A possible relation between the value of the axial Zero Field Splitting and the occurrence of field-induced slow magnetic relaxation has been established for a new gadolinium(iii) compound.
Dinuclear [M(H3L1,2,4)]2 (M = Dy, Dy2; M = Ho, Ho2) complexes were isolated from an heptadentate aminophenol ligand. The crystal structures of Dy2·2THF, and the pyridine adducts Dy2·2Py and Ho2·2Py,...
A series of mononuclear Co(II) complexes showing slow magnetic relaxation is assessed from the point of view of relaxation mechanisms. In certain cases, the reciprocating thermal behavior is detected: On cooling, the slow relaxation time is prolonged until a certain limit and then, unexpectedly, is accelerated. The low-temperature magnetic data can be successfully fitted by assuming Raman and/or phonon bottleneck mechanisms of the slow magnetic relaxation for the high-frequency relaxation channel. An additional term with the negative temperature exponent is capable of reproducing the whole experimental dataset.
Two CuII–DyIII and CoIII–DyIII dinuclear complexes of a Schiff base ligand (H3L) exhibit single-molecule magnetic behaviour with multiple slow magnetic relaxation processes for the former.