Magnetic Superatoms

Magnetic Metal Clusters and Superatoms

“…Magnetic clusters could be ferromagnetic, ferrimagnetic, or even antiferromagnetic depending on electronic spin-exchange interactions between atoms and modulation of the magnetism. Recently the concept of magnetic superatoms has enabled the design of magnetic metal clusters with both localized and diffuse subspaces in the valence electron shells within Hund’s rule. − Advances in this field offer a framework for understanding the stability and chemical activity of magnetic clusters and superatoms, including those of pure metal clusters, and heteroatom-doped or ligand-protected metal clusters. Meanwhile, the electron delocalization and aromaticity (e.g., spherical aromaticity, cage aromaticity, cubic aromaticity) as well as their relationship with cluster structure are also topics of interest.…”