Issue 31, 2024

Orthogonal magnetic orbitals in high spin Cu–VO units: structure, magnetism and EPR study of anisotropic heterometallic complexes

Abstract

Molecular-based magnetic materials are expected to serve as building blocks for quantum bits. To realize high-dimensional Hilbert space and addressability, we constructed anisotropic multi-level systems based on CuII and VIV with orthogonal magnetic orbitals. The crystal structures and intramolecular magnetic couplings of four CuIIVOII complexes [{CuVO(appen)2}2], [{CuVO(fhma)2EDA}2], [{CuVO(hfca)2EDA}2] and [CuVO(hfca)2DPEDA]n are characterized. Due to the orthogonal magnetic orbitals of CuII and VIV, the Cu–V pairs in the four complexes have strong ferromagnetic couplings, and the coupling strength is linearly related to the dihedral angle between the two equatorial planes of the two coordination polyhedra. Because of the triplet ground state, the system can be described by an effective Hamiltonian model consisting of two S = 1 spins coupled together. The anisotropy parameters of [{CuVO(hfca)2EDA}2] and [CuVO(hfca)2DPEDA]n were obtained by the simulation of X-band continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (cw-EPR) spectra, confirming that both complexes have zero-field splitting addressable on the relative energy scale. The results indicate that constructing multi-centre complexes based on orthogonal magnetic orbitals is a promising strategy for designing multidimensional quantum bits.

Graphical abstract: Orthogonal magnetic orbitals in high spin Cu–VO units: structure, magnetism and EPR study of anisotropic heterometallic complexes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 may. 2024
Accepted
18 jul. 2024
First published
19 jul. 2024

Dalton Trans., 2024,53, 13207-13215

Orthogonal magnetic orbitals in high spin Cu–VO units: structure, magnetism and EPR study of anisotropic heterometallic complexes

Q. Deng, Y. Zhang, Y. Wang, Y. Xie, P. Fu, S. Gao, Z. Liu and S. Jiang, Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 13207 DOI: 10.1039/D4DT01346H

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