Room-Temperature Magnetism in the Crystal of a 1,6-Heptadiyne Derivative and the Processable Polymer

Room-temperature organic magnetic materials have been a sought-after but challenging topic for a long time. Besides the reported organic-containing magnets including pure organic radicals, charge-transfer salts, and coordination polymers, we report a novel and alternative approach to fabricate purely organic/polymeric magnets based on the crystal of a 4-substituted 1,6-diyne (M1) and its polymer (P1). Both of the white M1 crystal and the black P1 powder samples exhibit room-temperature magnetism. The saturation magnetization of P1 is about 0.25 emu g−1 and its Curie temperature is higher than 400 K. After repeated recrystal of M1 and precipitation of P1 to thoroughly remove the metal-catalyst residues, the room-temperature magnetism of M1 and P1 is tentatively assigned to the stable radicals in the solid samples. The results demonstrated in this work suggest an unprecedented strategy to obtain room-temperature organic magnets.