Issue 47, 2021

Macrocycle based dinuclear dysprosium(iii) single molecule magnets with local D5h coordination geometry

Abstract

Targeted approaches for manipulating the coordination geometry of lanthanide ions are a promising way to synthesize high-performance single-molecule magnets (SMMs), but most of the successful examples reported to date focus on mononuclear complexes. Herein, we describe a strategy to assemble dinuclear SMMs with DyIII ions in approximate D5h coordination geometry based on pyrazolate-based macrocyclic ligands with two binding sites. A Dy4 complex with a rhomb-like arrangement of four DyIII as well as two dinuclear complexes having axial chlorido ligands (Dy2·Cl and Dy2*·Cl) were obtained; in the latter case, substituting Cl by SCN gave Dy2·SCN. Magneto-structural studies revealed that the μ-OH bridges with short Dy–O bonds dominate the magnetic anisotropy of the DyIII ions in centrosymmetric Dy4 to give a vortex type diamagnetic ground state. Dynamic magnetic studies of Dy4 identified two relaxation processes under zero field, one of which is suppressed after applying a dc field. For complexes Dy2·Cl and Dy2*·Cl, the DyIII ions feature almost perfect D5h environment, but both complexes only behave as field-induced SMMs (Ueff = 19 and 25 K) due to the weak axial Cl donors. In Dy2·SCN additional MeOH coordination leads to a distorted D2d geometry of the DyIII ions, yet SMMs properties at zero field are observed due to the relatively strong axial ligand field provided by SCN (Ueff = 43 K). Further elaboration of preorganizing macrocyclic ligands appears to be a promising strategy for imposing a desired coordination geometry with parallel orientation of the anisotropy axes of proximate DyIII ions in a targeted approach.

Graphical abstract: Macrocycle based dinuclear dysprosium(iii) single molecule magnets with local D5h coordination geometry

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Aug. 2021
Accepted
08 Nov. 2021
First published
19 Nov. 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Dalton Trans., 2021,50, 17573-17582

Macrocycle based dinuclear dysprosium(III) single molecule magnets with local D5h coordination geometry

J. Wu, S. Demeshko, S. Dechert and F. Meyer, Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 17573 DOI: 10.1039/D1DT02815D

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