Issue 46, 2016

Building 1D lanthanide chains and non-symmetrical [Ln2] “triple-decker” clusters using salen-type ligands: magnetic cooling and relaxation phenomena

Abstract

A solvothermal reaction between Ln(NO3)3·6H2O (Ln: Gd, Tb and Dy), 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde, 2-OH-naphth, and ethylenediamine, en, in MeOH in the presence of a base, NEt3, led to the formation of the 1D coordination polymers [Ln(L)(MeO)(MeOH)0.5]n·MeOH (Ln = Gd (1·MeOH), Tb(2), Dy (3·MeOH); H2L = 1,1′-((1E,1′E)-(ethane-1,2-diylbis(azanylylidene))bis(methanylylidene))bis(naphthalen-2-ol), the Schiff-base ligand derived from the condensation of 2-OH-naphth and en), while a similar reaction in an excess of NaN3 yielded 1D coordination polymers [Ln(L)(N3)0.75(MeO)0.25(MeOH)]n (Ln = Gd (4), Tb (5), Dy (6)). Finally, upon replacing ethylenediamine with o-phenylenediamine, o-phen, we managed to isolate the discrete dimers [Dy2(L′)3(MeOH)]·2MeOH (7·2MeOH) and [Gd2(L′)3(MeOH)]·2MeOH (8·2MeOH) (H2L′ = 1,1′-((1E,1′E)-(1,2-phenylenebis(azanylylidene))bis(methanylylidene))bis (naphthalen-2-ol), the Schiff-base ligand from the condensation of 2-OH-naphth and o-phen). Polymers 1–3 describe one-dimensional chains, containing alternating seven- and eight-coordinate LnIII metal centers, polymers 4–6 contain eight-coordinate lanthanide ions, while in both 7 and 8 the two LnIII centers are eight- and seven-coordinate, adopting square antiprismatic and “piano-stool” geometry, respectively. The magnetocaloric properties of the three GdIII analogues were determined from magnetic measurements, yielding the magnetic entropy change –ΔSm = 21.8, 23.0 and 16.0 J kg−1 K−1 at T = 3.0 K on demagnetization of 7 T to 0, for 1, 4 and 8, respectively. The study of the magnetic properties also revealed that all three DyIII analogues (3, 6 and 7) display out-of-phase signals, therefore suggesting slow magnetic relaxation, while such behaviour was not established in the TbIII analogues.

Graphical abstract: Building 1D lanthanide chains and non-symmetrical [Ln2] “triple-decker” clusters using salen-type ligands: magnetic cooling and relaxation phenomena

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Jul 2016
Accepted
22 Oct 2016
First published
25 Oct 2016

Dalton Trans., 2016,45, 18591-18602

Building 1D lanthanide chains and non-symmetrical [Ln2] “triple-decker” clusters using salen-type ligands: magnetic cooling and relaxation phenomena

A. B. Canaj, M. Siczek, M. Otręba, T. Lis, G. Lorusso, M. Evangelisti and C. J. Milios, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 18591 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT02932A

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