Electron diffraction and high-resolution electron microscopy of LaMnO
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(0
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0.25), obtainedby topotactic reduction of LaMnO
3, shows that an ordered pathway of anionic vacancies is only obtainedfor
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= 0.25. La
4Mn
4O
11 is an eightfold superlattice of the perovskite-type structure due to the orderedintergrowth of three octahedral layers and one tetrahedral layer along the
b axis, according to the sequence...OOOTOOOT'... The reduced sample exhibits ferromagnetic behavior with
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50 K. The staircaseeffect, observed at low temperature, is discussed in terms of the magnetic ordering adopted in the octahedrallayers.