The metamagnetic behaviour of the one-dimensional dihalide-bridged polymer dichlorobis(thiazole)iron(II) Original Research Article

The magnetic properties for the polymeric compound Fe(thiazole)2Cl2 (1) have been measured as a function of temperature and magnetic field. Variation of the magnetic field at 5 K between 0 and 10 kG reveals a metamagnetic transition between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic states. The low temperature magnetic susceptibilities have been fitted to a one-dimensional Ising model with a mean field correction and were found to be highly anisotropic with ferromagnetic intrachain interactions along the b axis and weaker antiferromagnetic interchain interactions