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Air-Stable Hexagonal Bipyramidal Dysprosium(III) Single-Ion Magnets with Nearly Perfect D6h Local Symmetry |
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| Authors: | Zi-Han Li Yuan-Qi Zhai Dr Wei-Peng Chen Dr You-Song Ding Prof Dr Yan-Zhen Zheng |
| Institution: | Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST), Shenzhen Research School, State Key Laboratory for, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, MOE Key Laboratory for, Nonequilibrium Synthesis of Condensed Matter, Xi'an Key Laboratory of, Sustainable Energy and Materials Chemistry and School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 99 Yanxiang Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710054 P. R. China |
| Abstract: | Eight-coordinated DyIII centres with D6h symmetry are expected to act as high-performance single-molecule magnets (SMMs) due to the simultaneous fulfilment of magnetic axiality and a high coordination number (a requisite for air stability). But the experimental realization is challenging due to the requirement of six coordinating atoms in the equatorial plane of the hexagonal bipyramid; this is usually too crowded for the central DyIII ion. Here a hexaaza macrocyclic Schiff base ligand and finetuned axial alkoxide/phenol-type ligands are used to show that a family of hexagonal bipyramidal DyIII complexes can be isolated. Among them, three complexes possess nearly perfect D6h local symmetry. The highest effective magnetic reversal barrier is found at 1338(3) K and an open hysteresis temperature of 6 K at the field sweeping rate of 1.2 mT s−1; this represents a new record for D6h SMMs. |
| Keywords: | ab initio calculations D6h local symmetry dysprosium magnetic properties single molecule magnets |