Magnetic behavior of octaethylporphyrinatomanganese(III) tetracyanoethenide, [MnOEP][TCNE], and hexacyanobutadienide, [MnOEP][C4(CN)6]: the importance of a uniform chain for stabilizing strong effective ferromagnetic coupling

[MnOEP][A] {A=[TCNE]'- and [C4(CN)6]'-} have been isolated as extended 1D coordination polymers with trans-U2"[A] bridging ligands with strong {A=[C4(CN)6].-} and weak {A=TCNE].-} ferromagnetic coupling as evidenced from the fit of the magnetic susceptibility to the Curie-Weiss law (0=5.1 and 67.1 K, respectively); the strong behaviour arises from the presence of uniform chains which are not present for the [TCNE]'- salt.