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BOOK CHAPTERS

[2] Shalini Tripathi, Atanu Dey, Maheswaran Shanmugam*, Ramakirushnan Suriya Narayanan and Vadapalli Chandrsekhar,“Co(II) complexes as Single-ion Magnets” accepted  in Topic in Organometallic magnets, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/3418_2018_8 Publisher: Springer.

[1] Atanu Dey, Shalini Tripathi, Maheswaran Shanmugam, Ramakirushnan Suriya Narayanan and Vadapalli Chandrsekhar*, “Co(II)/(III)-Lanthanide(III) complexes as Single-molecule Magnets” accepted (2018) in Topic in Organometallic magnets, 2018, DOI: 10.1007/3418_2018_9 Publisher: Springer.

PUBLICATIONS

[69] Lumbini R Yadav, Vasudha Sharma, Maheswaran Shanmugam and Shekhar C Mande*,"Structural insights into the initiation of free radical formation in the Class Ib ribonucleotide reductases in Mycobacteria" CRSB (2024),100157 

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[68] Daulat Phapale#, Vasudha Sharma#, Abhishek Saini, Sunita Sharma, Pardeep Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Muralidharan Shanmugam, Apparao Draksharapu, Arnab Dutta*, Eric J. L. McInnes, David Collison, Gopalan Rajaraman*, Maheswaran Shanmugam*,"Capturing the Elusive [RuV═O]+ Intermediate in Water Oxidation" ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 11893–11904

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[67] Rajashi Haldar, Utsa Sarkar, Ajay Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, and Maheswaran Shanmugam,"Inducing Polar Phase in Poly(vinylidene Fluoride) with a Molecular Ferroelectric Copper(II) Complex for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting" Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2407611

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[66] Ajay Kumar, Rajashi Haldar, ErakulanE.Siddharthan, Ranjit Thapa, Maheswaran Shanmugam,* and Dipankar Mandal*,"Nano confinement Effect in Water Processable Discrete Molecular Complex-Based Hybrid Piezo-and Thermo-Electric Nanogenerator" Nano Lett. XXXX,XXX,XXX−XXX

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[65] Ayan Das, Benedict J. Elvers, Nicolas Chrysochos, Sk Imraj Uddin, Tejaswinee Gangber, Ivo Krummenacher, Dipanti Borah, Anshika Mishra, Maheswaran Shanmugam,* Cem B. Yildiz,* Holger Braunschweig,* Carola Schulzke,* and Anukul Jana**"Dianionic and Neutral Diboron-Centered Classical Diradicaloids" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 13, 9004–9011

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[64] Greesh Kumar, Rajashi Haldar, Maheswaran Shanmugam and Ramendra Sundar Dey*"Mechanistic insight into the Co-based metal-organic framework as an efficient oxygen electrocatalyst via in situ FT-IR study" J. Mater. Chem. A(2023) 

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[63] Rajashi Haldar, Ajay Kumar, Dipankar Mandal, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*"Deciphering Anisotropic Energy Harvesting Responses of an Above Room Temperature Molecular Ferroelectric Copper(II) Complex Single Crystal"Materials Horizons, (2023)

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[62] Ananya Chowdhury, Dipin Thacharakkal, Dipanti Borah, Maheswaran Shanmugam, Chandramouli Subramaniam, "Exploiting the Synergism of Carbon-Catalyst Interface to Achieve Magneto-Electrocatalytic Overall Water Splitting at 2.197 V" ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, (2023) 

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[61]  Vasudha Sharma, Amaleswari Rasamsetty, Chinmoy Das, Dipanti Borah, Maheswaran Shanmugam

"A robust low coordinate Co(II) catalyst for efficient conversion of CO2 into methanol under mild conditions"Chem. Eng. J., (2023) 145714

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[60] Rajashi Haldar, Ajay Kumar, Binit Mallick, Swaroop Ganguly, Dipankar Mandal, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*"Discrete Molecular Copper(II) Complex for Efficient Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Above Room-Temperature"Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, e202216680

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[59] Dipanti Borah, Amaleswari Rasamsetty, Deepanshu Chauhan, Shalini Tripathi, Felix Houard, Olivier Cador, Kevin Bernot, Gopalan Rajaraman*, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*"Probing the Magnetization Relaxation Dynamics of Four-Coordinate Lanthanide(III) Complexes" Cryst. Growth Des. 2023, 23, 1, 629–636

