Weak ferromagnetic ordering of the li⁺[tcne]^•- (tcne = tetracyanoethylene) organic magnet with an interpenetrating diamondoid structure

Li[TCNE] (TCNE = tetracyanoethylene) magnetically orders as a weak ferromagnet (canted antiferromagnet) below 21.0 ± 0.1 K, as observed from the bifurcation of the field-cooled and zero-field-cooled magnetizations, as well as remnant magnetization. The structure, determined ab initio from synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction data, consists of a planar μ₄-[TCNE]^•- bound to four tetrahedral Li ⁺ ions. The structure consists of two interpenetrating diamondoid sublattices, with closest interlattice distances of 3.43 and 3.48 Å. At 5 K this magnetic state is characterized by a coercivity of ∼30 Oe, a remnant magnetization of 10 emu·Oe/mol, and a canting angle of 0.5.