We present a design strategy that combines topological frustration and electron-electron interactions to fabricate a large, fully fused ‘butterfly’-shaped tetra radical nanographene on Au(111). We employ bond-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy and spin-excitation spectroscopy to resolve the molecular backbone and reveal the strongly correlated open-shell character, respectively. This nanographene contains four unpaired electrons with both ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic interactions, harboring a many-body singlet ground state and strong multi-spin entanglement, which is well described by many-body calculations.
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