Issue 40, 2020

A series of lanthanide(iii) metal–organic frameworks derived from a pyridyl-dicarboxylate ligand: single-molecule magnet behaviour and luminescence properties

Abstract

The reactions of LnIII ions with a versatile pyridyl-decorated dicarboxylic acid ligand lead to the formation of a series of novel three-dimensional (3D) Ln-MOFs, [Ln3(pta)4(Hpta)(H2O)]·xH2O (Ln = Dy (1), Eu (2), Gd (3), Tb (4), H2pta = 2-(4-pyridyl)-terephthalic acid, x = 6 for 1, 2.5 for 2, 1.5 for 3 and 2 for 4). The Ln3+ ions act as nine-coordinated muffin spheres, linking to each other to generate trinuclear {Ln3(OOC)6N2} SBUs, which are further extended to be interesting 3D topological architectures. To the best of our knowledge, the Dy-MOF exhibits zero-field single-molecule magnet (SMM) behaviour with the largest effective energy barrier among the previously reported 3D MOF-based Dy-SMMs. The combined analyses of a diluted sample (1@Y) and ab initio calculations demonstrate that the thermally assisted slow relaxation is mainly attributed to the single-ion magnetism. Furthermore, fluorescence measurements reveal that H2pta can sensitize EuIII and TbIII characteristic luminescence.

Graphical abstract: A series of lanthanide(iii) metal–organic frameworks derived from a pyridyl-dicarboxylate ligand: single-molecule magnet behaviour and luminescence properties

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Aug 2020
Accepted
15 Sep 2020
First published
15 Sep 2020

Dalton Trans., 2020,49, 14123-14132

A series of lanthanide(III) metal–organic frameworks derived from a pyridyl-dicarboxylate ligand: single-molecule magnet behaviour and luminescence properties

C. Zhang, X. Ma, P. Cen, X. Jin, J. Yang, Y. Zhang, J. Ferrando-Soria, E. Pardo and X. Liu, Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 14123 DOI: 10.1039/D0DT02736G

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