Cover Feature: Design of Magnetic Coordination Polymers Built from Polyoxalamide Ligands: A Thirty Year Story (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 3‐4/2018)

Design of Magnetic Coordination Polymers Built from Polyoxalamide Ligands: A Thirty Year Story

International audience; The aim of this review is to pay tribute to the legacy of O. Kahn. Kahn's credo was to synthesize magnetic compounds with predictable structure and magnetic properties. This is illustrated herein with results obtained by Kahn's group during his Orsay period thirty years ago, but also on the basis of our recent results on the synthesis of coordination polymers with oxamate ligands. The first part of this review is devoted to a short description of the necessary knowledge in physics and theoretical chemistry that Kahn and his group have used to select oxamate ligands, the complex‐as‐ligand strategy and the synthesis of heterobimetallic systems. Then, we describe the st…