Comparative review of experimental techniques for synthesis of organic ferromagnets

Summary form only given. Since the time of the first experimental preparation of an organic ferromagnet with comparatively poor structural characterisation [Korshak, Ovchinnikov et al, 1986] a number of experimental techniques have been developed worldwide. A significant amount of organic and metalloorganic compounds of different structural types has been reported, including doped disordered carbon phase which has brought about a completely novel theory of concentrational ferromagnetism [Ovchinnikov, 1992]. Present report deals with a comparative analysis of the contemporary experimental techniques and includes an attempt to assess further experimental developments in this exciting field of electronics of organic materials.