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A six-legged piano stool dysprosium single-molecule magnet

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posted on 2024-12-01, 21:54 authored by Sophie CornerSophie Corner, William J. A. Blackmore, Gemma K Gransbury, George F. S. Whitehead, Nicholas F Chilton, David MillsDavid Mills

Dysprosium single-molecule magnets (SMMs) with two mutually trans- anionic ligands have shown large crystal field (CF) splitting, giving record effective energy barriers to magnetic reversal (Ueff) and hysteresis temperatures (TH). However, these complexes tend to be bent, imposing a transverse field that reduces the purity of the mJ projections of the CF states and promotes magnetic relaxation; a complex with only one anionic ligand could have more pure CF states, and thus high Ueff and TH. Here we report the first example of an SMM with this topology, [Dy(C5Me5)(FPh)6][{Al[OC(CF3)3]3}2(µ-F)]2 (1-Dy), which exhibits Ueff = 812(47) K and TH = 14 K at sweep rates of 22 Oe s–1; the C5Me5 ligand imposes a strong axial CF and the five equatorially-bound neutral fluorobenzenes present only weak transverse interactions. We show that complexes such as 1-Dy can be useful starting materials for heteroleptic Ln complexes as the fluorobenzenes are easily displaced.

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