Joulia Larionova, Joaquin Sanchiz, Olivier Kahn, Stéphane Gohlen and Lahcène Ouahab
Slow diffusion of aqueous solutions containing K4[MoIII(CN)7]·2H2O and a MnII salt, respectively, affords well shaped single crystals of two cyano-bridged bimetallic phases ordering ferromagnetically with a pronounced magnetic anisotropy in the magnetically-ordered phase.