Fernando Palacio
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 11437-11439
DOI:
10.1039/C3CC49087D,
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I discuss here the contribution from J. S. Miller and co-workers concerning the discovery of ferromagnetism in an organometallic compound. The important peculiarities around this discovery, that the moments from p-electrons participate in magnetic ordering, strongly contributed to open the area of molecule-based magnetic materials as a new area of research.