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Jean-François Létard is a researcher affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with particular attention to Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics in Jean-François Létard's work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Jean-François Létard has contributed to publications in several venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Recent papers featuring their work include:

  • "Switching on thermal and light-induced spin crossover by desolvation of [Fe(3-bpp)2](XO4)2·solvent (X = Cl, Re) compounds" (2021) published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "CCDC 2073013: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination" (2021) published in The Cambridge Structural Database
  • "CCDC 2073012: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination" (2021) published in The Cambridge Structural Database

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Abdelhak Djemel
  • Olaf Stefańczyk
  • Kunal Kumar
  • Rachid Delimi
  • Farouk Benaceur

Best Publications

  • Towards spin crossover applications

    Jean-Francois Letard;Philippe Guionneau;Laurence Goux-Capes

  • Photomagnetism of iron(II) spin crossover complexes—the T(LIESST) approach

    Jean-François Létard

  • Structural, Magnetic, and Photomagnetic Studies of a Mononuclear Iron(II) Derivative Exhibiting an Exceptionally Abrupt Spin Transition. Light-Induced Thermal Hysteresis Phenomenon.

    Jean-François Létard;Philippe Guionneau;Louis Rabardel;Judith A. K. Howard

  • Dynamic interplay between spin-crossover and host-guest function in a nanoporous metal-organic framework material.

    Peter D Southon;Lang Liu;Elizabeth A Fellows;David J Price

  • Structural aspects of spin crossover. Example of the [FeIILn(NCS)2] complexes

    Philippe Guionneau;Mathieu Marchivie;Georges Bravic;Jean-Francois Letard

  • Photo‐induced spin‐transition: the role of the iron(II) environment distortion

    Mathieu Marchivie;Philippe Guionneau;Jean François Létard;Daniel Chasseau

  • Critical temperature of the LIESST effect in iron(II) spin crossover compounds

    Jean-François Létard;Laurence Capes;Laurence Capes;Guillaume Chastanet;Nicolas Moliner

  • A guideline to the design of molecular-based materials with long-lived photomagnetic lifetimes.

    Jean-François Létard;Philippe Guionneau;Olivier Nguyen;José Sánchez Costa

  • Single-crystal to single-crystal structural transformation and photomagnetic properties of a porous iron(II) spin-crossover framework.

    Suzanne M Neville;Gregory J Halder;Karena Chapman;Martin Duriska

  • LIGHT INDUCED EXCITED PAIR SPIN STATE IN AN IRON(II) BINUCLEAR SPIN-CROSSOVER COMPOUND

    Jean-François Létard;José Antonio Real;Nicolás Moliner;Ana B. Gaspar

  • Thermally and light-induced valence tautomeric transition in a dinuclear cobalt-tetraoxolene complex.

    Chiara Carbonera;Andrea Dei;Jean-François Létard;Claudio Sangregorio

  • Nanoparticles of [Fe(NH2-trz)3]Br2.3H2O (NH2-trz=2-amino-1,2,4-triazole) prepared by the reverse micelle technique: influence of particle and coherent domain sizes on spin-crossover properties.

    Thibaut Forestier;Abdellah Kaiba;Stanislav Pechev;Dominique Denux

  • Structural characterization of a photoinduced molecular switch.

    Mathieu Marchivie;Philippe Guionneau;Judith A. K. Howard;Guillaume Chastanet

  • Structure-photophysics correlations in a series of 4-(dialkylamino)stilbenes: intramolecular charge transfer in the excited state as related to the twist around the single bonds

    Jean Francois Letard;Rene Lapouyade;Wolfgang Rettig

  • Wide Thermal Hysteresis for the Mononuclear Spin-Crossover Compound cis-Bis(thiocyanato)bis[N-(2‘-pyridylmethylene)-4-(phenylethynyl)anilino]iron(II)

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  • Co(II) molecular complexes as a reference for the spin crossover in Fe(II) analogues

    Philippe Guionneau;Mathieu Marchivie;Georges Bravic;Jean-François Létard

  • Hysteretic three-step spin crossover in a thermo- and photochromic 3D pillared Hofmann-type metal-organic framework.

    Natasha F. Sciortino;Katrin R. Scherl-Gruenwald;Guillaume Chastanet;Gregory J. Halder

  • Elucidating the mechanism of a two-step spin transition in a nanoporous metal-organic framework.

    Gregory J Halder;Karena Chapman;Suzanne M Neville;Boujemaa Moubaraki

  • Multiple relaxation pathways in photoexcited dimethylaminonitro- and dimethylaminocyano-stilbenes

    René Lapouyade;Alexander Kuhn;Jean-François Letard;Wolfgang Rettig

  • A Nanoscale Molecular Switch Triggered by Thermal, Light, and Guest Perturbation

    Martin Duriska;Suzanne M Neville;Boujemaa Moubaraki;John Dixon Cashion

  • Spin crossover behavior under pressure of Fe(PM-L)2(NCS)2 compounds with substituted 2′-pyridylmethylene 4-anilino ligands

    V. Ksenofontov;G. Levchenko;H. Spiering;P. Gütlich

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Guionneau
Philippe Guionneau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Guillaume Chastanet
Guillaume Chastanet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cameron J. Kepert
Cameron J. Kepert University of Sydney
Keith S. Murray
Keith S. Murray Monash University
Boujemaa Moubaraki
Boujemaa Moubaraki Monash University
Eric Collet
Eric Collet University of Rennes
François Varret
François Varret Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Loïc Toupet
Loïc Toupet University of Rennes
Stuart Robert Batten
Stuart Robert Batten Monash University
Judith A. K. Howard
Judith A. K. Howard Durham University

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