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[58] Naushad Ahmed, Tanu Sharma, Lena Spillecke, Changhyun Koo, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Shalini Tripathi, Andrea Caneschi, Rüdiger Klingeler*, Gopalan Rajaraman*, and Maheswaran Shanmugam "Probing the Origin of Ferro-/Antiferromagnetic Exchange Interactions in Cu(II)–4f Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 14, 5572–5587

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[57] Lena Spillecke*, Shalini Tripathi, Changhyun Koo, Arne Bahr, Abinash Swain, Rajashi Haldar, Mursaleem Ansari, Jerry Jasinski, Gopalan Rajaraman*, Maheswaran Shanmugam*, and Rüdiger Klingeler* "Role of Coordination Geometry on the Magnetic Relaxation Dynamics of Isomeric Five-Coordinate Low-Spin Co(II) Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2022, 61, 1, 317–327

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[56] Pardeep Kumar, Asmita Sen, Gopalan Rajaraman, Maheswaran Shanmugam."An unusual mixed-valence cobalt dimer as a catalyst for the anti-Markovnikov hydrophosphination of alkynes" Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022,9, 2161

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[55] Pardeep Kumar, Ashwani Chikara, Asmita Sen, Maheswaran Shanmugam."Aziridination of olefins mediated by a [CuI(L1)2]+ complex via nitrene transfer reaction" Inorganica Chimica Acta 2022, 535, 120858.

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[54] Mohd Wasim, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Pardeep Kumar, Binnit Mallick, Maheswaran Shanmugm."A unique and discrete Ce(III) macrocyclic complex exhibits ferroelectric, dielectric, and slow relaxation of magnetization properties" Inorg. Chem. Front., 2022,9, 2284-2289. 

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[53] Kamal Uddin Ansari Amaleswari Rasamsetty Pardeep Kumar Pragya Shukla Shalini Tripathi Mohd Wasim Maheswaran Shanmugam "Magneto-thermal and magnetization relaxation dynamics of a family of di-nuclear lanthanide complexes" Polyhedroh 2022, 212, 115613. Link

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[50] Lena Spilleckea, Shalini Tripathi, Changhyun Koo, Mursaleem Ansari, ShefaliVaidya, Amaleswari Rasamsetty, Talal Mallah, Gopalan Rajaraman, Maheswaran Shanmugam, Rüdiger Klingeler, "A high-frequency EPR study of magnetic anisotropy and intermolecular interactions of Co(II) ions" Polyhedron 208 (2021) 115389. Link

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[49] Shalini Tripathi, Shefali Vaidya, Naushad Ahmed, Emil Andreasen Klahn, Huibo Cao, Lena Spillecke, Changhyun Koo, Sven Spachmann, RüdigerKlingeler, Gopalan Rajaraman, Jacob Overgaard, Maheswaran Shanmugam, "Structure-property correlation in stabilizing axial magnetic anisotropy in octahedral Co(II) complexes" Cell Reports Physical Science 2, 2021, 100404. Link

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[48] Pragya Shukla, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Chen Gao, Shefali Vaidya, Shalini Tripathi, Pardeep Kumar, Ray J. Butcher, Jacob Overgaard and Maheswaran Shanmugam* "Influence of anion induced geometry change in Zn(II) on the magnetization relaxation dynamics of Dy(III) in Zn–Dy–Zn complexes" Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 10580-10593.Link

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[46] Chinmoy Das, Amaleswari Rasamsetty, Shalini Tripathi and Maheswaran Shanmugam* "Magnetization relaxation dynamics of a rare coordinatively unsaturated Co(II) complex: experimental and theoretical insights" Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 13397-13400. Link

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[45] Naushad Ahmed, Shalini Tripathi, Arup Sarkar, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Chinmoy Das, Neetu Prajesh, Satoshi Horike, Ramamoorthy Boomishankar and Maheswaran Shanmugam* "Chiral tetranuclear copper(II) complexes: synthesis, optical and magnetic properties" New J. Chem., 2020, 44, 16845-16855. Link

