Effects of Chemically Induced Contraction of a Coordination Polyhedron on the Dynamical Magnetism of Bis(phthalocyaninato)disprosium, a Single-4f-Ionic Single-Molecule Magnet with a Kramers Ground State

Chemically induced longitudinal contraction of the square-antiprism coordination polyhedron of a peripherically substituted bis(phthalocyaninato)dysprosiumate(III), a dysprosium-based single-4f-ionic single-molecule magnet having a J(Z) = +/- 13/2 Kramers doublet ground state, resulted in drastic changes in dynamical magnetism including a doubling of the energy barrier, a 2-order-of-magnitude decrease of the spin reversal rate, a significant rise of the blocking temperature, and the first observation of the emergence of a large remanent magnetization.