A review of manganese-based molecular magnets and supramolecular architectures from phenolic oximes

Phenolic oximes, which are frequently used as bridging ligands in the construction of molecule-based magnets, have stimulated considerable interest in magnetochemistry. This tutorial review is concentrated on manganese-based phenolic oximes systems and related magnetochemistry and consists of five main sections. The first section offers an introduction to Mn-based phenolic oxime complexes and some important results obtained from magneto-structural correlations in phenolic oximes compounds which will be discussed in the following sections. The next three sections provide overviews of phenolic oximes-mediated Mn compounds from zero-dimension to one-, two- and three-dimensional supramolecular architectures and their unusual magnetic properties including SMM and SCM behavior. The last section contains concluding remarks and provides perspectives for the future of phenolic oximes-mediated compounds. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.