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[44] Priyanka Pandey, Shalini Tripathi, Maheswaran Shanmugam*, R.J. Butcher, Sailaja S. Sunkari* "Discrete and one dimensional extended Mn(III) Schiff base Complexes with Pseudohalides: Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Studies" Inorg. Chim. Acta 495 (2019) 11899. Link

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[43] Shalini Tripathi, Shefali Vaidya, Kamal Uddin Ansari,  Naushad Ahmed, Eric Riviere, ; Lena Spillecke, Changhyun Koo, Rüdiger Klingeler,  Talal Mallah, Gopalan Rajaraman, Maheswaran Shanmugam*. "Influence of Counter-Anion on the Zero Field Splitting of Tetrahedral Co(II) Thiourea Complexes. Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 14, 9085–9100 Link

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[42]Jitendrasingh Rajpurohit, Pragya Shukla, Pardeep Kumar, Chinmoy Das, Shefali Vaidya, Mahesh Sundararajan, Muralidharan Shanmugam, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. "Stabilizing Terminal Ni(III)-Hydroxide Complex Using NNN-Pincer Ligands: Synthesis and Characterization." Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 6257.Link

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[41]Jitendrasingh Rajpurohit and Maheswaran Shanmugam* “Molecular and Electronic Structure of an Unusual Cobalt NNO pincer ligand complex. Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 7378 Link

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[40] Mohd Wasim, Ashwini GajarushiRizwan NabiKancharlapalli SrinivasuRamgopal RaoGopalan RajaramanChandramouli Subramaniam  and  Maheswaran Shanmugam* "Lanthanide complexes as molecular dopants for realizing air-stable n-type graphene logic inverters with symmetric transconductance."  Mater. Horiz, 2019, 6, 743. Link

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[39] Jitendrasingh Rajpurohit,  Apoorva Upadhyay,  Chinmoy Das, Richa Dubey,  Shefali Vaidya,  Vinoth Krishnan, Ashutosh Kumar, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*, "An Unusual Methylenediolate Bridged Hexanuclear Ruthenium(III) Complexes: Syntheses and Their Application. " Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 14967. Link

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[38] Chinmoy Das, Apoorva Upadhyay and Maheswaran Shanmugam*, "Influence of Radicals on Magnetization Relaxation Dynamics of Pseudo-octahedral Lanthanide Iminopyridyl Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 9002. Link

[37] Jitendrasingh  Rajpurohit, Pardeep  Kumar, Pragya Shukla, Muralidharan Shanmugam and Maheswaran Shanmugam*, "Mechanistic investigation of well-defined cobalt catalyzed formal E-selective hydrophosphination of alkynes". Organometallics. 2018, 37, 2297. Link

[36] Chimoy Das, Apoorva Upadhyay, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Naoki Ogiwara, Takashi Kitao,Satoshi Horike, Maheswaran Shanmugam*,  “Lanthanide Based Porous Coordination Polymers: Syntheses, slow relaxation of magnetization and Magneto Caloric effect".  Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 6584. Link

[35] Shefali Vaidya, Pragya Shukla, Shalini Tripathi, Eric Rivière, Talal Mallah, Gopalan Rajaraman, and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Substituted versus Naked Thiourea Ligand Containing Pseudotetrahedral Cobalt(II) Complexes: A Comparative Study on Its Magnetization Relaxation Dynamics Phenomenon.” Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 3371-3386. Link

[34] Amaleswari Rasamsetty, Chinmoy Das, E. Carolina Sañudo, Maheswaran Shanmugam* and Viswanathan Baskar*, “Effect of coordination geometry on the magnetic properties of a series of Ln2 and Ln4 hydroxo clusters.” Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 1726-1738. Link

[33] Apoorva Upadhyay, Kuduva R. Vignesh, Chinmoy Das, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Influence of the Ligand Field on the Slow Relaxation of Magnetization of Unsymmetrical Monomeric Lanthanide Complexes: Synthesis and Theoretical Studies.” Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 14260-14276. Link

[32] Apoorva Upadhyay, Chinmoy Das,Shefali Vaidya, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Tulika Gupta, Ranajit Mondol, Stuart K. Langley, Keith S. Murray, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Role of the Diamagnetic Zinc(II) Ion in Determining the Electronic Structure of Lanthanide Single-Ion Magnets”. Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 4903-4916. Link

