Exploring the Inverse Magnetocaloric Effect in Discrete Mn^II Dimers

The inverse magnetocaloric effect (IMCE) in molecular solids is explored for two antiferromagnetically coupled Mn^II dinuclear complexes. Magnetic studies reveal that both of them demonstrate the IMCE with negative magnetic entropy changes (−ΔS_M = −3.5 J kg^–1 K^–1), which are in line with an analytic function derived from the quantized phenomenological model proposed in this work.