1. “A Heterometallic FeII-DyIII Single-Molecule Magnet with a Record Anisotropy Barrier”, Liu, J.-L.; Wu, J.-Y.; Chen, Y.-C.; Mereacre, V.; Powell, A. K.*; Ungur, L.*; Chibotaru, L. F.; Chen, X.-M.; Tong, M.-L.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53(47), 12966-12970.
2. “Recent Advances in the Design of Magnetic Molecules for use as Cryogenic Magnetic Coolants”, Liu, J.-L.; Chen, Y.-C.; Guo, F.-S.; Tong, M.-L.* Coord. Chem. Rev., 2014, 281, 26-49.
3. “The Effect of an Active Guest on the Spin Crossover Phenomenon”, Bao, X.; Shepherd, H. J.; Salmon, L.; Molnár, G.; Tong, M.-L.*; Bousseksou, A.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52(4), 1198-1202.
4. “Switching the anisotropy barrier of a single-ion magnet by symmetry change from quasi-D5h to quasi-Oh”, Liu, J.-L.; Chen, Y.-C.; Zhen, Y.-Z.; Lin, W.-Q.; Ungur, L.; Wernsdorfer, W.; Chibotaru, L. F.*; Tong, M.-L.* Chem. Sci., 2013, 4(8), 3310-3316.
5. “Remarkably High Temperature Spin Transition Exhibited by Two New Metal-Organic Frameworks”, Bao, X.; Guo, P.-H.; Liu, W.; Tucek, J.; Zhang, W.-X.; Leng, J.-D.; Chen, X.-M.; Guraslkyi, I.; Salmon, L.; Bousseksou, A.; Tong, M.-L.* Chem. Sci., 2012, 3(5), 1629-1633.
6. “The coordination chemistry of cyclohexanepolycarboxylate ligands. Structures, conformation and functions”, Lin, Z.; Tong, M.-L.* Coord. Chem. Rev., 2011, 255(3-4), 421-450.
7. “Symmetry Related [DyIII6MnIII12] Cores with Different Magnetic Anisotropies”, Liu, J.-L.; Guo, F.-S.; Meng, Z.-S.; Zheng, Y.-Z.; Leng, J.-D.; Tong, M.-L.*; Ungur L.; Chibotaru, L. F.*; Heroux, K. J.; Hendrickson, D. N.* Chem. Sci., 2011, 2(7), 1268-1272.
8. “Néel Temperature Enhanced by Increasing the In-Plane Magnetic Correlation in Layered Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials”, Zheng, Y.-Z.; Xue, W.; Zheng, S.-L.; Tong, M.-L.; Chen, X.-M.* Adv. Mater., 2008, 20(8), 1534-1538.
9. “Solvothermal In-situ Metal/Ligand Reactions: A New Bridge between Coordination Chemistry and Organic Synthetic Chemistry”, Chen, X.-M.*; Tong, M.-L. Acc. Chem. Res., 2007, 40(2), 162-170.
10. “Giant heterometallic Cu17Mn28 cluster with Td symmetry and high-spin ground state”, Wang, W.-G.; Zhou, A.-J.; Zhang, W.-X.; Tong, M.-L.*; Chen, X.-M.; Nakano, M.; Beedle, C. C.; Hendrickson, D. N.* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129(5), 1014-1015.
11. “A “Star” Antiferromagnet: A Polymeric Iron(III) Acetate Exhibiting the Coexistence of Spin-Frustration and Long-Range Magnetic Order”, Zheng, Y.-Z.; Tong, M.-L.; Xie, W.; Zhang, W.-X.; Chen, X.-M.*; Grandjean, F.; Long, G. J.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2007, 46(32), 6076-6080.
13. “Cu2+-mediated dehydrogenative coupling and hydroxylation of a N-heterocycle ligand: from generating a new tetratopic ligand to designed assembly of three-dimensional copper(I) coordination polymers”, Hu, S.; Chen, J.-C.; Tong, M.-L.*; Wang, B.; Yan, Y.-X.; Batten, S. R. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2005, 44(34), 5471-5475.
14. “A new self-penetrating uniform net, (8,4) (or 86), containing 4-coordinate nodes”, Tong, M.-L.*; Chen, X.-M.; Batten, S. R.* J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125(52), 16170-16171.
15. “Hydroxylation of N-Heterocycle Ligands Observed in Two Unusual Mixed-Valence CuI/CuII Complexes”, Zhang, X.-M.; Tong, M.-L.; Chen, X.-M.* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2002, 41(6), 1029-1031.
16. “Self-assembled three-dimensional coordination polymers with unusual ligand-unsupported Ag-Ag bonds. Syntheses, structures and luminescent properties”, Tong, M.-L.; Chen, X.-M.*; Ye, B.-H.; Ji, L.-N. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 1999, 38(15), 2237-2240.