[31] Shefali Vaidya, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Pragya Shukla, Kamal Uddin Ansari, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Role of Halide Ions in the Nature of the Magnetic Anisotropy in tetrahedral CoII Complexes.” Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 9546- 9559. Link

[30] Chinmoy Das, Pragya Shukla, Lorenzo Sorace and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Structural and magnetic properties of semiquinonate based Al(III) and Ga(III) complexes.” Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 1439-1448. Link

[29] Apoorva Upadhyay, Chinmoy Das, Stuart K. Langley, Keith S. Murray, Anant K. Srivastava and Maheswaran Shanmugam. “Heteronuclear Ni(II)–Ln(III) (Ln = La, Pr, Tb, Dy) complexes: synthesis and single-molecule magnet behavior.” Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 3616-3626. Link

[28] Shefali Vaidya, Subrata Tewary, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Stuart K. Langley, Keith S. Murray, Yanhua Lan, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Gopalan Rajaraman, and Maheswaran Shanmugam. “What Controls the Sign and Magnitude of Magnetic Anisotropy in Tetrahedral Cobalt(II) Single-Ion Magnets?” Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 9564-9578. Link

[27] Chinmoy Das, Apoorva Upadhyay, Shefali Vaidya, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam*. “Origin of SMM behaviour in an asymmetric Er(III) Schiff base complex: a combined experimental and theoretical study.” Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6137-6140. Link

[26] Chinmoy Das, Shefali Vaidya, Tulika Gupta, Jamie M. Frost, Mattia Righi, Euan K. Brechin, Marco Affronte, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam*.“Single-Molecule Magnetism, Enhanced Magnetocaloric Effect, and Toroidal Magnetic Moments in a Family of Ln4 Squares.” Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15639-15650. Link

[25] Naushad Ahmed, Apoorva Upadhyay, Thayalan Rajeshkumar, Shefali Vaidya, Jürgen Schnack, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam. “Carboxylate free μ-oxo bridged ferric wheel with a record exchange coupling.” Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 18743- 18747. Link

[24] Shefali Vaidya, Apoorva Upadhyay, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Tulika Gupta, Subrata Tewary, Stuart Langley, James P. S. Walsh, Keith S Murray, Gopalan Rajaraman, Maheswaran Shanmugam “A synthetic strategy for switching the single ion anisotropy in tetrahedral Co(II) complexes. Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 3739-3742. Link

[23] Saurabh Kumar Singh, Tulika Gupta, Maheswaran Shanmugam, Gopalan Rajaraman, “Unprecedented magnetic relaxation via the fourth excited state in low-coordinate lanthanide single-ion magnets: a theoretical perspective.” Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 15513-15516. Link

[22] Naushad Ahmed, Chinmoy Das, Shefali Vaidya, Stuart K Langley, Keith S. Murray and Maheswaran Shanmugam “Probing the magnetic and magnetothermal properties of M(II)-Ln(III) complexes (M(II) = Ni(II) or Zn Ln(III) = Gd or Pr or La)” Dalton Trans., 2014 43, 17375-17384. Link

[21] Naushad Ahmed, Chinmoy Das, Shefali Vaidya, Stuart K Langley, Keith S. Murray and Maheswaran Shanmugam“Nickel(II)-Lanthanide(III) magnetic exchange coupling influencing single molecule magnetic features in {Ni2Ln2} complexes (Ln = Dy, Tb, Ho, Lu)” Chem. Eur. J., 2014, 20, 14235-14239. Link

[20] Apoorva Upadhyay, Chinmoy Das, ShaikNagul Meera, Stuart K Langley, Keith S. Murray and Maheswaran Shanmugam “Synthesis and magnetic properties of a 1- dimentional helical Nickel Schiff base complexes” J. Chem. Sci., 2014, 146, 1443-1449. Link

[19] Apoorva Upadhyay, Chinmoy Das, Muralidharan Shanmugam, Stuart K Langley, Keith S Murray, and Maheswaran Shanmugam, “Electronic and Magnetic Properties of a Gadolinium(III) Schiff-base Complex” Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2014, 4320-4325. Link

