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Chemical Communications

Chiral biphenanthrene-diol-based lanthanide cubanes

Haowei Qin,ab   Tingting Wang,ab   Tingting Feng,ab   Zhenhua Zhu, ORCID logo c   Xu Ying,*c   Peng Zhang*ab  and  Jinkui Tang ORCID logo *abc  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
E-mail: pengzhang@ciac.ac.cn

b School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China

c School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 102488, P. R. China
E-mail: jtang@bit.edu.cn, xu-ying@bit.edu.cn

Abstract

Using chiral 4,4′-biphenanthrene-3,3′-diol as ligands, we constructed two pairs of enantiomers of Ln4 cubane clusters: R/S-Dy4 and R/S-Er4. Their enantiopure nature is confirmed by single-crystal structures and mirrored circular dichroism (CD) spectra. Magnetic studies reveal that R/S-Er4 exhibit field-induced single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00777E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Feb 2026
Accepted
03 Mar 2026
First published
04 Mar 2026

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Chiral biphenanthrene-diol-based lanthanide cubanes

H. Qin, T. Wang, T. Feng, Z. Zhu, X. Ying, P. Zhang and J. Tang, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC00777E

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