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Nature Materials 7, 691 - 692 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2263
Magnetic molecules: Chirality and magnetism shake hands
Laurence D. Barron1
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Laurence D. Barron is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
e-mail: laurence@chem.gla.ac.uk
Abstract
The synthesis of chiral magnetic molecules allows the first observation of strong magneto–chiral dichroism, where unpolarized light is absorbed differently for parallel and antiparallel propagation with respect to an applied magnetic field.
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