Abstract
The low temperature hysteretic behavior between 40 mK and 4.8 K was obtained for [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Fe(CN)6]. The unusual constricted hysteretic behavior reported for isomorphous [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Cr(CN)6] was not observed. Instead, the [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3-[Fe(CN)6] exhibits a single hysteresis loop and a temperature dependence of the coercivity atypical for a ferrimagnetic ordering transition. The coercive field, constant below ~0.3 K (1.06 kOe), shows a rapid initial decrease below 1 K, to continue decreasing at a slower rate up to at least 4.8 K. In contrast to [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Cr(CN)6] which has antiferromagnetic coupling of the ferrimagnetic lattices, due to the reduced spin on the [FeIII(CN)6]3-, [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Fe(CN)6] ferromagnetic coupling of the ferrimagnetic lattices dominates for [Ru2(O2CMe)4]3[Fe(CN)6].
