Mei Yuan,† Song Gao,*,† Hao-Ling Sun,† and Gang Su‡

College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, Peking UniVersity, Beijing 100871, P.R. China,

and College of Physical Sciences, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 3908, Beijing 100039, P.R. China

https://doi.org/10.1021/ic048547s     Received October 17, 2004

Synopsis

A one-dimensional Mn(III) chain, [Mn^III(5-Brsalen)(μ_1,3-NCNH)]_n, is constructed by a hydrogencyanamide bridge, and the chains are further connected to a 3-D network through hydrogen bonding. At low temperature, the compound shows weak ferromagnetism due to spin canting and an unusual spin reorientation induced by an applied field.