Molecular nanomagnetism in actinide-based coordination complexes

We present very recent results obtained for a hetero-metallic U(V)-Mn(II) one-dimensional chain assembled through cation-cation interactions , and for a triangular molecule containing three U(V)O2+ (5f1) ions . The former is the first example of an actinidecontaining single-chain magnet (SCM), with a relaxation barrier of 134 K, a blocking temperature of 6 K, and an impressive coercive field Bc = 3.4 tesla at 2 K. The latter is characterized by a non-magnetic ground doublet corresponding to two oppositely twisted chiral arrangements of the U moments, and (in presence of a magnetic field orthogonal to the triangle plane) by quantum tunnelling of the noncollinear magnetization accompanied by oscillations of the anapole (toroidal) moment