[18] Apoorva Upadhyay, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Chinmoy Das, Ranajit Mondol, Stuart K. Langley, Keith S. Murray, Gopalan Rajaraman, and Maheswaran Shanmugam, “Enhancing the effective energy barrier of a Dy(III) SMM using a bridged diamagnetic Zn(II) ion” Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8838-8841. Link

[17] Apoorva Upadhyay, Jitendrasingh Rajpurohit, Mukesh Kumar Singh, Richa Dubey, Anant Kumar Srivastava, Ashutosh Kumar, Gopalan Rajaraman and Maheswaran Shanmugam “Hydroxo bridged dimers of Oxo-centered Ruthenium(III) triangle: Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Theortical investigation”, Chem.-Eur. J., 2014, 20, 6061- 6070. Link

[16] Apoorva Upadhyay, Navatha Komatireddi, Alberto Ghirri, Floriana Tuna, Stuart K. Langley, Anant K. Srivastava, Carolina E. Sanudo, Keith S. Murray, Eric J. L. McInnes, Marco Affronte, and Maheswaran Shanmugam “Synthesis and magnetothermal properties of a ferromagnetically coupled NiII-GdIII-NiII cluster” Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 259-266. Link

[15] Apoorva Upadhyay, Shefali Vaidya, Vakacharla S. Venkatasai, Prabha Jayapal, Anant K. Srivastava, Muralidharan Shanmugam, Maheswaran Shanmugam, “Synthesis and characterization of 3d and 4f metal complexes of Schiff base ligands” Polyhedron, 2013, 66, 87-96. Link

Publications before Joining IIT bombay

[14] An D. Nguyen, An D. Nguyen, Matthew D. Rail, Maheswaran Shanmugam, James C. Fettinger, Louise A Berben, Inorg. Chem, 2013, 52, 12847. Link

[13] K. Kowolik, M. Shanmugam, T. W. Myers, C. D. Cates, L. A. Berben, Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 7969. Link

[12] T. W. Myers, N. Kazem, S. Stoll, R. D. Britt, M. Shanmugam, L. A. Berben, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 8662. Link

[11] H. Wille, M. Shanmugam, M. Murugesu, J. Ollesch, G. Stubbs, J. R. Long, J. G. Safar, S. B. Prusiner, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2009, 106, 3740. Link

[10] S. Tidmarsh Ian, H. Laye Rebecca, R. Brearley Paul, M. Shanmugam, E. C. Sanudo, L. Sorace, A. Caneschi, E. J. L. McInnes, Chem. Eur. J.,2007, 13, 6329. Link

[9] V. Baskar, M. Shanmugam, E. C. Sanudo, M. Shanmugam, D. Collison, E. J. L. McInnes, Q. Wei, R. E. P. Winpenny, Chem. Commun. 2007, 37. Link

[8] V. Baskar, M. Shanmugam, M. Helliwell, S. J. Teat, R. E. P. Winpenny, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3042. Link

[7] I. S. Tidmarsh, R. H. Laye, P. R. Brearley, M. Shanmugam, E. C. Sanudo, L. Sorace, A. Caneschi, E. J. L. McInnes, Chem. Commun. 2006, 2560. Link

[6] M. Shanmugam, M. Shanmugam, G. Chastanet, R. Sessoli, T. Mallah, W. Wernsdorfer, R. E. P. Winpenny, J. Mater. Chem. 2006, 16, 2576. Link

[5] M. Shanmugam, G. Chastanet, T. Mallah, R. Sessoli, S. J. Teat, G. A. Timco, R. E. P. Winpenny, Chem.-Eur. J. 2006, 12, 8777. Link

[4] R. H. Laye, Q. Wei, P. V. Mason, M. Shanmugam, S. J. Teat, E. K. Brechin, D. Collison, E. J. L. McInnes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 9020. Link

[3] S. Maheswaran, G. Chastanet, S. J. Teat, T. Mallah, R. Sessoli, W. Wernsdorfer, R. E. P. Winpenny, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 5044. Link

[2] G. Venkatachalam, S. Maheswaran, R. Ramesh, Ind. J. Chem., 2005, 44A, 705.Link

[1] R. Ramesh, S. Maheswaran, J. Inorg. Biochem. 2003, 96, 457. Link

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