Pyrazine dioxide bridged two-dimensional antiferromagnets [M(NCS)2(pzdo)2] (M = Mn, Co; pzdo = pyrazine dioxide)

Hao-Ling Sun,^a Bao-Qing M^a,a Song Gao^*a and Gang Su^b

a State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications & PKU-HKU Joint Laboratory on Rare Earth Materials and Bioinorganic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. E-mail: gaosong@pku.edu.cn b Department of Physics, The Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 3908, Beijing 100039, China Received (in Cambridge, UK)

14th August 2001, Accepted 17th October 2001 First published as an Advance Article on the web 23rd November 2001

Two 2D coordination polymers [M(NCS)2(pzdo)2] (M = Mn, Co; pzdo = pyrazine dioxide) bridged by pzdo ligand are synthesized, which are found to exhibit antiferromagnetic ordering below 8.4 and 11.2 K, respectively.

10.1039/B107334F