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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 2102-2112Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic402682r
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- University of Ottawa
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- FFCR
- NSERC
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A new series of lanthanide complexes was synthesized, and the geometry and preliminary magnetic measurements of the complexes were explored. The specific ligand used (N'-(2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)benzhydrazide) (H(2)hmb) was synthesized using a Schiff base approach and was employed due to the presence of a coordination pocket that is able to accommodate magnetically selective lanthanide ions. The series can be divided into two groups that are categorized by a drastic structural rearrangement. The first group, Type I, contains six analogous complexes with the formula [M-2(III)(Hhmb)(3)(NCS)(3)]center dot 2MeOH center dot py (M = Y 1, Eu 2, Gd 3, Tb 4, Dy 5, Ho 6), while the second group, Type II, contains two dinuclear complexes with formula [M-2(III)(Hhmb)(2)(NCS)(4)(MeOH)(2)] (M = Er 7, and Yb 8). Single-crystal X-ray analysis revealed that all M-III ions in Type I exhibit monocapped distorted square antiprismatic geometries, while those of Type II exhibit distorted dodecahedron geometry. The direct current and alternating current magnetic measurements were carried out on all complexes, with 5, 7, and 8 exhibiting slow relaxation of the magnetization under an applied optimum dc field. Furthermore, complex 8 is the first example of a dinuclear Yb-based single-molecule magnet showing field-dependent multiple relaxation processes.
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