry have been synthesized by combining platinum centers with two different oxidation states and their corresponding different coordination indices and geometries. See the article.

A symmetric, triply interlaced 3-D anionic MOF
that exhibits both magnetic order and SMM
behaviour

J. Campo, L. R. Falvello, E. Forcén-Vázquez, C. Sáenz de Pipaón, F. Palacio and M. Tomás

Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 16764-16768

This article is featured on the inside back cover of this special issue of Dalton Trans.  See the article.   

FITTING THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE: THE DELTA BOND

Larry R. Falvello, Bruce M. Foxman, and Carlos A. Murillo

Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 9441-9456.

Organocobalt(III) Compounds with Square-Planar Geometry

Mª Angeles García-Monforte, Irene Ara Antonio Martín, Babil Menjón, Milagros Tomás, Pablo J. Alonso, Ana B. Arauzo, Jesús I. Martínez, Conrado Rillo

Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 12384-12395.

Proton Cascade in a Molecular Solid: H/D Exchange on Mobile and Inmobile Water

Silvia C. Capelli, Larry R. Falvello, Elena Forcén-Vázquez, Garry J. McIntyre, Fernando Palacio, Sergio Sanz, Milagros Tomás

Angewandte Chemie Inter. Ed., 2013, 52, 13463-13467.

A TETRAGONAL 2D ARRAY OF SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETS WITH MODULATED COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR

E. Burzurí, J. Campo, L. R. Falvello, E. Forcén-Vázquez, F. Luis, I. Mayoral, F. Palacio, C. Sáenz de Pipaón and M. Tomás.

Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 2818-2822.

USING THE CRYSTAL TO ENGINEER THE MOLECULE: CIS-TRANS-ISOMER SELECTION IN ANIONIC BIS(OROTATE) COMPLEXES.

L. R. Falvello, D. Ferrer, M. Piedrafita, T. Soler and M. Tomás.

CrystEngComm, 2007, 9, 852-855