Interpretation of the magnetic properties of manganese (II) phthalocyanine

Abstract
Detailed crystal field calculations are presented to determine the ground and excited states of manganese(II) phthalocyanine which belongs to the rare spin S = 3/2 state. It is deduced that the ground state of Mn(II) ion is predominantly 4A2(± 1/2) while 4A2(± 3/2) state lies above 40 cm−1 above it. It is shown that 6A1(± 1/2) lies fairly close to the ground state (600 cm−1) and appreciably mixes with it. Two magnetic exchange models are investigated, and their effects are superimposed over the crystal field to quantitatively explain the low temperature experimental data.